Four HKUST scholars have been named ACM Fellows. Pictured are (from left to right) Prof. Yi Ke, Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST; Prof. Tim Cheng, HKUST Vice-President for Research and Development, and Chair Professor of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Prof. Xiong Hui, Associate Vice-President (Knowledge Transfer) and Chair Professor of the Thrust of Artificial Intelligence at HKUST (Guangzhou); and Prof. Jia Jiaya, Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the Von Neumann Institute at HKUST.
Prof. Guo Yike, Provost and Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at HKUST, has been elected as an International Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Prof. Guo stated, “I am deeply honored to be elected as an International Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and sincerely thanks for this recognition.”
HKUST Provost Prof. GUO Yike (second left, front) and new scholars who have joined HKUST in recent years, including Prof. Alicia Kyoung Jin AN, Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (first right, front); Prof. CHEN Fei, Professor in the Division of Environment and Sustainability (second right, back); Prof. Janet HSIAO, Professor in the Division of Social Science (second left, back); Prof. TAN Ping, Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering (second right, front); Prof. Julien de TROULLIOUD de LANVERSIN (first left, front), Assistant Professor in the Division of Public Policy; Prof. Tony CHO, Assistant Professor in the Department of Accounting (first left, back); and Prof. WANG Lan, Assistant Professor in the Division of Life Science (first right, back).
(Back row, from right) Prof. Tim Woo, Director of the Center for Global & Community Engagement, and Associate Professor of Engineering Education; and Dr. Crystal Fok, Chairperson of Robocon 2020 Hong Kong Contest Organizing Committee, and Director of AIR Platform and Precision Engineering, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, together with the leaders (front row, from right) Yiu Cheuk-Tung and Lam Cheuk-Hei as well as members of the HKUST Robocon Team
Mashiat Lamisa (third right) and her teammates Ilana Zimmerman (second right) and Dama Correch (third left) received the Empower Women Through Technology Prize at the cmd-f all-female* hackathon held at the University of British Columbia.
Prof. Yang Qiang was elected as the general chair of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and ranked the first in the AAAI/IJCAI sub-field on the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Annual List.
