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06 DEC 2019

Best Paper Award in the 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (DataCom) 2019

Mr Zhi ZENG, a PhD student, and his supervisor Dr Ted CHOW, together with Dr Jiadong ZHANG, a 2015 PhD graduate, received the Best Paper Award for their co-authored paper titled "SSN: A Spatial Semantic Network for High-accuracy, Stable and Generalized Intent Detection" in the 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (DataCom) 2019 held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in November 2019.

DataCom is an international forum for engineers and scientists to present their ideas and experiences in the field of Big Data intelligence and computing.

06 DEC 2019

First Place Award in the iDASH Privacy & Security Workshop 2019

A joint team of undergraduate students from the City University of Hong Kong and Zhejiang University won the First Place Award in the “Track 3: Privacy-preserving Machine Learning as a Service on SGX” of the iDASH Privacy & Security Workshop 2019 - Secure Genome Analysis Competition, held in October 2019 in Bloomington, Indiana USA, under the joint supervision of Dr Cong WANG (CityU) and Prof Yajin ZHOU (Zhejiang U).

Team members (in alphabetical order):
Yuan CHEN (Zhejiang U)
Zixuan HUANG (CS, CityU)
Qiyuan LIANG (CS, CityU)
Jinyan XU (Zhejiang U)

Co-organized by the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of California, San Diego, School of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, the Competition aims to evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art methods that ensure rigorous data confidentiality during data analyses in a cloud environment, with participation from prestigious IT companies and prominent universities worldwide. The joint team of CityU and Zhejiang U outperformed the teams from Baidu X-lab and Google, Ant Financial Service Group, China, and ByteDance, achieving the First Place in the highly competitive challenge.

23 OCT 2019

Best Paper Award in the 5th International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications (BigCom) 2019

Mr Luning WANG, Mr Zhongzheng TANG and Miss Qian XU, PhD students, together with their supervisors Prof Jianping WANG (Wang) and Prof Xiaohua JIA (Tang), received the Best Paper Award for their co-authored paper titled “SNIFF: A Scalable Network Inference Framework for Measuring End-to-End Performance Based on Matrix Completion” in the 5th International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications (BigCom) 2019 held in Qingdao, China in August 2019.

BigCom is a conference for researchers and practitioners interested in Big Data analytics, management, security and privacy, communication and high performance computing.

23 OCT 2019

Silver Award of HKEIA Innovation & Technology Project Competition Award 2019

Mr Ching Nam HANG, a BScCS 2019 graduate and a PhD student, won the Silver Award of HKEIA Innovation & Technology Project Competition Award 2019 for his final year project titled “Large Graph Mining: Subgraph Isomorphism, ” under the supervision of Dr Chee Wei TAN. Mr Hang received a cash prize of HK$20,000 with a Certificate of Merit.

Organized by the Hong Kong Electronic Industries Association (HKEIA), the Competition aims to recognize and reward students with outstanding projects which demonstrate excellence in technology and innovation.