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China Collegiate Computing Contest – Mobile Application Innovation Contest 2018
Two BSc Computer Science students, Mr WONG Man Fai and Miss FAN Cheuk Hang, together with a student from PolyU, won the Second Prize in the 2018 China Collegiate Computing Contest – Mobile Application Innovation Contest, under the supervision of Dr Antoni CHAN.
Hosted by Apple Incorporated and the Zhejiang University, the Contest aims to raise students’ awareness of innovation and encourage students to solve problems with technology. The Contest attracted around 600 teams from universities in China to compete for the awards.
Excellence Research Award 2018 from the SIGSE of the Information Processing Society of Japan
Two PhD graduates of 2018, Dr Kwabena Ebo BENNIN and Dr Solomon MENSAH, together with their supervisor Dr Jacky KEUNG and two other authors, received the Excellence Research Award from the Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSE) of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) for their co-authored paper titled “MAHAKIL: Diversity based oversampling approach to alleviate the class imbalance issue in software defect prediction,” published in the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering in June 2018.
The Award is granted annually to a few papers published in top journals/ conferences in Software Engineering in the past one year with at least one of the authors being the member of the SIGSE.
IET Prize 2018
Mr CHUI Tsz Him, a BSc Computer Science student, received the IET Prize 2018, and was granted a cash prize of HK$3,000 and a complimentary student membership of the IET for one year.
Hosted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the IET Prize is awarded to engineering students with outstanding academic results and active in extra-curricular activities and community service.
Silver Medal in the ACM-ICPC Chinese Collegiate Programming Contest 2018
A team of BSc Computer Science students comprising Mr WANG Fangzhou, Miss ZHENG Wanying and Mr ZHAI Xingyu under the supervision of Dr Minming LI and Dr Kenneth LEE, won the Silver Medal in the 2018 ACM-ICPC Chinese Collegiate Programming Contest held in Ningxia, China.
Hosted by Ningxia Institute of Science and Technology, the Contest attracted over 135 teams from more than 75 universities in China to compete for the awards.