Mr GAO Yixiong, a PhD student, and Mr CHOI Kui Wang, a Year 2 BSc Computer Science student, have achieved outstanding results by ranking in the Top 1% and Top 5%, respectively, out of over 140,000 global registrations in Round 1 of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CodeVita Season 13. They have successfully advanced to Round 2.
Our PhD students GAO Yixiong and ZHENG Shangkun along with BSc Computer Science student YAN Yachao, under the supervision of Prof LI Minming and Prof CHEUNG Ray, have secured the 1st place among all teams from Hong Kong and ranked 13th worldwide in the 2024 IEEEXtreme 18.0 Programming Competition.
Our PhD students GAO Yixiong and ZHENG Shangkun together with BSc Computer Science students YAN Yachao, HONG Chenhao, GAO Liyou, WANG Fan, WONG Ka Wa, CHOI Kui Wang and YANG Hans Ericson, under the supervision of Prof LI Minming, Prof HUANG Jun, Prof QIU Junqiao, Prof ZUO Jinhang and Dr LEE Kenneth, have secured multiple awards in the 49th International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).
Computer Science PhD student Mr Yi LIU has been awarded the ByteDance Scholarship for his project proposal titled “Towards Efficient, Secure, and Robust Federated Multimodal Large Language Models: System Design and Emerging Applications”. In additional, his supervisor Prof Cong WANG has won the Best Mentor Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to nurturing talent.
Prof Weitao Xu, together with CS PhD students Mr Huanqi Yang and Mr Rucheng Wu, have been awarded the Best Paper Award at the ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing with Efficient and Interactive Foundation Models 2024 (ACM EIFCom 2024). Their paper titled “TransCompressor: LLM-Powered Multimodal Data Compression for Smart Transportation”, was recognized at the workshop held on 18 November 2024 in Washington, D.C., USA.
Our Year 4 BSc Computer Science student Mr LABIB Mahir, together with his teammates from other local universities, has won the Second Runner-up in the Kowloon Chamber of Commerce (KCC) New Century Elite Development Program.
A CS PhD student Mr Fei LIU, in collaboration with Prof Qingfu ZHANG, Prof Zhichao LU and five other scholars, has won the Champion award in IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter Postgraduate Student Research Paper Competition 2024.
Prof Qingfu Zhang and his PhD students Chengyu Lu and Yilu Liu have won the 2024 Best Student Paper Award for their paper titled “MOEA/D-CMA Made Better with (1+1)-CMA-ES”. The paper showcased their collaborative effort in investigating the feasibility of incorporating MOEA/D with evolution strategies to tackle black-box multi-objective optimization problems.
Two 2024 BSc Computer Science Graduates (on Joint Bachelor's Degree Program between CityUHK and Columbia University) WANG Yucheng and WANG Xuezhen have won a number of awards at Columbia University in the City of New York, USA:
Mr Wang Xuezhen:
The team FSM Speed supervised by Prof Wang Jianping has triumphed at the 17th F1Tenth Autonomous Grand Prix during the 2024 Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week. The team members include CS PhD student Deng Jinghuai and Research Assistants Hu Hua, Dong Xiaoyun, Huang Bingyuan and Li Jiahao.