University Event Calendar - HKUSThttps://calendar.hkust.edu.hkUniversity Event Calendar - HKUST<![CDATA[Shaw Auditorium Unit Presents: Stamp Your Way to a Surprise 2026]]>Where: Shaw Auditorium
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Organizer: Shaw Auditorium Unit]]><![CDATA[National Security Exhibition Gallery]]>Where: Hong Kong Museum of History
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Organizer: Office of the Vice-President for Institutional Advancement on behalf of Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region]]><![CDATA[Baylor New Venture Competition]]>Speakers / Performers:

Organizer: Entrepreneurship Center on behalf of The John F. Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship]]><![CDATA[SME ESG Excellence Awards 2026]]>Speakers / Performers:

Organizer: Entrepreneurship Center on behalf of TVB ESG Awards]]><![CDATA[Maker in China - Hong Kong Chapter 2026]]>Speakers / Performers:

Organizer: Entrepreneurship Center on behalf of Cyberport]]><![CDATA[Ode to Chinese Characters - Su Shishu Calligraphy Exhibition 蘇士澍書法展《漢字頌》]]>Where: Ping Yuan and Kinmay W Tang Gallery, Library G/F
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Organizer: Library, Office of the Vice-President for Institutional Advancement, Development and Alumni Office, Sino United Publishing (Holdings) limited, Beijing Su Shishu Museum of Hanzi Art]]><![CDATA[Connect Ambassador for Community Engagement (Connect ACE) 2026-27]]>Time: 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Where: HKUST Campus
Organizer: HKUST Connect, Habits, Mindsets, & Wellness Programs]]><![CDATA[Tsinghua-HKUST Sustainable Innovation Workshop]]>Time: 9:00am - 5:30pm
Where: HKUST LTC
Speakers / Performers:
  • Prof. Lu Fang - Tsinghua University
  • Prof. Ling Shi - HKUST
  • Prof. David Brady - University of Arizona
  • Prof. Qixiang Cheng - University of Cambridge

Organizer: Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Presentation - Problem-Oriented Molecular AI Workflows for Reaction Prediction and Topology-Constrained Protein Design]]>Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Where: Room 5560 (Lifts 27-28)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Bowen YU

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Presentation - Silica Nanoparticle-PFOA Co-Exposure: Mechanisms of Environmental Transport and Pulmonary Toxicity]]>Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Where: Room 4472 (Lifts 25-26)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Khianne Ed Miguel Pajarillo ORTEZA - Bioengineering Program

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Bioengineering Program]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Presentation - The Wind Through the Bamboo Curtain: Transborder Escapes and the Making of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Frontier, 1949–1980]]>Time: 09:30am - 11:30am
Where: Room 3301 (Lift 2, 17-18),, 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
Organizer: Division of Humanities]]><![CDATA[PhD Qualifying Examination - Growth of Two-Dimensional Rare-Earth Compounds for Memristor Towards Reservoir Computing System]]>Time: 10:00am - 11:00am
Where: Room 5564 (Lifts 27-28)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Jinghan SHEN

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering]]><![CDATA[PhD Qualifying Examination - Contact for Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Devices]]>Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Where: Room 5564 (Lifts 27-28)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Zongyuan XIN

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering]]><![CDATA[PhD Qualifying Examination - Mechanics-Guided and Chemistry-Programmed Gradient-Inspired Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Coatings for Hard Yet Flexible Surface Protection]]>Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Where: Room 5564 (Lifts 27-28)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Yangfan ZHOU

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering]]><![CDATA[[Department of Ocean Science] PhD Qualifying Examination Defense Seminar: Quantifying Sediment Nutrient Recycling and its Controls, from Coastal Ecosystems to Deep-sea Cold Seeps  ]]>Time: 9:30am - 10:30am
Where: Room 5506 (5th Floor, near lift no. 25-26)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Mr SUN Chuanzhe - Department of Ocean Science

Organizer: Department of Ocean Science]]><![CDATA[[Department of Ocean Science] PhD Qualifying Examination Defense Seminar: Multi-Scale Assessment of Microbial Community Responses to Anthropogenic Impacts in Coastal Waters  ]]>Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Where: Room 5506 (5th Floor, near lift no. 25-26)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Mr ZHANG Mingzhe - Department of Ocean Science

