Category: News

2007-1-17

Miss Ida Hui, a PhD student of the Department of SEEM, was awarded the First Runner-up of the Best Presentation & Poster Award of the First Microsoft Joint Laboratory Symposium 2006. This Symposium aims to bring together faculty and students from eight distinguished universities across China that have established joint laboratories with MSRA. Participators of this symposium included the Managing Director and upper management of MSRA, as well as the Science & Technology Directors of the Ministry of Education of China. Other participants included facuty and students from each of the eight university, including CUHK (host institution), HKUST, Harbin Institute of Technology, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology of China and Zhejiang University.

The Presentation & Poster competition included two PhD students selected from each university. The selection committee included upper management of MSRA and all participating joint laboratory directors. The evaluation criterion included creativity in research, excellence in oral presentation with reference to a large poster. Awardees of this Presentation & Poster Competition included Miss Lu Liu of Tsinghua University (First Prize), Mr. Jun Xiao of Zhejiang University (First Runner-up).

2006-06-16

A team of our second-year undergraduate students (led by TSAO Yow Chian and Jacky CHU Ho, together with teammates Roger YAU Siu Tsan and Tang Sheung Yin) has won the United College Group Sense Innovation and Entrepreneurial Project Competition, for their business plan “Blue Jewellery”. Not only were they champions, but they also won the Most Creative Idea Award.

2005-11-22

Research Excellence of Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, CUHK, has been highlighted by winning both 2005 NSFC/RGC grants in the area of Management Science.

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong, have recently announced the results of the NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme 2005/06. There were, in total, 248 applications this year submitted to compete for funding support in the six priority areas: Information Technology; Life Science; New Materials Science; Marine and Environmental Science; Chinese Medicine; and Management Science. Among them, only 15 research projects have been awarded funding support, with a successful rate below 6%. Both of the two awards in the area of Management Science have been granted to the projects proposed from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, CUHK: Project: “Pricing, Production and Delivery Decisions, and Cooperative Strategies
in a Supply Chain with Products of Time-Varying Values”
PI (HK Side): Prof. Xiaoqiang Cai (SEEM of CUHK)
PI (Mainland Side): Prof. Jian Chen (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
CI (HK Side): Prof. Gang Yu (SEEM of CUHK/University of Texas)
Awarded amount: HK$687,200.

Project: “Study of Optimal Portfolio Selection Policies”
PI (HK Side): Prof. Duan Li (SEEM of CUHK)
PI (Mainland Side): Prof. Zhongfei Li (Zhongshan University, Guangzhou)
C0-PI (HK Side) Prof. Xunyu Zhou (SEEM of CUHK)
Awarded amount: HK$489,700.

Both projects are in the key research directions of the SEEM department. Prof. Cai’s project is on Supply Chain Management while Prof. Li’s project is on Financial Engineering. The success of the department in this highly competitive research funding scheme signifies its status of research excellence in this region.

More info: ATOIP’2005