July 5 2022
After nomination and voting, we are delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 IETI Young Researcher Award.
Dr Rita Yi Man Li graduated from the University of Hong Kong and now serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. She is the founder and director of Sustainable Real Estate Research Center. Her primary research interests lie in applied AI, construction safety, sustainable building, housing economics, real estate economics and construction informatics. She acts as a PI and co-I for many academic research grants, including highly competitive grants from Research Grant Council, ARC Linkage Grant, Public Policy Research Grant and other grants obtained from quasi-public institutions and government departments. She is an editorial board member for many journals and has been the author of 10 books and over 200 articles over the past eight years. Over the years, she won many local and international awards. She holds a few visiting positions at an overseas university. She served as an Endeavour Research Fellow at the University of South Australia, a visiting scholar at RMIT in Australia, the University of Regina in Canada and Feng Chia University in Taiwan. Shed served as a PhD thesis external examiner for the Queensland University of Technology, University of Macau, University Putra Malaysia, MPhil thesis examiner of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman and an external examiner for Open University of Hong Kong and Lingnan University.
Dr. Daniele Benetti is the Postdoctoral Fellow of McGill University, he got his PhD from Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique. He has published more than 40 papers, including Nature Energy.
Dr. Mirabbos Hojamberdiev is Senior Researcher at the Uzbekistan-Japan Innovation Center of Youth, Uzbekistan. He obtained his Ph.D. and Dr. Eng. in Materials Science and Engineering from Tashkent Institute of Chemical Technology, Uzbekistan, and Tokyo Institute of Technology, respectively. He has made several short- and long-term visits to various research laboratories in the world to develop advanced materials for energy and environmental applications under the prestigious fellowships, such as Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Fulbright Visiting Scholarship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Indian Centre for International Co-operation in Science, etc. His main research activity centers at the development of visible-light-active photocatalytic materials for energy and environmental applications.
Dr. Stephen Chan is an assistant professor at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. He was awarded the EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship in 2016 at the University of Manchester, UK. He received his PhD in Financial Mathematics, 2015 and MS in Mathematical Finance, 2012 from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. His research areas include extreme value analysis and distribution theory in analyzing financial commodities data, Blockchain, DeFi and cryptocurrency data. He co-developed and co-wrote an R package, entitled 'VaRES', for computing value at risk and expected shortfall. He is a co-author of the book Extreme Events in Finance: A Handbook of Extreme Value Theory and its Applications.
Dr David Xuefeng Shao is a lecturer in management at The University of Newcastle. He earned his PhD degree in International Business from UNSW. His research has appeared in different A journals on ABDC list including Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Safety Science, Journal of Environmental Management, Enterprise Information Systems, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal and Finance Research Letters. He is in the editorial board of different journals including Management and Organization Review and Journal of International Management.