Our Clusters
Developing Resilient, User-Centered Solutions to Enhance Efficiency, Foster Innovation, and Transform Cities through AIoT Research and Development
Cutting-edge AIoT solutions for public safety, healthcare, smart cities, and digital transformation are employed. Value created projects include drone-based search/rescue for individuals, real-time athlete tracking, and AI-powered crowd management, enabling privacy-preserving sensors to recognize human actions for elderly care, edge-AI cameras for optimizing parking and traffic, pose estimation for sports training and rehabilitation, and creating affordable 3D models for digital twins via crowdsourced images. Innovations enhance efficiency, safety, and quality of life across Hong Kong.
Advancing a Greener, Healthier, and More Resilient Built Environment for Hong Kong and Beyond
Developing and using advanced control and artificial intelligence techniques to enhance building performance. Awarded projects include optimal design and operation of Photovoltaic Integrated Green Roof, advanced control for efficient building-grid interaction, Semantic AI empowered fault detection and control optimization for HVAC system, coordinating Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) system for energy efficiency and load flexibility.
Employing Cutting-Edge Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Micro-Simulation and Agent-Based Simulation Modeling
State-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are employed in conjunction with micro-simulation and agent-based simulation modeling to address traffic and transportation challenges in Hong Kong and beyond. Awarded projects include the Smart Traffic Management System (STMS), Dynamic Intersection Signal Control Optimization (DISCO) system, Disruption Management for Public Transport Services, and agent-based simulation modeling for planning and operations.
Prof. S.H. Gary Chan, is Associate Director of GREAT Smart Cities Institute, Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST. His expertise includes smart IoT and sensing systems, edge and cloud AI, location AI and mobile computing, video/user/data analytics, machine learning system innovations, technology transfer and IT entrepreneurship. He has successfully deployed his research results in industry and co-founded several startups with commercial and societal impacts. He received Hong Kong Chief Executive's Commendation for Community Service for "outstanding contribution to the fight against COVID-19" in 2020. He is an Elected Fellow of Sigma Xi (FSX) and Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (FCILT).
Prof. Walter Zhe WANG, is the Associate director of the GREAT Smart Cities Institute. His research focuses on developing smart solutions for green buildings and low carbon cities. He has been named as the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford & Elsevier since 2021. He was invited to give a speech on the Seventh-Round High-level Consultation on U.S.-China People to People Exchange, chaired by U.S. Secretary of States John Kerry and Chinese Vice-Premier Yandong Liu, as the only representative of Chinese young scholar.
Prof. Hong K. Lo, is Dean of Engineering, Director of the GREAT Smart Cities Institute, Chair Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, HKUST. His expertise includes smart city, dynamic transportation system modeling, traffic control, network reliability, and public transportation analysis. He was one of the Most Cited Researchers in Civil Engineering in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
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