Post-graduate students

Name Program Year Next Position
Yanjiao Ma PhD 2024 -
Xingkai Zhang PhD 2024 -
Yiming Zhu PhD 2024 -
Wenqi Yu PhD 2023 -
Kaiyuan Fan PhD 2023 -
Junqi Wang MPhil 2023 -
Tingqi Cai PhD 2022 -
Hui-Yu Zhu PhD 2019 - IBS, Korea
Gowtham Amirthya Neppoleon PhD 2019 - Business
Yuhang Zhu PhD 2019 - 2023 IBS, Korea
Ali Akil PhD 2018 - 2023 HKU
Xi Tong PhD 2018 - 2023 Cambridge
Mian Zhu PhD 2018 - 2022 Jagiellonian U.
Qianhang Ding PhD 2018 - 2023 IBS, Korea
Chon-Man Sou PhD 2018 - 2023 Tsinghua
Shiyun Lu PhD 2017 - 2022 USTC
Jackie Liu PhD 2017 - 2022 Business
Shek Kit CHU MPhil 2017 - 2019 HKUST
Siyi Zhou PhD 2014 - 2019 Stockholm University
Hongliang Jiang PhD 2014 - 2018 University of Bern
Yaroslav Felipe Kalle Kossio MPhil 2014 - 2016 University of Bonn

Undergraduate students (selected)

Name Graduate From To
Duc Huy Tran 2023 HKUST Harvard
Siyu Bian 2023 HKUST ETH
Juanyi Yang 2022 HKU Brown
Shing Yan Li 2020 HKUST MIT
Wan Zhen Chua 2019 HKUST Perimeter (PSI)
Mang Hei Gordon Lee 2019 HKUST Cambridge
Aditya Iyer 2018 HKUST Oxford
Weichen Xiao 2017 HKUST LMU Munich
Ziwei Wang 2017 USTC McGill U
Guanhao Sun 2016 HKUST Columbia
Minxi He 2016 USTC U. Tokyo
Junyu Liu 2016 USTC Caltech

(Chinese version here, below is the English version)

Presentation is a piece of art. Thus there is no standard answer for its skills. Nevertheless, there are some suggestions on rules and tricks. They are personal and probably biased. If you are experienced, all are probably breakable.


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Congratulations! You are at the point to summarize your scientific findings and put them into a research paper. You might have thought that this is simple. As a student, you have written many study reports – lab reports, reading reports, essay for courses, … However, a research paper is more important, serious, tricky in many ways that you may not have thought of.


(Chinese version here, below is the English version)

Students start to do research by learning the background knowledge and then asking supervisors for projects. After those steps are well done, the students should try to be more creative, generate ideas and find research project themselves. This is a hard but crucial step on the trajectory toward an independent researcher.

I am definitely not creative enough to talk about creativity. Nevertheless, share my two cents with the students who have just started to do research.