HKUST Annual Report 2018-19

54 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS The HKUST Robotics Team, comprising 83 students from different departments, received many accolades over the year. Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Team 20. All-Around Champion and Engineering Presentation Champion, MATE International ROV Competition 2019. 21. Champion, Explorer Class, 14th Hong Kong Regional of the MATE International ROV Competition. Smart Car Teams 22. First Class Award (Quad-Wheel Photoelectric Category), Second Class Award, (Dual-Wheel Vertical Category), and two Third Class Awards (Dual-Car Crossover Category and Beacon Dueling Category), 13th NXP Cup Intelligent Car Racing Competition (South China Region). Robocon Teams 23. Second Runner-up, Best Team Spirit Award and Best Artistic Design Award, Robocon 2019 Hong Kong Contest. Others 24. Eighteen HKUST science/engineering/dual degree students won the Gold Medal at the iGEM 2018 Competition in Boston, US. 25. Physics undergraduate WANG Tong won the Paul & May Chu UG Research Award. 26. PhD student HU Wei (second left) , Department of Mathematics, received an Excellence Award, “Analysis and Differential Equations” Group, in the 2018 Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition. 27. MSc Big Data Technology students Rohini BANERJEE , Bikram Aditya GANGWAR , Terence LEUNG and Abhishek PARYANI won the Championship at the PwC Data-lympics 2019. The team was also First runners-up at the Deloitte x HKUST Hackathon. 28. CHAN Chun-Tat , LUI Kin-Leung and Chloe TANG , PhD student Helen KWOK Hoi-Ling , all from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, together with Alison LI Tan-Yui , MPhil student in Environmental Science, Policy and Management, won the Outstanding Students Award at the Autodesk Hong Kong BIM Awards 2018. 29. PhD students CHE Yulin , SUN Shixuan and WANG Lipeng , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, won the Championship in the first POLARDB Database Performance Challenge held by Alibaba Cloud Services. 30. MBA students Alexander IP , Changmin CHOI , Theodric WONG and Ruby HE won the IESE Roland Berger International Case Competition in Spain. 31. A School of Business and Management undergraduate team comprising Chase CHO , Desmond YIU , Stephanie CHOU and Stephanie CHAN , won the Championship and Best Presenter Award at the USC Marshall International Case Competition in the US. 32. Environmental Management and Technology undergraduate team, comprising Natalie CHEUNG , Kandice LI , Karry NGAI , Patrick YEUNG , Joyce YEUNG and Kingson HO , won the second prize of the Climathon 2018. 33. Risk Management and Business Intelligence undergraduates Enoch WONG and Flavia Jofani Susanto KWAN , together with students from HKUST Business School, won the Championship at the Information System Case Competition 2018 in Jakarta. HKUST MEDALS 34. Undergraduates Amrutavarsh Sanganabasappa KINAGI (right) and Padmanabhan KRISHNAMURTHY (left) , from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, won the HKUST President’s Cup 2019. 35. Prof. SONG Shenghui (right) , Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, received the Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching. 36. Chloe CHAN Ho-Sum (right) , Chemical and Biological Engineering and President of the Students’ Union Provisional Executive Committee 2017-18 was awarded the Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal for Distinguished Service to the Student Body. 37. Prof. Thomas HU (middle) , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the HKUST Common Core Teaching Excellence Award 2018 for his course, “Civil Engineering and Modern Society”. HONORARY DOCTORATES 38. Dr. the Hon Henry CHENG (right) Chairman and Executive Director, New World Development Company Limited 39. Prof. Carol S. DWECK (middle) Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University 40. Mr. Martin TANG Yue-Nien (left) Former Vice-Chairman and Acting Chairman, University Council, HKUST