Vision & Mission

Vision

The City University of Hong Kong envisions to build an Institute for Advanced Study that will gather some of the best minds in science and engineering, to pursue curiosity-driven ideas and studies, and to conduct unfettered research based on free and deep thinking; an institute where the goals are to seek truth, to advance knowledge and to better humanity.

Mission

The intellectual and scholarly activities at the IAS will contribute fundamental knowledge and innovative ideas to the frontiers of science, engineering and technology. Endeavors at the IAS include both basic and applied research across disciplines such as mathematical and physical sciences, economics and social sciences, and life sciences. It is also the goal of the IAS to further raise the global profile of the science and engineering community at CityU and other academic/research institutions in Hong Kong and Greater China.