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Two information engineering graduates of the Chinese University have developed the world's first photo-editing software for mobile phones, based on research conducted at CUHK.

Fueled by a passion for innovation, information engineering graduates of the University, Jason Ho and Picco Chu, have turned a technology they developed at CUHK into business. They have set up their own company, Zensis Ltd., to promote a photo-editing software for cellular phones.

After graduating in 2002, Jason Ho received the CUHK T.Y. Wong Innovation and Entrepreneurial Fellowship. He improved the design of his software and learnt about market positioning with a year's technical support and business advice from the Centre for Innovation and Technology of the Faculty of Engineering. He subsequently partnered with Picco Chu to take part in the government's Information Technology Entrepreneur Programme and established their own IT company which set up offices at Hong Kong Science Park this year.

Jason Ho started his business based on a digital photo-editing software he had while still a student at the University. Using up little memory, it can be applied to different operating systems such as mobile phones, digital cameras and personal computers. Once the software is installed, users can perfect imperfect photos with just one click. It is the first automatic digital photo-editing software in the world that can be applied to mobile phones. The software is now used by many companies.