Three PhD students, Lianming Huang, Yu Mao and Shangyu Wu, under the supervision of Professor Chun Jason Xue and Professor Nan Guan, in collaboration with three advisors from overseas universities including Dr Yufei Cui, a CS PhD graduate, have secured the Second Place Winner in the 2023 ACM/IEEE TinyML Design Contest.
A team comprising Third Year BSc Computer Science students Eklavya Agarwal and Vannes Wijaya and Third Year BEng in Computer and Data Engineering student Abhinav Balasubramanian, alongside with three students from other local universities, emerged as the Champion and each was awarded an iPad as the prize at the J.P.Morgan’s Hackathons: Code for Good 2023 held on 6 October.
Ms Ruozhen He, an outstanding 2023 BSc Computer Science graduate who participated in the Research Mentorship Scheme under the supervision of Prof Rynson Lau, has won the First Runner-up in the Final Year Project Competition of the IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter on 26 August 2023.
Our PhD Computer Science student Mr LI Ruoxiang, under the supervision of Prof Guan Nan and Prof Xue Chun Jason along with collaboration of Dr Jen-Ming Wu of Hon Hai Research Institute and Prof Zheng Dong of Wayne State University, won the Best Paper Runner-Up at the First IEEE International Conference on Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies (MOST 2023) held in Detroit, United States in May.
Our BSc Computer Science student Ms Zou Huiqi, under the supervision of Prof Song Linqi, won the InfoTech Job Market Driven Scholarship of InfoTech Services (Hong Kong) Limited on 21 June 2023.
A team comprising three 2023 BSc Computer Science graduates, Ms Ng Sin Yung, Mr Pang Chun Hei & Mr Azim Mohammed, under the supervision of Prof Howard Leung, won the Bronze Award in the ASMPT Technology Award 2023 held on 7 July. The team would receive a prize of HK$10,000, along with an additional donation of HK$30,000 to CityU as ASMPT Scholarships to be awarded to other students with outstanding academic results.
Ms Wang Yiwen, a 2023 BSc Computer Science graduate under the supervision of Prof Qingfu Zhang, has won the first prize in a cross-regional computer innovation competition (2023 泛珠三角+ 大學生計算機作品賽總決賽).
Mr HOU Zhijian, a CS PhD student under the co-supervision of Dr Wing Kwong CHAN (CityU) and Prof Chong-Wah NGO (Singapore Management University), has won the championship in the Natural Language Queries Challenge of the 3rd International Ego4D Workshop, along with his collaborators from Microsoft, National University of Singapore, Sun Yat-Sen University, and Beihang University. The Workshop was held in conjunction with the 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in June 2023 in Vancouver, Canada.
QCNet, a modelling framework that pushes the boundaries of trajectory prediction for autonomous vehicles to enhance safety and reliability, wins the championship in the Argoverse 2 Multi-agent Motion Forecasting Challenge at the Workshop on Autonomous Driving of the IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2023. Among 100+ submissions from top teams in the previous Argoverse forecasting challenges, QCNet achieved the best performance on all metrics by a significant margin.
With much pleasure, I would like to share with you the good news that a team comprising four BSc Computer Science students won the OKX Web3.0 Master Award and the JLL Building Management Metaverse Application Award (with a total cash prize of HK$40,000) in the HackUST 2023 held in April.