First Place Winning Team in the Swire Hotel Hackathon 2023

A team comprising four Year 2 BSc Computer Science students won 1st Place Winning Team in the Swire Hotel Hackathon 2023 and received a cash prize of HK$10,000. 

The Hackathon was held in a case competition format. The team proposed an innovative solution to data-driven talent acquisition which involves implementing a text-based personality analysis using the Big Five Personality (OCEAN) Model as a reference and adopts a chatbot for data collection and a neural network for behavioral predictions to provide accurate talent analysis for hiring and career development.

Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at PerCom 2023

Mr Di DUAN and Mr Huanqi YANG, PhD students, Dr Weitao XU, the students’ supervisor and Prof Xiaohua JIA, Mr Duan’s co-supervisor, along with two overseas collaborators, received the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award for their co-authored paper entitled EMGSense: A Low-Effort Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation Framework for EMG Sensing at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom2023) held at Atlanta, USA in March 2023.

Bronze Medal in the 2022 ICPC Asia Hefei Regional Contest and the 2022-2023 ICPC Asia Hong Kong Regional Contest

Congratulations to Mr HE Yu, Mr YU Zhehan, and Mr ZHENG Shangkun, who are BSc Computer Science students under the supervision of Prof Minming LI, Dr Junqiao QIU, and Dr Kenneth LEE, for winning the Bronze Medal in both the 2022 ICPC Asia Hefei Regional Contest and the 2022-2023 ICPC Asia Hong Kong Regional Contest