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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 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. 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.

Third Place Award in the Web3.0 Developer Hackathon 2022

a team comprising three BSc Computer Science students, along with a student from PolyU and a student from HKUST, won Third Place Award in the Web3.0 Developer Hackathon held in August 2022, and was awarded with a HK$10,000 cash prize.

Organized by the IEEE Blockchain Group Hong Kong, the Hackathon is open to local and international university students to develop innovative Web3.0 business ideas and create fully functional prototypes on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) within two days. The APls and prototypes with the codes are then shared publicly on GitHub to contribute to the open-source community.

Team members from CityU
Miss CHIANG Cheuk Chi (Year 3)
Mr CHONG Ping Kuen (Year 3)
Mr WONG Ka Hing (Year 4)

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

First Runner Up award in the PwC HackaDay Hackathon 2022

A team comprising four BSc Computer Science students won the 1st Runner Up award in the PwC HackaDay Hackathon held in November 2022. 

Organized by PwC Hong Kong, the HackaDay Hackathon competition is open to students in Hong Kong and Macau. Teams were given two weeks to design and implement a fully functional and secure cloud data lake infrastructure. This required building the virtual machines, network components and databases supporting the infrastructure, providing a web-based interface for auto deployment, and considering DecSecOps throughout. Submissions were judged by the PwC Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Cloud team together with representatives from AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Team members 
Mr CHAN Shing Hei  
Mr JELACA Aleksa
Mr LI Ruixin
Mr WONG Yu Fai