HKUST In The Media

PHYS Chair Prof. DAI Xi has been awarded the 2025 Future Science Prize in Physical Science. The honor recognizes his groundbreaking contributions to condensed matter physics and topological materials research.

ENVR Chief Development Strategist/Adjunct Prof. Christine LOH indicated world-class scientists and experts at HKUST are driving solutions across climate change and sustainability, aiming to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045.  

Four research teams at HKUST have developed the MultiRole-R1 framework, which enables AI thinking from multiple perspectives. The framework has shown significant improvement when AI is asked to undertake both objective and subjective tasks.

Provost Prof. GUO Yike was invited to serve as a keynote speaker at this year's Learning & Teaching Expo held in early July.  

HKUST, in collaboration with Sino Group and the social welfare sector, is promoting an "industry-academia-community" cooperation model. 

The "Waste-to-Value, Industry Upgrade, and GBA Co-Creation" Technology Forum, co-organized by HKUST-APEL Joint Laboratory on Health and Environmental Innovations under Absolute Pure EnviroSci Limited (APEL) and other institutions, was held in HK, with CBE Prof. YEUNG King-Lun delivering a speech. 

In an interview on stablecoin oversight, SBM Acting Dean and ISOM Chair Prof. HUI Kai-Lung observed that the large-scale stablecoin issuance could challenge monetary control and user management, creating conflicts between decentralized and centralized regulations. 

A study by University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and HKUST Dept of Finance Liwei Huang Associate Professor of Business Prof. Yan JI found that AI trading bots, when placed in simulated markets, did not compete but instead engaged in spontaneous price-fixing collusion. 

In a feature story on HK universities’ efforts to attract global talent, it is mentioned that HKUST has been among the most proactive of the city’s tertiary institutions in attracting international talent, academics and students to Hong Kong. 

HKUST and MTR Corporation have developed a Ridership Prediction Model that can effectively forecast and manage passenger flow. 

At the 2025 Beijing-HK-Macao Young Scientists Conference, ENVR Research Assoc. Prof. HAN Wei highlighted in an interview that HK and Beijing, both being international I&T centers, can complement each other. HK scholars can leverage Beijing's scientific facilities, while helping Beijing take its technological achievements to the world.

HKUST's IEMS, EY and the Golden Age Foundation jointly announced the establishment of a cooperation framework, and officially launched the "silver economy smart ecosystem" initiative in the Greater Bay Area to explore the smart development of the elderly care industry.