Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS) Hong Kong 2018

June 12 - August 12, 2018

Sponsors

AECOM

A global network of experts working with clients, communities and colleagues to develop and implement innovative solutions to the world’s most complex challenges: Delivering clean water and energy. Building iconic skyscrapers. Planning new cities. Restoring damaged environments. Connecting people and economies with roads, bridges, tunnels and transit systems. Designing parks where children play. Helping governments maintain stability and security.

Real AI

Founded in December 2016 by Jonathan Yan, Real AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) research and development company based in Hong Kong. At the moment, the company’s focus is using AI to assist in making investment decisions. More generally, Real AI’s mission is to ensure that humanity has a bright future with safe and beneficial AI.

Tencent

Founded in November, 1998, Tencent is a leading provider of Internet value-added services in China. Since its establishment, Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operating strategies. Tencent maintains a steadfast commitment to corporate citizenship, our public charity programs and the promotion of respectful Internet communities on our user platforms. With each new product and invention, Tencent strives to embrace philanthropy, expand the Internet, and be a model for all corporations who strive to improve our world through technology.

Using.ai

Using.ai is a Shenzhen and Silicon Valley startup founded by researchers from Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Tencent, Google, Baidu, etc. Starting with automated image recognition, Using.ai aims to exploring positive and impactful applications for machine learning and robot learning. Their current focus is on the manufacturing industry. They aim to produce technology which is reliable, trustworthy, and easy to use. Through computer vision and machine learning, their technology can inspect the status of products, codes, scenes and bodies in today’s manufacturing industry. They provide defect detection, face recognition, scene recognition, object recognition, text recognition and other application technologies. Based on data analysis techniques such as motion tracking and behavior analysis, their technology can accurately and timely detect potential problems in manufacturing industry, realizing automated quality control and predictive maintenance, improving operational and management efficiency.