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Prof. Sun Fei believes the process of creating things is an exploration and he enjoys this process very much.

HKUST will enhance its flexible admissions arrangement for students applying for 2022 intake via JUPAS.

Professor Ronald LAU knows HKUST and the School of Business and Management (SBM) well. A long service award recipient, he has spent over 20 years here, first as a Visiting Associate Professor and then as Associate Professor and UG Program Coordinator (Operations Management) at the SBM. He has taught many generations of students including all four of his sons.  I did not think teaching would be my life-time job. “I did not think teaching would be my life-time job,” Prof. Lau chuckles. “When I graduated from secondary school, my grades were not good enough to get me a place into university. I started working as a cost and operation analyst in a bank while studying to become a certified management accountant before I went to study in the US.”

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Prof. Rhea LIEM's career is one that has been forged in adversity. A convergence of crises, both familial and societal, led to her making decisive career choices at a young age. “My life was turned upside down, but actually in a good way," says Prof. Liem, Assistant Professor of Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, who recently won the University Grants Committee (UGC) Teaching Award 2021 under the category of Early Career Faculty Members.

The new program is designed to equip students with the essential knowledge and skills to fill the talent gap for green and sustainable finance experts.