11 IN FO IN F CUS CUS ECE Academic Awarded National Engineering Honor rof Patrick Yue, Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been awarded a Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize by the Chinese Academy of Engineering in Beijing, becoming one of the rst Hong Kong scholars to receive such an honor. The biennial national prizes recognize outstanding performance and achievements by Chinese engineers and scientists in engineering technology and engineering management. They were established in and extended to include candidates from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan for the rst time this year. A total of recipients received an award in one of the three categories of Achievement, Engineering, or Youth. Two from Hong Kong were honored, including Prof Yue who received a Youth Award. Prof Yue, who came on board at HKUST in , is an expert in high-speed wireless and optical communication integrated circuit (IC) design, contributing to over technical papers, including one of the most cited papers to date in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He also holds US patents and has been a start-up high achiever, co-founding Atheros Communications in . The company went public on NASDAQ and was later acquired by Qualcomm Inc. In , he joined Aeluros, another new Silicon Valley enterprise, to develop -Gb/s CMOS serial link ICs for optoelectronic modules. Along with his professorial appointment in the School of Engineering, Prof Yue is the Founding Director of the School’s Center for Industry Engagement and Internship and Director of the HKUST-Qualcomm Joint Innovation and Research Laboratory. He also served as HKUST’s rst Associate Provost for Knowledge Transfer between and . Prof Yue is an IEEE Fellow and a Senior Member of Optical Society of America. Prior to joining HKUST, he has served at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. P Faculty Honors, Awards & Achievements Prof Guanghao Chen, Chair Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been elected a Distinguished Fellow of the International Water Association (IWA), becoming one of only honored with this prestigious accolade out of , IWA members and the rst from Hong Kong. The recognition is given to IWA Fellows or other professionals for their uniquely signi cant contributions over the long term to water science and management advances. Prof Chen is a global specialist in sustainable sewage treatment systems, sludge minimization, and waste water technologies. He has been an IWA Fellow since . Prof Guohua Chen, Head of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the organization’s highest grade of membership. Prof Chen is a world-renowned expert in electrochemical technologies for environmental and energy applications, and solid drying. He has published over journal papers, and holds three US patents and six Chinese patents. He is the President of the Asian Paci c Confederation of Chemical Engineering, editor of Separation and Puri cation Technology, and serves on the editorial boards of other eminent journals. AIChE is the world’s leading organization for chemical engineering professionals, with more than , members from over countries. Prof Huamin Qu, Computer Science and Engineering, was recognized with the Merit Award in the e-learning category of the Asia Paci c ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards for his work on visual analysis of Massive Open Online Courses (VisMOOC). His system is the rst visual analytic tool to o er user-friendly analysis of e-learning behavior for MOOCs, enabling instructors to better assess video materials and improve teaching quality.
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