CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Founded in 1865, Cornell University is a private research university in New York State. As a member of the Ivy League, we make contributions in all fields of knowledge in a manner that prioritizes public engagement to help improve the quality of life in the state, the nation and the world. Cornell’s mission is to discover, preserve and disseminate knowledge, to educate the next generation of global citizens, and to promote a culture of broad inquiry throughout and beyond the Cornell community.

Cornell relies on a robust exchange of ideas with the public to understand local needs, develop and implement solutions, and deepen community capacity. Building upon the unique strengths of our partners, our public engagement includes extension, outreach, policy briefings, solutions-oriented institutes and much more.

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Awarded Projects

2024

Coordinating Transportation Electrification with Power System Planning for Joint Carbon Reduction in Coupled Power-Transportation Networks

HKUST PI: Sen LI, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cornell PI: H. Oliver GAO, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Cultural and Individual Differences in Virtual Retail Therapy: Engagement and Emotion Regulation in Metaverse Experiences Across the US and Asia

HKUST PI: Jiewen HONG, Department of Marketing
Cornell PI: So-Yeon YOON, Department of Design and Environmental Analysis

Quantifying the Uncertainty in Local Tropical Cyclone Hazard Changes under Global Warming

HKUST PI: Jize ZHANG, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cornell PI: Jonathan LIN, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

2023

Boycotts, Buycotts, Ethical Consumption and Investor’s Extrapolative Beliefs

HKUST PI: Alminas ZALDOKAS, Department of Finance
Cornell PI: Jura LIAUKONYTE, Department of Marketing and Applied Economics

Leveraging Virtual Reality to Improve Navigation Abilities in Seniors with Mild Cognitive Impairment

HKUST PI: Bertram SHI, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
Cornell PI: Saleh KALANTARI, Human Centered Design

Medical Generalist Artificial Intelligence for Chest X-ray via Large Language and Vision Models

HKUST PI: Hao CHEN, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Division of Life Science
Cornell PI: Yifan PENG, Department of Population Health Sciences

Unlocking Content-Sharing Platform Potential: A Data-Driven Strategy for Optimizing Creator Integration

HKUST PI: Ruohan ZHAN, Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
Cornell PI: Yichun HU, Johnson Graduate School of Management

2022

Competing or Complementary Hegemons? An Analysis of the West’s Responses to China’s Belt and Road Initiative

HKUST PI: Naubahar SHARIF, Division of Public Policy
Cornell PI: Ding FEI, Department of City and Regional Planning

Understanding the interaction between compound heat waves and urban heat island effect

HKUST PI: Jiachuan YANG, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cornell PI: Qi LI, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

CryoEM structures of eukaryotic DNA replication complexes

HKUST PI: Shangyu DANG, Division of Life Science
Cornell PI: Marcus SMOLKA and Bik-Kwoon TYE, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Measuring the Evolution of Urban Renewal in the United States using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning

HKUST PI: Fan ZHANG, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cornell PI: Wenfei XU, Department of City and Regional Planning

Awards Schedule