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RECENT FOCUS

The Faculty hosted an engaging forum on “Career Opportunities for Humanities Students in the Age of AI” on 1 April. The event successfully brought together industry leaders and academic experts to discuss the evolving landscape of career opportunities for humanities students in the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence.

The forum featured six distinguished guests including Dr Charles K.C. Cheung, Senior Data Scientist and Deputy Director of NVIDIA AI Technology Center Hong Kong; Mr Kevin Chu, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-founder of Datax Limited; Mr Billy Hui, Co-founder and CEO of Laurry AI; Mr Almon Kwan, Director of FDMT Consulting; Prof. Peter Ng, Assistant Professor of PolyU Department of Computing and Department of Rehabilitation Sciences; and Mr Phil Woo Pak-fai, Co-founder of allcareAI and FH Outstanding Alumni Awardee. Click HERE to read more.

A delegation from the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University visited the Faculty of Humanities (FH) on 12 March. Prof. Li Ping, Dean of FH warmly welcomed Prof. Hiroyuki Eto, Dean and Professor of Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, along with the delegates from Tohoku University.

Both parties engaged in meaningful discussions about extracurricular English language learning in Hong Kong, student exchange initiatives and academic collaboration. Click HERE to read more.

A delegation from the School of Foreign Studies, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) visited the Faculty on 4 March. Prof. Hang Xing, Associate Dean (Global Engagement) of FH warmly welcomed the delegates and presented an overview of FH’s programmes and achievements. Additionally, Prof. Wang Gaozu, Head of the Party Committee at NPU's School of Foreign Studies provided a comprehensive update on NPU's current development. Both parties engaged in meaningful discussions about student exchange initiatives and opportunities for academic and research collaboration.

ACHIEVEMENT

The Faculty has made notable strides in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025. The subject of linguistics, the discipline in which a large number of FH staff members are engaged, has climbed to the 51st position from the 100th in the previous year. The significant leap highlights the Faculty’s dedication to advancing research and education in the field. Additionally, the broad area of Arts and Humanities at the University has also moved up to the 83rd position this year. Click HERE to read more.

Dr Özgehan Uştuk, Research Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Communication, has been honoured with the TESOL Outstanding Advocate Honor Award 2025. The award presentation ceremony will be held at this year’s TESOL International Convention and Expo in California. Click HERE to read Dr Uştuk’s global advocacy story.

The WORLDCUISINES Project, a collaborative project involving our Faculty member Prof. Emmanuele Chersoni, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, and a team of international researchers including our alum Dr Enrico Santus, has been honoured with the Best Theme Paper Award at the prestigious NAACL 2025 conference.

This innovative project has produced a dataset featuring a large-scale collection of images and questions/answers aimed at testing large language models (LLMs) on their ability to identity and describe dishes from 30 different languages and cultures. Prof. Chersoni and Dr Santus were responsible for the Italian cuisine section of the dataset. Click HERE to read the full paper.

Students from the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies (CBS) have achieved outstanding results in two national competitions.

CATTI’s National News Editing and Translation Competition (University (English) category)
Second Award: Wang Jingwen (MATI) Third Award: Sun Jiakun (BALT)

National English-Speaking Contest for University Students
Second Award: Zhao Yunci (BALT) and Sun Jiakun (BALT)

Dr Maggie Hui, Teaching Fellow in the CBS, provided professional guidance to these and was awarded the title of “Outstanding Instructor” in the National English-Speaking Contest.

Our PhD student, Miss Xu Xintong, from the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies (supervised by Prof. Ke Sihui) has won the Top Student Researcher award in the 9th Annual Conference for the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA 2025) held in the Philippines between 27 and 28 February. Click HERE to read more.

A total of 47 students from 22 local secondary schools competed in the 7th Hong Kong Linguistics Olympiad (HKLO) on 23 February 2025 at PolyU. The competition concluded with the awarding of one gold medal, two silver medals, six bronze medals, and 10 honourable mentions on 9 March 2025. These students will participate in the 7th Asia-Pacific Linguistics Olympiad (APLO) on 20 April 2025. The top four students from APLO will represent Hong Kong at the 22nd International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL), which will be held from 21 to 26 July 2025 in Taipei.

EVENTS

• (16-17 May 2025) Talking Across the World Symposium: Global Communication of Chinese Culture in the Digital Age
• (22-23 May 2025) AHKLC Annual Symposium 2025 – Repositioning Language Education in the Age of AI
• (25 May 2025) 中國文化學系校友會 — 黃大仙信俗文化館考察遊
• (24-29 June 2025) The 3rd Tsinghua University, PolyU and the University of Macau tripartite exchange programme 2025
• (4-7 July 2025) International Summit on the Use of AI in Learning and Teaching Languages and Other Subjects (AIinLT)