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HKUST 2014-2015
Annual Report
FACULTY
1
Profs Weijia Wen, Sheng Ping, Wing Yim Tam,
Department of Physics, Prof Shihe Yang, Department
of Chemistry, and Prof Hongru Ma, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, were awarded a State Natural Science Award,
Second Class, by the State Council of the PRC for their
“Structural and Physical Mechanism Investigation for
Giant Electrorheological Fluid” research.
2
Prof Jianping Gan, Division of Environment and
Department of Mathematics, received a State Natural
Science Award, Second Class, from the State Council
for work exploring dynamic changes and coupling
correlations in the South China Sea and nearby tropical
sea areas.
3
Prof Yilong Han, Department of Physics, received a
Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research
Output Award (Science and Technology), Second Class
in Natural Science, from the Ministry of Education for
work on “Field-driven Emergent Properties and Physical
Mechanisms in Complex Systems”. Prof Han was also
awarded the 2014 Achievement in Asia Award by the
International Organization of Chinese Physicists and
Astronomers.
4
Prof Huamin Qu, Department of Computer Science
and Engineering, was awarded a Higher Education
Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science
and Technology), Second Class in Scientific and
Technological Progress, from the Ministry of Education
for research focused on “Modeling, Analysis and Clinical
Applications of Medical Image Data”.
5
Prof Bing Zeng, Department of Electronic and Computer
Engineering, received a Higher Education Outstanding
Scientific Research Output Award (Science and
Technology), Second Class in Natural Science, from the
Ministry of Education.
6
Prof Tom Cheung, Division of Life Science, and Prof
Kam Tuen Law, Department of Physics, were honored
with Croucher Innovation Awards by the Croucher
Foundation.
7
Prof Ching W Tang, Department of Chemistry,
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
and Department of Physics, received the 2014
Nick Holonyak Jr Award from the Optical Society
of America.
8
Prof Vijay Bhargava, Department of Electronic and
Computer Engineering, was awarded the Killam Prize
2015 by the Canada Council for the Arts.
9
Prof Mansun Chan, Department of Electronic and
Computer Engineering, and his team received a Second
Class Award in the Natural Science Category of the
2014 Shenzhen Science and Technology Award.
10
Prof Lei Chen, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, was awarded the ACM SIGMOD 2015 Test
of Time Award.
11
Prof Vidhan Goyal, Department of Finance, won the
“Citations of Excellence Award” organized by
Emerald
Group Publishing.
12
Prof James Lee, Dean of Humanities and Social Science,
received the Tsinghua Journal Parkson Best Article Award.
13
Prof Ricky Lee, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, received the 2014 Calvin W Rice Lecture
Award from the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers.
14
Prof Ho Yin Mak, Department of Industrial Engineering
and Logistics Management, was awarded the 2014
INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources, and the
Environment Young Researcher Prize.
AWARDS AND
RECOGNITIONS
Faculty members and students have received numerous honors and
accolades over the year. The following list is not exhaustive.
