Qian Yao (5th from the right on the back row) received Microsoft Fellow award at the "Computing in the 21st Century" conference.

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Ms. Qian Yao, second-year PhD student at the DSP and Speech Technology Laboratory, recently received the award of Microsoft Fellow in Beijing. The award presentation ceremony was held on 5 November 2003 during the "Computing in the 21st Century" conference organized by the Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). This year there are totally 28 Microsoft Fellows selected from the top universities in the Asia-Pacific Region (including China, Korea, Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong). Ms. Qian is the among the 3 selected fellows from Hong Kong.