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HKUST 2011-2012 Annual Report
AWARDs AnD RecoGnItIons
■
Prof mingjie zhang
, Division of
Life Science, was the winner of
the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
Science and Technology
Advancement Award in 2011.
■
Six engineering professors were elected Fellows of
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
bringing the total at HKUST to 27. They were
Prof
oscar au
,
Prof roger cheng
,
Prof vincent
lau
,
Prof Johnny Sin
and
Prof danny tsang
,
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering,
and
Prof Qian zhang
, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering.
■
Prof Khaled Ben letaief
, Dean of
Engineering, received the Harold
Sobol Award for Exemplary Service
to Meetings and Conferences from
the IEEE Communications Society.
■
Prof christopher chao
,
Department of Mechanical
Engineering, was elected a
Fellow of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers.
■
Prof matthew mcKay
,
Department of Electronic and
Computer Engineering, won
the Stephen O Rice Prize, IEEE
Communications Society.
■
Prof charles ng
, Department
of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, was appointed by the
German Council of Science and
Humanities to participate in the
peer review process for the German
Excellence Initiative.
■
Prof dekai wu
, Department
of Computer Science and
Engineering, became a Fellow of
the Association for Computational
Linguistics.
■
Prof matthew Yuen
, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, won
the Philips Best Paper Award at
the International Conference on
Electronic Packaging Technology
and High Density Packaging.
■
Prof limin zhang
, Department
of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, was elected a Fellow
of the American Society of Civil
Engineers.
■
Prof Furong gao
, Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering, became a Fellow of
the Society of Plastics Engineers.
FACULTY AWARDS
