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CUHK Graduates Win Best Paper Award of the Association of American Geographers |
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A Ph.D. and a master graduate of the Department of Geography and Resource Management of the Chinese University won the first and second prize respectively of the Best Student Paper Award of the Association of American Geographers in early April 2005. This marked the first time one of the awards was bestowed on a non-American student.
Yu Hongbo, a former master student of the CUHK Department of Geography and Resource Management now pursuing doctoral studies in the US, was awarded the first prize in the Best Student Paper Award for his paper on 'Exploring Potential Human Activities in Physical and Virtual Spaces: A Spatio-temporal GIS Approach'. Li Xiang, a Ph.D. graduate of the CUHK Department of Geography and Resource Management, won the second prize in geographic information systems section of the award. The winning paper 'A Novel Method of Indexing Trajectory Data of Objects Moving in a Network' is based on his research at CUHK. He is the first non-US student to receive the honour since it was established in 1991. Both Li Xiang and Yu Hongbo served as research assistants in the Joint Laboratory for Geoinformation Science at the Chinese University. Prof. Lin Hui, director of the laboratory, was their supervisor.
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