Emirates Grand Prize Winner in TartanHacks 2020
Mr Michael LIM, a Year 2 BSc Computer Science student currently on exchange at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the USA, was awarded the Emirates Grand Prize Winner in TartanHacks 2020, organized by ScottyLabs at CMU in February 2020. Mr Lim formed a multi-cultural team with three students from CMU and other overseas universities. The collaboration led to the development of the award winning system, which tracks customers’ locations and provides various personalized services to customers in an airport through a mobile application.
The team has won a two-night trip to Dubai, where they will present their outstanding hackathon project to executives at the Emirates Airline.
International Collegiate Programming Contests (ICPC) 2019
CS students made impressive achievements in the International Collegiate Programming Contests (ICPC) 2019 under the supervision of Dr Minming LI and Dr Kenneth LEE.
A team of BSc Computer Science students comprising Mr DONG Qihua, Mr ZHAI Xingyu and Mr ZHENG Leqian won the Bronze Medal in the 44th ICPC Asia Regional Contest (Nanchang) 2019 held in Nanchang, China in November 2019.
Mr ZHAI Xingyu and Mr ZHENG Leqian, together with a PhD student from the Department of Management Sciences, also won the Bronze Medal in the 2019 ICPC Asia Hong Kong Regional Contest held in Shenzhen, China on 30 November to 1 December 2019.