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The Graduate School held its annual Award Presentation Ceremony on December 15, 2021 to celebrate the achievements of our research postgraduate (RPg) students. A total of 193 RPg students from various disciplines were presented with awards.

The awardees included six recipients of the Li Ka Shing Prizes, ten recipients of the Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student, and recipients of the HKU Presidential PhD Scholarship and University Postgraduate Fellowships.

Recipients of the HKU Presidential PhD Scholarship

The Ceremony was officiated by Professor Xiang Zhang, President and Vice-Chancellor; Professor Max Z. Shen, Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Dean of Graduate School; Professor Alice S.T. Wong, Associate Vice-President (Research); and Ms. Bernadette Tsui, Associate Vice-President (Development & Alumni Affairs) and Executive Director, HKU Foundation.

Our warmest congratulations to all the winners on your accomplishments!

List of winners of the Li Ka Shing Prizes 2019-20 and Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student 2019-20:

Li Ka Shing Prizes (2019-20)
The Li Ka Shing Prizes are highly competitive and the recipients are the best of our elite students, having submitted the best theses in the Humanities and the Science Faculty groups respectively. 

Best MPhil thesis in the Faculties of Architecture, Arts, Business and Economics, Education, Law and Social Sciences
Hui Fei CHAN (Department of Psychology)

Best MPhil thesis in the Faculties of Dentistry, Engineering, Medicine and Science
Pit Shan CHONG (School of Biomedical Sciences)

Best PhD theses in the Faculties of Architecture, Arts, Business and Economics, Education, Law and Social Sciences
Vesa Petri PURSIAINEN (Faculty of Business and Economics)
Tat Yeung James KUAN (Faculty of Education)

Best PhD theses in the Faculties of Dentistry, Engineering, Medicine and Science
Li LIU (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Derek LEE (Department of Pathology)

Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student (2019-20)
The Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student gives due recognition to research postgraduate students who have submitted a thesis of exceptional quality and demonstrated outstanding performance in other academic aspects.  

Mohammed Nadeem BIJLE (PhD, Faculty of Dentistry)
Chok Meng CHAN (MPhil, School of Chinese)
You CHE (PhD, Department of Civil Engineering)
Rui CHENG (PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Yiran HUANG (PhD, Department of Chemistry)
Anna Maria ISKRA (PhD, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
Xinran LI (PhD, School of Biomedical Sciences)
Andrew Thomas PARK (PhD, School of Modern Languages and Cultures (European Studies))
Zuochen WANG (PhD, Department of Chemistry)
Yu Yan YAU (MPhil, Department of Earth Sciences)