School News

The CITIC - IDEI Discussion Forum on FinTech and AI was successfully held by the HKU Business School’s Institute of Digital Economy and Innovation (IDEI) on February 20, 2025. The event brought together esteemed HKU professors, CITIC industry experts, and HKU research students at the forefront of FinTech and AI research and application.

We are thrilled to announce that our students have won 1^st Runner-up in the HSBC Global Private Banking Case Challenge 2024. The competition provided a platform for students to utilise their financial and economic knowledge by creating a comprehensive proposal for clients, taking on the role of a Relationship Manager in a Global Private Bank. Out of 400 competing team from Hong Kong and Singapore, our student team excelled and won 1^st Runner-up in the competition. Congratulations!

Congratulations to our student team for winning the First Place in McDonough Business Strategy Challenge 2025!   McDonough Business Strategy Challenge is an international undergraduate case competition hosted annually by Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., USA. This year, the competition brought together 16 student teams from top business schools around the world to tackle real-world challenges by the non-profit sector.

The HKU Business School and Deloitte China proudly unveiled the Mentorship Programme 2025 with a memorable kick-off ceremony on February 17, 2025, held at the Convocation Room of the University of Hong Kong. This event marked a significant milestone in the collaborative effort to nurture future business leaders in the fields of accounting and business analytics, with a deep commitment to fostering a strong partnership between the two esteemed institutions. The ceremony symbolised the significance of bridging academic knowledge with practical industry guidance, essential for students to thrive in today’s dynamic business landscape.

HKU Business School is making waves with the launch of its new alumni networks across the globe, strengthening ties and fostering collaboration among its graduates. In September 2024, the school celebrated the establishment of its North China Alumni Network at the prestigious Beijing Forum. Over 200 guests, including alumni, professors, and students, gathered at the HKU Beijing Centre for an evening of insightful discussions and networking. This milestone marks the first regional alumni network in mainland China, serving as a bridge between the school and its graduates while creating a platform for lifelong learning and mutual growth.

In the current era of rapid technological advancement, artificial intelligence technology continues to achieve groundbreaking progress. Multimodal models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, Google’s Gemini 2.0, as well as visual-language models like Qwen-VL and Hunyuan-Vision, have rapidly risen. These new-generation models exhibit strong capabilities in image understanding, demonstrating not only outstanding generalization but also broad application potential. However, the current evaluation and understanding of the visual capabilities of these models remain insufficient. Therefore, we propose a systematic framework for evaluating image understanding, encompassing visual perception and recognition, visual reasoning and analysis, visual aesthetics and creativity, and safety and responsibility. By designing targeted test sets, we have conducted a comprehensive evaluation of 20 prominent models from China and the U.S., aiming to provide reliable benchmarks for advancing relevant research and practical application of multimodal models.