(From left) Dr. Sean McMinn, Director of the Center for Education Innovation; Prof. Andrew Horner, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; and Prof. Erwin Huang, Adjunct Professor of Integrative Systems and Design, introduced the Education and Generative AI Fund and some of the funded projects at a media briefing in early September.
Prof. Chen Hao became one of the 12 inaugural Asian Young Scientist Fellows selected from a large group of highly competitive nominees in Asian region.
Prof. Wang Zhe (second left) and PhD student Guo Mingyue (center) received three awards at the ceremony on Sept 23, 2022. Also pictured are Prof. Sun Dong, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry (second right), Mr. Eric Pang, Director of Electrical and Mechanical Services (first right), and Mr. Alex Lee of Tencent Cloud (first left).
The winning team of the Sino-HKUST One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition founded AutoSafe, an AI solution company leveraging smart technology to modernize and automate worksite safety monitoring while improving efficiency. In the photo: Issac LEUNG, co-founder (first left, back row), Prof. Jack CHENG (second right, back row), and Peter WONG, co-founder (first right, front row).
Heading up a team of computer science professors and integrative systems designers at HKUST’s Center for Metaverse and Computational Creativity, Prof. Pan Hui (first left) is involved in the “MetaHKUST” project that will kick off with this September’s landmark grand opening of our new campus in Nansha, Guangzhou.
Prof. Pascale Fung was recognized for significant contributions to the field of conversational AI and to the development of ethical AI principles and algorithms.
