AI Thrust rides on the strong research background at HKUST and is committed to basic and applied research in artificial intelligence. We aim to nurture high-level research and application talents with strong professional skills, interdisciplinary capabilities and international perspectives. Our team of highly qualified faculty members actively promotes interdisciplinary research, and strives to build an AI research ecosystem that is Greater Bay Area based, internationally oriented, and HKUST branded. We envisage here a talent incubator, an innovative center, a dream hatchery, and a future enlightener.

This thrust area focuses on art creation and visual communication with new technologies, with emphasis on art with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), AI-generated art, information art and design, and data visualization. It also promotes the interplay of art and technology and exploits the most advanced technology for art creation and visual communication with a social impact.

It advances data science and analytics by unifying statistics, machine learning, optimization, and their related techniques. It also expands the applications of data science and analytics to solve real-world problems and benefit society.

This thrust adopts an interdisciplinary approach to equip students with comprehensive knowledge to pursue technological innovation, and to explore new research frontiers in forming Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled digital societies.