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Cornell-HKUST Global Strategic Collaboration Awards
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HKUST and Cornell University (Cornell) have identified each other as strategic partners to foster deep collaboration in research and education. The Cornell-HKUST Global Strategic Collaboration Awards were offered from 2023 to 2025 to provide Cornell and HKUST faculty teams with initial financial support for collaborative research explorations with the potential to create new or expanded research partnerships, develop cutting-edge scholarship to create academic and societal impact, and attract external funding.
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Awarded Projects
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2025
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- Cultural and Individual Differences in Virtual Retail Therapy: Engagement and Emotion Regulation in Metaverse Experiences Across the US and Asia
HKUST PI: Jiewen HONG, Department of Marketing
Cornell PI: So-Yeon YOON, Department of Human Centered Design - Coordinating Transportation Electrification with Power System Planning for Joint Carbon Reduction in Coupled Power-Transportation Networks
HKUST PI: Sen LI, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cornell PI: H. Oliver GAO, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2024
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- Medical Generalist Artificial Intelligence for Chest X-ray via Large Language and Vision Models
HKUST PI: Hao CHEN, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Cornell PI: Yifan PENG, Department of Population Health Sciences - Leveraging Virtual Reality to Improve Navigation Abilities in Seniors with Mild Cognitive Impairment
HKUST PI: Bertram SHI, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
Cornell PI: Saleh KALANTARI, Department of Human Centered Design - Unlocking Content-Sharing Platform Potential: A Data-Driven Strategy for Optimizing Creator Integration
HKUST PI: Ruohan ZHAN, Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
Cornell PI: Yichun HU, SC Johnson College of Business - Boycotts, Buycotts, Ethical Consumption and Investor’s Extrapolative Beliefs
HKUST PI: Alminas ZALDOKAS, Department of Finance
Cornell PI: Jura LIAUKONYTE, SC Johnson College of Business
2023
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- Competing or Complementary Hegemons? An Analysis of the West’s Responses to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
HKUST PI: Naubahar SHARIF, Division of Public Policy
Cornell PI: Ding FEI, Department of City and Regional Planning - CryoEM structures of eukaryotic DNA replication complexes
HKUST PI: Shangyu DANG, Division of Life Science
Cornell PI: Bik-Kwoon TYE, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - Measuring the Evolution of Urban Renewal in the United States using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning
HKUST PI: Fan ZHANG, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cornell PI: Wenfei XU, Department of City and Regional Planning - Understanding the interaction between compound heat waves and urban heat island effect
HKUST PI: Jiachuan YANG, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cornell PI: Qi LI, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering