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Prof. Nancy IP, President of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), warmly welcomes the 2026-27 Budget delivered today by the Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. She said, "2026 marks the outset of the nation's '15th Five-Year Plan'.
Four scholars from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have been honored as Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest professional organization in computer science. ACM has named 71 new Fellows globally this year, and among the 12 Fellows based in Asia, four are from HKUST.
A research team from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed GrainBot, an AI-enabled toolkit that automatically extracts and quantifies multiple microstructural features from microscopy images.
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No. 19 Globally, No. 1 in Hong Kong
in Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2025
Global Employability University Ranking 2026
No. 1 in Hong Kong, No. 3 in Greater China
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QS Asia University Rankings 2026
No. 2 in Hong Kong
Research and Discovery Champions Award
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Active HKUST Start-up Companies
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of Faculty Members
World’s Top 2% Scientists
Stanford University 2025
Patent Influence Metric
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Patent Influence Metric published in 2022
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Valued at >US$1 billion
Ms. Vivi LAIO Yuwei
First Place of the WAIFC Young Academic Award 2025
Ms. Vivi LAIO Yuwei
Mr. ZHAO Chen
Steven Ying PhD Research Award
Mr. ZHAO Chen
Leon CHENG Leong
Hong Kong Techathon+ 2025 - Merit Award (Sustainability and ESG category)
Leon CHENG Leong
Celery CHAN, Evelyn HUANG, Emily LAM, and Tersa YUEN
CFA Institute Research Challenge - First Runner-up
Celery CHAN, Evelyn HUANG, Emily LAM, and Tersa YUEN
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