HKUST In The Media

A team of students from HKUST and CUHK received three awards with their AI project "ArtInSight" at the HK ICT Awards 2025: Student Innovation Award Presentation Ceremony, including the Student Innovation Grand Award, Student Innovation (Higher Education) Gold Award and the Student Innovation Best Use of AI Award.  

Speaking at the CCB (Asia) 2025 Scholarship Award Ceremony, Assoc. Dean of Students Prof. Frank LAM Leung-Yuk expressed pride in HKUST’s collaboration with CCB (Asia) to launch the scholarship program. The first prize went to twostudents from the BSc in Quantitative Finance program and one from the BBA in Professional Accounting program.  

 IPP held the forum "Global Experience and Local Practice: Shaping Hong Kong’s New Ride-Hailing Landscape ". Moderated by IPP Prof. of Practice in Public Policy and Senior Lecturer Donald LOW, the event featured expert from CUHK and industry leaders who discussed Hong Kong’s latest ride-hailing regulation and developments.  

HKUST and JD.com signed a cooperation agreement to establish the "HKUST - JD.com Joint Laboratory".  The joint laboratory aims not only to solve core technological bottlenecks but to fundamentally redefine the efficiency and intelligence of supply chains and proactive health management.

Australian AI healthcare company Heidi officially tapped into the HK market yesterday, announcing a research partnership with HKUST to jointly advance research on AI-assisted clinical records.  

Clarivate Analytics unveiled the list of 'Highly Cited Researchers 2025'.  A total of 145 scholars from 8 institutions in HK were named, including 13 from HKUST in the categories of physics, engineering, and computer science.  

Daimon Robotics, a startup co-founded by CKSRI founding director CIVL Prof. Michael WANG Yu and one of his students, has completed an angel++ round of financing worth over RMB 100 million.  Their visual-tactile perception technology captures minute deformations on contact surfaces using monochromatic light, generating high-density tactile "images" that offer a revolutionary solution for precise robot manipulation.  

Peking University's National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing has collaborated with HKUST, National University of Singapore, Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics to develop a "perspective transformation imagination system", equipping robots with "spatial perception brain".  

HKUST has successfully launched the Global Climate Impact of Methane Seeps (CliMetS) Initiative through a pivotal collaboration with the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) (GML) and over 200 experts worldwide.  

HKUST Foshan Research Institutes’ conference on innovation ecosystem collaborative development and the HKUST One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition Foshan Regional Final Round and Award Ceremony was concluded.

P Prof. Nancy IP was conferred an Honorary Doctoral Degree by the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, in recognition of her notable contributions to science and education.

A research team led by ECE Prof. QU Jianan, has achieved a major breakthrough in brain imaging by developing the world’s first technology to capture high-resolution images of the brain of awake experimental mice in a nearly non-invasive manner. By eliminating the need for anesthesia, this innovation enables scientists to study brain tissue in its fully functional state. The advancement promises deeper insights into human brain function in both healthy and diseased conditions, opening new frontiers in neuroscience research.