33 IN FOCUS Dr. ZHANG Jie ( PhD in Civil Engineering) (pictured far right), Associate Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Tongji University, and Dr. ZHANG Lulu ( PhD in Civil Engineering), Professor of Civil Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, were selected as Changjiang Young Scholars by the Ministry of Education. Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics (IEDA) PhD alumni LI Yanting ( ) (pictured) and SHU Lianjie ( ), together with Prof. Fugee TSUNG, IEDA, won the IISE Transactions Quality & Reliability Engineering Best Application Paper Award. The winning publication was focused on “A False Discovery Approach for Scanning Spatial Disease Clusters with Arbitrary Shapes”. An invention by Dr. Lydia LEUNG ( PhD, MPhil, BEng, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering) received the Award of the Year at the Hong Kong Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Awards and Red Dot Design Award in Germany. Dr. Leung’s BelunTM Ring is a medical device for assisting with pre-screening of obstructive sleep apnea. The ring gained the top ICT award a er winning both the Smart Living Grand Award and ICT Startup Grand Award. The ring also received the Asia Paci c Information and Communications Technology Alliance (APICTA) Winner Award in the Inclusions and Community Services – Well-being category. Alumni awards & achievements Reaching out through the giving spirit In crisis situations, it is the kindness of others that can see you through. For entrepreneur Terry TSANG Kin-Chung ( Master of Business Administration, MPhil in Civil Engineering, BEng in Civil and Structural Engineering), this moment occurred in with the sudden death of his father, the family’s sole support, when Terry was studying at the School of Engineering (SENG). He and his brother Terence, also a SENG student, found HKUST friends, classmates and faculty highly supportive, with the University itself providing emergency funds to take the students through the di cult period. A er the Tsang brothers established their company, Madhead, and turned it into a successful mobile games business, they started to give back to HKUST, making accumulated donations of more than HK$ million. One of the donations was to establish a student emergency fund to help others at HKUST who suddenly nd themselves in need. They have also provided support through company internships, sponsorship of student events, such as hackUST, and alumni experience-sharing. During his recent address at the University’s Congregation, Terry noted: “Giving back does not necessarily have to be monetary; it could be your time, or simply giving someone a helping hand. It is the little things that make a big di erence. It happened to me and it can happen to anyone.” Double happiness: Terry Tsang together with his own family and members of his HKUST family.
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