Annual Report 2015–16

t 戴漪晨（左） Dai Yichen, Serena (left) 馬培峰博士（中） Dr. Ma Peifeng (middle) 潘志成（右） Pun Chi-seng (right) AXA Research Fund Post-doctoral Fellowship Dr. Ma Peifeng, a PhD graduate of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, was awarded a 2016 AXA Research Fund Post-doctoral Fellowship for his research project on the remote sensing of infrastructural dynamics and risk warnings of the built environment. The Fellowship was launched in 2008 to encourage scientific research on the prevention of environmental, life, and socio-economic risks. In 2016, 29 researchers out of 400 applicants were granted the AXA fellowships, with Dr. Ma being the only recipient from the Greater China region. Best Paper Award for Statistics Student Pun Chi-seng, a PhD student from the Statistics Programme, won the Best Student Research Paper Award for a paper he presented at the 2015 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. INFORMS is the largest professional organization for operations research, management science, and analytics, which invites postgraduate students from around the world to submit their papers. The finalists have to present at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, and Chi-seng is the fist-ever PhD student from the Asia-Pacific region to have won this award. AXA 安盛研究基金博士後 獎學金 太空與地球信息科學研究所博士畢 業生馬培峰，憑其遙感探測基礎設 施形變及警報研究，獲安盛研究基 金頒發 2016 年度博士後獎學金。該 獎學金於 2008 年推出，鼓勵預防環 境、生活、社會經濟風險有關的科學 研究。 2016 年，主辦機構從四百名申 請者選出二十九位得獎者，而馬博士 為大中華地區唯一膺此殊榮的研究 人員。 最佳統計學論文 統計學系博士研究生潘志成同學， 獲「運籌與管理科學研究所金融 部」頒發 2015 年度最佳學生論文 獎。 INFORMS 是運籌學、管理科學 及分析學的首屈一指機構，每年邀 請全球研究生遞交論文，成績優秀 者將於年度會員大會發表其研究 成果，而潘同學為第一位來自亞 太區的得獎者。 23 篤學能養志 樂育可樹人 Education—Nourishing Minds and Building Character