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Third Prize in the 15th Challenge Cup - National College Students' Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Contest
Mr WONG Nok Ching and Mr XU Yaohai, 2017 graduates of BSc Computer Science, won the Third Prize in the 15th Challenge Cup - National College Students' Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Contest for their project titled "FastLSH: A Similarity Search Engine on High-Dimensional Big Data", under the supervision of Dr Sarana NUTANONG.
Organized by the Communist Youth League of China, the China Association for Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the All-China Students' Federation and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, the 15th Challenge Cup is a bi-annual national competition for university students in China with an aim to provide a platform for innovation and nurture young talents in social sciences, science and technology. Over 750 projects from more than 300 universities in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau were shortlisted for the Challenge Cup Final held in Shanghai Jiao Tong University in November 2017.
Best Student Paper Award in the 11th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL 2017)
Mr Jialong SHI, a CS PhD student, together with his supervisor Prof Qingfu ZHANG and three co-authors from France, received the Best Student Paper Award for their paper titled "Using Parallel Strategies to Speed up Pareto Local Search" in the 11th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL 2017) held in Shenzhen, China in November 2017.
Best Paper Award in the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS 2017)
Mr Solomon MENSAH, a CS PhD student, together with his supervisor Dr Jacky KEUNG, received the Best Paper Award for their co-authored paper titled "Investigating the Significance of Bellwether Effect to Improve Software Effort Estimation" in the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS 2017) held in Prague, Czech Republic in July 2017.
Sponsored by the IEEE Reliability Society, QRS 2017 is one of the main international conferences for engineers and scientists to present their ongoing work, relate their research outcomes and experiences, and discuss the best and most efficient techniques for the development of reliable, secure, and trustworthy systems.
Third Prize in Hong Kong University Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition 2017
Mr WONG Nok Ching and Mr XU Yaohai, BSc Computer Science final year students, won the Third Prize in the "Challenge Cup" National Competition - Hong Kong Regional Final, Hong Kong University Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition 2017 for their project titled "FastLSH: A Similarity Search Engine on High-Dimensional Big Data", under the supervision of Dr Sarana NUTANONG. The awardees will receive a cash prize of HK$3,000.
Organized by the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association, the Competition provides an opportunity for academic exchanges and also a platform for the search of innovation and entrepreneurship talents from the tertiary institutions in Hong Kong.