MPhil student Srinath Kumar, Civil and Environmental Engineering, received an Outstanding Students’ Projects Award at the Autodesk Hong Kong Building Information Modeling (BIM) Awards 2014. His winning project focused on “Construction Site Layout Planning Using BIM”. PhD student Yepang Liu, Computer Science and Engineering, was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering, held in India, for his paper “Characterizing and Detecting Performance Bugs for Smartphone Applications”. The work formed part of Yepang’s collaboration with alumnus Prof Chang Xu, now at Nanjing University, and Prof Shing Chi Cheung. Two PhD students from different departments have received Fulbright-RGC Hong Kong Research Scholar Awards for 2014-2015. Cheng Long, Computer Science and Engineering, and Chi Yan Tso, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, undertook research at University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively. PhD candidate Ying Khai Teh, Electronic and Computer Engineering, was a co-winner of the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE 57th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Texas, US. His paper was titled “A Bipolar Output Voltage Pulse Transformer Boost Converter with Charge Pump Assisted Shunt Regulator for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting” and co-written with Prof Philip Mok. The other winner was from Texas A&M University. PhD student Haofei Wang, Electronic and Computer Engineering, won the postgraduate section and overall championship at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Hong Kong Young Professionals Exhibition & Competition 2014. He went on to represent Hong Kong in the 2014 IET Asia Pacific Region “Present Around The World (PATW)” Competition in Malaysia in August. PhD students Kandy Kan Kan Yeung and Belsy Wai Tung Yuen, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, won the Gold Award at the JEC Outstanding Engineering Project Awards for their project “The Versatile Acoustics Filtration System with the Use of Ultrasound”. The awards were organized by Jardine Engineering Corporation. Environmental Engineering PhD student Simon Zhen Zhang, supervised by Prof Irene Lo, received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 International Conference on Soil and Groundwater Environment in Seoul, Korea. More than 300 experts and researchers in soil and groundwater from 15 countries attended the conference. Undergraduate Xiong Zeng, Dual Degree Program in Technology and Management, and his team won the first prize in the 2014 UBS Group Technology Case Study Challenge, Hong Kong. In Focus 20
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