Summer Issue, 2012

Ada Poon 潘淑欣 (BEng 1996; MPhil 1998) At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Professor Poon, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, demonstrated a tiny, wirelessly powered, self-propelled medical device capable of controlled motion through bloodstream. She hopes it will be used for a wide range of biomedical applications, from delivering drugs to cleaning arteries. “Such devices could revolutionise medical technology. Applications include everything from diagnostics to minimally invasive surgeries.” The idea of implantable medical devices is not new, but most of today’s implements are challenged by the size of their batteries. Professor Poon’s devices are different. They consist of a radio transmitter outside the body sending signals inside the body to an independent device that picks up the signal with an antenna of coiled wire. The power is transferred wirelessly. “There is considerable room for improvement and much work remains before such devices are ready for medical applications. But for the first time in decades the possibility seems closer than ever.” Professor Ada Poon (right) with graduate students Daniel Pivonka (left) and Anatoly Yakovlev (centre). In the dish she is holding is the device that they created. Source: Stanford University News, February 2012. Nicole Fung 馮諾勤 (BA 2009) Nicole has volunteered to be a gallery docent at Asia Society Hong Kong Center and participated in the exhibition “Transforming Minds: Buddhism in Art.” Through meeting the curators and the artists, studying the exhibits and writing the script, as well as sharing her thoughts with other docents and the audience, she has learnt a lot. Master Class of Journalism 2009 (From left) Mat Ma 馬躍 , documentary producer with Sundance Film participation; Sabrina Fu 傅譯文 (behind), News Editor at Phoenix TV; Jeanny Yu 余方靜 (front), Reporter at the Hong Kong Economic Journal; KaneWu 吳玥 (behind), Correspondent at IFR of Thomson Reuters; Professor Ying Chan 陳婉瑩 (front), Director of Journalism and Media Studies Centre; Lisa Xu 徐力 (behind), Communications Officer at the Faculty of Engineering, HKU; Mandy Lai 賴秭先 (front), Senior Consultant at Deloitte Shenzhen; Diego Laje, Asia Correspondent at CNN en Español; Eve Yao 姚怡文 (MJ 2010), Translator andWriter at the Hong Kong Economic Journal. Class Notes 60