Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Overview

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is a public research university situated in Clear Water Bay Peninsula, Hong Kong. It was established in 1991 by the British Hong Kong Government and was the third educational institution in Hong Kong to be granted university status. HKUST is ranked amongst the top universities in Asia and the world.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Key Statistics

The university comprises four schools: the School of Science, the School of Engineering, the School of Business and Management, and the School of Humanities and Social Science, as well as multiple interdisciplinary programs. It offers around 50 undergraduate and 80 postgraduate courses to its students.

HKUST has around 16,054 students, 10,148 of whom are enrolled in undergraduate programs, 5,906 in postgraduate programs, and 1,758 in doctoral programs. Among these, 5,990 are international students. It also employs 697 academic staff.

The HKUST Lee Shau Kee Library provides access to over 720,000 print and electronic volumes, more than 47,000 periodical titles, a large number of databases, e-books, and other digital information resources.

Other Hong Kong University of Science and Technology key statistics include its successful alumni such as Starry Lee (Hong Kong politician), Sun Binyong (academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences), Frank Wang (billionaire entrepreneur), Alfred Cheung (actor, director, writer, and producer), and Sam Whiteman (former New Zealand cricketer).

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Research

HKUST holds a high position amongst the top research institutions around the world, with an annual research funding of 1080.1 HK$M. Its researchers collaborate with several key national and international institutions, including MIT, Berkeley, and the South China University of Technology.

The university’s top three research fields are computer science, artificial intelligence, and materials science. Its researchers have published in prestigious publications such as the Social Science Research Network, arXiv: Information Theory, and arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Its researchers had been invited to attend/present papers at prestigious conferences such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the International Conference on Computer Communications, and Very Large Data Bases.

The most cited article produced by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology research is Ho and McKay’s (1999) “Pseudo-second order model for sorption processes,” published in Process Biochemistry. This paper has received a total of 14,073 citations. HKUST’s second most cited research output is Delaglio et al.’s (1995) “NMRPipe: A multidimensional spectral processing system based on UNIX pipes,” published in the Journal of Biomolecular NMR. A total of 13,489 articles, books, and other publications have cited this work. The third most cited article is Pan and Qiang Yang’s (2010) “A survey on transfer learning,” published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. It has generated a total of 12,705 citations.

Some of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology research centers and institutes include the Big Data Institute, the Institute for Emerging Market Studies, the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, and the Center for Business Strategy and Innovation.