Thesis Defense
MPhil in Operations Management - Option-Implied Risks at Fixed Times of Discontinuity
Room 5047, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
MPhil in Computer Science & Engg - Can Language Models Imagine Without Seeing? EKPHRASIS: Measuring Visual Creative Ideation in Text-Only LLMs
Room 2132C (Lift 22), 2/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
MPhil in Life Science - An End-to-End Framework Linking Astroglia Calcium Dynamics to Behavior and Visual Stimuli in Larval Zebrafish
Room 5506 (Lifts 25-26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
MPhil in Envrl Sci, Policy & Mgmt - Hidden Compound Burden: Real-Flight Trajectories Reveal Aviation Noise and Pollution Exposure in a Megacity Airspace
Room 5402 (Lifts 17-18), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
PHD in Electronic & Comp Engg - Random Matrix Theory and Its Applications in Large-Scale Systems
Room 4475 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
MPhil in Life Science - A Behavioral Framework for Studying Anxiety-State Modulation of Sensorimotor Transformations in Larval Zebrafish
Room 5506 (Lifts 25-26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
MPhil in Computer Science & Engg - Legal Data Augmentation in LLMs for Low-resourced Domains
Room 3494 (Lifts 25-26), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
MPhil in Chem & Biomolecular Engg - MOF-Based Catalyst Design for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to CO and Formate
Room 5583 (Lifts 27-28), HKUST
17 August 2026
PHD in Life Science - Non-Hematopoietic Stem Cell-Derived Progenitors Produce γδT, iαβT Cells, and Induce Thymic Aire Expression
Room 4504 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
PHD in Computer Science & Engg - Structured Scene Representation Learning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Room 2132B (Lift 22), 2/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
PHD in Chemistry - Hydrogen-Atom Transfer Reactivity of Tetravalent Cerium Complexes
Room 4475 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
PHD in Individual Interdisci Prog - Towards Semantic and Socially-Aware Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments
Room 101, 1/F, W2 Building, HKUST(GZ), HKUST
17 August 2026
PHD in Individual Interdisci Prog - Low-Platinum MEA-Catalyst Design for Fuel Cells from the Lab to Industrial Scale
Room 5583 (Lifts 29-30), Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
PHD in Mechanical Engineering - High Stability and Large Cooling Power Elastocaloric Devices for Real-World Application
Room 2550 + Room 2551 (Lifts 27-28), 2/F Academic Building; Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/99136993548?pwd=ed9TAtvj6Em6nVDr0la0wMsk9xm77v.1 (Meeting ID: 991 3699 3548; Passcode: 260817), HKUST
17 August 2026
PHD in Civil Engineering - UAV-Based Civil Infrastructure Inspection from Visual Defect Recognition to Autonomous 3D Spatial Mapping
Organized by Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Room 5560 (Lifts 27-28), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
PHD in Civil Engineering - Vision-Driven Robotic Inspection and Multimodal Decision Support for the Operation and Maintenance of Building Safety Systems
Organized by Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Room 3574 (Lifts 27-28), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
PHD in Civil Engineering - Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing for Strain Field Reconstruction and Crack Quantification in Infrastructure Health Monitoring
Organized by Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Room 5560 (Lifts 27 & 28), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
PHD in Chem & Biomolecular Engg - Advanced Electrocatalysts towards Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
Room 5583 (Lifts 27-28), HKUST
17 August 2026
PHD in Electronic & Comp Engg - Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Devices: From Efficiency Enhancement and Miniaturization to integration
Room 5501 (Lifts 25-26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
PHD in Chem & Biomolecular Engg - Modified ZnO Based Materials for Electrocatalytic Nitrate Production from N2 Oxidation
Room 5583 (Lifts 27-28), HKUST
17 August 2026