2012 Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award - List of Awardees

Award Name of 
Awardee
Major Title of Project Faculty 
Supervisor

Champion

Qifeng CHEN COSC+MATH KNN Matting Prof Chi Keung TANG (CSE)
First Runner-
Up
Zhiwei QIU MECH SnO2/Graphene Nanocomposite as an Anode Material in Lithium-ion Batteries Prof Jang-Kyo KIM (MECH)
First Runner-
Up
Tong ZHANG IS Corporate Campaign Contributions and Political Favoritism Prof Michael ZHANG (ISOM)
Second 
Runner-Up
Yuliang LI COMP Mining Generalized Order-Preserving SubMatrices from Gene Expression Data Prof Wilfred NG (CSE)
Second 
Runner-Up
Zitao WANG PHYS Algebraic Methods in Network Reliability and Stability Prof Kwok Yip SZETO (PHYS)

Merit

Kwan Ho LI ECON The Effect of Other Faces on Emotioon Recognition Prof Michelle YIK (SOSC)

Merit

Wai Ming LI RMBI Variable and Interaction Selection from a Large Number of Predictors: Evidence from News analytics Prof Mike SO (ISOM)

Merit

Yuk Ting YEUNG RMBI A Vine Copula GARCH Model and Its Application to Hong Kong Stock Data Prof Mike SO (ISOM)