HKUST In The Media

In an exclusive interview by i-Cable TV, Prof. FOK Tai-Fai, co-chairman of the Medical Education Task Force, expressed confidence that most HKUST SMED graduates will remain in Hong Kong to practice, given their 4-year local training, exposure to HK diseases and hospitals, and registration as local doctors. 

The HKSAR Government has reappointed Prof. Harry SHUM as HKUST Council Chairman, Ms. Kitty CHOI Kit-Yu as a Council Member, and Dr. Andrew LIAO Cheung-Sing as HKUST Court Chairman for three-year terms. 

HKUST researchers have proposed the GARDO system to address the "reward hacking" problem in AI painting.  The system enhances the quality and diversity of artworks while preventing model speculation through gating regularization, adaptive criterion adjustment, and a diverse reward mechanism.  

HKUST researchers proposed KV-Embedding technology, which redistributs the information flow within the model to enable AI to understand long texts without retraining, thereby improving retrieval and semantic understanding.  

At the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Daimon Robotics, an HKUST-incubated startup co-founded by MAE Professor Emeritus Prof. Michael WANG Yu and Dr. DUAN Jianghua, unveiled the DM-EXton2, the world's first haptic feedback teleoperation data acquisition system.  

Co-organized by HKUST and various institutions, the "Class at Sea" Marine Science for Global Citizens Series 2 was held at HKUST.  Scientists from the "Shenhai-1" vessel's 93rd expedition participated in a live stream with 300 primary and secondary school students in HK and Qingdao, introducing them to the Indian Ocean seabed ecosystems to spark enthusiasm in ocean exploration. 

HKUST has secured funding for 13 projects in the 2025/26 Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) and Research Impact Fund (RIF) under University Grants Committee's Research Grants Council, with grants totaling more than HK$77 million.  The achievement places HKUST first among all UGC-funded universities.  

‎HKUST has secured funding for 13 projects in the 2025/26 Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) and Research Impact Fund (RIF) under University Grants Committee's Research Grants Council, with grants totaling more than HK$77 million.  The achievement places HKUST first among all UGC-funded universities.

HKUST-incubated startup Point Fit Technology Limited won in the "Digital Health" category at CES 2026 Innovation Awards for its PF-Sweat Patch, a skin patch sweat sensor.  Co-founded by HKUST student Kenny OKTAVIUS, the company is part of HK’s 61-company CES 2026 delegation.  

Futu Securities International (HK) announced a donation of HK$30 million to HKUST, with HK$20 million allocated for the University's research projects and HK$10 million for the establishment of the "Futu Scholarship".  

HKUST announced the appointment of Prof. Frederik ANSEEL, former Dean of the Business School at the University of New South Wales in Australia, as the SBM Dean to succeed the SBM Acting Dean Prof. HUI Kai-Lung, effective on 1 February.

HKUST will host the inaugural Nobel Heroes@HKUST event on Jan 13, bringing together five Nobel laureates to engage in thought-provoking and in-depth dialogues with students that reveal the human stories behind groundbreaking discoveries and inspire the next generation of innovators with scientists' passion for knowledge and creativity.