Thesis Defense
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
PHD in Mechanical Engineering - Elastocaloric Refrigerant with Ultrahigh Fatigue Life and Wide Temperature Window
Room 2550 + Room 2551 (Lifts 27-28), 2/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
PHD in Civil Engineering - Centrifuge Modelling and Numerical Modelling of Cone Penetration Tests in Unsaturated Soil
Organized by Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Room 5562 (Lifts 27 & 28), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
17 August 2026
MPhil in Operations Management - Pooling or Not Pooling in Taxi Queues with Observable Queue Lengths
Room 7012, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST
14 August 2026
PHD in Physics - Development of Fabrication and Characterization Platforms for Quantum Technology
Room 3494 (Lifts 25-26), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
14 August 2026
PHD in Electronic & Comp Engg - Enabling Photonic Technologies for Optical Computing: Silicon Photo-Monitors and Heterogeneously Integrated Microring Lasers with On-Chip Optical Feedback
Room 4472 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
14 August 2026
PHD in Bioengineering - Deep Learning-Enabled Biomedical Image Restoration and Image-Based Decision Support
Room 5560 (Lifts 27-28), HKUST
14 August 2026
MPhil in Information Systems - PersonaFuse: A Situation-Aware Post-Training Framework for Adaptive LLM Behavior in Enterprise Tasks
LSK 4047, 4/F, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST
14 August 2026
MPhil in Civil Engineering - Electrochemical Reduction of Inorganic Chlorinated Contaminants: Material Selection and Reactor Configuration
Organized by Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Room 3584A (Lifts 27-28), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
14 August 2026
MPhil in Life Science - ApoE Isoform-Specific Effects on Astrocytic Lipid Metabolism and Secretome-Mediated Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease
Room 5508 (Lifts 25-26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
14 August 2026
PHD in Envrl Sci, Policy & Mgmt - Extreme Urban Heat, Mental Well-Being, and Informal Settlement Vulnerability in Southeast Asia: Evidence from Quezon City and Bangkok
Room 2302 (Lifts 17-18), 2/F Academic Building, HKUST
14 August 2026
PHD in Physics - A Unified Understanding of Various Novel Properties in Altermagnets Based on C-Paired Spin-Momentum Locking
Room 4472 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
14 August 2026
MPhil in Integrative Sys & Design - Human-Centric Design of Context-Aware Visual Assistance For Visually Impaired People In Hong Kong
Room 5501 (Lift 25/26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
14 August 2026
PHD in Computer Science & Engg - Multi-modal Sensing for Human Motor Understanding: From Clinic to the Sports Field
Room 3494 (Lifts 25-26), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
14 August 2026
PHD in Industrial Engg & Deci Ana - Essays on Incentive Design in Supply Chains and Platform Markets
Room 5554 (Lifts 27-28), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
14 August 2026
PHD in Chemistry - Application of Large Languange Model in Chemistry Education and Research
Room 5506 (Lifts 25-26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
14 August 2026