wo School of Engineering senior academics were among the four named professors inaugurated at HKUST in April . The prestigious honor of a named professorship recognizes eminent faculty members and the donor who supports the title. At the ceremony, the second in HKUST’s Named Professorship Program, Prof Qiang Yang, Head and Chair Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, was appointed New Bright Professor of Engineering and Prof Xin Zhang, Chair Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, became Swire Professor of Aerospace Engineering. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). Prof Zhang specializes in aircra aerodynamics and aeroacoustics and racing car aerodynamics and performance. Reducing aircra noise is a major part of his research. President Prof Tony F Chan said that such appointments ensured the University would maintain excellence in education and research by giving due recognition to exceptional faculty. There are now a total of six named professors at the School of Engineering. The professorships were the result of donations by long-time HKUST supporters Wong Check She Charitable Foundation and The Swire Group Charitable Trust respectively. Prof Yang joined HKUST in . His research focuses on frontier work in big data, data mining and arti cial intelligence. He was the founding director of Huawei’s Noah’s Ark Lab, also specializing in big data and arti cial intelligence, and program chair for the International Joint Conference on Arti cial Intelligence. Prof Yang is the founding editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology and IEEE Transactions on Big Data and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Association for the Advancement of Arti cial Intelligence (AAAI), SENG Gains Two More Named Professorships wo Electronic and Computer Engineering professors have been elected Fellows of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), bringing the total number of IEEE Fellows at HKUST to *. Such Fellowships celebrate extraordinary contributions to the profession in any of IEEE elds following rigorous review. IEEE members total over , worldwide, encompassing countries. The number of Fellowship recipients each year does not exceed . % of the total voting IEEE membership. Prof Pascale Fung was recognized by IEEE for her contributions to human-machine interactions. Her research has encompassed multilingual language processing, machine translation and spoken language understanding. She is a founding member of the Human Language Technology Center at HKUST, the rst research center of its kind in Greater China. Prof Fung has also been elected Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association and has become Vice President of the Association for Computational Linguistics’ Special Interest Group on Linguistic Data and Corpus-Based Approaches to NLP (ACL SIGDAT). SIGDAT has been a pioneer in data-driven methods of natural language processing since the s. Prof Patrick Yue was recognized by IEEE for his contributions to the advancement of CMOS radio-frequency integrated circuits and device modeling. He is the Founding Director of the Center for Industry Engagement and Internship in the School of Engineering and Director of the HKUST-Qualcomm Joint Innovation and Research Laboratory. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Best Student Paper Award and author of one of the most cited papers yet in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. Currently, he serves as an editor for the IEEE Electron Device Letters and IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine. Prof Yue has also chaired and organized a number of IEEE international conferences and is an Elected Administrative Committee Member for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. ECE Professors Elected IEEE Fellows T T 12 IN FOCUS *as of Dec
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