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 17^th 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. 

Prof Gerhard P.