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UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 2 Zero Hunger -
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation -
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 14 Life Below Water -
SDG 15 Life on Land -
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals
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Profiles
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Professor Kwang-Ting Tim CHENG, 鄭光廷
- Office of the Vice-President for Research and Development - Vice-President for Research and Development
- Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering - Chair Professor
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Chair Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
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Ricky Shi-wei LEE, 李世瑋
- Office of the Vice-President for Research and Development - Senior Advisor
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - Visiting Professor
- Emeritus Faculty Members - Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Person: HKUST Staff, Visiting Scholar
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Bo LI, 李波
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Chair Professor
- Office of the Vice-President for Research and Development - Director of HKUST Big Data Institute
Person: HKUST Staff
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Kristiaan August E. NEYTS
- Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering - Professor
- Office of the Vice-President for Research and Development - Director of State Key Laboratory of Displays and Opto-Electronics
Person: HKUST Staff
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Ling SHI, 施凌
- Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering - Professor
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering - Professor
- Office of the Vice-President for Research and Development - Director of Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute
Person: HKUST Staff
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Penger TONG, 童彭爾
- Office of the Vice-President for Research and Development - Associate Vice-President for Research and Development (Research)
- Materials, Design and Manufacturing Facility - Interim Director of Materials, Design and Manufacturing Facility
- Department of Physics - Chair Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
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Jinglei YANG, 楊晶磊
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - Professor
- Office of the Vice-President for Research and Development - General Director of HKUST Shenzhen - Hong Kong Collaborative Innovation Research Institute, General Director of HKUST Shenzhen Research Institute
Person: HKUST Staff
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Hong Kong Office for UN Decade Programmes of Guangzhou Marine Laboratory
QIAN, P. (PI)
1/01/26 → 31/01/28
Project: Research
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Joint Laboratory for Hydrogen Energy
CHEN, Q. (CoPI), PAN, D. (CoI), LU, H. (CoI), LAM, L. Y. F. (CoI), SHAO, M. (PI), GAO, P. (CoI), SHI, F. (CoI), XU, J. (CoI), ZHAO, T. (CoI), KIM, Y. (CoPI) & LU, Z. (CoI)
Joint Laboratory Funding Scheme
1/01/24 → 31/12/28
Project: Research
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Development and mass production of highly active and durable platinum-based fuel cell electrocatalysts
HUANG, Z. (CoI), ZHANG, S. (CoI), HUANG, W. (CoI), LU, M. (CoI), FENG, B. (CoI), LIANG, J. (CoI), PAN, P. (CoI), DUAN, D. (CoI), KE, J. (CoI), ZHONG, C. (CoI), ZHANG, L. (CoI), TU, Y. (CoI), CHENG, Q. (CoI), ZHAO, D. (CoI), FARHADPOUR, M. (CoI), CHEN, G. (CoI), HOU, L. (CoI), LIU, J. (CoI), XIAO, F. (CoI), SHAO, M. (PI), LANG, R. (CoI), LI, P. (CoI), LI, Q. (CoI), LI, C. (CoI), XU, J. (CoI), ZHAO, M. (CoI), WEI, N. (CoI), ZHANG, Q. (CoI), LIU, S. (CoI), YANG, S. (CoI), LU, S. (CoI), LIU, S. (CoI), QIN, S. (CoI), WANG, G. (CoI), WANG, J. (CoI), QIU, X. (CoI), XIANG, X. (CoI), YANG, H. (CoI), CUI, Y. (CoI), WANG, Y. (CoI), YANG, Y. (CoI), ZHENG, Z. (CoI), ZHONG, J. (CoI), ZHU, G. (CoI), CUI, Z. (CoI), ZOU, L. (CoI) & XU, Z. (CoI)
Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province
1/06/23 → 1/06/27
Project: Research
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Environment and Conservation Fund The 17th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium
QIAN, P. (PI), ZHOU, W. (Team member), HUI, J. H. L. (CoI), NI, R. (Team member), QIU, J. (CoI), LEUNG, W. M. (Team member) & YASUHARA, M. (CoI)
Environment and Conservation Fund / Woo Wheelock Green Fund
1/04/24 → 30/04/25
Project: Research
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International Conference on Digital Pathology and Data Intelligence
SU, D. (PI), SHA, C. (CoI), CAO, C. (CoI), LI, X. (CoI) & ZHOU, X. (PI)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) / Research Grants Council (RGC)
1/12/23 → 2/12/23
Project: Research
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Fabrication of a Quantum Dot Color Conversion Layer by Laser Patterning for Full-color Mini/micro-LED Displays
QIU, X. (CoI), CHENG, Y. (CoI), LO, C. C. (CoI) & LEE, R.S.-W. (PI)
Innovation and Technology Commission
1/09/22 → 30/06/24
Project: Research
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In situ investigation of cellular ultrastructures and biological macromolecules using correlative light and electron microscopy and cryo-electron tomography
WU, Z. (CoPI), ZHANG, M. (CoPI), TONG, P. (CoPI), DANG, S. (PI), XIE, T. (CoPI), ZHANG, Y. (CoPI), ZENG, Q. (CoPI) & ZHAI, Y. (CoPI)
