Faculty Honors, Awards & Achievements Prof Amine Bermak, Electronic and Computer Engineering, has received HK$ . million from the Hong Kong government’s Innovation and Technology Fund for research focused on the development of a wireless multi-sensing platform for smart green buildings. Under the HKUST-MIT Research Alliance Consortium, the project involves Prof C Y Tsui and Prof George Yuan, both Electronic and Computer Engineering, and academics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and City University of Hong Kong. Adjunct Prof Vijay Bhargava, Electronic and Computer Engineering, received a Canada Council Killam Prize in recognition of his outstanding career achievements in engineering. Prof Bhargava is an expert in wireless communications. The prize honors outstanding Canadian scholars and scientists actively engaged in research, industry, government agencies or universities. Prof Mansun Chan, Electronic and Computer Engineering, and his Shenzhen team received a Second Class Award, Natural Science Category, in the Shenzhen Science and Technology Awards for their project on “DFM and ULTRA Nano-Scale CMOS Model for Integrated Circuit Optimization and Variation Simulation”, conducted through the PKU-HKUST Shenzhen-Hong Kong Industry, Education and Research (IER) Base. It is the third time the team has received such an award and the second year in a row. Prof Kai Chen, Computer Science and Engineering, and his postgraduate students are exploring the building of practical networked systems for data centers and cloud applications. Their recent work on XPath and PIAS was published at the th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’ ), a top system conference. This was a rst for papers from a university in Hong Kong. Prof Lei Chen, Computer Science and Engineering, was awarded the ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award, together with Prof Vincent Oria, New Jersey’s Science & Technology University, and Prof Tamer Özsu, University of Waterloo. They received the honor for their project “Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories”, published at SIGMOD . The ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award recognizes the best paper from SIGMOD proceedings years prior, based on identifying the paper with the most impact on research, products, and methodology over the intervening decade. Prof Chen was also appointed associate editor-in-chief for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. The journal covers new developments in knowledge and data engineering, and hardware and so ware feasibility studies. A poster by Prof Vladimir Chigrinov, Prof Abhishek Srivastava, both Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE), and collaborators from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, won the Outstanding Poster Award at the Taiwan Liquid Crystal Society Conference. The poster focused on the paper titled “A Bistable Negative Lens by Integrating a Polarization Switch of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals with a Passively Anisotropic Focusing Element”. Profs Chigrinov and Srivastava were also awarded a Distinguished Poster Award at the Society for Information Display (SID) International Symposium together with Prof Hoi Sing Kwok, Chair Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering, and ECE PhD students Ying Ma and Liangyu Shi. The poster was based on the paper titled “Field-Sequential-Color Displays Based on Reflective Electrically Suppressed Helix Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal”. Prof Xijun Hu, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has received funding of HK$ , , from the Environment and Conservation Fund and the Woo Wheelock Green Fund for his project focused on “Development of SBA -Based Bimetallic Ni-Zr Catalysts for NOx Abatement”. The study seeks to develop a continuous catalytic system for NOx treatment through the selective catalytic reduction process, using volatile organic compounds as reducing agents. IN FOCUS 13 Prof Jack Cheng, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was named Young BIMer of the Year by the Hong Kong Construction Industry Council. He is the only person from academia to receive this industry-wide award, presented to people years of age or below in recognition of e orts and achievements in building information modeling (BIM).
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