IN FOCUS 18 Computer Science and Engineering PhD candidate Guoli Ye received a Best Student Paper Award at the 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP-2012). The paper was entitled “Speaker-Ensemble Hidden Markov Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition”, co-authored by Prof Brian Mak. The paper “FIMD: Fine-Grained Device-Free Motion Detection” by PhD students Jiang Xiao and Lu Wang, alumnus Kaishun Wu, former Research Assistant Youwen Yi, and Prof Lionel Ni, all Computer Science and Engineering, was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) 2012 out of nearly 300 entries. The paper “Automatic Patch Generation Learned from Human-Written Patches” by postdoctoral fellow Dr Dongsun Kim, PhD student Jaechang Nam, MPhil student Jaewoo Song, and Prof Sunghun Kim, all Computer Science and Engineering, received a SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2013 in San Francisco. ICSE is the premier conference for software engineering. PhD student Chun Hang Leung, Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the Best Paper Award for the Structural and Materials category in the Papers Competition 2012, organized by the Institution of Civil Engineers Hong Kong Association (ICE HKA) Graduates & Students Division. The paper centered on “Inelastic Behavior of RC Beam-Column Joints under Seismic Loading”. Students from the School of Engineering demonstrated their enterprising approach to technology and presentation skills by taking all three awards in the President’s Cup 2013 for the second consecutive year. The annual contest at HKUST aims to boost creativity and communication capabilities among undergraduates. A Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering team comprising San Hung Choi, Yee Man Choi, Kwong Mun Kwok and Chui Hung Yau won the President’s Cup, the top prize, for their innovative project on micro-mini pulsed electric field technology for point-ofuse disinfection of tap water. The team was supervised by Prof King Lun Yeung. The Gold Award went to Chun Pan Ho, Hong Yee Kow and Zijian Wang, three Civil and Environmental Engineering students supervised by Prof Charles W W Ng, for their research on environmentally friendly green slope engineering. Another Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering team took the Silver Award. Ka Hei Ho, Yuen Man Ip, Siu Man Ng, Ping Hei Shing and Andrea Villaroman, supervised by Prof Ying Chau, collected the third prize for their work on endothelial cell-adhesive injectable hydrogel as an endovascular embolizing agent. Triple Success in President’s Cup CUS 18
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