Computer Science and Engineering MPhil student CHENG Ho-Kei, who received his BEng in Computer Science at HKUST in 2019, is selected as one of the recipients of the Chiang Chen Overseas Graduate Fellowship this year. The fellowship carries a sponsorship of up to US$50,000 that covers 1-year tuition fee for a full-time PhD program in engineering at one of the top 10 universities in the United States. Ho-Kei will start pursuing his PhD degree at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign this coming Fall. He is one of the very few local undergraduate graduates who was admitted into the top 5 computer science PhD programs over the past decade. He has also received a DPhil offer from the University of Oxford (UK) and a PhD offer from University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA).

The Chiang Chen Overseas Graduate Fellowship aims at supporting outstanding engineering students in China’s leading universities to pursue postgraduate studies in the United States. The fellowship was launched by Chiang Chen Industrial Charity Foundation in 2006. This year, 10 fellowships have been offered to students who will begin postgraduate studies in the United States in Fall 2021. Tuition fees and a portion of living expenses for the program will be covered by the sponsorship of up to US$50,000.