Faculty & Student Achievements
2012
- HP and HKUST Achieve Breakthrough in Advanced Networking and Information Analytics Research
- HKUST School of Engineering Research Excellence Awards: Prof Ke YI, Young Investigator Research Award
- 2012 Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award
- CSE UG Graduates Awarded the Social Responsibility Award in the HKICT Awards 2012: Best Innovation and Research Award
- The HKUST LAviNET Team Awarded the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2012: Best Innovation & Research Award
- HKUST the Big Winner among Institutions in Hong Kong in China's State Science and Technology Awards
- CSE Programming Team Entered the ACM-ICPC World Finals 2012
2011
- CSE PhD Student Jie DAI and Prof. Bo LI Awarded the Best Paper Award at IEEE GLOBECOM 2011
- Prof Dekai Wu Honored by World's Leading Authority on Computational Linguistics
- CSE PhD Dr Yu Zhang Awarded SENG PhD Research Excellence Award
- Prof Qian ZHANG Awarded the Chinese Young Scientist Award
- CSE Graduates CHEUNG Ka Chun, WONG Chun Yim, and YUEN Siu Hung Awarded Prize for Innovative Spirit in the Lenovo Innovative Design Competition 2011
- Prof Gary Chan Develops Smarter Multi-hop Wi-Fi Network Software Greatly Improved in Signal Strength and Coverage
- CSE PhD Candidate Nathan LIU and Prof Qiang YANG Awarded Best Paper Award in the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
- CSE PG Candidates Nathan LIU, Bin CAO, Luheng HE, and Prof. Qiang YANG Won 3rd Place in 2011 ACM KDDCUP Challenge
- Prof Bo LI and Prof Long QUAN Awarded Grants in the National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme Competition 2011
- Undergraduates CHEUNG Ka Chun, WONG Chun Tim, and YUEN Siu Hung Awarded Hong Kong ITF ICT Final Year Scholarship 2010-2011
- HKUST Students Shines for Hong Kong with Two International Awards in ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest
- Prof. S. C. CHEUNG Received the 2nd Prize of National Award for Science and Technology Progress 2011
- CSE Programming Team Won the Championship in the ACM-HK Programming Contest 2011
- Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2010-11)
- HKUST Maintains the Top Position in Computer Science in Greater China in the Ranking of ARWU 2011
- Computer Science Students LEUNG Chun Yin and LEUNG Lok Ping Won the Design Elegance Award in the International ROV Competition
- Undergraduate FONG Fu Shing Selected for Student Enrichment Program Award 2010-2011
- Computer Science Student CHAN Yun-Kwan Emprise Won the 2011 Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award
- Computer Science Postgraduate Student YAN Da Won the Best Paper Award from DASFAA 2011
- Twin Wins for Computer Science Students at IBM DB2 UDB Inter-University Programming Contest 2011
2010
- HKUST Programming Team Advancing to ACM-ICPC World Finals
- 3 CSE faculty members received Google Research Awards
- CSE Graduate James Cheng Received Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2010
- Dr. Albert Chung and Dr. Sung Kim Received the Best Ten Lecturers Awards 2010
- Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Program 2010
- PhD Student Yu ZHANG and Prof. Dit-Yan YEUNG Received Best Paper Award
- HKUST CSE Students Led the Team Winning Silver Award at the 1st Shenzhen-Hong Kong University Students Creative Plan Championship
- Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2009-10)
- PhD Student Gabriel KEUNG Received Best Paper Award
- IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program 2010/2011
- MPhil Student won the 2nd place at the 4th Signal Processing Postgraduate Forum
- Dr. Sunghun KIM received Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) Award
- Undergraduate WANG Bo won First Prize at International English Contest
- Dr. Qian Zhang being selected as Distinguished Lecturer
- Prof. Bo Li received Cheung Kong Scholar Award
2009
- Dr. Raymond Wong received CIKM 2009 Outstanding Service Award
- Prof. Bo LI received the Best Paper Award from IEEE Communications Society, MMC (2009)
- Dr. Yunhao Liu received Best Paper Award
- The Best 10 Lecturers Election 2009
- Programming Team Wins First Prize in 2009 ACM Asia Contest
- Prof. Lionel Ni received China Computer Federation Overseas Outstanding Contributions Award 2009
- Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Program 2009
- Computer Science Student Won IEEE Final Year Project Competition
- CSE Postgraduate Won the HKIE Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers 2009
- Postgraduate Student Won Best Research Award at ACM Hong Kong Research and Career Day 2009
