Student Honors, Awards & Achievements 22 IN FOCUS A tri-wheel robot called Rockollector, created by Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering undergraduates Kin Lap Chung ( graduate), Ho Wang Chung, Tze Kin Fan, Chun Ting Ng ( graduate), Koon Nam Wong and Siu Hong Wu ( graduate) received the Most Innovative Design Award at the Fourth Greater China Region Design Competition in Guangzhou in March . Students were asked to design and build a vehicle that was able to pick up rocks and deposit them at a designated spot within a given time limit. The contest was hosted by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Hong Kong Branch). Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD student Yichuan Deng, supervised by Prof Jack Cheng, received the Best Paper Award at the th KKHTCNN Symposium on Civil Engineering in Shanghai. The paper was titled “Integrating BIM and GIS for Urban Planning Purposes Considering Acoustics”. The symposium forms part of an academic collaboration between Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Kyoto University (KU), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Tongji University (TJU) in China, Chulalongkorn University (CU) in Thailand, National Taiwan University (NTU) and National University of Singapore (NUS). PhD student Tsz Wing Fan, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, won the Best Poster Prize at Symposium JJ at the Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society in San Francisco. Tsz Wing’s poster focused on “Peptide nucleic acid mediated dendritic growth of nucleic acid self‐assembly for ampli ed homogeneous electrochemical nucleic acid assay” and was chosen from more than entries. PhD candidate Ping Geng received the Chan-Tak-Kei & Wong-Kwai-Ying Best Postgraduate Award . The honor was established by alumna Dr Joan Chan, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, in her parents’ names. Ping joined Prof Guohua Chen’s research group in , working on solutions to tackle the membrane fouling issue during membrane separation. To date, she has led a US patent for the unique system she designed and has presented two conference papers. She received the Best Poster Award at the th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in Switzerland. She was also the Champion and People’s Choice award-winner in the Three Minute Thesis Competition, held by the School. Long He, BEng Logistics Management and Engineering, won rst prize in the Best Student Paper Award at the Sixth Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)-Hong Kong International Conference for his paper “Service Region Design for Urban Electric Vehicle Sharing Systems”. PhD candidate Zhenghua Long, Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, received second prize for his paper “Virtual Allocation Policies for Many-Server Queues with Abandonment”. Zhenghua graduated in . Undergraduates Leviero and Andrianto Lie, Computer Science and Engineering, won the HKUST President’s Cup for their nal year project “Turn Any Computer Screen into a Gesture-Assisted Touch Screen Using a Leap Motion Controller”. An interdisciplinary team of seven second-year students received the Gold Award for the “Real-Time Display of Machine Status” project. Team members were Zhiyu Chen, Finance, Yunpeng Cui, Economics, Yangyang Duan, Life Science, I-Hsuan Kao, Physics, Mengyuan Li, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Xinzhu Liu, Dual Degree Program in Technology and Management, and Yuchen Liu, Electronic and Computer Engineering. The Silver Award went to Haoning Tang, Electronic and Computer Engineering, for the project “Grid Optimization of Large-Area OLED Lighting Panel Electrode”. Leviero and Andrianto graduated in and the other students remain undergraduates.
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