
W100 Representative
Shirley ChongDirector of Communications and Institutional Research Office (CIRO)
Shirley Chong has extensive public relations, branding and marketing experience in higher education sector. She has a strong global business network which benefits the university when promoting research excellence and building a strong academic reputation. This network is also crucial in developing employers’ perception of the university’s graduates. In addition, she has extensive data analytics and university rankings experience and provides business intelligence for high-level decision-making.

Located in the heart of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has a well-earned reputation as an innovative hub for research and professional education and for addressing global issues and empowering positive change.
The Latest from City University of Hong Kong
【#CityUHKlife: Official Opening of #CityUHK Alumni Lounge to Welcome Alumni 😊】
The #CityUHK Alumni Lounge warmly welcomes alumni “home”, providing a space to reconnect with old friends and the University.
📍 Located at the #CityUHK International Centre, the Alumni Lounge…
🌟 Under the AI development trend, the three winners of the Teaching Excellence Award (TEA) 2024/25 have effectively used AI to develop innovative teaching models in their professional fields, offering students a learning experience that is more closely aligned with the demands…
🌟 Between 25 and 27 February, #CityUHK Career Expo 2025 connected almost 130 esteemed employers from both the public and private sectors with undergraduate and postgraduate students. The Expo offered more than 6,000 career and internship opportunities, with great support from…
🌏 #CityUHK students successfully hosted the Indonesian Festival 2025 on 24 February.
The Festival offered the #CityUHK community a vibrant cultural journey through sights, sounds, and tastes, which not only highlighted the rich exchange of cultures and traditions on campus, but…
🌟 #CityUHK’s Women’s and Men’s Table Tennis Teams have made history by winning the University Sports Federation of Hong Kong, China (USFHK) Table Tennis Championship together in the same year, after a 14-year gap! 🏆🏆
The teams played impressively at the Championship,…
💡 Did you know?
In 2024, scam cases in Hong Kong caused HK$9.1 billion in losses, averaging a daily loss of HK$25 million, with a scam every 13 minutes!
On 21 February, #CityUHK hosted the first session of the Anti-Scam Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Frankie Law Yuet-wing,…
#CityUHK recently honoured two distinguished alumni at the 8th Distinguished Alumni Award (DAA) Presentation Ceremony. The awards were presented to Mr Anthony Lam Sai-ho, Vice Chairman and Group CEO of Golden Resources Development International Limited, and Dr Allen Shi Lop-tak,…
#CityUHK Professor Alex Fang Chengyu, Director of the Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies and Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation, has been appointed as the Chair of the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO)…
#CityUHK proudly celebrated the 10th anniversary of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, reaffirming its commitment to empowering women in #STEM. Female faculty and students gathered to honour the occasion, sharing stories of inspiration, achievement and their views…
More than 180 CityU faculty members were listed among the top 2% of the most cited scientists in the world, according to Stanford University in October 2022.
Researchers from CityU received 36 awards at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva in April 2023.
Our University is in the heart of a metropolitan community with extensive global connections.
Embracing diversity - putting learning first
A campus enriched by different cultures, languages, ethnicities, genders, points of view, and learning and teaching styles is what we aim for at CityU. Our
University is in the heart of a metropolitan community with extensive global connections. We aim to reflect that cosmopolitan flavour by attracting high quality students and faculty from around the world and encouraging local students to seek academic adventures overseas. Similarly, we promote pedagogic styles that reach beyond traditional institutional learning (lectures, classroom). At CityU, we spotlight learning-centric education that builds pathways for sustainable careers; inspirational learning that presents the spark for dynamic self-motivation; interactive learning that encourages intellectual exchange and sharing; and innovative learning that emboldens the pursuit of invention and creativity.
Mission and vision
- City University of Hong Kong aspires to become a leading global university, excelling in research and professional education.
- Our mission is to nurture and develop students' talents and to create applicable knowledge for social and economic advancement.
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CityU faculty members ranked among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists.
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Research Institutes/Centres, and 10 Applied Strategic Development Centres covering different areas of strategic importance.
CityU identifies solutions to critical global challenges by extending the frontiers of knowledge both within and beyond existing research paradigms. Our highly qualified academics are drawn from all over the world, bringing a wealth of research and professional experience to our programmes. Our world-class labs and state-of-the-art teaching facilities, as well as our state key laboratories, a national engineering centre and a suite of institutional-level research centres, enable our researchers to maintain a positive trajectory. We also pioneer new forms of expression by bringing science and the arts together.
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