HKUST In The Media
LIFS Post-doctoral Fellow Dr. Jeff LAM Yui-Long has been awarded "The Jockey Club STEM Early Career Research Fellowship for Translation and Application." Specializing in the APOE4 gene – the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease – Dr. Lam uses stem cells and mouse models to explore treatment plans.
HKUST received a gold medal with its UAV first-responder system "AeroRelief" at the 51st Geneva Inventions Expo. The system makes good use of AI analysis and automatic planning to quickly deliver supplies such as AEDs and address "blind spots" in suburban areas, which will improve the rescuing capacity in emergency response in severe weather in the future.
HKUST presented the Guo Gan and His Friends International Concert, organized by SHSS and co-organized by the Hong Kong Association of China Business. The concert featured a global ensemble of musicians, aimed at fostering cultural exchange between China and the international community.
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.