Third Place Award in the Digital China and HKUST-BDI Cup “Smart City in Hong Kong” Competition 2017
Two BScCS students, Mr CHONG Wai Man and Mr WU Wing Hong, won the Third Place Award in the Digital China and HKUST-BDI Cup “Smart City in Hong Kong” Competition 2017 for their project titled “Project-City,” which aimed to develop a Fire Services Information System to facilitate the command and control work of fire and rescue services. The winning team received a cash prize of HKD 2,000.
Co-organized by the Digital China and the Big Data Institute of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Competition encouraged participants to create and evaluate new data analysis technology to fulfill and improve the city service in Hong Kong.
Second Runner-up in BOCHK FinTech Hackathon 2018
Three BScCS students, Mr THIAGARAJAN Kowshik Balaji, Mr CHENG Ho Wang Andreas and Mr LIANG Qiyuan, together with two students from AP and EE, won the Second Runner-up in the Tertiary Group of BOCHK FinTech Hackathon 2018 for their proposal titled “PocketIn”. The cross-disciplinary team aimed to solve the challenge of money management and maintaining personal portfolios by using an intelligent AI financial assistant. The winning team received a cash prize of HKD 30,000, and has been offered a fast-track interview opportunity to Cyberport Creative Micro Fund (CCMF) or Cyberport Incubation Programme.
Organized by the Bank of China (Hong Kong), BOCHK FinTech Hackathon 2018, with the theme on “Future Bank and AI”, encouraged participants to propose innovative ideas on future payment, optimizing investment opportunities and improving banking services with the use of AI technology.