About The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) was established in 1991 as part of the Hong Kong government's initiative to enhance higher education in the region. Located in Clear Water Bay, HKUST has rapidly ascended to become one of the leading universities in Asia and globally, particularly recognized for its programs in science, technology, engineering, and business. The university's mission is to advance learning and knowledge through high-quality teaching and research across various disciplines. HKUST offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs through its four main schools: the School of Science, the School of Engineering, the School of Business and Management, and the School of Humanities and Social Science. The university is known for its interdisciplinary approach to education, allowing students to integrate knowledge from multiple fields to address complex real-world challenges. With a vibrant campus that features state-of-the-art facilities, including advanced research laboratories and recreational amenities, HKUST provides an enriching environment for academic pursuits and student life. The university emphasizes innovation and entrepreneurship, actively collaborating with industry partners to foster a culture of research and development.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Highlights

Career Outcomes and Placement Information

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology provides comprehensive career services aimed at supporting students in their professional development. The Career Center offers personalized counseling sessions, workshops on resume writing and interview preparation, as well as access to job fairs featuring top employers across various sectors. HKUST emphasizes experiential learning through internships that allow students to gain practical experience while studying. This hands-on approach not only enhances students' employability but also helps them build valuable professional networks that can aid in job placements. Additionally, HKUST maintains partnerships with numerous organizations to facilitate internship placements aligned with students' career goals. The Career Center also provides online resources that include job listings, career advice articles, and tools for professional development.

Faculties

These are the expert instructors who will be teaching you throughout the course. With a wealth of knowledge and real-world experience, they're here to guide, inspire, and support you every step of the way. Get to know the people who will help you reach your learning goals and make the most of your journey.

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Albert Park

Albert Park is a distinguished development and labor economist specializing in China's economic development. He serves as the Director of the Institute for Emerging Market Studies, Chair Professor of Social Science, Professor of Economics, and Senior Fellow at the Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study at HKUST. His extensive research and commentary have been featured in prominent publications such as The Economist, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. Park is also a Research Fellow at several prestigious institutions, including the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the International Growth Centre. His recent work explores various topics, including firm performance, poverty, migration, health, and education in China. Additionally, he has played a key role in significant survey research projects in China and has previously held faculty positions at the University of Michigan and Oxford University.

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Andrew Horner

Andrew Horner is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, specializing in music synthesis and timbre. He coauthored the book "Cooking with Csound: Woodwind and Brass Recipes" and co-chaired the International Computer Music Conference in Hong Kong. Dr. Horner earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1993 and has received numerous teaching awards, including the Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching, the university's highest teaching honor. In addition to his academic pursuits, he is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher and conducts yoga classes at the university.

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Ben Y B CHAN

Dr. Ben Y.B. Chan is an accomplished Associate Professor of Engineering Education at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Division of Integrative Systems and Design at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He currently serves as the Director of the University's Center for Engineering Education Innovation and as the Associate Director of the Academy for Bright Future Young Engineers. With extensive experience in both engineering and education, Dr. Chan has secured over HK$25 million in research and education-related grants as a Principal Investigator and has published more than 50 journal and conference papers. His dedication to teaching has earned him numerous accolades, including being a finalist for the QS Reimagine Education Award 2018, multiple School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Awards, and nominations for the UGC Teaching Award. Additionally, Dr. Chan is actively involved in various technical committees within the government and serves as Vice Chairman of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Hong Kong Branch

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Bright Sheng

Bright Sheng is a renowned composer and performer celebrated for his innovative approach to merging diverse musical traditions, transcending conventional aesthetic boundaries. Born on December 6, 1955, in Shanghai, Sheng began his musical education at a young age and faced significant challenges during China's Cultural Revolution, which shaped his artistic voice. His compositions reflect strong Chinese influences, stemming from over three decades of diligent study of Asian musical cultures, while also incorporating elements from Western music.

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Theodore Henry King CLARK

Dr. Theodore H. K. Clark is an Associate Professor in the Information Systems, Business Statistics, and Operations Management Department (ISOM) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He holds degrees in Engineering (BS), Law (JD), Business (Harvard MBA), and Information Systems Management (Harvard DBA). Dr. Clark has taught various MBA and MSc ISM courses at HKUST and has extensive consulting experience with McKinsey & Company, focusing on sourcing, strategy, and operations. His diverse academic background and professional expertise enable him to provide valuable insights into the intersection of technology, business, and law.

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Cameron Campbell

Cameron Campbell's research focuses on kinship, inequality, and demographic behavior in China and in comparative perspective. With James Lee and other collaborators in the Lee-Campbell group, he has published on a wide variety of topics, including economic, family, and social influences on demographic outcomes such as birth, marriage, migration, and death, fertility limitation in historical China, and the role of kin networks in shaping social mobility. This early work made use of datasets of population registers from Qing China that his collaborators constructed, the China Multigenerational Panel Datasets (CMGPD), with two of these now released via ICPSR. Currently, with other members of the Lee-Campbell group, he is conducting a study of the careers of bureaucrats during the Qing by constructing and analyzing a database of office holders based on the 缙绅录. Additionally, he is participating in group projects related to the origins of educational elites in China from the Qing to the present. Cameron is also collaborating with the Shanxi University Research Center for Chinese Social History on a study of rural society from 1949 to the mid-1960s, utilizing village-level microdata compiled by researchers at the RCCSH, as well as another Lee-Campbell group study examining the social origins of students at universities in China during the first half of the twentieth century.

