HKUST In The Media
HKUST and Goldwind Science & Technology entered into a strategic partnership, announcing plans to promote the deep integration of "AI meteorology + new energy". The collaboration will focus on industry issues such as numerical weather prediction, extreme weather warnings, and AI meteorological models.
A joint research effort by HKUST, the University of Waterloo in Canada, and Alibaba has proposed the Rational Rewards reasoning-based reward model, which generates explicit critiques before scoring, turning reward models from passive evaluators into active optimization interfaces.
HKUST continues to rank 12th in Asia and among the top three universities in Hong Kong in the 2026 Times Higher Education (THE)’s Asia University Rankings. The University stated that the rankings highlight HKUST’s strong standing within Asia’s dynamic higher education sector.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Times Higher Education (THE) co-hosted the Asia Universities Summit 2026 from April 22 to 24. The event gathered more than 600 university leaders, policymakers, academics, and industry experts from Asia and worldwide.
A research team led by CBE Assoc. Prof. ZHOU Yuanyuan proposed a crystal-solvate (CSV) seeding strategy with a slow-release solvent function. In this approach, solvent molecules are “encapsulated” within the crystal lattice and are gradually released during film annealing, enabling gentle and well-controlled interfacial crystallization.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Times Higher Education (THE) co-hosted the Asia Universities Summit 2026 from April 22 to 24. The event gathered more than 600 university leaders, policymakers, academics, and industry experts from Asia and worldwide.
A cross-disciplinary team led by ECE Prof. QU Jianan and LIFS Visiting Asst. Prof. Julie SEMMELHACK has developed a powerful laser control technique. Functioning as a “smart dimmer”, it can selectively adjust the brightness of every pixel during laser scanning, and prevent unintended neural activation, thereby significantly enhancing the precision of all-optical brain manipulation and imaging.
A HKUST research team led by Prof. LI Xiaomeng, Assistant Professor of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, and Associate Director of Center for Medical Imaging and Analysis, in collaboration with Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, developed a novel pathology analysis system named PRET (Pan‑cancer Recognition without Example Training), which can accurately recognize multiple types of cancer using only a minimal number of samples—without requiring any additional training.
The HKUST hosted the Hult Prize Hong Kong Summit, bringing together 16 student startup teams from local tertiary institutions. The HKUST team Smart Cool Tech won third place for their AI-driven chiller optimization system designed for commercial buildings.
A research team led by OCES Chair Prof. QIAN Peiyuan, in collaboration with researchers led by Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) researcher ZHOU Wenliang and Chinese Academy of Sciences academician WEI Fuwen, systematically revealed the important role of coral reef ecosystems in carbon storage for the first time.