Organizer: Department of Ocean Science]]><![CDATA[PhD Thesis Presentation - Electrospun Copper-Based Nanofiber and Modification for Indoor Air Treatment]]>Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Where: Room 4472 (Lifts 25-26)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Zixuan XIONG

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering]]><![CDATA[Social Science Seminar - Beyond Causal Inference, toward Causal-Model and Causal-Response Estimation: Empirical Modeling for Positive Theorists]]>Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Where: Room 3401 (Lift 2 or Lifts 17-18), 3/F Academic Building
Speakers / Performers:
  • Prof Robert FRANZESE - Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan

Organizer: Division of Social Science]]><![CDATA[International Workshop on Digital Twin and AI Empowered Emergency Risk Management]]>Where: Padma and Hari Harilela Lecture Theater (LT-C), Academic Building, HKUST
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Organizer: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering]]><![CDATA[[Physics Department] Programmable Soft Materials by Design]]>Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Where: Room 4504, 4/F, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Prof. Chrisy Xiyu Du - University of Hawaii

Organizer: Department of Physics]]><![CDATA[Summer Movie Night - Pinocchio ]]>Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Where: Main Hall, Shaw Auditorium
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Organizer: Shaw Auditorium Unit]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Presentation - Electrochemical Performances of Single Atom-Doped Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution]]>Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Where: Room 5560 (Lifts 27-28)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Md Saif HASAN

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Presentation - Growth of Twisted Bismuth Oxyiodide Moiré Superlattices with Tunable Thermal Conductivity]]>Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Where: Room 5560 (Lifts 27-28)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Sheng PEI

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Presentation - Synergistic Combination of EGFR-vIII-Targeted CAR-T Cells, Pembrolizumab and Metformin for Overcoming Immunological and Metabolic Resistance in Glioblastoma]]>Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Where: Room 5560 (Lifts 27-28)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Ching Natalie WAN

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Presentation - Revalorization of Fats, Oils and Grease (FOG) Waste from Hong Kong Grease Traps via Nickel–Alumina-Catalyzed Steam Reforming for Hydrogen Production]]>Time: 9:00am - 11:00am
Where: Room 5508 (Lifts 25-26)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Gio Banzon CABUNGCAL

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Defense Seminar   - Screening and Characterization of Anticancer Candidate EN002 and Its Derivatives Targeting DNA Replication Initiation  ]]>Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Where: Room 5506 (5/F., Lift 25/26)
Speakers / Performers:
  • TAO Yicheng - HKUST

Organizer: Division of Life Science]]><![CDATA[PhD Thesis Presentation - The Mechanical Properties During Cell Activities-Potential Use in Environmental Pollution Monitoring and Assessment]]>Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Where: Room 4472 (Lifts 25-26)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Yuan TIAN

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering]]><![CDATA[[Department of Ocean Science]: MPhil Thesis Defense Seminar: DNA Methylation-Based Age Estimation for Cetaceans in Hong Kong waters Using Methylation-Sensitive High-Resolution Melting Analysis  ]]>Time: 10:30am - 11:30am
Where: Room 4475, (Lift no. 25-26), Academic Building
Speakers / Performers:
  • Mr. LIU Chengbin - Department of Ocean Science

Organizer: Department of Ocean Science]]><![CDATA[[Department of Ocean Science] PhD Qualifying Examination Defense Seminar: The resistomes in marine fish and the ambient environment: assessing the risks of farmed fish and wild fish as carriers of antibiotic resistance genes in the human food chain  ]]>Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Where: Room 4475 (4th Floor, near lift no. 25-26)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Miss CHEN Yue - Department of Ocean Science

Organizer: Department of Ocean Science]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Defense Seminar   - Investigation of Compartmentalised Adaptive Synaptic Plasticity  ]]>Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Where: Room 4504 (4/F., Lift 25/26)
Speakers / Performers:
  • FUNG Yu Shan - HKUST

Organizer: Division of Life Science]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Defense Seminar   - Presynaptic Scrap and Build for Learning and Memory  ]]>Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Where: Room 4504 (4/F., Lift 25/26)
Speakers / Performers:
  • HO Lok Yin - HKUST

