HKIS Young Scientist Award 2002

Dr. Yufei Tao, a recent Computer Science PhD student, received the Hong Kong Young Scientists Award at the 10th Annual Conference of the Hong Kong Institution of Science (HKIS).

This prestigious award was instituted to stimulate the interest of young people in science.

The HKIS selected winners from three different categories:

  1. Physical and mathematical science,
  2. Life science, and
  3. Engineering science.

Dr. Tao won the award in physical and mathematical science for his work on spatio-temporal data. Dr. Tao received his PhD in Computer Science in July 2002 under the supervision of Prof. Dimitris Papadias. He is currently a Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University.

8 Nov 2002