Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship & Awards (2017-18)

Background

The Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship Fund was jointly set up by the family of Professor Samuel Chanson and the HKUST, in memory of Professor Chanson.

The fund has been used to set up a number of scholarships and awards, namely Professor Samuel Chanson Academic Excellence Scholarship, Professor Samuel Chanson Best Final Year Project Awards and Professor Samuel Chanson Best Teaching Assistant Awards, to benefit HKUST students and teaching assistants.

Awardees of 2017-18

In Academic Year 2017-18, the scholarship and awards are given to the following students and TA in recognition of their great work during the year:

Professor Samuel Chanson Academic Excellence Scholarship

TSE Ho Nam			COSC

Professor Samuel Chanson Best Final Year Project Awards

Autonomous Domestic Water Purification System with Mobile Application
FOK Ming Kit			CPEG
LEE Dustin			COMP & CBE
LEE Ho Long Barry		CBE
FUNG Ka YI			CBE	

Inception Dreams and Manipulation Emotion-Sensing Game
AGATHA Felicia			CSE
ARUL RAJKUMAR Vivian Nathaniel	CSE
CHEONG Meng Yew Eugene		CSE
TSE Christine Wai Ying		CSE

Pulse of HKUST: System for Visualizing Crowd Behavior in HKUST Campus
FELYCIA .			CSE
KU Bon Kyung			CSE	

BitExTract: Interactive Visualization for Extracting Bitcoin Exchange
Intelligence
DU Xinnan			COSC
YU Zheqing			CSE
ZHU Xinyu			COSC

Project Zamplify - A Sound Recognition System for Context Awareness
CHENG Kok Hang			CSE
CHEUNG Tsz Him			COGBM
KWOK Hin Kwan			CPGBM
SHIN Wai Ching Martin		CPEG

Capturing the Reality with Phones!
GAO Shenlai			CSE
JI Tony Wai Sum			CPEG
WANG Ziyu			COSC
YAN Nuoyuan			CSE

Optimal Investment Strategy Using Scalable Machine Learning and Data
Analytics for Small-cap Stocks
AGGARWAL Ashish Kumar		CSE
BEHERA Anwesha			CSE
HIRANANDANI Anish		CSE