The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
香港科技大学
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is a research university in Hong Kong where professor Zexiang Li has taught since 1992, building a reputation as a hub for technology entrepreneurship and robotics—Li also chairs Googol Technology and the Songshan Lake Robotics Industrial Base . The university has positioned itself at the center of Hong Kong's AI push: Yike Guo serves as Provost and directs the Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Center (HKGAI), which presented at a 2025 summit . HKUST has also pursued active industry collaboration, partnering with Peking University on the multimodal DeepSeek-R1 variant Align-DS-V in early 2025 , and with Shuyu Technology on graphics engine development . Its ecosystem role extends to life sciences, as one of BioMap's partners for its Hong Kong AI for Life Science initiative .
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