The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology at Clear Water Bay, a young university that vaulted into the world's research elite in a single generation.
8 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President and The Morningside Professor of Life Science
Office of the President
Thank you for leading HKUST as a working neuroscientist whose lab still chases the biology of the aging brain, and for showing that a university president can keep doing science at the highest level.
Provost
Office of the Provost
Thank you for steering HKUST's academic mission through the AI era with a data scientist's instincts, and for backing the bold interdisciplinary bets that keep a young university young.
Chair Professor
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
Thank you for decades of work teaching machines to understand human language across many tongues, and for insisting, early and publicly, that conversational AI be built with empathy and ethics in mind.
Colin Lam Ko Yin Professor of Engineering
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
Thank you for teaching robotics so well that your students went on to build some of the world's best-known robotics companies, and for proving that a professor's lab can seed an entire hardware ecosystem.
Chair Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Vice-President for Institutional Advancement
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Thank you for a career spent understanding the ground beneath our cities, from soil mechanics to debris flow defenses, and for representing Hong Kong engineering at the very top of your global profession.
Professor
Department of Physics
Thank you for theoretical work that helps the world hunt for topological states of matter, and for keeping Hong Kong on the map of fundamental physics.
Professor
Department of Physics
Thank you for calculations that pointed experimentalists to real topological materials, turning abstract band theory into discoveries that could be held in the hand.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Thank you for pioneering transfer learning and federated learning so that AI can learn without hoarding people's raw data, and for a lifetime of service to the field from IJCAI's presidency to the students you mentored.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of HKUST, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.