Professor Ka Wai KWOK
郭嘉威
YFHKEng [2025]
Professor at Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
- HKU Research Output Prize, 2021-22
- IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award, 2020
- HKU Young Innovator Award, 2020
- HKU Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 2019-20
- Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME), The University of Hong Kong
- Scientific Consultant, MultiScale Medical Robotics Center Limited
- Co-founder and Director, , Agilis Robotics Limited (start-up for commercialization and development of robotic system for endoscopic surgery)
Prof. Ka-Wai Kwok’s research interests focus on surgical robotics, intra-operative image processing, and their uses of control and intelligent systems. His multidisciplinary work has been recognized with various (>10) awards in international conferences/journals, e.g. ICRA and IROS.
Ka-Wai is the principal investigator of research group for Interventional Robotic and Imaging Systems (IRIS), with >5 inventions licensed/transferred from university to industry in for commercialization. He is also a co-founder and director of Agilis Robotics, aiming at advancing the interventional endoscopy with small, flexible robotic instruments and their intelligent control systems. His team successfully performed world-first transurethral robotic en-bloc resection of bladder tumours (ERBT) in live human in 2024.
BEng
Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
MPhil
Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
PhD
Robotic Surgery
Hamlyn Centre, The Institute of Global Health Innovation, Department of Computing, Imperial College London