Awards & Recognitions
2025
HKUST Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition - First Place
Mr. Alessandro BUFFOLI
PhD student, Department of Marketing
Dean of Engineering|Chair Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering|Director of GREAT Smart Cities Institute|Director of HKUST-MTR Joint Research Lab
Lui Ka Kit, Wan Him Ting, So Chun Hin, Lam Hung Fai, Cheng Ho Yin, Yeung Sin Chun, Yeung Sin Hang, Ho Chun Kit, Wong Man Ying, Li Wan Chak, Cheng Ka Nok
Students Taking Flags United, Firecat, FireBUwU
Chair Professor, ENVR; Discipline(s): Earth Science (#3877 globally; #240 nationally)
Awardee of 2025 NSFC Young Student Basic Research Program (PhD Student)
LI Xiaoqun
Department of Chemistry
RGC Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2025/26 - Young Collaborative Research Grant (YCRG)
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Mr. Jeff Hu Yao-chieh - Co-founder of Turing Space
School of Engineering
World’s Top 2% Most-cited Scientists 2025 by Stanford University
Vice-President for Administration and Business and Chair Professor, Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management|Chair Professor, Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management|Acting Director of HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies|Associate Director of Institute for Financial Research
Awardee of Doctoral Student Special Program of the Youth Science and Technology Talents Cultivation Project of China Association for Science and Technology 2025
CHEN Xingyu
Department of Chemistry
Professor of Division of Environment and Sustainability