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HKUST 2011-2012 Annual Report
FACULTY AWARDS
Research excellence in natural sciences,
second Class
■
Prof Karl wah Keung tsim
and
dr tingxia dong
,
Division of Life Science, for “Systematic Analysis
of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas: the
Application of Various Biological Models in Delineating
Mechanistic Actions of
Danggui Buxue Tang
”
■
Prof Qian zhang
, Department
of Computer Science and
Engineering, for “The Basic
Theory of OFDM-based Wireless
Communications”
■
Prof nancy ip
, Dean of Science, was made a Knight
of l’Ordre National du Mérite. The honor is awarded
by the French President and was presented by Mr
Arnaud Barthélémy, Consul-General of France for
Hong Kong and Macau.
■
Prof george wong
and
Prof zikang tang
,
Department of Physics, have their article “Room-
temperature Ultraviolet Laser Emission From Self-
assembled ZnO Microcrystallite Thin Films”
in Applied
Physics Letters
, 72, 3270 (1998) recognized as one of
the 50 most cited papers for the past 50 years in the
journal, which is one of the top publications devoted
to applied physics.
■
Nine faculty members were among the first batch
of Hong Kong scholars to be selected to join the
National Science and Technology Programmes Expert
Database:
Prof tony F chan
, President;
Prof nancy
ip
, Dean of Science;
Prof Joseph Hun wei lee
,
Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies;
Prof lionel ni
, Dean of HKUST Fok Ying Tung
Graduate School;
Prof wei Shyy
, Provost;
Prof
Benzhong tang
, Department of Chemistry;
Prof
Henry tye
, Director of the Institute for Advanced
Study;
Prof mingjie zhang
, Division of Life Science,
and
Prof tongyi zhang
, Department of Mechanical
Engineering.
