HKUST In The Media

A HKUST research team has developed LongVideoAgent, a framework in which a master agent coordinates a grounding agent to localize question-relevant segments and a vision agent to extract targeted textual observations. 

Students from CSE and SBM together with a CUHK student establish the "ArtInSight" platform, which uses AI technology to support art education. This project won the Student Innovation Grand Award at the HK ICT Awards 2025.

A team led by CSE/ECE Assoc. Prof. CHEN Qifeng has collaborated with Meituan to develop an intelligent framework called ORCA. The framework enables virtual characters to possess true "active intelligence", allowing them to autonomously observe, think, act, and reflect.

In collaboration with Chinese Mainland's biotechnology company BioMap, HKUST has incorporated the world's first life science large model into the “Data Science for Molecular Engineering” course, allowing students to grasp AI-driven research methodologies early on. 

HKUST(GZ) has partnered with teams from Alibaba and the University of Florida to develop MobileWorld, a substantially more challenging benchmark designed to better reflect real-world mobile usage. 

A HKUST(GZ) research team has developed "PhysBrain", a system that transforms first-person videos into structured knowledge. This allows robots to understand and learn human actions, thereby improving their operational performance.

StereoPilot, jointly proposed by HKUST(GZ) and Kuaishou's Kling Team, enables fast and high-quality end-to-end conversion of 2D videos to 3D videos, removing the need for expensive manual processes or inefficient depth reprojection for 2D to 3D conversion.

Research led by Global STEM Professor and CIVL Chair Prof. SU Hui, EMIA Asso. Prof. ZHAI Chengxing, and CIVL postdoctoral fellow Dr. WANG Cen, has found Arctic sea ice melt slowed markedly since 2012, with the decline rate easing from 11.3% per decade to an insignificant −0.4% per decade.

Researchers from HKUST, in collaboration with CUHK, HKU, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Nanjing University of Science and Technology, have developed the Robust-R1, enabling AI-trained models to operate reliably in visually challenging environments. 

A research team led by HKUST has developed N3D-VLM, a vision-language model for native 3D grounding and 3D spatial reasoning, with potential application in robotics and autonomous driving.

HKUST welcomed the opening of the HK Park of SZ-HK Innovation and Technology Co-operation Zone at the Lok Ma Chau Loop.

A research team led by OCES Chair Prof. QIAN Peiyuan, OCES Asst. Prof. WU Longjun, and postdoctoral researcher Dr. SHE Jiajie launched the world's first Deep Ocean Omics (DOO) database.