HKUST Annual Report 2016-17

60 HKUST 2016-2017 Annual Report AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Faculty members and students received numerous honors and accolades over the year. The following list is not exhaustive FACULTY 1 Prof Peiyuan Qian , Division of Life Science, received a State Natural Science Award, Second Class, from the State Council of the PRC, for his research into “Chemical (Compounds) Signal Production of Biofilm in Response to Environmental Changes: Its Impact on Initial Colonization of Marine Benthos and Ecosystem Structure and Functionality”. 2 Prof Ching W Tang , Department of Chemistry, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering and Department of Physics, was awarded the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal 2017. 3 Prof Danny Leung , Division of Life Science, was honored with a prestigious Croucher Innovation Award 2017 by the Croucher Foundation. 4 Prof Sherry Chen , Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Prof Yi Wang , Department of Physics, received Early Career Scheme Awards from the Research Grants Council. 5 Prof Angela Wu , Division of Biomedical Engineering, and Division of Life Science, was named among the Top 10 Innovators Under 35 in Asia Pacific by MIT Technology Review . 6 Prof Guanghao Chen , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received a newly established National Innovation Pioneer Award from the Chinese government. 7 Prof Guillermo Gallego , Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, was awarded the 2016 Impact Prize by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. 8 Prof Kei May Lau , Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, was honored with the Aron Kressel Award by the IEEE Photonics Society. 9 Prof Zongjin Li , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was awarded the Arthur R Anderson Medal by the American Concrete Institute. 10 Prof Tianshou Zhao , Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was named a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering by Thomson Reuters for the third consecutive year. 11 Prof Shing-chi Cheung and Prof Pan Hui , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, were elected Distinguished Scientists of the Association for Computing Machinery. 12 Prof James Thong , Department of Information Systems, Statistics and Operations Management, received a Fellow Award 2016 from the Association for Information Systems. 13 Prof Wenkai He , Division of Social Science, Prof Jianxiong Ma and Prof Shengqing Wu , Division of Humanities, were awarded prestigious Harvard-Yenching Scholarships for 2016-17. 14 Prof Cameron Campbell , Division of Social Science, was selected as a Changjiang Scholar by the Ministry of Education. Fellows & Board Memberships 15 Prof Allen Moy , Department of Mathematics, was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. 16 Prof James Kwok , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 17 Prof Fangzhen Lin , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. 18 Prof Fugee Tsung , Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.