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ASPLOS 2024 Best Paper Award
Prof HUANG Heqing, in collaboration with scholars from a local university, has been awarded the ASPLOS 2024 Best Paper Award for their paper titled GiantSan: Efficient Memory Sanitization with Segment Folding. This paper successfully reduces the querying complexity of the most widely-used runtime vulnerability detection tool, sanitizer, from O(log N) to O(1) with theoretical analysis.
The ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) is the premier academic forum (CORE A*, CCF A) for multidisciplinary computer systems research spanning hardware, software and their interaction. ASPLOS 2024 was held in San Diego, California, USA from April 27 to May 1 2024.
Smart Traffic Fund
Prof Jianping WANG’s project, titled Integrating Virtual and Real-World Testing Environments for Autonomous Vehicles, has been awarded the Smart Traffic Fund, managed by the Transport Department and Hong Kong Productivity Council. The approved funding for this project exceeds HK$18 million.
Prof Wang’s project aims to develop a comprehensive autonomous vehicles (AVs) testing system to facilitate extensive testing of AVs in a controlled environment. The system comprises a simulation platform and a real-world testing site facilitated by mixed-reality technology focused on evaluating the perception, localization and planning capabilities, as well as other critical aspects of AV performance.
Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) for 2023/24
Two Collaborative Research Project Grant (CRPG) Proposals, led respectively by Prof Jianping WANG and Prof Dapeng WU, have both been awarded the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) for 2023/24.
The primary goal of the CRPG is to promote collaboration in research across various disciplines and universities among research groups in UGC-funded universities. This is aimed at boosting the research output of universities in terms of achievement level, quantity, dimensions and impact. This year, CityU is awarded CRF funding for four CRPG proposals as the coordinating university. Two of these are projects proposed by Professors from the Department of Computer Science: Prof Wu's project, "CILo: Cellular Indoor Localization", received HK$6.5 million, while Prof Wang's project, "Knowledge-Driven Digital Twin Networking for Autonomous Driving", received HK$6.1 million.
The 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (IEIG)
The recent achievements of our faculty, research staff and students at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (IEIG) held from 26 to 30 April 2023.
Awarded projects with CS staff and students on the research teams:
Award
Gold Medal
Research Team
Dr Li Haoliang, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Dr Wang Shiqi, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science (CS)
Kong Chenqi, PhD student, CS
Zheng Kexin
Project
“Echo-FAS: Acoustic- based Face Anti- Spoofing”
Robust spoof-proof security system for face ID verification on mobile devices, based on live global/local 3D acoustic profiling using the existing speaker and mic, and with no need to add any expensive hardware.
Award
Silver Medal
Research Team
Professor Sam Kwong Tak-wu, Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science (CS)
Dr Wang Shiqi, Assistant Professor, CS
Dr Wang Meng, Postdoc, CS, and Sun Zhenhao, PhD student, CS
Project
“Learning-based Genome Codec”
Harnessing the power of neural network techniques, this computational codec (encoder–decoder) compresses genome sequence data files with much higher compression ratio than traditional tools, and is now the core technique in a new standard for genome compression.