Organizer: Division of Life Science]]><![CDATA[Department of Chemistry - PhD Student Seminar - Advancing Clean Water with Capacitive Deionization: Principles and Prospects]]>Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Where: Room 2463, 2/F (Lifts 25-26), Academic Building
Speakers / Performers:
  • Mr. Nitish KUMAR

Organizer: Department of Chemistry]]><![CDATA[ECE Seminar - 3D Integration Strategies for Organic Printed Electronics]]>Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Where: Classroom 2303 (via lifts 17-18)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Prof. Sungjune Jung - Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

Organizer: Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering]]><![CDATA[HKUST Engineering Alumni Unicorn Trail 2026]]>Where: Shenzhen
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Organizer: School of Engineering]]><![CDATA[Firebird Hackathon — AI Demo Day]]>Time: 9:00am - 3:40pm
Where: HKUST LT-F (Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theater)
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Organizer: Development and Alumni Office on behalf of the HKUST Mainland Alumni Association]]><![CDATA[IAS Quantum Forum - Altermagnetism and Beyond]]>Time: 9:00am - 6:00pm
Where: HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Organizer: HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study]]><![CDATA[PhD Thesis Presentation - A Systematic Approach to Identify Unknown Unknowns for Early Warning in the Era of Climate Change: Implications for Proactive Climate Governance]]>Time: 10:00am - 11:00am
Where: Room 4504 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
Speakers / Performers:
  • Ms. Yaxuan ZHANG

Organizer: Division of Environment and Sustainability]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Presentation - Simulating Mono-Auditory Attention by a Self-Organizing Map: An Unsupervised Learning Model for Gender Identification in Monaural Mixed-Gender Speech]]>Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Where: Room 5560 (Lifts 27-28)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Hyun Woo BAECK - Bioengineering Program

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Bioengineering Program]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Presentation - Characterizing Long-term Trends and Formation Regimes of Surface Ozone in Hong Kong: Insights from a Localized Diagram Approach]]>Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Where: Room 2302 (Lifts 17-18), 2/F Academic Building, HKUST
Speakers / Performers:
  • Ms. Ning DING

Organizer: Division of Environment and Sustainability]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Presentation - Synthesis of Protein Hydrogels with Programmable Stress Relaxation Behavior enabled by De Novo-Designed Topological Entanglement Motifs]]>Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Where: Room 5562 (Lifts 27-28)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Yutong WU - Bioengineering Program

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Bioengineering Program]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Presentation - Development and Validation of a Decoy-Free Bayesian Approach for Spectral Library Searching in Proteomics]]>Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Where: Room 3598 (Lifts 27-28)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Chun Kit CHUNG - Bioengineering Program

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Bioengineering Program]]><![CDATA[HUMA MPhil Thesis Presentation - Inside the Pirate Archive Community: Informal Circuits of Anime Consumption and Distribution in the Philippines]]>Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Where: Room3301 (Lift 2, 17-18),, 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
Organizer: Division of Humanities]]><![CDATA[[Department of Ocean Science] MPhil Thesis Defense Seminar: The Potential Regulatory Mechanism of Phage CP12 Protein on the Calvin Cycle of Marine Prochlorococcus  ]]>Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Where: Room 5508, (Lift no. 25-26), Academic Building
Speakers / Performers:
  • Miss WANG Xiaoyue - Department of Ocean Science

Organizer: Department of Ocean Science]]><![CDATA[PhD Thesis Presentation - Human cGAS Encodes a Unique Checkpoint Coupling Cellular Redox State to DNA Sensing and Signaling]]>Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Where: Room 5562 (Lifts 27-28)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Shiyu FANG

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Presentation - Label-Free Autofluorescence-Based Multiplexed Virtual Immunohistochemistry for Breast Cancer]]>Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Where: Room 5560 (Lifts 27-28)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Kenan LI - Bioengineering Program

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Bioengineering Program]]><![CDATA[SSCS Distinguished Lecturer Seminar - Continuously Scalable Conversion-Ratio Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter]]>Time: 10:30am - 11:30am
Where: Classroom 2302 (via lifts 17/18)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Prof. Sijun Du - Delft University of Technology

