Graduated / Alumni

HKUST Graduated PhD Students

• Lin CHEN – HKUST(GZ) PhD, Graduated 2025


• Zheng Wei – HKUST PhD, Graduated 2025
• Ehsan Ul Haq - Thesis Defence on 19 January 2023, Now Postdoc at HKUST(GZ)
• Reza Haddi Mogavi - Thesis Defence on 16 January 2023, Now Postdoc at University of Waterloo
• James Kit Yung Lam - Thesis Defence on 12 January 2023, Now working at an IT Company in Switzerland
• Ahmad ALHILAL - Thesis Defence on 26 July 2022, Postdoc at HKUST
• Mingyang Zhang - Thesis Defence on 27 May 2022, Now researcher at ANTS Finance
• Tong Li - Thesis Defence on 22 July 2021, Now Postdoc at Tsinghua University
• Gloria Hyunjung Kwak - Thesis Defence on 14 July 2021, Now Postdoc at MIT/Harvard
• Carlos Bermejo - Thesis Defence on 16 June 2021, Then Postdoc at HKUST and now research engineer at Morgan Stanley
• Wenxiao Zhang - Thesis Defence on 24 July 2019, Now Senior Researcher at Huawei Technologies
• Lik-Hang Lee - Thesis Defence on 10 July 2019, then Postdoc at University of Oulu and now Assistant Professor at KAIST since January 2021
• Jiayu Shu - Thesis Defence on 9 July 2019, Now Researcher at ASTRI
• Dimitris Chatzopoulos - Thesis Defence on 17 July 2018, then Research Assistant Professor at HKUST, and now Assistant Professor at University College Dublin
• Ting Wu - Thesis Defence on 17 November 2016, Now Data Scientist at Hong Kong Jockey Club

HKUST Graduated MPhil Students

• Junze MA – HKUST(GZ) MPhil, Graduated 2025


• Yibo WANG – HKUST(GZ) MPhil, Graduated 2025


• Yining HUANG – HKUST(GZ) MPhil, Graduated 2025


• Yunlei MEN – HKUST(GZ) MPhil, Graduated 2025


• Yuanyuan MAO – HKUST(GZ) MPhil, Graduated 2025


• Yuxuan BAI – HKUST(GZ) MPhil, Graduated 2025


• Shi-Ting NI - HKUST(GZ) Mphil, Graduated 2025
• Sergei Sorokin - HKUST MPhil student Fall 2017, Russia Federated Government Scholarship
• Sijia Li - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022, B Arch from Inha University
• Wen Yang - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022, B Arts in Communication from South China University of Technology
• Yulu Hu - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022, B.Eng from South China University of Technology
• Zihao Zhu - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022, B.Eng from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
• Zheng Wei - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B Film Production from Beijing Film Academy , MBA from Beijing Normal University
• Xuling Zhang - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Sc from South China University of Technology
• Ziru Zhang - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Sc from Tianjin University
• Wei Geng - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Eng from Harbin Engineering University , M.Eng from Fudan University
• Guangzhi Zhu - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Eng from Southern University of Science and Technology
• Handi Yin - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Eng from Tsinghua University
• Juhyung Son - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Sc from University of Technology Sydney
• Ruichen Li - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Sc from Fudan University
• Yuchao Zhuo - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Eng from Ningbo University Of Technology
• Shan Jin - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Eng from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
• Chris Chun Ho Park - HKUST MPhil student Fall 2021,B.Sc from HKUST , Thesis Defence in May2023
• Anish Krishna Vallapuram - HKUST MPhil student Fall 2020,B.Sc from HKUST , Thesis Defence in July2022
• Arthur Yui-Pan Yau - HKUST MPhil student Fall 2019,B.Sc from CUHK , Thesis Defence in July2021
• Man Hing Wong - HKUST MPhil student Fall 2019,B.Sc from HKUST , Thesis Defence in February2021
• Nicholas Sukiennik - HKUST TLE MPhil student Fall2017 , Thesis Defence in December2020
• Youngdae Kwon - HKUST MPhil student Fall2017 , Thesis Defence in December2020
• Ali Ugur Guler - HKUST MPhil , Thesis Defence in December2018
• Kayin Ho - HKUST MPhil , Thesis Defence in August2017
• Sikun Lin - HKUST MPhil, Thesis Defence in July 2017, HKTIIT Excellent Postgraduate Scholarship
• Rui Zheng - HKUST MPhil student (2013), Thesis Defence in October 2016
• Ji Yang - HKUST MPhil, Thesis Defence in July 2016
• Muhammad Haris Mughees - HKUST MPhil, Thesis Defence in June 2016; his work was reported by MIT Technology Review and Communications of ACM; now PhD student at UIUC
• Ye Huang - HKUST MPhil, Thesis Defence in October 2014
• Shengkai Zhang - HKUST MPhil (Prof. Bo Li as co-supervisor), Thesis Defence in October 2014

Non-HKUST Graduated PhD Students

• Abhishek Kumar - University of Helsinki PhD student, Thesis Defence on 20 December 2022, Now Postdoc at Oulu University
• Pengyuan Zhou - University of Helsinki PhD student, 2nd Supervisor (Main supervisor: Prof. Jussi Kangasharju), May 2020, Then Postdoc at University of Helsinki, and now Associate Professor at University Science and Technology of China
• Sanja Scepanovic - Aalto University PhD student (Main thesis advisor: Pan Hui, Supervising professor: Prof. Aristides Gionis), February 2018, Research Scientist at Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge UK
• Andrius Aucinas - University of Cambridge UK, March 2016, Co-supervision with main supervisor at University of Cambridge: Prof. Jon Crowcroft, Now co-founder and Head of Engineering at HAT
• Shang Shang - Princeton University USA, May 2014, Co-supervision with main supervisors at Princeton University: Prof. Sanjeev Kulkarni, Now researcher at Amazon USA
• Ranjan Pal - University of Southern California USA, May 2014, Co-supervision with main supervisors at USC: Prof. Leana Golubchik and Prof. Konstantinos Psounis, Now tenure-track research assistant professor at University of Michigan
• Gautam Thakur - University of Florida USA, November 2012, Co-supervision with main supervisor at University of Florida: Prof. Ahmed Helmy, Now researcher at Oak Ridge National Lab USA
• Sufian Hameed - University of Goettingen Germany, September 2012, Co-supervision with main advisor at University of Goettingen: Prof. Xiaoming Fu, Now Assistant Professor at National University of Computer & Emerging Science Pakistan
• Yong Li - Tsinghua University China, May 2012, Co-supervision with main advisor at Tsinghua University: Prof. Depeng Jin, Now Associate Professor at Tsinghua University