Certificate of Merit of Hong Kong ICT Awards 2020
Mr HANG Ching Nam, a BScCS 2019 graduate and a CS PhD student, received the Certificate of Merit of Hong Kong ICT Awards 2020: Student Innovation Award for his final year project titled “Large Graph Mining: Subgraph Isomorphism,” under the supervision of Dr Chee Wei TAN. The final year project previously also won the Silver Award of HKEIA Innovation & Technology Project Competition Award 2019.
The Student Innovation Award, one of the eight categories under the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2020, aims to encourage local students to use creativity, develop and apply innovative technologies to carry out innovation projects in information and communication technology.
Best Student Paper Runner Up Award in British Machine Vision Virtual Conference (BMVC2020)
Mr TIAN Xin, a PhD student, together with his supervisor Dr Rynson LAU, received the Best Student Paper Runner Up Award for their co-authored paper titled “Weakly-supervised Salient Instance Detection” in the 31st British Machine Vision Virtual Conference (BMVC2020) held in September 2020.
Hosted by the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA), BMVC is a prestigious annual conference on machine vision, image processing, and pattern recognition.
Best Paper Award in the IEEE 3rd International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE MIPR) 2020
Mr Weijing CHEN, a 2019 graduate of MSc Computer Science, together with his supervisor Dr Linqi SONG and a professor from Tianjin University, received the Best Paper Award for their co-authored paper titled “Enhancing Deep Multimedia Recommendations Using Graph Embeddings” in the IEEE 3rd International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE MIPR) 2020 held virtually in August 2020. The paper was based on Mr Chen’s research work in his postgraduate studies.
The conference provides a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval.
Outstanding ICT Rising Star Award in the HKCS Outstanding ICT Women Awards 2020
Ms TO Pui Kiu Cheryl, a Year 2 BSc Computer Science student, received The Outstanding ICT Rising Star Award in the Awards Presentation Ceremony of The HKCS Outstanding ICT Women Awards 2020 (OICTWA 2020) on 5th August 2020.
Organized by the Hong Kong Computer Society (HKCS), the Outstanding ICT Rising Star Award is to acknowledge young female ICT practitioners aged 25 or below for their ICT-related achievements, active participation in ICT industry activities, and community contribution. Ms To is the recipient of the Galactic Impact Award in the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2019 held in Hong Kong for her innovative underwater robot design for ocean cleanup. She has also been actively participating in community service and made contributions to the community and non-profit organizations such as the Regeneration Society with her knowledge in ICT.