HKBU Chair Professor Michael Ng receives Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award

Professor Michael Ng, Dean of Science, Chair Professor in Mathematics and Chair Professor in Data Science at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), has received the Natural Science Award (Second Class) at the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award for his project "Multimodal Computing Theory and Methods for Intelligent Healthcare."

Professor Ng's award underscores the impact of his interdisciplinary work, which bridges mathematics and data science to drive innovation in artificial intelligence. The research highlights the excellence of Professor Ng—who was named a "Highly Cited Researcher 2025" by Clarivate (placing his publications in the top 1% of the most-cited worldwide in the Mathematics category) , won a  Second-Class Natural Science Award under the Beijing Science and Technology Awards, and received funding from the Partnership Research Programme (PRP) by the Innovation and Technology Commission under the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau of the HKSAR Government. His success reinforces HKBU's research strategy on interdisciplinarity and its research clusters, in particular Health and Drug Discovery and Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.

"There is no wall between 'AI for science' and 'science for AI'," Professor Ng said earlier in an interview with the Research Office. "Mathematics bridges this gap, allowing insights to flow freely between the two." (Full interview HKBU Research – "There is no wall": Professor Michael Ng on the fundamental mathematics of discovery.)

The Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award was initiated and hosted by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2011. It received the support of Wu Wenjun, a pioneer and leading figure in intelligent science research in China, the inaugural recipient of the National Highest Science and Technology Award, an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Chairman of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence.