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Congratulations to Dr. Enrico Santus, one of our outstanding PhD graduates

Dr. Enrico Santus (PhD, PolyU-CBS 2016 and a HK PhD Fellowship Awardee from Italy), after a post-doctoral fellow and research position at MIT, has just accepted a research scientist position at Bayer, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies of the world. Dr. Santus has recently published joint papers in leading journals of the world such as Journal of Clinical Oncology (with MIT team), IEEE Access (with PolyU Team), and Journal of Natural Language Engineering (with PolyU team).

Congratulations to Dr. Hongzhi XU, one of our outstanding PhD graduates

Dr. Hongzhi XU (PhD, PolyU-CBS 2015), after a post-doctoral fellow and research position at UPenn, has just received a tenured Associate Professor position, with the special title of ‘Zhiyuan Young Scholar (志远青年学者)’ at the newly formed Research Center on Corpus Linguistics (Director: Prof. Hu Kaibao) at the Shanghai International Studies University (上外).

Best paper award, the 20th CLSW international conference

Congratulations to Ms. Zhong Yin, DALS doctoral student under Prof. Huang's supervision, who won the best paper award at the 20th CLSW international conference, for her joint paper with Prof. Huang entitled 'Eventivity and Auditory Modality: An Onto-Cognitive Account of Hearing Nouns in Mandarin Chinese'.

Further studies at Cambridge University (UK)

Congratulations to YANG Zihang, BACBS graduate in 2019, for being admitted into the Master of Philosophy programme at University of Cambridge (UK) in October 2019.

Successful ECS grant application

Congratulations to Assistant Professor, Dr. Wong Minney, for being awarded a highly competitive ECS grant on her project: “Modulation of primary motor cortex to enhance treatment of dysarthria post-stroke” (36 months, HK$ 1,411,936)

Successful GRF grant application

Congratulations to Associate Professor, Dr. Li Dechao, for being awarded a highly competitive GRF grant on his project: “A Comparative Enquiry into Cognitive Processes of Translation and Paraphrasing – Evidence from eye-tracking and key-logging” (24 months, HK$ 89,000)

Successful GRF grant application

Congratulations to Chair Professor, Prof. William S.-Y. Wang, for being awarded a highly competitive GRF grant on his project: “Neurocognitive bases of immediate learning success and lexical consolidation of second language words in older adults: a multi-modal (MRI/EEG) study on medial temporal lobe functions” (30 months, HK$ 779.060)

Successful EU grant application for the CoBra project (“Conversational Brains 腦與腦的對話”)

Congratulations to Chair Professor, Prof. Huang Chu-ren, for being awarded a highly competitive and prestigious EU grant (EU H2020, 36 months, €3,993,244, led by Prof. Noël Nguyen of LPL-CRNS and Aix-Marseille University). This Innovative Training Network (ITN) project consists of a consortium of 15 members: 9 formal members, and 6 partner organizations. PolyU is the only non-EU partner. Read more

HSBC Hong Kong Scholarship

Congratulations to TUNG Ching Yee, BALSS graduate in 2019, for being awarded the prestigious HSBC Hong Kong Scholarship (HK$50,000).