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2008 OITAA Awards
I received two 2008 Outstanding IT Achiever Awards (OITAA) from the Hong Kong Computer Society. The OITAA is the first of its kind in HK to recognize individual achievements in IT. You can read more about it in the CityU Press Release.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Science Museum Posters
The posters that were displayed as part of my Science Museum exhibit on AI is now online. There are 12 posters altogether.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Science Lectures - HK Science Museum
The Hong Kong Science Museum has a "Science Lecture" series to introduce various topics in science and engineering to the general public. I'm giving one of these talks in 23 Aug 2008 (Sat) 2:30-4pm. It is titled: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Its Applications in Hong Kong
The Chinese newspaper Wen Wei Po (文匯報) has an article (30 Aug 2008) on my talk.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The Chinese newspaper Wen Wei Po (文匯報) has an article (30 Aug 2008) on my talk.
2008 IAAI Award
I received a 2008 Innovative Applications of AI (IAAI) Award from the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI). The award was presented in the yearly IAAI conference, which was held in Chicago this year. This award was for an AI volunteer management system that I developed to support the trial testing of the HK Equestrian Events, which was part of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Science Museum Exhibit
The Hong Kong Science Museum has a Science News Corner dedicated to exhibiting university research projects. For the next three months, the entire Science News Corner will be dedicated to my exhibit on Artificial Intelligence with a case study on how it is apply for scheduling at MTR. The exhibit runs till end of October 2008.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
2008 IAAI Award Winner!
Just got news that the Workforce Management System I created for the Hong Kong Equestrian Events (part of the 2008 Beijing Olympics) will be receiving an "2008 Innovative Application of AI Award" from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in July 2008!
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
ImmD Wins 2007 HKICT Gold Award
The HK Immigration Department won the Gold Award for Best Business (Application) Award in the 2007 HK ICT Awards competition for its electronic passport system which uses our "AI Engine."
Thursday, November 29, 2007
ImmD Wins 2007 APICTA Grand Award
The HK Immigration Department won the "Best e-Government and e-Community Award" in the 2007 Asia Pacific ICT Awards competition for its electronic passport system which uses our "AI Engine."
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Nominated by the HK Computer Society
My "AI Engine" framework that is being used by the MTR and the HK Immigration Department is being nominated by the Hong Kong Computer Society to join in the 2007 Asia Pacific ICT Awards competition in Singapore in Nov 2007. APICTA has 16 member countries/economies. Only the local IT/communications organization within each country can nominate projects for this international competition.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
CityU Press Release - 2007 IAAI Awards
CityU's press release on my winning a 2007 IAAI Award from AAAI and our involvement with the Hong Kong Equestrian Events.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
2007 IAAI Award Winner
Just got news that the Hong Kong Immigration Department project we worked on will be receiving an "2007 Innovative Application of AI Award" from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in July 2007!
Friday, December 15, 2006
CityU Today Magazine Article
The December issue of CityU Today has an article on my AI work.
Monday, November 27, 2006
CityU Press Release - 2006 HK ICT Awards
CityU's press release on my FYP student, Vicker's winning a HK ICT Award.
Monday, November 06, 2006
CityU Press Release - Excellent Web Care Award
CityU's press release on our winning an Excellent Web Care Award for our efforts in making our website accessible to all people regardless of any disabilities they might have.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
My FYP Student Vicker Wins APICTA Award!
My FYP student Vicker Leung won another major award. It is a Certificate of Merit from the 2006 Asia-Pacific ICT Awards in the category of "Tertiary Student Project." The competition was high. APICTA is opened to 16 economies in this region. This year, 18 teams competed in the student project category with 3 teams from HK. CityU is the only University from HK to win an award for student projects!
Thursday, October 05, 2006
We Received an Excellent Web Care Award
Working with M.H. KO of the CS Lab, we won an Excellent Award for Web Care - Hong Kong's main award for website accessibility. CityU is the only University to receive an Excellent Award.
Monday, July 24, 2006
CityU Press Release - My Student Vicker's Pan-Pearl Award
CityU's press release on my student Vicker's recent Pan-Pearl River Delta Region University IT Project Award.
Friday, July 21, 2006
ZDNet - 2006 Project of the Year!
The AI software I wrote for MTR wins ZDNet Asia's 2006 "Project of the Year" award!
Thursday, July 06, 2006
My Student Vicker Leung Wins First Prize!
One of my Final Year Project students, Mr. Vicker Leung, won the "First Class Award" for the 2006 Pan-Pearl River Delta Region University IT Project Competition and also the "The Best Practicality Award" and "The Best Response Award". His project is a Flash development toolkit called FLABER.
Friday, June 30, 2006
BSc Computer Science
I've been appointed the new programme leader for our flagship full-time programme - B.Sc. Computer Science. My main challenges will be to restructure the programme for OBTL and 3+3+4.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
CityU Press Release - APICTA Award
CityU's press release on our receiving the 2005 APICTA award!
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
We Won 2005 APICTA Award!
The AI scheduling system I did for MTR won the 2005 APICTA Award for Industrial Applications. This year over 170 projects from 18 countries/economies competed for roughly 15 awards! The award was presented to us at Chiang Mai, Thailand on 19 Feb 2006.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Finalist for Teaching Excellence Award
I was just notified that I am again a finalist for this year's Teaching Excellence Award (TEA)!
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Nominated by HK Computer Society!
The AI scheduling project I did for MTR was nominated by the Hong Kong Computer Society to join in the 2005 Asia Pacific ICT Awards competition. APICTA has 18 member countries/economies. Only the local IT/communications organization within each country can nominate projects for this international competition.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
AI for Immigration Department
All the major newspapers in Hong Kong are reporting on the AI system I am developing for the Hong Kong Immigration Department (for example Wen Wei Po). This will be the first time in the world that AI is used to automatically process and approve application forms for immigration departments. My AI software will handle over 100 types of application forms using business rules, case-based reasoning and self-learning.
Monday, October 24, 2005
CityU News Centre - Press Release on Our IT Excellence Award
CityU's press release on our award!
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
We won a 2005 IT Excellence Award!
This is the first time a University wins an IT Excellence Award in the Application Category, which is usually reserved for software applications with major impact to Hong Kong.
Saturday, October 01, 2005
MTR Grand Award
Our AI software helped the ETMS project team win the yearly MTR internal award - "MTR Grand Award for Outstanding Contribution."
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
HK Engineer Magazine Article
There is a new article on the MTR project I did in the current issue of HK Engineer.
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
CityU News Centre - Press Release on MTR Project
CityU just released a press release on my MTR project and our winning a IAAI-2005 prize!
