well as tools to assist collaboration among users. He worked at HKUST from and launched several other successful hi-tech enterprises prior to Arimo. Fast Company organizes annual lists of the most dynamic new and established ventures in a range of areas, with editors and writers assessing rms around the world to highlight disruptive pioneers. In , machine intelligence was also used to help with selection for the rst time. The rankings included many large-scale public companies, such as Google and IBM, as well as smaller ventures. wo companies with founding members associated with the School of Engineering have been ranked among the most creative in their respective elds globally by Fast Company magazine, a highly regarded US business publication focused on innovation. In the World’s Most Innovative Companies of by sector, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry leader DJI, founded by Electronic and Computer Engineering BEng and MPhil alumnus Mr Frank Wang, was ranked No. in the Drones category. Behavioral arti cial intelligence start-up Arimo, co-founded by former Electronic and Computer Engineering faculty member Dr Christopher Nguyen, was placed at No. in the Data Science list. Frank built early groundbreaking UAV prototypes at HKUST with the assistance of his supervisor Prof Zexiang Li. DJI, founded in in Shenzhen, has gone on to become a worldwide market leader, lauded by Fast Company for “consistently introducing genre-de ning technology for a growing audience of professional and amateur users”. Dr Nguyen started Arimo in , providing big data analysis in user-friendly products as ............................................................................................................. ............................................................................................................. Nurturing High-Flying Innovation T Alumni Honors, Awards & Achievements Ir Dr Derrick Pang, PhD in Civil Engineering, received a Young Industrialist Award of Hong Kong from the Federation of Hong Kong Industries in recognition of his contribution to industry and the society. Dr Pang is Deputy Chairman of Chun Wo Development Holdings Limited and has helped lead the Group to become one of the largest local construction rms in Hong Kong. Dr Pang also founded the Young Members Society within the Hong Kong Construction Association to raise young people’s interest in the sector; and Lifewire, which is an online crowdfunding platform to raise money for children with medical needs. Electronic and Computer Engineering alumnus Prof Kai Kit Wong, currently at University College London, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Prof Wong received his BEng, MPhil, and PhD degrees from HKUST in , , and respectively. The IEEE Fellow grade is one of the Institute’s most prestigious honors, with the total number of recipients each year not exceeding . % of the total voting IEEE membership. Prof Wong was recognized for his contributions to multiuser communication systems. Dr Da Yan, PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, won the Hong Kong Young Scientist Award in the Physical/Mathematical Science category for his research work on “E cient Systems and Algorithms for Big Data Processing”. Dr Yan is continuing his big data studies as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. The award scheme is organized annually by the Hong Kong Institution of Science to recognize outstanding young scientists and engineers. 34 IN FOCUS
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