The HKUST Card is the result of the collaboration among many University department/offices and external partners.

In particular, acknowledgement is due to the following:

Inter-departmental project team

• Information Systems Office (ISO)
• Information Technology Services Center (ITSC)
• Academic Registry (ARO)
• Human Resources Office (HRO)
• Finance Office (FO)
• Media Technology & Publishing Center (MTPC)

Contributors

The smartcard teams from

• The Cyberspace Center, Department of Computer Science, headed by Prof. D.Y. Yeung
• The Department of Information and Systems Management, headed by Prof. K.Y. Tam

Sponsors

• The Bank of China, who
  • sponsored the initial batch of replacement smartcards for all staff and students;
  • contributed generously to the cost of printing and encoding equipment; and
  • participated actively in the technical, business, and project management aspects of the project.
• Sun Microsystems, who donated a dual processor E450 server to house the payment gateway