Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) was founded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong's competitiveness through applied research.

ASTRI's core R&D competence in various areas is grouped under four Technology Divisions: Communications Technologies; Integrated Circuits and Systems; IoT Sensing and AI Technologies and Trust and AI Technologies. It is applied across six core areas which are Smart City, Financial Technologies, Re-Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Health, Application Specific Integrated Circuits and Metaverse.

This visit will focus on their technological innovations in areas of the application of artificial intelligence (AI), Metaverse, Non-Fungible Token (NFT), Smart Mobility, etc.