3 CSE faculty members received Google Research Awards

Prof. Chi-Keung Tang, Dr. Ke Yi and Dr. Sunghun Kim from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST received Google Research Awards in the latest round.

Google Research Awards program identifies and supports faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest internationally. In this round, Google is funding 112 awards across 20 different areas for a total of more than $6 million US Dollars. While 29 percent of the funding was awarded to universities outside the U.S., only six of them are from Hong Kong, three of whom being Prof. Chi-Keung Tang, Dr. Ke Yi and Dr. Sunghun Kim from HKUST's Computer Science and Engineering Department. They are awarded for their work in the following areas:

  • Prof. Chi Keung Tang: "Quasi-Dense 3D Reconstruction from 2D Uncalibrated Photos" (Geo/Maps)
  • Dr. Ke Yi: "Computing Statistical Summaries with MapReduce". (Information retrieval, extraction and organization)
  • Dr. Sunghun Kim: "Crash Reproduction" (Software Engineering)

Congratulations!

Learn more about the program. Find the full list of this round's award recipients.