Mr HANG Ching Nam, a BScCS 2019 graduate and a CS PhD student, received the Certificate of Merit of Hong Kong ICT Awards 2020: Student Innovation Award for his final year project titled “Large Graph Mining: Subgraph Isomorphism,” under the supervision of Dr Chee Wei TAN. The final year project previously also won the Silver Award of HKEIA Innovation & Technology Project Competition Award 2019.
Dr GUO Yu, a 2019 PhD graduate, together with his co-supervisors Prof Xiaohua JIA and Dr Cong WANG, along with researchers from Alibaba Group, Zhejiang University and Hangzhou Mishu Technology, received the Best Paper Award for their co-authored paper titled “HybrIDX: New Hybrid Index for Volume-hiding Range Queries in Data Outsourcing Services,” in the virtual 40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS2020) held from 29 November to 1 December 2020 in Singapore.
A team of BSc Computer Science students comprising Mr DAI Chenyue, Mr LI Jiaqian and Mr XU Rui won the Silver Medal in the 45th International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) - Asia Regional Contest (Jinan Site) 2020 held virtually in December 2020, under the supervision of Prof Minming LI and Dr Kenneth LEE. The same team of students also received the Silver Medal in the 6th China Collegiate Programming Contest (Changchun Site) held virtually in November 2020.
A joint team with members from City University of Hong Kong and the Northeastern University, China won the Silver Prize in both the 12th Challenge Cup – National Business Plan Competition for College Students and the 6th China International College Students' “Internet +” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for their project titled “CombCure,” under the supervision of Dr Shuaicheng LI.
Two PhD students, Mr ZHU Qingling and Mr LIU Fei, under the supervision of Prof ZHANG Qingfu, won the gold prize with USD 5,000 in track one of the Logistics Algorithm Competition organized by Huawei Technologies Ltd. in the 11th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO 2021).
This 3-month competition attracted over 110 teams to develop and test their methods on the real-world dataset. One major search engine in the winning method is MOEA/D, a widely used multiobjective evolutionary algorithm developed by our winning team.
The project team comprising Ms ZHANG Yifan, a CS PhD student, and Mr ZHANG Jinghuai, a BScCS 2020 graduate, was awarded the Hong Kong Computer Society Student Sponsorship 2020 in the amount of HKD20,000 for their research work titled “A Novel Learning Framework for Sampling-Based Motion Planning in Autonomous Driving,” which was published in the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020), under the supervision of Prof Jianping WANG.