06Founder
Hok Chi (Adam) Au
區學智
Build technology that returns people to judgement, care and creation.
The question
Adam is an AI product and research practitioner. His work moves between enterprise systems, assistive technology, education, hospitality, insurance, ESG and frontier research—but the question has stayed consistent: what should the machine carry so a person can do what only a person can do?
“The model is rarely the whole problem. Adoption lives in the boundary: who is responsible, what can be changed, what is recorded, and when the system must return control to a person.”
A line through the work
From invention to institution.
2014
AI and assistive technology
Began building applied technology around human needs, including assistive systems and 3D-printed prosthetics later featured by RTHK and TVB.
2016
Inventor of the Year Gold Award
Received an innovation award presented by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR.
2022
Quantum and machine-learning research
Published research across quantum restricted Boltzmann machines, diffusion and transformer architectures.
2024
Yau Choi R&D Limited
Established the registered operating company that now contracts and delivers production AI systems.
Now
From projects to a coordination layer
Building reusable trust, governance and operating patterns across insurance, clinical operations, education, hospitality and ESG.
In the field
Build it. Show it. Learn from it.