- CSE Faculty received IBM Faculty Award 2009
- CSE Postgraduate awarded the HKTIIT Post-Graduate Excellence Scholarship
- Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition 2009
- Best Paper Award: 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications
- Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2008-09)
- Twin Wins for CSE Faculty for Search Engine and Database Research
- Programming Teams Won HKUST the Champion University Award at the IBM DB2 UDB Inter-University Programming Contest 2009
2008
- Programming Team Wins First Prize in ACM Asia Contest
- Professor Mordecai Golin awarded the Michael G Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching (2008)
- Vision and Graphics Group Published a Total of 10 SIGGRAPH Papers in 2008
- 2008 Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition: 3rd Runner-up
- CSE Faculty Wins RFID Award with αGate Portal
- Research Papers Win Awards at Prestigious Conferences
- Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2007-08)
- MPhil Student Michael Chan Gains PhD Place at Stanford and Prestigious Overseas Fellowship
- HKUST Faculty and Students Won 6 Prizes of Hong Kong ICT Awards 2007
- ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2008: World Finals
2007
- Dr. Jogesh Muppala and Dr. David Rossiter from CSE Department got Teaching Innovation Awards
- IEEE Globecom 2007 Best Paper Award (ASNA Symposium)
- ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2008
- Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Program 2007
- IEEE (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter PG Student Research Paper Competition
- 2007 Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition: Third-grade Award
- ACM SIGMOD 2007 Undergraduate Scholarship
- Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2006 - 2007)
- CSE Undergraduates Jialiu Lin and Kevin Keliang Zhao Got Full Scholarships to World's Top Universities
- SIGGRAPH 2007: The 34th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
- IBM PhD Fellowship Program 2007/2008
2006
- Overseas Outstanding Young Scholar Award 2006
- Hong Kong ICT Awards 2006: eYouth Certificate of Merit
- The Top 48 in Algorithm Competition: Topcoder Collegiate Challenge (TCCC) 2006
- The School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award 2005-06
- Podcasting in Education
- Microsoft Fellowship 2006
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding 2004 Paper Award (bestowed in 2006)
- List of Scholarship Awardees for 2005/2006 Academic Year
- Career Experiences Shared by New Grads
- The Best Paper Award: The Third International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks
- The Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize
- The Best Paper Award: The 2nd IEEE HK Chapter of Signal Processing PG Forum
- Microsoft Server Championships 2006
- The Best Presentation Award: The 7th ACM Postgraduate Research Day
- AI Expert Awarded Croucher Fellowship
- Solomon Systech Scholarships 2006
- Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowships 2005/06
2005
- The Best Paper Award: IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
- 2005 The Golden Penguin Greater China Open Source Software Competition
- MoXi: Real-Time Ink Simulation: Nelson Chu's interview by Cgvisual.com
- IBM PhD Fellowship Program 2005/06
- ACM KDD-CUP 2005 Data Mining Contest: Champion
- List of Scholarship Awardees for 2004/2005 Academic Year
- Continue Success in the ACM HK Collegiate Programming Contest
2004
- The Best Paper Award: IEEE Signal Processing Society
- ACM ICPC 2004: Regional Contest, Shanghai: Bronze Prize
- ACM ICPC 2004: Regional Contest, Manila: 4th Place
- World Engineer Congress 2004: Second Prize
- Microsoft Fellowship 2004
- ACM KDD-CUP 2004 Data Mining Contest: Champion
- YDC Entrepreneurs Challenge 2004: 2nd Runner-up
- IiTEC 2004: The Best Project Idea Award
- ACM(HK) Local Programming Contest 2004: Champion
- Hang Seng Innovative Design Competition 2004: Champion
- Microsoft Imagine Cup 2004: 4th Runner-up
- SIGGRAPH 2004: HKUST Makes Her Debut
- The Best 10 Lecturers Election 2003
- The Best PhD Paper Award: The 5th ACM Postgraduate Research Day
2003
- Microsoft Fellowship Program 2003
- Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2003
- ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2004
- Academic Achievement Award 2003
- MMCDC 2003: Gold Award
- IiTEC 2003: Best Internet Application Award
- The Best PhD Paper Award: The 4th ACM Postgraduate Research Day
- The Best 10 Lecturers Election 2002
