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First Place Winning Team in the Swire Hotel Hackathon 2023

A team comprising four Year 2 BSc Computer Science students won 1st Place Winning Team in the Swire Hotel Hackathon 2023 and received a cash prize of HK$10,000. 

The Hackathon was held in a case competition format. The team proposed an innovative solution to data-driven talent acquisition which involves implementing a text-based personality analysis using the Big Five Personality (OCEAN) Model as a reference and adopts a chatbot for data collection and a neural network for behavioral predictions to provide accurate talent analysis for hiring and career development.

Team members
Mr YAN Wai Yin (team leader) 
Miss SIU Ching Yan
Mr WONG Ho Nam 
Miss WONG Sin Yan
 

Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at PerCom 2023

Mr Di DUAN and Mr Huanqi YANG, PhD students, Dr Weitao XU, the students’ supervisor and Prof Xiaohua JIA, Mr Duan’s co-supervisor, along with two overseas collaborators, received the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award for their co-authored paper entitled EMGSense: A Low-Effort Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation Framework for EMG Sensing at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom2023) held at Atlanta, USA in March 2023.

Third Place Award in the Web3.0 Developer Hackathon 2022

a team comprising three BSc Computer Science students, along with a student from PolyU and a student from HKUST, won Third Place Award in the Web3.0 Developer Hackathon held in August 2022, and was awarded with a HK$10,000 cash prize.

Organized by the IEEE Blockchain Group Hong Kong, the Hackathon is open to local and international university students to develop innovative Web3.0 business ideas and create fully functional prototypes on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) within two days. The APls and prototypes with the codes are then shared publicly on GitHub to contribute to the open-source community.

Team members from CityU
Miss CHIANG Cheuk Chi (Year 3)
Mr CHONG Ping Kuen (Year 3)
Mr WONG Ka Hing (Year 4)

Bronze Medal in the 2022 ICPC Asia Hefei Regional Contest and the 2022-2023 ICPC Asia Hong Kong Regional Contest

Congratulations to Mr HE Yu, Mr YU Zhehan, and Mr ZHENG Shangkun, who are BSc Computer Science students under the supervision of Prof Minming LI, Dr Junqiao QIU, and Dr Kenneth LEE, for winning the Bronze Medal in both the 2022 ICPC Asia Hefei Regional Contest and the 2022-2023 ICPC Asia Hong Kong Regional Contest