Bulletin No. 1, 2019

the B est and the B rightest 33 The Best and The Brightest Kwok Man-yi Top Mathematics Problem Solvers Twenty eight CUHK students took part in the 2018 Simon Marais Mathematics Competition (SMMC), outperforming more than 40 universities across the Asia-Pacific region and winning the first place in University Prize. Kwok Man-yi and Lee Shun-ming won the first place in Pairs Prize, Tung Kam-chuen and Wong Chun-shing won the second place in Pairs Prize and Shen Jianhao the second place in Individual Prize. Bronze Medal in International Collegiate Programming Contest The programming team from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering partook in the 43rd Annual World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) held in Porto, Portugal, and won a bronze medal in April this year. The team consists of three undergraduate students, Yik Wai-pan (centre), Ho Ngan-hang (left), and Poon Lik-hang (right). This year over 50,000 contestants from 3,200 universities in 110 countries took part in the competition, and 135 teams advanced to compete in the world finals. This is the third time CUHK has won medals at the ICPC. Six Students Awarded Innovation and Technology Scholarships Six CUHK students were awarded the Innovation and Technology Scholarship 2019, each receiving HK$150,000 for participating in a series of initiatives to widen their international exposure. They included Yeung Chun-yat, a Physics major who would go on exchange at the University of California, Berkeley, Wong Chung-hei of the Global Physician-Leadership Stream who is going to research in the field of neuroprosthetics at John Hopkins University in the US. Other awardees include Cheung Cheuk-sin Bernice, Lam Li-man Maggie and Chiu Kwan-ho Nicholas from the same stream, and Electronic Engineering student Leung Ho-man. Leading in Innovation and Entrepreneurship CUHK received the Outstanding Institution Award at the Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2019 held in May. Twenty-one projects picked up accolades. Ren Mindan and his team members, PhD students from the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, won the first-class award in innovation with ‘Multi-modality Digital Holography-based Two-photon Excitation Microscope’. Zou Li, PhD students from the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, worked with team members from the School of Biomedical Sciences to design a smart medical device for the prevention and treatment of knee osteoarthritis and related degenerative diseases. The device won a first-class award in entrepreneurship. Lee Shun-ming Wong Chun-shing Tung Kam-chuen Shen Jianhao