News » New Digital Humanities Project HKUST Team Achieves World’s First Deep Learning Application for Preserving Indigenous Southeast Asian Languages A research team led by Professor Giulio ONGARO, Assistant Professor of the Division of Humanities, has made a breakthrough in the study of an important indigenous language in Southeast Asia. Using cutting-edge technologies such as …
Prof. Michael Chung Co-Leads $680K Grant from Schmidt Sciences’ AI-Humanities Initiative Prof. Michael Chung has been selected as a 2025 awardee of the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), a global initiative by Schmidt Sciences. He serves as a co-Principal Investigator on the project “Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI,” led by …
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New Digital Humanities Project: Digitalizing Lee Yonggang’s Diaries – Preserving History and Cultural Connections We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Digital Humanities Project – “Digitalizing Lee Yonggang’s Diaries: Preserving History and Cultural Connections“ (https://digitalhumanities.hkust.edu.hk/leeyonggang-diary/), one of the two projects supported by the Digital Humanities Seed Funding scheme in the Fall semester …
New Digital Humanities Project: Yunnan Human Geography Through GIS Perspective We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Digital Humanities Project – “Mapping History: Yunnan Human Geography Through GIS Perspective“, one of the two projects supported by the Digital Humanities Seed Funding scheme in the Fall semester of 2024. The Digital Humanities Seed Funding received …
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New Digital Humanities Project: Fostering Collaborative Exploration – Interdisciplinary Efforts in the Research of early Chinese vernacular novels We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Digital Humanities Project – “Rhetorical Formula and Linguistic Style in Early Chinese Novel: A Study of Zheng He’s Voyages to the Western Sea (三寶太監西洋記)” (https://digitalhumanities.hkust.edu.hk/sanbao-zhenghe-voyages). Traditionally, scholars …
New Digital Humanities Project: Sha Fei and Wartime Photography We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Digital Humanities Project – Sha Fei and Wartime Photography (https://digitalhumanities.hkust.edu.hk/shafei/), aimed at using a fresh perspective in showcasing the library’s Special Collection “Sha Fei Photographic Collection”. Sha Fei (1912-1950) was a humanist photographer. He captured some …
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New Digital Humanities Project: HK1997 We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Digital Humanities Project – HK1997 (https://digitalhumanities.hkust.edu.hk/hk1997/) that collaborated with Mr. Birdy Chu from the Division of Humanities. Birdy Chu is an artist, photographer, film maker and also lecturer. Birdy was majoring in design, film and video production and advanced photography …
