Press Releases and Stories

2025

Pioneering Pulse: HKUST Entrepreneur Trio Revolutionizes Contactless Health Monitoring
Stories
Entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence, Alumni
Pioneering Pulse: HKUST Entrepreneur Trio Revolutionizes Contactless Health Monitoring
Standing at the intersection of technology and healthcare, the three visionary HKUST alumni—Dr. Kyle WONG, Dr. Nick CHIN, and Teric CHAN—never underestimate the power of their school-day dreams to safeguard the health of their fellow citizens.

2024

News
Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Alumni
“I am an HKUSTer” Series: The HKUST Innovative Thinker Redefines Banking Industry
News
Innovation, Bioengineering, Alumni
An Angel in Cell Therapeutics
Meet Dr. Melody CHUNG Jin-Teng, a HKUST-nurtured female researcher and entrepreneur whose delivery technology start-up Allegrow Biotech Ltd. (“Allegrow”) is ensuring needy patients can easily access affordable top quality cell therapeutics.

2023

News
Innovation, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Alumni, Sports
Let’s Sweat the Details: Where Sweat Sensing and Fitness Intersect
Three HKUST alumni have pioneered a sweat sensor that eliminates the need for invasive blood samples when testing for muscle fatigue.
News
Sustainability, Marine Life, Alumni
Having A Whale of a Time Preserving Underwater Life
News
Alumni
Lost Love: The making of alumnus filmmaker KA Sing-Fung
KA Sing-Fung, director of Hong Kong movie ‘Lost Love’, credits the scientific training he received while majoring in Chemistry as being hugely beneficial in his creative pursuits.

2020

News
Chemical and Biological Engineering, Experiential Learning, Student Innovation, Alumni
Hand Cream That Kills Germs
Three CBE students created a long-lasting antimicrobial hand cream in an experiential learning course on product and process design in Spring 2020.
News
EMBA, Alumni
EMBA Program Launches Fifth Alumni Association
On August 22, our closely-knit HKUST EMBA alumni on the mainland and abroad celebrated the fifth edition of its Alumni Association in Guangzhou! The ecstatic occasion was also streamed live to spread the joy among thousands of alumni and faculty members globally.