ACM SIGMOD 2007 Undergraduate Scholarship
Fang Rui, a final-year undergraduate from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, won the ACM SIGMOD 2007 Undergraduate Scholarship as one of the seven awardees selected worldwide.
Rui has published a system demonstration paper at the ACM SIGMOD'07 conference, a major conference in the database field, and a full research paper at the Data Management on New Hardware (DaMoN) Workshop 2007 in conjunction with SIGMOD07. He has accepted a job offer to work in the Hong Kong branch of a New York-based hedge fund firm, where he did an internship during the summer of his exchange study at University of Pennsylvania.
About The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (www.ust.hk) is a world-class research university that focuses on science, technology and business as well as humanities and social science. HKUST offers an international campus, and a holistic and interdisciplinary pedagogy to nurture well-rounded graduates with global vision, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking. HKUST attained the highest proportion of internationally excellent research work in the Research Assessment Exercise 2014 of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee, and is ranked as the world’s best young university in Times Higher Education’s Young University Rankings 2019. Its graduates were ranked 16th worldwide and top in Greater China in Global University Employability Survey 2018.
