HKUST Annual Report 2017-18

A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 1 7 - 1 8 57 HKUST FELLOWS & BOARD MEMBERSHIPS 11 Prof. WANG Wenxiong , Department of Ocean Science, was elected a Fellow of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 12 Prof. HUI Pan , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 13 Prof. JING Bing-Yi , Department of Mathematics, was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS The HKUST Robotics Team, comprising 75 students from different departments, gained many awards over the year. Robocon Team 19 Champion, Robocon 2018 Hong Kong Contest. Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Team 20 Champion, Explorer Class, 13th Hong Kong Regional MATE International ROV Competition. 21 Third runner-up, Explorer Class, MATE International ROV Competition 2017. Smart Car Teams 22 Second Class Award for the Camera Group, and Third Class Awards for the Balance and Chasing Groups, 12th NXP Cup Intelligent Car Racing Competition, South China Region. 14 Prof. YANG Qiang , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. 15 Prof. LI Yingying , Department of Information Systems, Statistics and Operations Management, was elected a Fellow of the Society for Financial Econometrics. 16 Prof. Anirban MUKHOPADHYAY , Department of Marketing, was elected a Scholar of the Marketing Science Institute. 17 Prof. Daisy DU , Division of Humanities, was selected as a Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar for 2017-18. 18 Prof. Jenny SMITH , Division of Humanities, was selected to be a Andrew Carnegie Fellow for 2017-19. 19 22 14 20 21 15 11 17 12 16 18 13