Vision
UBDA aims to foster inter-disciplinary research, education, and industry collaboration by providing scalable, high-performance computing platforms and advanced data analytics services. Through its infrastructure and services, UBDA empowers researchers, educators, and external partners to conduct faster, more efficient investigations, unlocking deep insights into operational and service efficiency, and to apply data-driven solutions across academic and real-world domains. By driving research innovation, knowledge advancement, and computational excellence, UBDA enhances research capabilities within the PolyU community and supports innovation across sectors.
Mission
- Deliver secure and scalable computing infrastructure, including HPC and GPU platforms, to support data-intensive research, simulation, and AI development
- Promote and facilitate inter-disciplinary research in big data management, processing and analytics across diverse academic fields
- Establish strategic partnerships with industries and organisations across different sectors to support accurate decision-making, deliver real-world mission results, and drive actionable intelligence.
- Educate and train staff, students, and professionals in cutting-edge technologies and practices in big data analytics, cloud computing, and scalable systems
- Advance open innovation and methodological development through support for rapid experimentation and reproducible research.
