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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.
Best VC Paper Award in the International Conference on Computer Graphics (CGI) 2019
Miss Qianhui Men, a PhD student, together with her supervisor Dr Howard Leung, received the Best VC Paper Award for their co-authored paper titled “Retrieval of Spatial-temporal Motion Topics from 3D Skeleton Data” in the 36th International Conference on Computer Graphics (CGI) 2019 held in June 2019 in Calgary, Canada.
CGI is a prestigious international conference for researchers to present their latest algorithms, models and technologies, and explore new trends and ideas on various computer graphics topics.
First Runner-up in the Young Professionals Exhibition & Competition (YPEC) 2019 and Third Prize in the 5th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2019
Mr CHUI Chi Ho, a final year BSc Computer Science student, won the First Runner-up in the Young Professionals Exhibition & Competition (YPEC) 2019 organized by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and the Third Prize in the 5th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2019 organized by Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association, under the supervision of Dr Raymond WONG.
The award winning project is Navigation System for Visually Impaired Pedestrians, which combines machine learning, computer vision and indoor positioning techniques to address the daily problems encountered by the visually impaired in the absence of barrier-free facilities.
The Most Innovative Award in the PwC’s Data-lympics 2019
Two BSc Computer Science students, Mr Archit CHOUDHURY and Mr TAI Lok Yin, together with two other CityU students, won the Most Innovative Award in the PwC’s Data-lympics 2019.
Organized by the PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong, the two-day competition provides an opportunity for participants to test their data science skills in discovering useful insights from large and complex datasets, with 41 teams of University students competing in these data analytics challenges.