The HKUST ROV Team won their 12th straight championship in the Hong Kong Regional Contest of the MATE International ROV Competition since they joined in 2011. They will head for the international competition in the US this June.
Ranking 16th worldwide, the HKUST Aero Team is the highest scoring Asian team among 107 international teams at the 2024 AIAA Design/Build/Fly Competition. This is also the best ever result achieved by the team since they first joined the competition in 2013.
Mr. David Taji Farouki (in bright blue suit), President of the Jury of the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, takes a picture with all the HKUST delegation members, including Associate Vice-President for Research & Development (Knowledge Transfer) Dr. Shin Cheul Kim (2nd row, 3rd left) and Dean of Engineering Prof. Hong K. Lo (2nd row, 7th left), and the official representative of Hong Kong for the Exhibition Ir Andrew Young (2nd row, 5th left), Associate Director (Innovation) of Sino Group.
Prof. Zhang Xiangru’s research paper was recognized as one of the most impactful publications of 2022 in Environmental Science & Technology, a leading journal in the field.
Pioneering Micropollutant Research Earned Top Honor
Prof. Khaled B. Letaief was honored with a 2024 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award by Purdue University for his preeminence in the field of computer science and engineering.
With seven subjects ranked Hong Kong’s No. 1 and six subjects in the top 50 globally in QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024, HKUST Engineering is leading in education, research, and innovation at home and beyond.
Among the 21 international recipients of the 2024 Apple Scholars in AIML, PhD student Pi Renjie is the only one from a Hong Kong institution and one of the only three from an Asian institution.