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Best Student Paper Award at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2024
Prof Qingfu Zhang and his PhD students Chengyu Lu and Yilu Liu have won the 2024 Best Student Paper Award for their paper titled “MOEA/D-CMA Made Better with (1+1)-CMA-ES”. The paper showcased their collaborative effort in investigating the feasibility of incorporating MOEA/D with evolution strategies to tackle black-box multi-objective optimization problems.
The award was presented at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) held in Yokohama, Japan from 30 June to 5 July 2024. IEEE CEC is a flagship event hosted by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, encompassing a wide range of topics in evolutionary computation, from theoretical research to real-world applications.
Awards at Columbia University in the City of New York, USA
Two 2024 BSc Computer Science Graduates (on Joint Bachelor's Degree Program between CityUHK and Columbia University) WANG Yucheng and WANG Xuezhen have won a number of awards at Columbia University in the City of New York, USA:
Mr Wang Xuezhen:
- Jonathan L. Gross Award for Academic Excellence (an award honouring students who graduate at the top of their class with a track record of promising innovative contributions to computer science)
- Valedictorian (GS Class of 2024)
Mr Wang Yucheng:
- Russell C. Mills Award (cash prize given to a computer science major who has exhibited excellence in the area of computer science)
17th F1Tenth Autonomous Grand Prix on the 2024 Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week
The team FSM Speed supervised by Prof Wang Jianping has triumphed at the 17th F1Tenth Autonomous Grand Prix during the 2024 Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week. The team members include CS PhD student Deng Jinghuai and Research Assistants Hu Hua, Dong Xiaoyun, Huang Bingyuan and Li Jiahao.
The competition, held from 14 May to 16 May, was renowned for its rigorous challenges, including intense practice session, time trial races, and head-to-head races on a brand-new demanding circuit. The participants were required to build their race cars from scratch, implement their sophisticated algorithms, and constantly adjust parameters in response to ever-changing track conditions to reach the best performance. The entire competition demanded a robust understanding of vehicle engineering, ROS, localization and mapping, trajectory planning, and model predictive control. After a heated competition against other top-tier teams, FSM Speed distinguished itself by enhancing the standard “follow the gap” algorithms, achieving superior speed and obstacle avoidance performance, ultimately securing their first-place finish in this highly competitive Grand Prix.
Best Conference Paper Prize at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT)
Prof Gerhard P. HANCKE, in collaboration with two CS PhD students Mr Dutliff BOSHOFF and Mr Raphael NKROW and CS Postdoc Dr Bruno SILVA, has been awarded the Best Conference Paper Prize at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT) for their paper titled Physical Layer Key Sharing for an Off-The-Shelf UWB Module. Their paper investigates the feasibility of deriving shared symmetric keys from ultra-wideband radio channels on COTS devices already used for real time location systems in industrial environments.
ICIT is one of the flagship conferences hosted by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and received about 400 submissions in 2024 on topics related to industrial technology, including intelligent systems and control, factory communications and automation, data acquisition, signal processing and vision systems. ICIT 2024 was held in Bristol, UK from 25 to 27 March 2024.