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Christopher Chao

Prof. Christopher Chao graduated from the University of Hong Kong with first-class honors in Mechanical Engineering in 1988. He obtained his Master's and Doctoral degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, majoring in Thermosciences, in 1992 and 1994, respectively. His research interests encompass the Built Environment, Energy, and Environmental Engineering. He serves as a Regional Editor of the Journal of Indoor and Built Environment and is on the editorial boards of several other international journals, including Indoor Air, Building and Environment, and Building Simulation. Prof. Chao has held significant positions at HKUST, including Director of the Building Energy Research Center (BERC), Associate Dean of Engineering (Research and Graduate Studies), and Head of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at HKUST.

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David Cook

David Cook is a Professor of Economics and a Faculty Associate at the HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies. He has been a member of the HKUST Department of Economics since 1996, focusing his research on international macroeconomics. Cook has published in reputable journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His expertise is further demonstrated through his experience as a visiting scholar at the IMF Institute for Capacity Development and the Bank for International Settlements. Currently, he serves as the Hong Kong editor of the Pacific Economic Review.

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David Zweig

David Zweig is Professor Emeritus of the Division of Social Science and Director of the Center on China’s Transnational Relations at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). With over 30 years of experience teaching Chinese politics and various courses on China and the World, he has made significant contributions to the field. Zweig earned his PhD from The University of Michigan and was a Harvard postdoctoral fellow from 1984 to 1986. He teaches undergraduates and graduate students in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as in HKUST’s highly regarded EMBA program.

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Delian Gaskell

Delian Gaskell is a Senior Lecturer in the Center for Language Education at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She teaches and coordinates undergraduate courses in Business Communications and writing. Her professional interests include blended learning, computer-aided language learning, the use of flipped classrooms, corpus linguistics, and discourse analysis.

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Dik Lun LEE

Dik Lun Lee is a Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, specializing in search engines for web and enterprise data. He teaches the course "Search Engines for Web and Enterprise Data," which focuses on the design, implementation, and optimization of search technologies. Professor Lee's research interests include information retrieval, data mining, and the development of efficient algorithms for processing large datasets. His expertise contributes significantly to advancements in search engine technologies and their applications in various domains.

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Garvin Percy DIAS

Dr. Percy Garvin Dias is the Associate Professor of Business Education in the Information Systems, Business Statistics, and Operations Management Department (ISOM) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He also serves as the Director of the Center for Business Education. Dr. Dias has been recognized as an Expert Level Instructor by Cisco Networking Academy, placing him in the top 10% of instructors globally. His teaching excellence has earned him several accolades, including the Michael G. Gale Gold Medal for Distinguished Teaching in 2017, four Franklin Prizes for Teaching Excellence (2000-2014), and the University Teaching Innovation Award in 2004.

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Ilari Kaila

Dr. Ilari Kaila serves as Composer-in-Residence and lecturer at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His recent compositions have been showcased in various prestigious venues, including a MATA composer portrait concert in New York with the Aizuri Quartet, the Chelsea Music Festival, and the Metropolis Festival in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Kaila has collaborated with numerous esteemed artists and ensembles, such as the Escher String Quartet and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Isaac Droscha

Dr. Isaac Droscha is an operatic baritone and lecturer of humanities at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He holds a Doctorate in Vocal Performance from the University of Michigan and serves as the co-conductor of the HKUST University Choir. Additionally, he is the music director and vocal coach for the HKUST summer musical, which he also helps coordinate. Dr. Droscha is involved in residential life as a Creative Arts Fellow and manages the SHSS Office of Arts and Events.

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James Z. Lee

James Z. Lee (1952 -) is the Dean and Chair Professor of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also a Faculty Associate at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan and serves as the Jiangxi Chair Visiting Scholar at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Professor Lee has an extensive publication record, including six authored or co-authored books, six co-edited books or textbooks, and sixty articles that primarily examine the demographic, ethnic, fiscal, and frontier history of late imperial China, as well as contemporary issues related to population behavior, social organization, and social mobility in China.

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Jeffrey R. Chasnov

Jeffrey R. Chasnov is a Professor of Mathematics at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he has been teaching since 1993. An expatriate American originally from New York and California, he earned his BA from UC Berkeley and his PhD from Columbia University. Dr. Chasnov has completed post-doctoral fellowships at NASA, Stanford, and in Grenoble, France, along with a sabbatical semester at Harvey Mudd College.

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Kenneth W T Leung

Kenneth W. T. Leung is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).

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Kin Tang

Kin Tang is an English Language Lecturer who originally joined the Center for Language Education at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2006 and rejoined in 2011. He moved to Hong Kong from the United Kingdom in 1999 and has been teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and Communication at the tertiary level since 2006. Prior to his tenure at HKUST, he worked at the University of Hong Kong and gained experience in non-teaching areas such as social work, business development, and marketing.

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King Lau Chow

Prof. King Lau Chow received his PhD in Cell Biology from Baylor College of Medicine and was a Belfer Fellow at Albert Einstein College of Medicine before joining The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research focuses on the molecular genetics of body patterning, neural development, synthetic and evolutionary biology, utilizing a laboratory that works with diverse model organisms. Prof. Chow has experimented extensively with various teaching pedagogies, including exploratory project courses, MOOCs, and flipped classrooms. His innovative teaching methods have earned him the Science School Teaching Award and the Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching at HKUST.