Acknowledgements

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to various participating academic departments for their continuous support of the OAPS project. Our heartiest thanks also go to the OAPS coordinators and supervisors of the awarded students for their commitment in the assessment and nomination of excellent papers in 2016.

Department of Applied Social Studies
Prof. Tit-wing LO, Head
Prof. Alice CHONG, Associate Head
Dr. Oliver Heng-choon CHAN
Dr. Chau-kiu CHEUNG
Dr. Alfred Siu-kay CHOI
Dr. Bonnie Wing-yin CHOW
Dr. Ben K K LI
Dr. Tina Louisa ROCHELLE
Dr. Sam Shengquan YE
Dr. Dannii YEUNG

Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Prof. Kim-meow LIEW, Head
Dr. Nadia CHOW
Dr. Ivan FUNG
Dr. Stefan KRAKHOFER
Dr. Paul LAM
Dr. Shan LI
Dr. Tommy LO
Dr. Jin MURAKAM
Dr. Yu WANG
Dr. Yufei WU
Prof. Richard YUEN

Department of Asian and International Studies
Prof. Mark Richard THOMPSON, Acting Head
Dr. Nankyung CHOI
Dr. Stephan ORTMANN

Department of Chinese and History
Prof. Hsiao-ti LI, Head
Dr. Hyuk-chan KWON
Dr. Vivian P Y LEE

Department of Computer Science
Prof. Sam T. W. KWONG, Head
Dr. Antoni CHAN
Dr. Shuaicheng LI
Dr. Sarana NUTANONG

Department of Economics and Finance
Prof. Yue MA, Head
Dr. To-ming HO
Dr. Charles Ka-yui LEUNG

Department of Electronic Engineering
Prof. Kim-fung MAN, Head
Dr. Sammy CHAN
Dr. Derek PAO
Dr. Kelvin YUEN

Department of English
Prof. Hon S CHAN, Acting Head
Dr. Lindsay MILLER
Ms. Xi XU

Department of Information Systems
Prof. Choon-ling SIA, Head
Dr. Yulin FANG
Mr. Frank LO

Department of Linguistics and Translation
Prof. Meichun LIU, Head
Dr. Vanti Wai-sum LEE

Department of Media and Communication
Prof. Xigen LI, Acting Head
Dr. Wan-Ying LIN

Department of Physics and Materials Science
Prof. Xunli WANG, Head
Dr. C Y CHUNG
Dr. Suresh MAVILA CHATHOTH
Prof. C H SHEK
Dr. Zhengkui XU
Dr. Antonio ZAPIEN

School of Law
Prof. Geraint Gordon HOWELLS, Dean
Dr. Lei CHEN, Associate Dean
Dr. Rebecca Yoke-chan ONG
Dr. Fan YANG
Prof. Guobin ZHU