UROP Sponsorships 2024

Research Travel Sponsorship

Name of Recipient Major / Year Project Title Supervisor Conference Location

CHEUNG Ho Tin

PHYS + CHEM / 3

Diffusion of Nanoparticles in a Potential Energy Landscape

Prof. WONG Michael Kwok Yee / PHYS

Minneapolis, USA

FU Lala

BIOT / 4

Engineering of next generation mRNA vaccine construct

Prof. KUANG Becki Yi

Seoul, Korea

HE Weike

ELEC / 3 Projects in Audio Signal Processing Prof. CHAU Kevin / ECE Madrid, Spain

LI Yunqi

*Yunqi (Rightmost)

COSC + MATH-GM / 3 Towards Efficient Queries in Graph Databases Prof. ZHOU Xiaofang / CSE Utrecht, Netherlands

LIAO Yi-tsen

*Yi-tsen (Right)

ECOF / 3 Judgement and Decision Making in Policy Prof. HAGMANN David / MGMT San Francisco, USA

MUI Pui Ka

QSA / 2 The Development of Information Updating in Working Memory Prof. CHENG Chen / SOSC Hong Kong

PARK Hyun Hu

*Hyun Hu (Leftmost)

COMP / 2 Ultra-low latency network transport for Real-Time Video Streaming Prof. MENG Zili / ECE Sydney, Australia

RA Hoonjoo

CPEG / 3 Development of Bio-Inspired Tactile Sensor Prof. SHEN Yajing / ECE Hong Kong

SU Hong

DSCT / Graduated Knowledge Discovery over Database Prof. WONG Raymond Chi Wing / CSE Hamburg, Germany

WANG Yicheng

*Yicheng (Circled in red)

COSC / 3 Advancing Abductive Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs through Complex Logical Hypothesis Generation Prof. SONG Yangqiu / CSE Bangkok, Thailand
ZHOU Yukai (Online) MATH-PMA + COSC / 3 Reasoning with Large Foundation Models Prof. SONG Yangqiu / CSE Bangkok, Thailand

 

Summer School Sponsorship

Name of Recipient Major / Year Project Title Supervisor Summer School Location

LIU Yifan

*Yifan (Second left at the back)

ELEC / 3

EDA for Superconducting Quantum Computing

Prof. SHAO Qiming / ECE

Harvard University, USA

TAN Lianxing

*Lianxing (Second left)

BCB-IRE / 3 Molecular regulation of axon regeneration Prof. LIU Kai / LIFS

University of Chicago, USA

YU Jiamu

BCB-IRE / 3 A biologist's approach: Benchmarking Cell Segmentation Algorithms Using Spatial Transcriptomics Prof. WU Angela Ruohao / LIFS Stanford University, USA

 

Publication Sponsorship

Name of Recipient Major / Year Project Title Supervisor Publication
LEUNG Cheuk Fung Alvin BCB + CHEM / 3 The Impact of Spike Mutations on SARS-CoV-2 Neutralization Prof. SU Haibin / CHEM Dynamic expedition of leading mutations in SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoproteins