The Outstanding Alumni Award of PolyU Faculty of Science 2023
The Outstanding Alumni Award of PolyU Faculty of Science (FS) aims to give recognition to outstanding graduates of FS for their professional achievements and significant contributions to the community and their alma mater. We are pleased to announce the results as follows:
Outstanding Alumni 2023
Award Title
Outstanding Alumni Award in Entrepreneurial Achievement of
PolyU Faculty of Science
Name of Awardee
Dr Ho Kam Piu (ABCT)
Outstanding Alumni Award in Community Service Achievement of
PolyU Faculty of Science
Mr Lin Pui Keung, Joseph (AMA)
Outstanding Alumni Award in Professional Achievement of
PolyU Faculty of Science
Mr Sin Tak Yin, Alex (AP)
Outstanding Young Alumni 2023
Award Title
Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Scholarly Achievement of
PolyU Faculty of Science
Name of Awardee
Dr Leung King Chi, Franco (ABCT)
Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Scholarly Achievement of
PolyU Faculty of Science
Dr Hu Yaohua (AMA)
Dr Ho Kam Piu
Outstanding Alumni Award in Entrepreneurial Achievement of
PolyU Faculty of Science
Dr Ho Kam Piu is currently the Chief Scientific Officer & Founder of GRST Holdings Limited. He studied for a Bachelor of Science (2001) and a Doctor of Philosophy (2006) in Chemistry at PolyU. After graduating from PolyU, he established GRST Holdings Limited, a green technology company to develop commercially viable water-based technology for producing and recycling lithium-ion batteries at lower cost with lower emissions. Under Dr Ho’s leadership, the company has raised funding by more than USD30 Million, and its proprietary technology has received a string of international innovation awards, including two Gold Medals from the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (2019) and a Gold Award in Hong Kong Green Innovations Awards (2019). As an alumnus of PolyU, Dr Ho has hired many our graduates to work at his company.
Mr Lin Pui Keung, Joseph
Outstanding Alumni Award in Community Service Achievement of
PolyU Faculty of Science
Mr Joseph Lin obtained a High Diploma in Mathematics, Statistics and Computing from PolyU in 1986. He is currently a Business Development Leader for Corporate Affairs of Greater China, Cisco Systems, responsible for developing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) partnership and collaboration projects. He is devoted to promoting STEM education in Greater China. He has developed and led a flagship CSR program, Cisco Networking Academy, for over 20 years to drive STEM education and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) talent development in the Secondary and Tertiary sectors. This program has impacted over 1 million students since 2000 and received the Partnership of Excellence Award from the Ministry of Education, China (2017-2019). Mr Lin also supported PolyU staunchly and has been a member of AMA’s Departmental Advisory Committee since 2016.
Mr Sin Tak Yin, Alex
Outstanding Alumni Award in Professional Achievement of
PolyU Faculty of Science
Mr Alex Sin obtained a Higher Diploma in Applied Science from PolyU in 1990. He is currently the Senior Sales Director at Synaptics. When working for Motorola/ Freescale Semiconductor, Mr Sin contributed significantly to developing the 2.5G/3G Mobile Phone and played a vital role in launching the first China local brand mobile phone in 2002. After that, Mr Sin joined the DSP Group as a Corporate Vice President of Sales, where he successfully promoted Digital Cordless DECT Catiq as a standard feature on European Operator’s home gateway for wireless voice communication to benefit over 40 million British Telecom and Deutsch Telekon Home Gateways. To give back to his alma mater, Mr Sin is keen to share his experience with our students and recruit our graduates for the company.
Dr Leung King Chi, Franco
Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Scholarly Achievement of
PolyU Faculty of Science
Dr Franco Leung obtained a Bachelor of Science (2011) and a Master of Philosophy (2013) in Chemical Technology from PolyU. He then earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2017. After that, he joined Prof. Ben L. Feringa’s group (2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) at the University of Groningen as a postdoc fellow. Dr Leung returned to PolyU as an Assistant Professor in 2019, his research focuses on using synthetic organic chemistry to build new supramolecular structures, functions and hierarchical systems. He has published 25 research papers in leading chemistry journals, such as Nature Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition. In recognition of Dr Leung’s contribution to the field of dynamic supramolecular materials, he received the Croucher Innovation Award 2021, PolyU Young Innovative Researcher Award 2022 and The Rising Star of Polymer Journal 2023.
Dr Hu Yaohua
Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Scholarly Achievement of
PolyU Faculty of Science
Dr Hu Yaohua received a Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics from PolyU in 2013. His research interests include theory and algorithms for large-scale optimization and applications in statistics, machine learning, bioinformatics, and image processing. He has served as the Principle Investigator of 14 research projects, and has published 46 papers in prestigious international journals, such as SIAM Journal on Optimization, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Inverse Problems, and European Journal of Operational Research. Dr Hu also received the First Prize of the Outstanding Research Output Achievement Award of Computational Mathematic in Guangdong (2021), the Outstanding Young Scholars by the National Science Foundation of China (2022), and the Distinguished Young Scholars by the National Science Foundation of Shenzhen (2023). Dr Hu is passionate about sharing his knowledge with our students by delivering workshops and lectures, he also co-supervises our PhD student.
Congratulations to all the awardees!
