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Consumers are increasingly addicted to mobile applications. But their implications for personal privacy are insufficiently known. The personal privacy issue has only recently become a subject for intense public interest and concern due to recent world events and revelations. Prof Kai-Lung Hui and Prof James Kwok will confront it head-on, taking the lid off the mystery surrounding how data in mobile phones can be accessed by others and what kinds of data are stored in them, and how such practice could affect or jeopardize personal privacy in a broader context. They will also speak to the emerging privacy challenges associated with mobile applications, and the corresponding government and usage policy considerations needed to address them. The sharing can now be viewed here.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Leadership and Public Policy (LAPP) Executive Education will organize a forum on 14 February 2015 to discuss the way forward for democratic development in Hong Kong. Renowned local and overseas experts and academics will exchange their views on this hot topic of the city.

President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Prof Tony Chan led a delegation to the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual conference in Davos, Switzerland.   In Davos, HKUST was the only Asian university to conduct an IdeasLab, where four professors shared their insights with some of the world’s top minds and decision makers on how a seamless merging of virtual realities and our physical world could improve human life.  Seven universities were invited to hold IdeasLab at Winter Davos this year: HKUST, Oxford, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon.

Hailed by the Financial Times as the "city's most innovative musical experience", The Intimacy of Creativity presented by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) celebrates its Fifth Anniversary Season! Events will run from 20 April to 3 May 2015. The Intimacy of Creativity continues to explore the creative process as selected composers present and revise their chamber music compositions after in-depth discussions between composers and performers during on-campus open discussions. The revised compositions will be formally presented at Preview Concerts in the newly opened Cheng Yu Tung Building Multipurpose Hall on the campus of the HKUST and World Premiere Concerts at the Hong Kong City Hall Theatre.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s School of Business and Management (HKUST Business School) and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association, a not-for-profit organization recognized globally as the leader in alternative investment education, today announced an academic partnership. Under the partnership, students in the HKUST’s Business School will have access to the CAIA Association's curriculum and events, and be eligible to apply for scholarships to earn the CAIA Charter. The partnership comes on the back of CAIA’s rapid growth in Asia Pacific markets and HKUST’s stellar ascent since its inception in 1991.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is very pleased that we have achieved outstanding ratings in the Research Assessment Exercise 2014 (RAE 2014)  of the University Grants Committee (UGC) according to the most rigorous standards. This shows that the University has attained internationally excellent levels in our research areas.  HKUST strives to fulfil our mission of fostering innovative academic research and education, and encourages our faculty members to conduct large scale interdisciplinary research for knowledge transfer.  The University will make reference to the RAE results in developing strategic resource allocation to further drive our research to greater heights. For more information, please click here.

Modern technologies have made us understand the biological world far better, offering hope for human health, giving us a firm grasp of the mechanisms underlying diseases, enabling their early diagnosis, risk assessment, and opening up new treatment strategies. They even allow us to do the unthinkable—redesigning genes to fight infection, develop wonder drugs, improve the environment and provide cheaper energy. Is synthetic biology the cure to all our ills or are we playing God with it? Do we reject this novel technology or harness it for the benefit of humanity? Earlier speaking in the HKUST’s Science-for-Lunch Talk, Prof King Chow has shared with the audience his insights on the topic. The sharing can now be viewed here.

Prof Pascale Fung and Prof Patrick Yue of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) were elected Fellows of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for 2015, bringing the total number of IEEE Fellows at HKUST to 35.