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The HK-Swiss Symposium on Future Cities
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Symposium Co-chairs
Becky P.Y. Loo
Director, Institute of Transport Studies, HKU
Co-Director, Joint Lab on Future Cities, HKU
Professor, Department of Geography, HKU
Becky P.Y. Loo is Professor of Department of Geography. She is also Director of the Institute of Transport Studies. Becky has previously taken up Associate Deanship of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Associate Deanship of the Graduate School. Her core research interests are transportation, smart technologies and cities.
Kay W. Axhausen
Professor of Transport Planning, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich
Dr. K.W. Axhausen is Professor of Transport Planning at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich. Before he worked at the Leopold-Franzens Universität, Innsbruck, Imperial College London and the University of Oxford. He has been involved in the measurement and modelling of travel behaviour for the past 35 years contributing especially to the literature on stated preferences, micro-simulation of travel behaviour, accessibility, valuation of travel time and its components, parking behaviour, activity scheduling and travel diary data collection. Current work focuses on the agent-based micro-simulation toolkit MATSim (see http://www.matsim.org).
Session Chairs
Tony Leung
Chief Operating Officer, Ophylla Ventures Management Company Limited
Mr. Leung had been engaged in Smart City Development, Construction IT, Engineering and Automation, Education and Medical works over 20 years.
His experience covers innovation, strategic planning, business development, global partner engagements on innovation products such as VR/AR, machine learning, AI and Smart City enablement for Hong Kong, Macau, China, Singapore and Malaysia markets.
Hayden So
Co-Director, Joint Lab on Future Cities, HKU
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, HKU
Hayden So is an associate professor of electrical and electronic engineering. His core research is on high performance reconfigurable computing systems and is also curious to learn more about technologies and their relation with people. He is the recipient of the Croucher Innovation Award, in 2013, the University Outstanding Teaching Award (Team), in 2012, and the Faculty Best Teacher Award, in 2011.
W Y Szeto
Deputy Director, Institute of Transport Studies, HKU
Professor and Associate Head, Department of Civil Engineering, HKU
Dr. Wai Yuen Szeto is a Top 1 % Scholar 2015-2020 and focuses on sustainable and smart transportation. He is appointed to serve the editorial board of over 10 reputable journals, including International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Transportation Research Part C, Transportation Research Part D, Transportation Research Part E, and Transportmetrica B.
Symposium Secretary
Dr. Ka Ho Tsoi
The University of Hong Kong
Ka Ho Tsoi is a Research Assistant in the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. His core research interests include sustainable mobility and travel behaviour, accessibility and land-use planning and space-time analysis. He is the champion of the ESRI Young Scholars Award (Hong Kong) in 2020.