RGC - Collaborative Research Fund
1/06/22 → 31/05/25
Project: Research
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UVC LED Sterilization of Personal Protective Equipment for Reuse Purposes
QIU, X. (CoI), LO, C. C. (CoI) & LEE, R.S.-W. (PI)
Innovation and Technology Commission
15/09/20 → 14/09/21
Project: Research
Research output
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Manufacturing method of QDCC sub-pixel layer for mini/micro LED display: [China]
LEE, S.-W. (Key Inventor), LO, C. C. (Inventor), CHENG, Y. (Inventor), QIU, X. (Inventor), TAO, M. (Inventor) & XU, H. (Inventor), 9 Dec 2025, IPC No. H10H 29/01, B23K 26/362, G09F 9/33, H10H 29/851, 10 Oct 2024, Priority date 4 Jun 2024, Priority No. US63/655,605Research output: Patent
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Multi-view large reconstruction model via geometry-aware positional encoding and attention
Li, M., Long, X., Liang, Y., Li, W., Liu, Y., Li, P., Luo, W., Wang, W. & Guo, Y., Oct 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 31, 10, p. 8564-8577 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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ReSCIM: Variation-Resilient High Weight-Loading Bandwidth In-Memory Computation Based on Fine-Grained Hybrid Integration of Multi-Level ReRAM and SRAM Cells
Wang, X., He, J., Shao, K., Zheng, J., Tian, F., Cheng, T. K. T. & Tsui, C. Y., 9 Apr 2025, Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD 2024. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 213. (IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, ICCAD).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
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Stacked Strongly Coupled GaN/SiC Cascode Device with Fast Switching and Reclaimed Strong dv/dt Control
SHU, J., WANG, H., TAO, M., Ng, Y. H., FENG, S., DU, Y., ZHOU, Z., Sun, J., LEE, R.S.-W. & CHEN, K. J., 18 Feb 2025, 2024 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IEDM 2024. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 7 p. 10873458. (Technical Digest - International Electron Devices Meeting, IEDM).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
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AdaP-CIM: Compute-in-Memory Based Neural Network Accelerator Using Adaptive Posit
He, J., Tu, F., Cheng, K. T. & Tsui, C. Y., 2024, 2024 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2024 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., (Proceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
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Application of the EA model to the velocity transversal space-time cross-correlation functions measured in the ocean
Liang, C., Shang, X., Chen, G., He, X. & Tong, P., Mar 2024, In: Acta Mechanica Sinica/Lixue Xuebao. 40, 3, 323381.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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A Tale of Two Domains: Exploring Efficient Architecture Design for Truly Autonomous Things
Hou, X., Xu, T., Li, C., Xu, C., Liu, J., Hu, Y., Zhao, J., Leng, J., Cheng, K. T. & Guo, M., 2024, Proceeding - 2024 ACM/IEEE 51st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ISCA 2024. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 167-181 15 p. (Proceedings - International Symposium on Computer Architecture).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
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Avalanches and Extreme Value Statistics of a Mesoscale Moving Contact Line
Yan, C., Guan, D., Wang, Y., Lai, P. Y., Chen, H. Y. & Tong, P., 23 Feb 2024, In: Physical Review Letters. 132, 8, 084003.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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BOLS: A Bionic Sensor-direct On-chip Learning System with Direct-Feedback-Through-Time for Personalized Wearable Health Monitoring
Tian, F., Zheng, J., He, J., Chen, J., Wang, X., Fang, C., Yang, J., Sawan, M., Tsui, C. Y. & Cheng, K. T., 2024, ISCAS 2024 - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., (Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
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Awards
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ACM SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award 2025
CHENG, K.-T. T. (Recipient), Oct 2025
Prize: Honorary Award
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Best Paper Award
WU, T. (Recipient), MENG, W. (Recipient), Cho, S. (Recipient) & ZHANG, F. (Recipient), 23 Jul 2024
Prize: Best Paper Award and Prize
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Fellow, The Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (HKAES)
CHENG, K.-T. T. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Fellow / Academician
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ACM/IEEE NANOARCH Best Paper Award
CHENG, K.-T. T. (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Best Paper Award and Prize
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DAC Top 10 Author in Fourth Decade Award
CHENG, K.-T. T. (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Other Research Award and Prize
Press/Media
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13 HKUST Research Projects Secure Top Funding from RGC Collaborative Research Fund and Research Impact Fund
WANG, D., WANG, S., CHEN, S., TSANG, C. W., ZHAI, Y., ZHANG, F., LI, M., MENG, Z., WANG, G., YANG, Y., LU, H., LI, X. & CHENG, K.-T. T.
7/01/26
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