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World’s top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, 2019-2024

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2025 Conference of Advanced Systems in Public Transport (CASPT) Yuval Hadas Memorial Best Paper Award (Second Place) “Resilient Bus Services Design under Correlated Stochastic Metro System Disruption” by Su, Lee, Lo, Chow, Kyoto University, Japan, June 30 – July 4, 2025.

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2025 Conference of Advanced Systems in Public Transport (CASPT) Yuval Hadas Memorial Young Researcher Award “Modeling Spatiotemporal Platform Passenger Flow: A Macroscopic Simulation-Based Optimization Approach” by Ma, Lee, Du, Lo, Lee, Kyoto University, Japan, June 30 – July 4, 2025.

 

Geneva Innovation God Medal with Jury Congratulations (with MTR) on “Metro Maestro - A configurable route map that dynamically forecast ridership for metro operator, transport planners and commuters”, 2025.

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HKMA/HKT Global Innovation Award 2024/25, “Public transport ridership simulation”, Process Innovation Special Award for the category of Large Organizations.

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Asia Pacific Information and Communications Technology Alliance (APICTA) Awards 2024, Winner of Business Data Analytics category and Second Runner-up Award of Industrial category – Transport for the HKUST-MTR Joint Lab project “Public transport ridership simulation - MTR to Keep Cities Moving - The Unprecedented Strategy and Intelligence in Railway Planning”.

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Hong Kong ICT Awards 2024, Smart Mobility (Smart Transport) Gold Award, Best Use of AI Award, Smart Mobility Grand Award, and the highest honor, “Award of the Year” by the HKUST-MTR Joint Lab project “Public transportation ridership simulation for strategic management of service”.

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MSc Program Civil Infrastructural Engineering and Management (CIEM) Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award 2018

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His profile was featured in IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (2017, 9(3), 149-150) as an expert in transportation engineering

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Most Cited Researchers in Civil Engineering in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2016.

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Research Excellence Award, School of Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2014.

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The 2001 World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR) Society Award -- the best paper "A Cell-based Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model" out of about 700 papers presented at (or 1100 abstracts submitted for) the 9th triennial WCTR Conference in 2001.

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The 2003 Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) Outstanding Paper Award for the paper "Time-Dependent Transport Network Design: A Study on Budget Sensitivity" out of 600 papers presented at the 5th biannual EASTS Conference in 2003.

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The 2000 Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) Transactions Prize -- the best Paper “Dynamic Intersection Signal Control Optimization (DISCO): Numerical Results for Argyle Street”out of all the papers published in HKIE Transactions in 2000.

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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award. 2001.

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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award. 1997.

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