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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with MTR Corporation and MTR Academy on the establishment of the “HKUST-MTR Joint Research Laboratory” today. This is the first-ever research laboratory the Corporation has set up with an institution of higher education. The Corporation hopes to promote the application of innovative technology in railway and other services through the collaboration with HKUST’s GREAT Smart Cities Institute, thereby achieving the aim of encouraging local scientific research and building a smart community.

ACCESS and ASTRI sign MoU to jointly promote development and commercialization of AI chips in Hong Kong.

Professor Ronald LAU knows HKUST and the School of Business and Management (SBM) well. A long service award recipient, he has spent over 20 years here, first as a Visiting Associate Professor and then as Associate Professor and UG Program Coordinator (Operations Management) at the SBM. He has taught many generations of students including all four of his sons.  I did not think teaching would be my life-time job. “I did not think teaching would be my life-time job,” Prof. Lau chuckles. “When I graduated from secondary school, my grades were not good enough to get me a place into university. I started working as a cost and operation analyst in a bank while studying to become a certified management accountant before I went to study in the US.”

Prof. YU Hong-yu & Prof. Larry LI Elected as Fellows of Royal Aeronautical Society

HKUST researchers offer an easy-to-implement alternative to measuring vaccine effectiveness in the absence of adequate public health data

Impact Series: Unlocking the Metaverse inside Our Universe

Prof. WANG Zhe, Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)’s Division of Environment and Sustainability, has collaborated with international scientists and revealed the significant roles of anthropogenic low-volatility organic vapors on the secondary organic aerosols (SOA) formation in four megacities in China, providing new insights for effectively mitigating the urban air pollution issues.