The Prize Presentation Ceremony was held on December 1, 2012, Saturday and over 200 prizes and awards were presented to outstanding students and teachers in recognition of their achievements and excellence in research and teaching.
Ir Raymond K S Chan, Senior Vice President of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, was the Guest of Honour and presented certificates to students who won University and Faculty prizes and scholarships.
HKU Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, Professor Roland T. Chin honoured teachers for their outstanding achievements in teaching and research. These included: (just to name a few)
Teacher | Department | Award |
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Dr H.K.H. So | Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Best Teacher Award |
Dr S.T. Smith | Department of Civil Engineering | Best Teacher Award, Fellow of International Institute for FRP in Construction and W.H. Warren Medal - Civil College of Engineers Australia |
Professor R.S.Y. Hui | Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Endowed Professorship - Philip K H Wong Wilson K L Wong Professorship in Electrical Engineering |
Dr J. Yang | Department of Civil Engineering | Elected Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers |
Dr Z.Q. Yue | Department of Civil Engineering | Excellent Paper Award, Geological Society of China and Outstanding Award - Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering |
Dr C.K. Hui | Department of Computer Science | Best Paper Award, The 13th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology and Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Data Management Technology and Applications |
Dr C.L. Wang | Department of Computer Science | Best Paper Award, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Service Computing and Best Student Paper Award, 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing |
Professor D.W.L. Chueng | Department of Computer Science | PAKDD Most Influential Paper Award 2012, Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference |
Professor E.X. Wu | Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Croucher Senior Researcher Fellow, Croucher Foundation |
Dr A.H.W. Choi | Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Outstanding Young Researcher Award |
Dr W.W.T. Fok | Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Project "Mobile Real-time Interactive Publishing Platform", Best Ubiquitous Networking Award, Sliver Award, Hong Kong Information and Communication Technology Award and Project “Interactive Class on Cloud – iClass”, Best Lifestyle Award, Sliver Award, Hong Kong Information and Communication Technology Award |
Dr V.W.L. Tam | Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering | The Best Full Paper Award 2012, IEEE |
Professor J. Lam | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Fellow of I Mech E and Fellow of IEEE |
Professor Y.G. Li | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Fellow of I Mech E |
Dr K.Y. Ng | Department of Mechanical Engineering | HKIE Best Transaction Paper Prize |
Prof Norman C Tien, Dean of Engineering, thanked the teachers for the tremendous amount of work they had put into offering the best education possible to HKU students and for their contributions to the community at large. He also congratulated the engineering students on their remarkable achievements.