Company's Background
Centauri Optics was founded in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), by a team spinning off from the laboratory of ultrafast spectroscopy led by Prof. K.S. Wong, who has more than 30 years of experience in optical research.
Prof. K.S. Wong
HKUST Professor
PhD, Oxford University
Head of Photonics and Ultrafast
Spectroscopy Lab, HKUST
Academic advisor
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Dr. Christopher Chan
Post-doc researcher, HKUST
Visiting RA Mech. Eng. HKU
PhD, Oxford University
Product development
Mr. Albert Lau
PhD candidate, Department of Physcis,
Institute of Advanced Studies, HKUST
Supervised by Nobel
Laureate, Prof. George Smoot
Hardware and Sensor Engineer
Mr. Lam Man Yu
PhD Student, NANO, HKUST
Mphil, Technology Leadership and Entrepreneurship
BSc Biotechnolgy
Business development
Sales and Marketing
Product engineer
Co-founders
Incutech 2021-2024
HKUST Sino-one million competition 2021
Global Challenge Award – Chronic Diseases Control
TSSSU (2021-2022)
TSSSU (2020-2021)
HKUST Sino-one million competition 2019
Grand Final - Two pitching related awards
HKSTP STEP (2019)
HKUST UStar (2019-2020)
HKUST EAF (2019)
HardUST, First runner uop (2019)
Startup Weekend, PolyU 2018
