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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nPolyU is the only higher education institution in Hong Kong to have had two young scientists honored with this prestigious award in a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis good news heartens me and gives me renewed impetus to develop carbon-neutral processes for turning waste into wealth, and to achieve zero-waste systems and carbon-neutrality,\u201d said Dr. Ren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Pasit Lorterapong, the Deputy Permanent Secretary of Thailand\u2019s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, said Dr. Ren\u2019s research is \u201cthe perfect example of excellence and innovation\u201d in pursuit of economic, environmental, and social goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDr. Ren\u2019s research, especially on the development of the circular economy, recycling, industrial systems, and supply network optimization, provides us with knowledge and helps us address future environmental and economic challenges,\u201d Dr. Pasit added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prof. Christopher Chao, Vice President (Research and Innovation) of PolyU, congratulated Dr. Ren on his achievement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are proud of our pioneering young scholars who are applying innovative solutions to bring advancement to society, the Asia Pacific, and the world,\u201d Prof. Chao said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Ren Jingzheng, Associate Professor of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering who specializes in sustainability science and process systems engineering for energy, environment, and sustainability, was selected as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region\u2019s top young science researcher this year. An award ceremony was hosted in Chiang Mai, Thailand in late August. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-education"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng.jpg",710,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng-200x200.jpg",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng-675x380.jpg",675,380,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng.jpg",710,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng-675x380.jpg",675,380,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng.jpg",710,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng.jpg",710,400,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng.jpg",710,400,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng.jpg",710,400,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng.jpg",600,338,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng.jpg",600,338,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng.jpg",710,400,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng-550x360.jpg",550,360,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng-95x65.jpg",95,65,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng.jpg",640,361,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng.jpg",96,54,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Ren-Jingzheng.jpg",150,85,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"Culture<\/a> Education<\/a>","tag_info":"Education","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}