UROP Proceedings 2010-11

Opto-Mechanical Oscillator with Directional Phonon Emission forAerosol Microparticles SensingAdvisor : POON Andrew W O / ECEStudent : LEENE Lieuwe Berend / ELEC(UROP1100, Fall 2010)With current interests directed towards atmospheric monitoring, we explore the potential of anopto-mechanical device with directional phonon emission for the application of aerosol microparticle sensing. We demonstrate system that employs the quartz crystal tuning fork fordirectional phonon emission and has the capacity to detect aerosol particles as proof ofconcept.PageRank of ScholarsAdvisor : QIU Li / ECEStudent : MA Fangchang / ELEC-HR(UROP1000, Summer 2011)PageRank, the heart of Google search engine, is a link analysis algorithm developed by LarryPage, and eigenfactor.org uses a similar approach to rank academic journals. In this project,we use the same algorithm to rank all papers and scholars in a particular technical area, wherethe link is taken as the paper citation. It ranks the papers according to their importance andpopularity.Location-based Building Recognition and Social EventsRecommendation Using Smartphones and Social NetworksAdvisor : SHE James / ECEStudent : AARON Sheshan Ryan / ELEC(UROP1000, Summer 2011)In many situations, someone travels to a new place (e.g., HKUST campus), may not befamiliar with the environment. It would be very difficult for a person to engage with anysocial event without knowing the environment first, as well as the time or related informationabout the social event. It would be interesting to have a Smartphone application, which canfeed real-time information for a person to be familiar with the environment, direction andassociated details about any social event that matches the person’s interest along the journey.49