Press Releases and Stories

HKUST has 142 faculty members in the top 2% scientists globally, according to the study led by John PA IOANNIDIS at Stanford University.

Prof. Raymond Wong Chi-Wing Awarded Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching

Prof. KWOK Hoi-Sing, Electronic and Computer Engineering, has been elected a 2020 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.

Prof. Francesco Ciucci was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).

Prof. Khaled Ben Letaief was presented with the national accolade for the Best Tunisian Researcher or Inventor Abroad by Tunisian President Kais Saied on the national science day.

Two professors from the Department of Mechanical an Aerospace Engineering have been named on the Highly Cited Researchers 2020 list by Clarivate.

Prof. YAN Lianke received the 2021 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature for his “lifelong contributions to world letters”.

Prof. Kei May Lau is the first woman winner of the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s J. J. Thomson Medal for Electronics since it was first presented 44 years ago.