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Awards in regional and national competitions
The team led by Dr Shuaicheng Li won a number of awards in regional and national competitions. The achievements are testament to the synergy created by joint efforts of CS students and graduates, and fruitful collaborations with members from other universities.
Second Place Award and Merit Award in the 7th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
Second Place Award
Project title: Genetic Portrait Platform
Team members from CityU:
Miss CHE Lijia, a CS PhD student (team leader)
Miss MIAO Xinyao, a CS PhD student
Miss WANG Xueying, a CS PhD student
Mr LI Ruikang, a 2021 BScCS graduate
Mr QING Yuhao, a 2021 BScCS graduate
Merit Award
Project title: Probe-based Pathogen Detection End-System and Cloud Platform
Team members from CityU:
Mr GONG Zifan, a BScCS student (team leader)
Mr FENG Yi, a BScCS student
Mr QU Yang, a BScCS student
Miss LI Shiying, a CS PhD student
Dr JIANG Yiqi, a 2021 CS PhD graduate
Dr LI Yinhu, a 2021 CS PhD graduate
Silver Medal in the 7th China International College Students’ "Internet+" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
Project title: Deep Immune Platform
Team members from CityU:
Miss HUO Miaozhe, a CS PhD student (team leader)
Miss WANG Xueying, a CS PhD student
Silver Medal in the 7th China International College Students’ "Internet+" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and Merit Award in the “金灣杯”第八屆 “創青春”粵港澳大灣區青年創新創業大賽
Project title: Probe-based Pathogen Detection End-System and Cloud Platform
Team members from CityU:
Dr LI Yinhu, a 2021 CS PhD graduate (team leader)
Mr FENG Yi, a BScCS student
Mr GONG Zifan, a BScCS student
Miss LI Shiying, a CS PhD student
Dr JIANG Yiqi, a 2021 CS PhD graduate
Gold Prize in the 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2021)
Mr Zhu Qingling, a graduating CS PhD student under the supervision of Prof Qingfu Zhang, along with Mr Junchuang Cai and Dr Qiuzhen Lin from Shenzhen University, won the Gold Prize with USD 5,000 in the Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem Competition organized by Huawei Technologies Ltd. in the 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2021). This three-month competition attracted 150 teams to develop and test their algorithms to solve the real-world problem on dynamic pickup and delivery in the logistics domain.
HKIE Scholarship 2020/2021
Miss LIU Wei, a Year 3 BSc Computer Science student, has been selected to receive the HKIE Scholarship 2020/2021.
Established by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), the Scholarship is awarded to three engineering undergraduate students annually to recognize their outstanding academic achievements and encourage active participation in HKIE activities. The student will receive a certificate and a total grant of HK$80,000 throughout her four years of study.
Ms Liu prepared a video to illustrate her involvement in HKIE activities, as well as her reflections on her role as a software engineer and her future aspirations. Enjoy viewing!
Best Paper Award in the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) 2021
Dr Yiqi Jiang, a 2021 PhD graduate, and Mr Shuai Wang, a PhD student, together with their supervisor Dr Shuaicheng Li, received the Best Paper Award for their co-authored paper titled “A framework to trace microbial engraftment at the strain level during fecal microbiota transplantation,” in the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2021) held virtually in August 2021.
The conference brings together eminent scholars with expertise in various fields of computational biology, systems biology, computational medicine, as well as experimentalists interested in application of computational methods in biomedical studies.