CSE Faculty received IBM Faculty Award 2009
Dr. Huamin QU of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering has recently received the 2009 IBM Faculty Award with a cash donation of US$16,000. Dr. QU is the only recipient from Hong Kong this year.
The IBM Faculty Awards is a competitive worldwide program intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations; and to promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM.
Dr. Huamin QU
Dr. QU is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His main research interests include visualization and computer graphics. He has conducted a wide range of research on sample-based rendering, scientific visualization, real time graphics systems, virtual reality, and medical imaging. Prior to his graduate studies, he had some years of extensive experience in commercial software development.
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.
