Student Honors, Awards & Achievements A team of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering undergraduates comprising Ali Ahmer Asif, Mohammed Danish, Nadir Hoshi and Ka Wai Tsoi, won the HKUST President’s Cup 2014 for their project “Design and Manufacture a Small Size Multi-Copter”. The annual University-wide competition enables undergraduates to be recognized for outstanding achievements in research and innovation and was a clean sweep for the School of Engineering. The Gold Award went to Ezra Yoanes Setiasabda, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Silver Award to Ivan Gondoprastowo, Computer Science and Engineering. PhD candidate Ping Geng, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, won the Best Poster Award at the 65th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in Lausanne, Switzerland for her paper “Magnéli Ti4O7 Nanotube Arrays as Novel Anodes for Wastewater Treatment”. PhD student Duruo Huang, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was selected for a 2014 Liu Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship Award. The competitive awards are granted to 10 graduate students in earthquake engineering enrolled in universities and research institutes in the US, China and Singapore, or member organizations of the Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Earthquake Engineering Research. Duruo was the first winner from Hong Kong since the scholarships were established in 2010. PhD student Naiyan Wang, Computer Science and Engineering, received the prestigious Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning. Only four people among an extremely competitive pool of applicants were awarded a Google China PhD Fellowship in 2014. PhD students Wei Bi and Yanjiao Chen, Computer Science and Engineering, were awarded Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships: Hong Kong in 2014. It was the second time that Yanjiao had won this scholarship, which aims to encourage women to excel in computing and technology and become active role models and leaders. Computer Science and Engineering researchers behind the demo system “gMission: A General Spatial Crowdsourcing Platform” received the Excellent Demonstration Award at the 40th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2014 in Hangzhou, China. The team comprised postgraduates Zhao Chen, Peng Cheng, Rui Fu, Zheng Liu, Leihao Xia, Chen Zhang, Ziyuan Zhao, postdoctoral fellow Dr Chen Cao, and alumnus Dr Yongxin Tong and was led by Prof Lei Chen. It was the first time this award went to a team from the Greater China region. There were 200 global submissions and 42 final candidates. Three papers by Electronic and Computer Engineering students were presented at the renowned IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2014) in San Francisco. · One paper, by Lin Cheng and Yonggen Liu and supervised by Prof Wing-Hung Ki, looked at “A 10/30MHz Wide-Duty-Cycle-Range Buck Converter with DDA-Based Type-III Compensator and Fast Reference-Tracking Responses for DVS Applications”. · The second, by Yan Lu and co-supervised by Prof Wing-Hung Ki and Prof Patrick Yue, focused on “A 0.65ns-Response-Time 3.01ps FOM Fully-Integrated Low-Dropout Regulator with Full-Spectrum Power-Supply-Rejection for Wideband Communication Systems”. Lu was also one of the recipients of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award in recognition of his achievements in integrated circuit design. · The third paper was by Jungmoon Kim, an exchange student from Korea University, and was entitled “A 0.15V-Input Energy-Harvesting Charge Pump with Switching Body Biasing and Adaptive Dead-Time for Efficiency Improvement”. The paper was co-supervised by Prof Philip Mok of HKUST and Prof Chulwoo Kim of Korea University. One Student Research Preview paper was also presented. The paper was authored by Wai Chiu Ng, Ruoyu Xu and Prof George Yuan. In addition, Prof Howard Luong and Prof Philip Mok received Fellow Awards at ISSCC 2014 for their research contributions. 19 In Focus
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