Dr Christopher See is an award-winning medical educator and AI-in-education researcher. A Cambridge-trained physician with a PhD in Medical Education (HKU), he has taught at leading medical schools in the UK and Hong Kong and now lectures at CUHK Medicine. His innovations include a flagship collaboration with the South China Morning Post newspaper on AI in Medicine, transforming university classrooms with a life-size humanoid AI avatar system that supports 1,000+ students annually, and a Green AI initiative with a unique ‘going small with large language models’ approach, using custom LLMs locally on recycled smartphones to cut carbon while boosting learning.
Dr See has earned nine major education awards—including the University of Manchester Best Teacher Award and CUHK’s Faculty Education Award—secured over HK$35.6M in teaching-related grants, and published 14 peer reviewed papers. He leads CUHK’s AI in Education Community of Practice and teaching modules on machine learning and AI in medicine. His current research explores human–AI interactions and their real-world impact on learning behaviours.
Medical schools using AI must carefully balance learning needs with costs and environmental impact in order to deliver sustainable and responsible training. Sharing our experience drawn from educational AI work over the last five years, this talk will detail the creation of a fully sustainable Green AI classroom, using unique technological approaches with LLMs and recycled smartphones. The project aims to capture the best of AI-integrated learning whilst also emphasising environmental responsibility. We will also demonstrate how our real classroom deployment of in-house developed AI tools results in fascinating human-AI interactions and measurable learning outcomes in our vision of the ‘classroom of the future, today’ in our medical school.