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HKUST 2012-13 Annual Report
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• Undergraduates Mr Marcus Kam Hau Chu, Ms
Becky Yiyun Lu and Mr Byron Chao Fan, School
of Business and Management, and Ms Daisy
Sihui Li, Dual Degree Program in Technology
and Management, received the first prize in the
Hong Kong section of the CFA Institute Research
Challenge 2012-2013.
• Year 3 student Ms Qiaojin Lin,
Life Science, was awarded a
Gates Cambridge Scholarship
2013 to study neuroscience at
the University of Cambridge.
Students and Researchers
• Mr Kenny Tsun Yat Lam, Dual Degree Program
in Technology and Management, and his team
won the Championship in the 2012 Hong Kong
A Cappella Contest and won a Silver Award in the
Contemporary World Cup Competition, Taiwan
International Contemporary A Cappella Festival
2012.
• Ms Helen Hoi Ling Tang, Information Systems,
Business Statistics and Operations Management,
became one of six international winners in the
L’Oreal Reveal online business game contest,
competing against nearly 20,000 competitors from
122 countries.
• Undergraduate Mr Qifeng Chen, Computer Science
and Engineering, ranked 12th in the Google Code
JamWorld final 2012, the best achievement by a
Hong Kong student since the competition started
in 2003.
• Mr Godfrey Wai Lun Mok, Environmental Management
and Technology, participated in the G20 Youth
Forum in Russia, with more than 1,500 young leaders,
students and academics, and representatives of the
business world. Mr Chandra Jinata, Bioengineering,
was one of five youth representatives from Indonesia
chosen to attend the summit.
• Mr Roger Jiaxiang Zhang, Dual
Degree Program in Technology and
Management, won Best Debater
in the Hong Kong RTHK Mandarin
Debate Competition 2012.
• A HKUST MBA team, comprising Ms Lex J
Arayanimitskul, Mr Christian Maentele and Mr Karan
Singh won the 4th NUS Asian MBA Stock Pitch
Competition held in Singapore.
• A team of HKUST MBA students comprising
Mr Clement Dieudonne, Mr Nicky Loh and Mr Simon
Zhu gained the Championship at the INNOVATEChina
2013 Entrepreneurship Challenge; took first prize
for Best Trade Show and for the Lightning Round
competition at the University of Oregon New Venture
Competition; and won the grand prize and elevator
pitch prize at the HKUST 2013 One Million Dollar
Entrepreneurship Competition. The students’ business
idea sought to commercialize nanostructured solar
cells developed by researchers at HKUST’s School of
Engineering to boost the use of solar energy.