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.
(From top right) The signing ceremony is witnessed by Dr. HOU Yang, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Greater China Region and Prof. Nancy IP, Vice-President for Research and Development of HKUST, and the MoU is signed by Ms. Cally CHAN, General Manager of Microsoft Hong Kong and Prof. TAM Kar Yan, Dean of HKUST Business School.
(From top right) The signing ceremony is witnessed by Dr. HOU Yang, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Greater China Region and Prof. Nancy IP, Vice-President for Research and Development of HKUST, and the MoU is signed by Ms. Cally CHAN, General Manager of Microsoft Hong Kong and Prof. TAM Kar Yan, Dean of HKUST Business School.
A world leader and pioneer in the AI fields of transfer learning and federated learning, Prof. Yang Qiang was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the class of 2021.