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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) held the opening of the exhibition “Altering Nature: Exploring Life in Computational Art” on 30 Oct 2024, which is the first art-tech exhibition in collaboration with Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) of HKUST and HKUST (GZ). HKUST Dean of AIS Prof. QU Huamin said, “The University owns our students some art education and Art Tech integrates different components of the University, making it a platform for showcasing the artworks of students and artists.” He expressed hopes that this exhibition would become an annual event, fostering ongoing collaboration between the Hong Kong and Guangzhou campuses.

A collaborative research team led by Prof. Ding PAN, Associate Professor from the Department of Physics and the Department of Chemistry at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), has made significant progress in studying the abiotic synthesis and stability of biomolecules in C-H-O-N fluids under deep Earth conditions. This research offers new insights into potential locations for the origin of life. The findings have been published online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society*.

Following the successful development of InvestLM — Hong Kong's first open-source large language model (LLM) for financial generative AI (GenAI) applications, the School of Business and Management of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST Business School) has just launched the InvestLM Generative AI Platform, which will be opened for free registration to the financial services industry in phases. The platform is capable of handling finance-related GenAI tasks and generating human-like responses comparable to those of well-known general-purpose chatbots.

Multi-sequence knee magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an advanced non-invasive diagnostic method for knee pathology. However, MRI interpretation is highly time-consuming and heavily dependent on expertise. A research team from the School of Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has introduced a novel deep learning model which can assist with classifying 12 common types of knee abnormalities, enhancing both efficiency and accuracy. The study was a collaboration between the Smart Lab of HKUST in Hong Kong and the Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China. Their innovation was recently published in Nature Communications, in a paper titled “Learning Co-Plane Attention Across MRI Sequences for Diagnosing Twelve Types of Knee Abnormalities”.

Signifying the major research collaboration across the two HKUST campuses in Clearwater Bay and Guangzhou, a joint research report series by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) (HKUST(GZ)) analyzes Hong Kong’s progress and outlines steps to enhance its role as a green finance leader. The research team, composed of experts from both campuses, underscores the necessity for Hong Kong to refine its strategies. By doing so, the city could bolster its competitiveness in the international green finance landscape, thereby positioning itself as a preeminent center for green and sustainable bonds.

In a groundbreaking initiative, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has unveiled four AI-driven models poised to transform the medical and healthcare fields. These AI models can assist both general and specialist medical practitioners in diagnosing and prognosing up to 30 types of cancers and diseases, with some achieving accuracy comparable to that of medical experts with five years of experience or more.

A collaborative study in neuroscience, spearheaded by a research team of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), sheds light on new possibilities for treating central nervous system (CNS) injuries, as published in PNAS*. Through the discovery of a novel gene that regulates the regeneration of multiple types of CNS axons, researchers have achieved a significant stride towards repairing damaged neural networks.

人工智能（Artificial Intelligence，簡稱AI）的出現，令今後的世界將會由三種人組成：即女人、男人和可以跟人交流的機器人！人工智能令人與機器之間能更緊密地協作，將會推動現代社會和人類文明的發展。其深遠影響將遠超過互聯網的出現。勢必重組人類社會各行各業的運作模式。這是一次重大的範式轉移。