Award recipients of the 2023-24 Outstanding Researcher Awards Scheme, including the Outstanding Researcher Award (ORA), Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA), Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award (ORSSA), and Research Output Prize (ROP) have been announced.
The ORA and OYRA are awards made to recognize individuals on their outstanding research accomplishments. The ORSSA is to recognize exemplary and effective supervisory guidance and support to research postgraduate students. The recipients of the 2023-24 awards are as follows:
Outstanding Researcher Award (ORA)
Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA)
- Bin CHEN, Department of Architecture
- Jian HE, Department of Chemistry
- Zhongxing HUANG, Department of Chemistry
- Zhuang LIU, Faculty of Law
- Ruibang LUO, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Data Science
- Austin STRANGE, Department of Politics and Public Administration
- Lizhi XU, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Zhenci XU, Department of Geography
- Shuofeng YUAN, Department of Microbiology
Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award (ORSSA)
The ROP is a Faculty-based award to honour the best research output from each Faculty. This year, ten Research Output Prizes are conferred on the authors by the Faculties. The recipients of the 2023-24 awards are as follows:
Research Output Prize (ROP)
Faculty of Architecture
- Wu, Shengbiao*, Chen, Bin*, Webster, Chris*, Xu, Bing & Gong, Peng* (2023). Improved human greenspace exposure equality during 21st century urbanization. Nature Communications, 14, Article 6460. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41620-z
Faculty of Arts
- Li, Ji* (2023). At the Frontier of God’s Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modem China. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197656051.001.0001
Faculty of Business and Economics
- Liu, Xuewen* (2023). A Model of Systemic Bank Runs. Journal of Finance, 78(2), 731-793.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.13213
Faculty of Dentistry
- Pu, Jane J.*, Lo, Anthony W.I., Wong, May C.M.*, Choi, Wing Shan*, Ho, Grace, Yang, Weifa*, Su, Yuxiong* (2023). A quantitative comparison of bone resection margin distances in virtual surgical planning versus histopathology: prospective study. International Journal of Surgery, 110(1), 111-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JS9.0000000000000780
Faculty of Education
- Chan, Cecilia K.Y.* (2023). A comprehensive AI policy education framework for university teaching and learning. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 20, Article 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-023-00408-3
Faculty of Engineering
- Zhou, Hongyu*, Yu, Yizhou*, Wang, Chengdi, Zhang, Shu, Gao, Yuanxu, Pan, Jia*, Shao, Jun, Lu, Guangming, Zhang, Kang, Li, Weimin (2023). A transformer-based representation-learning model with unified processing of multimodal input for clinical diagnostics. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 7, 743–755. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-023-01045-x
Faculty of Law
- Jing, Hui* (2023). The Governance of Chinese Charitable Trusts. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009327954
Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
- Xie, Ruopeng*, Edwards, Kimberly M.*, Wille, Michelle, Wei, Xiaoman*, Wong, Sook San*, Zanin, Mark*, El-Shesheney, Rabeh, Ducatez, Mariette, Poon, Leo L.M.*, Kayali, Ghazi, Webby, Richard J., Dhanasekaran, Vijaykrishna* (2023). The episodic resurgence of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 virus. Nature, 622 (7984), 810-817.
Faculty of Science
- Tinsman, Jen C., Gruppi, Cristian, Bossu, Christen M., Prigge, Tracey-Leigh*, Harrigan, Ryan J., Zaunbrecher, Virginia, Koepfli, Klaus-Peter, LeBreton, Matthew, Njabo, Kevin, Cheng, Wenda*, Xing, Shuang*, Abernethy, Katharine, Ades, Gary, Akeredolu, Excellence, Andrew, Imuzei B., Barrett, Taneisha A.*, Bernáthová, Iva, Bolfíková, Barbora Černá, Diffo, Joseph L., Fopa, Ghislain Difouo, Ebong, Lionel Esong, Godwill, Ichu, Koumba Pambo, Aurélie Flore, Labuschagne, Kim, Mbekem, Julius Nwobegahay, Momboua, Brice R., Mousset Moumbolou, Carla L., Ntie, Stephan, Rose-Jeffreys, Elizabeth, Simo, Franklin T., Sundar, Keerthana, Swiacká, Markéta, Takuo, Jean Michel, Talla, Valery N. K., Tamoufe, Ubald, Dingle, Caroline*, Ruegg, Kristen, Bonebrake, Timothy C.*, Smith, Thomas B. (2023). Genomic analyses reveal poaching hotspots and illegal trade in pangolins from Africa to Asia. Science, 382(6676), 1282-1286.
Faculty of Social Sciences
- Kong, Travis S. K.* (2023). Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478024439
Notes:
1. HKU members as indicated in the publication are marked by an asterisk *.
2. Hyperlinks are not provided for those who have already left HKU, or are not academic staff.
For more details, please visit the Research Services page for HKU Internal Awards for Research Excellence.
