Following the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019, the Physics Department is pleased to announce that the 2019 Paul and May Chu Undergraduate Research Award is awarded to Bohan LI, and the Honorable Mention is awarded to King Chun WONG. The Paul and May Chu UG Research Award is the highest honor offered by the Department to recognize outstanding research in physics conducted by an undergraduate student.
Bohan LI, winner of 2019 Paul and May Chu UG Research Award
4th year Physics UG student
“For the experimental demonstration of all-optical neural network and realization of optical Eratosthenes’ sieve,” under the supervision of Profs. Shengwang DU (HKUST) and Alex LVOVSKY (Oxford).
Bohan LI has worked on experimental quantum optics under the supervision of Prof. Shengwang Du since May 2017. He made a significant contribution to the realization of all-optical neural network with nonlinear activation functions [Optica 6, 1132 (2019); News Release of The Optical Society on 29/08/2019]. During his three-month summer research with Prof. Alex Lvovsky at University of Oxford, he demonstrated optical Eratosthenes’ sieve by contributing both essential ideas and hard instrumental work.
King Chun WONG, Honorable Mention of 2019 Paul and May Chu UG Research Award
4th year Physics UG student
“For the understanding of influence spreading dynamics in complex networks,” under the supervision of Prof. Kwok Yip SZETO (HKUST).
King Chun WONG has worked for three years on complex system dynamics under the supervision of Prof. Kwok Yip Szeto. His work on influence spreading dynamics in complex networks was published in the Proceeding of The International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (DCAI 2019: Advances in Intelligence Systems and Computing, vol. 1003) and won the best paper award.
For details about the award, please check the HKUST Physics UG Scholarship website:http://www.phys.ust.hk/scholarship/
Congratulations to Bohan LI and King Chun WONG!
Sincerely yours,
Prof. Penger TONG
Head, Department of Physics
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Award Selection Panel: Profs. Jason Z.Y. YANG, Hyokeun PARK, and Bei ZENG
