Yaping Zhao

Ph.D. Candidate at HKU
Email: zhaoyp (at) connect.hku.hk
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Selected Honors and Certificates

Research

  • IEEE SPS Travel Grant for PROGRESS Workshop, IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), 2023
  • IEEE SPS Travel Grant for ICIP 2023, IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), 2023
  • Research Postgraduate Student Innovation Award, The University of Hong Kong, 2023 (Up to 10 awardees will be selected each year from all PhD / MPhil students of any disciplines.) website | photo | video
  • AAAI-23 Student Scholarship, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023 (I sincerely appreciate AAAI-23 for offering me travel scholarship funding, conditional on attending the conference on-site. I did not accept the scholarship because I decided to attend remotely.)
  • IEEE CIS Conference Participation Grant, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), 2022
  • Best Student Paper Award, The IEEE Student Symposium on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuit (s-EDSSC), 2021 website
  • Best Poster Award, The Westlake International Symposium in Engineering (WISE), 2021

Competition

  • Meritorious Winner in Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), 2016 (worldwide)
  • The Third Prize Award in the 5th Cross-Strait Market Survey and Analysis Contest, 2016 (nationwide)

Scholarship

  • Talent Development Scholarship, the Hong Kong SAR Government, 2024
  • First Prize Scholarship in Academic Contest, Beihang University, 2016
  • Fourth Prize Scholarship in Excellent Student, Beihang University, 2016
  • Third Prize Scholarship in Social Practice, Beihang University, 2016

Entrepreneurship

  • Third Prize in the 10th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, 2024 news | instagram | facebook
  • First Prize Award in Beijing and Silver Award in China in the 2nd “Internet+” National College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest, 2016 (nationwide)
  • Bronze Award in the 10th ``Challenge Cup'' Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Contest, 2016 (nationwide)
  • Silver Award in the 26th “Fengru Cup” Entrepreneurship Contest of Beihang University, 2016
  • Silver Award in the 25th “Fengru Cup” Entrepreneurship Contest of Beihang University, 2015

Others

  • Organizer of HKU Graduate House King of Glory e-Sports Tournament, co-organised by the Centre of Development and Resources for Students (CEDARS) and Graduate House at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in collaboration with me, 2024
  • Awardee of 26th Recognition Ceremony, organised by the Centre of Development and Resources for Students (CEDARS) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), 2023
  • Awardee of 25th Recognition Ceremony, organised by the Centre of Development and Resources for Students (CEDARS) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), 2022 website