HKUST Annual Report 2017-18

58 Awards and Recognitions Others 23 A Chemistry undergraduate team, comprising Olivia LEE Seungyeon , Jacqueline Cheryl SABRINA and Matthew WONG Ting-Hei , won the 29th Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad 2018 Championship. 24 Physics undergraduate David REN Dawei (fifth right) received the American Physical Society Undergraduate Research Award. 25 IAS Junior Fellow and Research Assistant Professor Dr. Kim CHOW Hei-Man (right), Division of Life Science, was elected to the Future Female Scientists program, becoming the first person from Hong Kong to receive this nationwide honor. 26 MPhil students AU Chun-Ming and LAI Chi-Kin , Computer Science and Engineering and Electronic and Computer Engineering, won the Student Innovation Grand Award and Gold Award at the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2018. 27 A Civil and Environmental Engineering postgraduate team, comprising PhD students Michele DE FILIPPO , Bence KATÓ , Srinivas MOGILI , and MPhil student YUNG Hoi-Yin gained three awards, including the championship, in the Introducing and Demonstrating Earthquake Engineering Research in Schools competition in Taiwan. 28 Undergraduate Kevin HALIM (middle), Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics, won the Institution of Engineering and Technology IET Prize 2017. 29 MPhil student JEONG Shin-Young (middle) received the Best Student Paper Award at the 4th International Conference on Building Energy & Environment. 30 MPhil student Nayeon LEE , Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, was selected as a Google Women Techmakers Scholar 2017 in the Asia-Pacific region. 31 MBA students Michael PELOSI , ZHANG Jiaying , Aman ARORA , Harsh MODY and Sonia IM won the Client Prompt & Championship at the USC Marshall Global Consulting Challenge in the US. 32 An undergraduate team from the School of Business and Management, comprising Richard HUANG , Jessica YANG , Kathrine LAUW , and Gary MA , received the Champion title in the HSBC/HKU Business Case Competition. 33 Interdisciplinary Programs Office undergraduate TONG Ruochen was named Outstanding Delegate of the Beijing International Model United Nations, hosted by China Foreign Affairs University. 27 29 28 24 23 25 26 30