Thesis Defense
PHD in Civil Engineering - High-Frequency Acoustic Methods for Pipeline Health Assessment in Urban Water Supply Systems
Organized by Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Room 3574 (Lifts 27-28), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
16 July 2026
PHD in Chem & Biomolecular Engg - Knowledge-Informed Data Fusion and Explainable Intelligence: Advanced Monitoring Systems for Industrial Chemical Processes
Room 5560 (Lifts 27-28), HKUST
16 July 2026
MPhil in Mathematics - Portfolio Optimization with Directional References and Market-State Conditioning in Crypto Markets
Room 4472 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
15 July 2026
MPhil in Accounting - A Large Language Model-Based Measure of Firms’ Cost of Capital
Room 6045, 6/F., Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST
15 July 2026
MPhil in Social Science - Transitional Refugees: Immigrants Caught Between Globalization and Deglobalization in Hong Kong
Rm3301 (Lift 2, 17-18),3/F Academic Building, HKUST
15 July 2026
PHD in Chemistry - A Divergent Synthetic Strategy for Biaryl-Bridged Non-Canonical Cyclic Peptides
Room 4504 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
15 July 2026
PHD in Civil Engineering - A Unified Peridynamics for Multiphysics Modeling in Solids and Fluids
Organized by Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Room 3574 (Lifts 27-28), 3/F Academic Buidling, HKUST
15 July 2026
MPhil in Economics - Appoint or Elect: Voter vs. Leader Games
Room 6045, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST
14 July 2026
PHD in Mathematics - On the Architecture and Reasoning of Large Language Models
Room 4503 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
14 July 2026
PHD in Mathematics - Statistical and Computational Methods for Genetic and Cellular Omics Data Analysis
Room 4503 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
14 July 2026
MPhil in Life Science - Characterizing the Functional Consequences of TIMP3 and EFEMP1 Co-overexpression on Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
Room 5506 (Lifts 25-26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
14 July 2026
PHD in Individual Interdisci Prog - Smart Manufacturing-Enabled Haptic Systems: From Tactile Rendering to Haptic Sensing
Room 202, 2F, W2, Teaching District, Guangzhou campus,, HKUST
14 July 2026
PHD in Computer Science & Engg - Turning the Physical World into a Data Interface: Augmenting Situated Visualization and Data Storytelling through Physical Affordances
Room 3494 (Lifts 25-26), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
14 July 2026
MPhil in Life Science - Structural and Functional Investigation of the Mitochondrial AAA Protein ATAD1 Homologs
Room 5506 (Lifts 25-26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
13 July 2026
PHD in Computer Science & Engg - Can Large Language Models Truly Reason? From Stochastic Parrots to In-Context Learners
Room 3494 (Lifts 25-26), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
13 July 2026
MPhil in Information Systems - Vibe Coding and AI Slop
Room 4047, 4/F, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST
13 July 2026
MPhil in Life Science - Structural Insights into the AAV–Receptor Complex for AAV Gene Therapy
Room 4502 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
10 July 2026
PHD in Individual Interdisci Prog - Vertical GaN Power Devices on SiC Substrates
Room 3494 (Lifts 25-26), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
10 July 2026
MPhil in Marketing - The Downside of Participatory CSR: How Crowdfunded Charity Initiatives Shape Brand Evaluations
Room 4047, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST
9 July 2026
MPhil in Life Science - Deciphering APOE Intracellular Trafficking and Secretion Pathways and Their Implications in Alzheimer’s Disease Progression
Room 5506 (Lifts 25-26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
9 July 2026



