Mr XiaojunQian won the Best Student Paper Award in the 5th Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum-2010.

Mr XiaojunQian, a Ph.D. student supervised by Professor Helen Meng and Dr. Frank Soong from MSRA, won the best student paper award in the 5th Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum-2010 ( https://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/PHDForum/2010/start ). The paper is titled “Discriminatively Trained Acoustic Models fro Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training”. The objective of the Forum is to bring together Ph.D. students from top universities who are conducting research in areas such as cloud computing, social networks, computer networks, data management, rich media computing etc. A total of more than 100 papers were submitted this year, and about 40 Ph.D. students were selected to participate in this Forum. Three best student paper awards were given.

Mr. Xiaojun Qian, a Ph.D. student from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, was awarded the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship 2010.

Nov 2010

Xiaojun is one among the 25 students selected for the fellowship from a pool of 98 distinguished Ph.D. candidates nominated from more than 50 leading research universities/institutions in the Asia-Pacific region. In the twelve years since the MSRA Fellowship Program started, more than two hundred and eighty Ph.D. candidates from fifty universities/institutions have been awarded the Fellowship. The program has been highly successful in fostering advances and collaboration in computer science and research.

Di Wu, Yiping Ke, Jeffrey Xu Yu won the best research paper award of Dasfaa’10 for the paper “Detecting Leaders from Correlated Time Series”.

Di Wu, Yiping Ke, Jeffrey Xu Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China), Philip S. Yu (University of Illinos at Chicago, USA), Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) won the Best Paper Award of Dasfaa’10 for the paper “Detecting Leaders from Correlated Time Series”

Prof. Helen Mei Ling MENG and her research team won the Level 2 Prize in Technological Advancement of the Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards 2009.

Prof. Helen Mei Ling MENG and her research team: Level 2 Prize in Technological Advancement of the Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards 2009 by the Ministry of Education of China (MoE) for the project “Multimodal User Interactions with Multilingual Speech and Language Technologies – Research and Applications’