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Dr. Yang was awarded the Outstanding Research Postgraduate Young Alumni Award 2024<\/strong> by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

The award, organised annually by the Graduate School, recognises outstanding research postgraduate alumni for their academic achievements, leadership and innovation, research impact, professional reputation, and continued contributions to PolyU. Recipients are selected through a rigorous review process conducted by a panel of internal and external judges.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/polyu.ap.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=154b4acb-ab24-495d-bcbd-b24b006fc25b<\/p>\n

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Dr. Yang was awarded the Outstanding Research Postgraduate Young Alumni Award 2024 by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The award, organised annually by the Graduate School, recognises outstanding research postgraduate …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4944,"featured_media":740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-award"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2025\/12\/Image_20251227162528_187_326-scaled.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1000975,"url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2023\/11\/08\/dr-yang-yang-honored-as-a-top-research-producer-at-temple-mens-basketball-game\/","url_meta":{"origin":739,"position":0},"title":"Dr. Yang Yang Honored as a Top Research Producer at Temple Men\u2019s Basketball Game","author":"Yang Yang","date":"November 8, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr. Yang Yang was recognized as one of the most productive researchers at Temple University during a Temple Men\u2019s Basketball game against Columbia University. 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