CS student teams shone in Collegiate Programming Contests
Congratulations to Teams "^^rising hairline^^" (left) and "GMT+7" of the Department of Computer Science for their outstanding performance in Collegiate Programming Contests.
Team "^^rising hairline^^", formed by Kwok Kin-hei, Huang Qingwei and Hui Pak-nam, took Gold Medal at the ACM-ICPC Asia East Continent Final 2018 and received a Silver Medal at ACM-ICPC Asia Nanjing Regional Contest 2018. Another team "GMT+7", consisted of Kwok Kin-hei, Hui Pak-nam and Lee Chun-yin, won a Gold Medal at the China Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC) 2018 Final as well.
CE students named Champion and won Creative Idea Award at Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2018 Competition
(From left) Managing Director of Samsung Electronics H.K. Co. Ltd. (SEHK) Ms Zhao Yiyin presented the awards to Desmond Wong, Felix Wong and Alvin Yu.
A student team comprised of two BEng(CE) students Desmond Wong Chi-ping and Felix Wong Kwong-yat, and Alvin Yu who is studying BBA+Law at HKU, named the Champion in the Tertiary Sector of the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2018 Competition. They developed an android app “Future Warriors” for students with Special Education Needs (SEN), especially those schoolchildren who are with dyslexia and autism. The team also won “Creative Idea Award” in the competition.
For more details, please visit https://www.eee.hku.hk/news/hku-team-won-in-the-samsung-solve-for-tomorrow-2018-competition/
CS student team took 1st Runner-up at Microsoft AI x Drones Joint Universities Competition
A BEng(CS) student team with (from right) Chan Wing-yu, Susanto Christopher Alvin, Wan Ho-cheung and Tam Tsz-lok competed with other fourteen teams from HKU, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology at the first Microsoft AI x Drones Joint Universities Competition in January 2019. Students were required to fly a pre-trained drone in a challenge to recognize different objects such as apple, pear, pomelo, banana and mango using Microsoft's Custom Vision object recognition solution. The team eventually took a 1st Runner-up at the competition.
Two HKU engineering teams were shortlisted for Round 2 of the Airbus’s 6th Fly Your Ideas Global Challenge
Two Engineering teams “HKU-ARG” (left) and “NI Aerospace” (right) were shortlisted from over 250 teams worldwide to participate in Round 2 of the Airbus Fly Your Ideas global student competition. Participants were invited to innovate in six key areas covering Electrification, Data Services, Cyber Security, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality. The 51 shortlisted teams will have three months to mature their ideas with the support of Airbus mentors and aerospace experts before the Grand Final in June 2019.
For more details of the competition, please visit https://www.airbus-fyi.com/.