Computer Science Alumnus Max CHUI Crowned Hong Kong Champion of Amazon Web Services AI League
Max CHUI (BEng in Computer Science, Class of 2022), an alumnus of the HKUST Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has been crowned Champion of the AWS AI League at AWS Summit Hong Kong—the first time the prestigious tournament has been held in the city. Competing against teams from some of Hong Kong's largest enterprises on 17 June 2026 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Max outpaced the field in a high-intensity, three-hour build challenge to claim the title and earn a fully sponsored trip to the Global Championship Grand Finale at AWS re:Invent 2026 in Las Vegas.
The AWS AI League is Amazon Web Services' flagship competitive AI programme, run as a gamified tournament featuring live leaderboards, timed challenges, and real-time scoring. The 2026 Championship offered two tracks: the Agentic AI Challenge, where participants build an intelligent autonomous agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and deploy it into a maze-style environment requiring multi-step reasoning and task execution; and the Model Customization Challenge, which tasks competitors with fine-tuning foundation models for specific domains using Amazon SageMaker AI.
The Hong Kong tournament drew a strong field, including enterprise teams from Cathay, Manulife, Octopus, Crypto.com, and Lalamove, alongside individual developers. The top performer earns a place at the Global Championship at AWS re:Invent—the largest cloud computing conference in the world, drawing more than 60,000 in-person attendees and 300,000+ online, with 2,200+ sessions across the Las Vegas Strip.
