Professor Yi MA
Inaugural Director and Professor, Chair of Artificial Intelligence, School of Computing and Data Science (HKU SCDS);
Inaugural Director, HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science (HKU IDS), The University of Hong Kong;
Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture
The Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture is a major academic programme of the College. Since 1990, the programme has invited every year an internationally renowned scholar to visit the College to deliver a public lecture, along with other programmes as appropriate, and meeting with students.
Professor Yi MA,
Inaugural Director and Professor, Chair of Artificial Intelligence, School of Computing and Data Science (HKU SCDS); Inaugural Director, HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science (HKU IDS), The University of Hong Kong; Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Professor David Henry Hwang,
Professor, Theatre, School of the Arts, Columbia University in the City of New York
Past Lectures
Pursuing the Nature of Intelligence: Way Forward for Humankind (13 February 2026)
Life Imitates Broadway: the Soft Power of Theatre (8 April 2025)
Professor David Henry Hwang, Professor, Theatre, School of the Arts, Columbia University in the City of New York
Racing to Zero: Initiatives and Technologies for Decarbonizing Global Value Chains (15 October 2024)
Professor Dr.-Ing Holger KOHL, Head, Department of Sustainable Corporate Development, Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Management (IWF), Technical University of Berlin; Deputy Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK)
21st Century Frontiers of Medical and Health Humanitarian Assistance: along the Belt and Road (14 April 2023)
Professor Emily Ying-yang CHAN, Assistant Dean (External Affairs), Faculty of Medicine; Professor, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Chief Executive Officer, GX Foundation
What have we learnt from COVID-19? (11 March 2021)
Professor David SC HUI, Chairman, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Stanley Ho Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
How Japan and China learned from each other from 600 A.D. to the present (21 January 2020)
Professor Ezra VOGEL, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University
The era of artificial intelligence (20 March 2019)
Dr. LEE Kai-fu, Chair and CEO, Sinovation Ventures