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Faculty members received prestigious national science and technology awards.
Faculty
• Prof Qian Zhang, Department
of Computer Science and
Engineering, received a State
Natural Science Award, Second
Class, from the State Council
of the PRC, for “Models for
Joint Wireless Multimedia
Communication and
Performance Optimization”.
Prof Zhang also won the
• Prof Tianshou Zhao,
Department of
Mechanical Engineering,
received a State Natural
Science Award, Second
Class, from the State
Council of the PRC, for
“Investigations of Multi-
scale and Multi-physics
Field Coupled Fluid Flow
and Heat/Mass Transfer in Complex Systems”.
• Prof Furong Gao, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering, received a Higher Education Outstanding
Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology):
Natural Sciences, First Class, from the Ministry of Education for
“Theory of High-Performance Batch Process Control Systems”.
• Prof Christopher Leung, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, received a Higher Education
Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and
Technology): Natural Sciences, First Class, from the Ministry of
Education for “Mechanism for Crack Control in Quasi-brittle
Cementitious Materials and the Developing of Ultra High
Toughness Cementitious Composites”.
• Prof Matthew Yuen, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
received a Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research
Output Award (Science and Technology): Natural Sciences,
Second Class, from the Ministry of Education, for “3D Garment
Design”.
• Prof Xiangtong Qi,
Department of Industrial
Engineering and Logistics
Management, received
a Higher Education
Outstanding Scientific
Research Output Award
(Humanities and Social
Sciences): Management,
Second Class, for his co-authored paper “Price
Competition, Cost and Demand Disruptions
and Coordination of a Supply Chain with One
Manufacturer and Two Competing Retailers”.
• Prof Bozhong Li, Division of Humanities,
was awarded the Higher Education
Outstanding Scientific Research Output
Award (Humanities and Social Sciences):
Economics, Third Class, from the Ministry
of Education for his book
China’s Early
Modern Economy: A Study of the GDP of
the Huating-Lou Area in the 1820s
. He also
received the 2012 Guo Moruo Chinese
History Prize, Third Class, from the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences.
Electronics Information Science and Technology Award,
First Class, Chinese Institute of Electronics; and the Ho
Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology
Innovation Award.
Awards and Recognitions