Awarded by: AngelHack An HKUST-HKU team has notched up three awards at the Hackathon Global Demo Day held in San Francisco on 29 October. The team – a startup called “Plain Exchange” had four members from HKUST and two from HKU. Their creative idea of developing peer to peer currency exchange platform was showcased in the highly regarded competition that ... Read More

Awarded by: ISACA Exam results are a fact of life for students everywhere, sparking happiness or despair, but seldom making headlines. Until Benjamin Huber’s results, that is. Huber scored the world’s highest mark on the internationally recognized Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam, a credential often required of professionals in IT security ... Read More

Awarded by: International Supply Chain Education Alliance An HKUST team has beaten out four other Hong Kong university teams to win the Hong Kong qualifier round of the Ptak Prize Global Case Competition. They will compete in the final to be held online in December. The annual competition is organized by the International Supply Chain Education Alliance ... Read More

Awarded by: Department of Management The Department of Management awarded its annual Outstanding Management Student Scholarship for 2015-16 to six students. They were: Clarissa Adisaputra, Christina Michelle Chan, Yetta Chan, Cheung Kin-lok, Ng Pui-yin and Wong Chiu-yee. Set up in 2009, the award honors the top academic achievers identified by the department ... Read More

Awarded by: ISR and INFORMS Information Systems Society Prof Michael Zhang of the Department of ISOM has been named the “Best Associate Editor Award for 2014” by the top business journal Information Systems Research (ISR) and INFORMS Information Systems Society. Prof Zhang is the third faculty member from ISOM to win this award. Both Business Week and the ... Read More