Organizer: Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering]]><![CDATA[Department of Chemistry Seminar - Establishing the Radical Buffering Model via Computational Radical Chemistry]]>Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Where: Room 4503, 4/F (Lifts 25/26), Academic Building
Speakers / Performers:
  • Professor Xiaotian Qi - College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, China

Organizer: Department of Chemistry]]><![CDATA[Department of Chemistry Seminar - Our Journey Toward Making Unpredictable Fluorine Chemistry Predictable]]>Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Where: Room 4503, 4/F (Lifts 25/26), Academic Building
Speakers / Performers:
  • Professor Xiaosong Xue - Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Organizer: Department of Chemistry]]><![CDATA[PhD Thesis Presentation - Projecting Heatwaves and Extreme Precipitation in the Pearl River Delta through the End of the Twenty-First Century using Kilometer-Scale CMIP6-WRF Dynamical Downscaling]]>Time: 9:30am - 10:30am
Where: Room 2302 (Lifts 17-18), 2/F Academic Building, HKUST
Speakers / Performers:
  • Ms. Ziping ZUO

Organizer: Division of Environment and Sustainability]]><![CDATA[PhD Qualifying Examination - Intra- and interspecies VOC-mediated communication: A study on the effects of long-distance signals between bacterial species]]>Time: 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Where: Room 5560 (Lifts 27-28)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Sittie Zuleiha de Sahagun SALIK

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering]]><![CDATA[Department of Chemistry Seminar - Integrated Computational Chemistry Approach for Protein Function Analysis and Application to Drug Discovery]]>Time: 10:30am - 11:30am
Speakers / Performers:
  • Prof. Yasuteru Shigeta - Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Organizer: Department of Chemistry]]><![CDATA[PhD Thesis Presentation - Deep Learning-Based Subgrid Parameterizations for Unresolved Physics]]>Time: 10:00am - 11:00am
Where: Room 5402 (Lifts 17-18), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
Speakers / Performers:
  • Ms. Xingyu ZHU

Organizer: Division of Environment and Sustainability]]><![CDATA[MPhil Thesis Presentation - Context-Aware Deep Learning for Virtual Histological and Immunohistochemical Staining]]>Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Where: Room 5506 (Lifts 25-26)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Jintaek OH - Bioengineering Program

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Bioengineering Program]]><![CDATA[PhD Thesis Presentation - Label-Efficient AI Frameworks for Generalizable Computational Pathology]]>Time: 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Where: Room 5506 (Lifts 25-26)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Yuzhi WANG - Bioengineering Program

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Bioengineering Program]]><![CDATA[PhD Thesis Presentation - Public Blockchain-based Carbon Management System: Supporting Upfront Embodied Carbon Reduction in the Construction Industry]]>Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Where: Room 4504 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
Speakers / Performers:
  • Ms. Ka Lin KUAN

Organizer: Division of Environment and Sustainability]]><![CDATA[PhD Thesis Presentation - Microfluidic Liquid Maneuver for Automated Biomolecular Diagnostics and Cellular Studies]]>Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Where: Room 5560 (Lifts 27-28)
Speakers / Performers:
  • Lu ZHANG - Bioengineering Program

Organizer: Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Bioengineering Program]]><![CDATA[Department of Chemistry - PhD Student Seminar - Closed-Loop Scientific Discovery in Chemistry with Agentic AI]]>Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Where: Room 5508, 5/F (Lifts 25-26), Academic Building
Speakers / Performers:
  • Mr. Jingyuan ZHU

Organizer: Department of Chemistry]]><![CDATA[Department of Chemistry - PhD Student Seminar - Machine Learning Empowers Organic Chemistry - Frontier Methods and Case Studies]]>Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Where: Room 5508, 5/F (Lifts 25-26), Academic Building
Speakers / Performers:
  • Mr. Yizhou WANG

Organizer: Department of Chemistry]]><![CDATA[Seminar - Rossby number similarity of the Ekman boundary layer]]>Time: 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Where: Room 2302 (Lift 17/18), 2/F Academic Building, HKUST
Speakers / Performers:
  • Prof. Bowen ZHOU - School of Atmospheric Sciences Nanjing University

Organizer: Division of Environment and Sustainability]]>