Professor Xiaoming Tao
陶肖明
FHKEng [2024]
Chair Professor of Textile Technology; Director, Research Institute For Intelligent Wearable Systems, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Prof. Tao is a world-leading engineering scientist in textile engineering and smart textiles. She discovered a novel yarn structure, which can achieve combined properties of low torque, low twist and high strength. She invented a series of devices for spinning machines and testing instrument. The Nu-TorqueTM technology was commercialized by Central Textiles in Hong Kong, later licensed to thirteen companies worldwide. Her R&D work on smart textiles and sensing technologies was adopted for personal healthcare in commercial wearable products for ECG, respiration and gait. For these pioneering contributions, and the huge socio-economic benefits therefrom, she received the Guanghua Engineering Scientific and Technology Award of the CAE in 2020.