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Second Runner-up in the Kowloon Chamber of Commerce (KCC) New Century Elite Development Program
Our Year 4 BSc Computer Science student Mr LABIB Mahir, together with his teammates from other local universities, has won the Second Runner-up in the Kowloon Chamber of Commerce (KCC) New Century Elite Development Program.
As part of this distinguished recognition, Mahir and his teammates were among the top fifteen finalist teams selected for an exchange trip to Malaysia from 15 to 21 August 2024. During this trip, they had the unique opportunity to visit local companies and participate in a challenging Business Case Final Competition. The competition centered on designing a sustainable business model for Sabang Island in Indonesia, which demanded a deep understanding of financial modeling, innovative technology solutions and modern business strategies. Competing against strong teams from different regions, their outstanding efforts earned them the Second Runner-up position and a prize of HKD 4,000.
Champion in IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter Postgraduate Student Research Paper Competition 2024
A CS PhD student Mr Fei LIU, in collaboration with Prof Qingfu ZHANG, Prof Zhichao LU and five other scholars, has won the Champion award in IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter Postgraduate Student Research Paper Competition 2024.
Their paper, titled “Evolution of Heuristics: Towards Efficient Automatic Algorithm Design Using Large Language Model”, proposes Evolution of Heuristic (EoH), a novel evolutionary paradigm that leverages both Large Language Models (LLMs) and Evolutionary Computation (EC) methods for Automatic Heuristic Design (AHD). Remarkably, the heuristic generated by EoH with a low computational budget (measured by the number of queries to LLMs) significantly outperforms human hand-crafted baseline algorithms for solving the online bin packing problem.
The Hong Kong Chapter of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) has been a central hub for coordinating local conference and supporting advancements in Computational Intelligence, encompassing neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computations, and other computational paradigms inspired by biology and linguistics.
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)