Faculty Honors, Awards & Achievements 16 IN FOCUS Prof Joseph H W Lee, Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies and Chair Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded Honorary Membership of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). Honorary Membership is the most prestigious honor conferred by the IAHR Council. Prof Lee is the rst recipient from Hong Kong and only the second from Greater China among the international recipients since the award was rst presented in . There were three awardees in , including Prof Lee. Prof Bo Li, Computer Science and Engineering, was selected as a co-winner of the inaugural IEEE INFOCOM Test-of-Time Paper Award, together with his former PhD students, Prof Jiangchuan Liu and Mr Xinyan Zhang, and a professor from Chinese University of Hong Kong. They received the award for their paper titled “CoolStreaming/DONet: a Data-Driven Overlay Network for Peer-to-Peer Live Media Streaming”, published at IEEE INFOCOM . It has been cited over , times, according to Google Scholar. The IEEE INFOCOM Test-of-Time Paper Award recognizes the most frequently cited and widely recognized papers published in the past years at INFOCOM proceedings. Prof Zexiang Li, Electronic and Computer Engineering, was appointed to the HKSAR Commission on Strategic Development. The Commission advises the Chief Executive on Hong Kong’s long-term and overall development needs and goals, with reference to issues, direction and strategy of social, economic and political developments. Prof Richard So, Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, has received the title of Chartered Ergonomist & Human Factors Specialist from the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors in recognition of his contribution to the eld of ergonomics. Prof Fugee Tsung, Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of Quality Technology (JQT) from . In , he served as editor-elect. Prof Tsung is the rst member outside the US to be elected editor-in-chief. Founded in , JQT is the flagship journal of the American Society for Quality, and is consistently ranked as one of the most cited journals in the areas of industrial engineering, management science, and statistics. Prof Qiang Yang, Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, was appointed editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Big Data. The journal provides cross-disciplinary innovative research ideas and applications results including novel theory, algorithms, and applications. Prof Ke Yi and his PhD student Lu Wang, both Computer Science and Engineering, received the Best Demonstration Award at SIGMOD for their system demonstration “STORM: Spatio-Temporal Online Reasoning and Management of Large Spatio-Temporal Data”. The demonstration was a joint work with Prof Feifei Li from the University of Utah and his students. Prof Qian Zhang, Computer Science and Engineering, and her PhD students Zeyu Wang and Zhice Yang received the Best Video Award and Best Paper Award Runner-up at ACM MobiSys . The paper, “Mobile Devices Can A ord: Light-Weight Indoor Positioning with Visible Light”, was co-written with Jiansong Zhang, Microso Research Asia, and Chenyu Huang, Wuhan University. ACM MobiSys is a major international conference for mobile systems, applications, and services areas.
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