SENG Students Recognized by 2025 Kerry Holdings Limited Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Award
The presentation ceremony for the 2025 Kerry Holdings Limited Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Award on April 23 saw 10 outstanding HKUST undergraduate projects recognized, including a majority from the School of Engineering (SENG).
Notably, LIU Runsheng from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) claimed the championship and Best Poster Award for his project on “GAInS: Gradient Anomaly-aware Biomedical Instance Segmentation”. His supervisor is Prof. CHEN Hao, who also supervised another CSE student’s project that earned a Second Runner-Up Award.
Launched in 2005, the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) is a signature program at HKUST that enables undergraduate students to engage in academic research. The UROP Awards were first presented in 2010 to honor students with outstanding performance in the program.
In addition to recognizing the students, the faculty supervisor of each student awardee is also presented with a UROP Faculty Research Award in recognition of their mentorship for the student.
2025 Kerry Holdings Limited Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Award
List of SENG awardees and finalists
| Champion LIU Runsheng Year 3, BEng in Computer Science Project title: GAInS: Gradient Anomaly-Aware Biomedical Instance Segmentation Faculty supervisor: Prof. CHEN Hao |
| First Runner-Up YEUNG Siu-Ting Graduate of BEng in Aerospace Engineering Project title: Experimental Characterization of the Aerodynamics by Badminton Shuttlecocks Faculty supervisor: Prof. Stephane REDONNET |
| Second Runner-Up GU Yi Graduate of BEng in Computer Science Project title: Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis Faculty supervisor: Prof. CHEN Hao HE Weike Year 4, BEng in Electronic Engineering Project title: Automatic Surtitle Generation Scheme for Live Cantonese Opera Faculty supervisor: Prof. Kevin CHAU |
| Best Poster Award LIU Runsheng Year 3, BEng in Computer Science Project title: GAInS: Gradient Anomaly-Aware Biomedical Instance Segmentation Faculty supervisor: Prof. CHEN Hao |
| Finalist LIU Yifan Year 4, BEng in Electronic Engineering Project title: Spintronic Dynamics for Reservoir Computing: Tunable Topological Topological States and Chirality by Non-Equilibrium Antimagnons in Magnetic Multilayers Faculty supervisor: Prof. SHAO Qiming YIP Sau-Lai Year 4, BSc in Data Science and Technology Project title: Proposal and Progress: VQL Debugger with Code-LLM and Optimization Strategies Faculty supervisor: Prof. Raymond WONG ZHANG Jinming Year 4, BSc in Data Science and Technology Project title: Handling Data Sparsity Issue and Cold Start Problem in Session-Based Recommendation Systems Faculty supervisor: Prof. Raymond WONG |
In addition, Prof. Becki KUANG Yi from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering gained a UROP Faculty Research Award for supervising a project by a Biotechnology student in the School of Science.
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