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- Lingnan honours 53 outstanding research scholars as total number of patents for research projects hits record high
- Grandchildren engage in intergenerational care to relieve parental pressure: early grandparent-grandchild bonds prove crucial
- Heavy pressure on Hong Kong’s compound carers
- Higher nomophobia linked to more frequent social media use during less busy periods of negative emotion
- Educating retail investors to understand companies’ actual cash flows can effectively curb blind stock buying
- Endangered Lantau Short-legged Horned Toad may be undergoing speciation
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- In the footsteps of the Nobel Laureate: Lingnan launches the inaugural Samuel C.C. Ting Elite Class
- First cohort of the Samuel C.C. Ting Elite Class seeks fresh international horizons
- Lingnan University Flag Guard Team joins Beijing exchange tour Beneath the national flag: witnessing youth and mission
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- 54 Lingnan scholars in Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists
- Prof Sam Kwong Tak-wu elected Fellow of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada
- Prof Jean-Michel Morel elected Foreign Member of the Luxembourg Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Prof Helen Geng Hongyan wins UGC Teaching Award
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- Five distinguished individuals receive honorary fellowships
- President S. Joe Qin speaks on interdisciplinary AI and governance at Digital Universities Asia 2026
- Lingnan co-hosts 2026 Summit on AI Ethics and Governance
- Lingnan and the Civil Service Bureau co-organise the first Government Career Fair
- Five innovative projects featured at InnoCarnival
- Cybersecurity Awareness Day 2026 to promote anti-fraud information
- Leading media and communications scholar Prof Meng Bingchun joins Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study as Senior Lingnan Scholar
- Lingnan hosts South-South academic symposium focusing on development dilemmas and innovative cooperation in Global South
- Aquatic Meet 2026: athletes break four records
- Lingnan Host Family Scheme 2026-27 launches
President S. Joe Qin speaks on interdisciplinary AI and governance at Digital Universities Asia 2026
- Event Highlights
Issue No. 198 Oct 2026
President S. Joe Qin (right) joins the presidential fireside chat at Digital Universities Asia 2026.
From 24 to 25 September, Prof S. Joe Qin, President and Wai Kee Kau Chair Professor of Data Science at Lingnan University, attended Digital Universities Asia 2026 in Chengdu, co-hosted by the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and the Times Higher Education (THE).
At the summit, President Qin participated in a presidential fireside chat titled “AI across disciplines: Creating new models for collaboration” with Ms Lim Mei-mei, THE President for the APAC region. Addressing how generative AI exposes the limits of traditional academic silos, President Qin detailed how Lingnan fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration among computer scientists, philosophers, social scientists, and humanities scholars through dedicated academic structures.
President Qin also joined a session titled “From automation to autonomy: What agentic AI means for university leadership.” Panellists discussed which decisions must remain under human authority and which administrative and academic decisions can be delegated, how universities can balance rapid AI deployment with oversight and accountability risks, and the strategic role AI agents should play in assisting university leaders without fostering undue over-reliance.