Thesis Defense
PHD in Mechanical Engineering - A Study on Origami Enabled Super-Resolution Tactile Sensing
Room 5560 (Lifts 27/28), 5/F. Academic Building, HKUST
12 January 2026
PHD in Electronic & Comp Engg - Graph Learning under Data Uncertainty: Applications to Signal Processing and Financial Engineering
Room 2463 (Lifts 25-26), 2/F Academic Building, HKUST
9 January 2026
MPhil in Chemistry - Exploring Electronic Structure and Reactivity with Density Functional Theory and Principal Interacting Orbital Analysis
Room 4472 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
9 January 2026
MPhil in Computer Science & Engg - Imperceptible Fairness in Top-k Ranking Algorithms
Room 3494 (Lifts 27-28), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
9 January 2026
PHD in Chem & Biomolecular Engg - Developing Tools for Gap Junction Control and Bystander Immunity Detection
Room 5560 (Lifts 27-28), HKUST
9 January 2026
PHD in Chem & Biomolecular Engg - SpySTING, a Genetically Encoded Topological Architecture for Spying cGAMP
Room 5560 (Lifts 27-28), HKUST
9 January 2026
PHD in Life Science - Indispensable roles of Pax7 in both quiescence maintenance and self-renewal of adult muscle stem cells
Room 5506 (Lifts 25-26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
9 January 2026
PHD in Physics - Combinatorial Optimization via Dynamical Systems: Statistical Mechanics and Emergent Behavior in Ising Machines
Room 4475 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
9 January 2026
PHD in Computer Science & Engg - Towards Ubiquitous IoT Sensing: From Low-Cost Devices to Highly-Generalizable Models
Room 3494 (Lifts 25-26), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
8 January 2026
PHD in Life Science - Mechanistic insights into the roles of Paxbp1/Tfip11 in adult muscle stem cells
Room 4472 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
8 January 2026
PHD in Individual Interdisci Prog - Application of Slow-released Materials in Wastewater Treatment for Surface Water Bodies
Zoom: 956 3752 6814, Password: 688349; Onsite: W1-222, Guangzhou Campus, HKUST
8 January 2026
PHD in Individual Interdisci Prog - Representation learning for tabular data
E3-201, HKUST(GZ) / Zoom ID: 919 6428 0655, Passcode: dsa2026, HKUST
7 January 2026
PHD in Atmospheric Envrl Science - PM₂.₅ Nitrate and Other Water‑Soluble Inorganic Ions: Measurement Reliability, Long‑Term Trends, and Precursor Sensitivity in the Pearl River Delta and beyond
Room 2304 (Lifts 17-18), 2/F Academic Building, HKUST
6 January 2026
PHD in Electronic & Comp Engg - Cognitive Behaviours of Large Language Models
Room 2463 (Lifts 25-26), 2/F Academic Building, HKUST
6 January 2026
PHD in Chemistry - Chiral Bifunctional NHC-Catalyzed Atropisomer Synthesis and Radical Coupling Reactions
Room 4472 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
5 January 2026
MPhil in Mathematics - AIvilization: Explore the Future of Human-AI Coexistence, Co-building a Digital Sandbox for Agent Civilization
Room 4504 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
5 January 2026
PHD in Chemistry - Investigating the Factors Influencing Aristolochic Acid Toxicity and the Development of Remediation Method
Room 4472 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
5 January 2026
PHD in Computer Science & Engg - Learning with Differential Privacy
Room 3494 (Lifts 25-26), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
5 January 2026
PHD in Individual Interdisci Prog - Privacy-Preserving Computing Systems with Homomorphic Encryption: From Efficiency Optimization to Intelligent Healthcare Applications
HKUSTGZ, E1-201; Zoom Meeting ID: 989 4253 4598 Passcode: iott, HKUST
5 January 2026
MPhil in Civil Engineering - Three-dimensional crossing-tunnel interaction in two-layer soil strata: centrifuge and numerical modeling
Organized by Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Room 3574 (Lifts 27-28), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
31 December 2025