Prof Khaled Ben Letaief has won the 2011 IEEE Communications Society Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings and Conferences
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Dean of Engineering Prof Khaled Ben Letaief of the Electronic and Computer Engineering Department has won the 2011 IEEE Communications Society Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings and Conferences.
This award is given to a society member at the time of nomination who has demonstrated exemplary services to meetings and conferences over a sustained period of time. Evaluation of candidates is based on such factors as long term service, significant contributions, strategic planning and financial success.
The citation reads: “for an exemplary and sustained record of service to the communications society's conferences”.
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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.
