The Young Scholar Award and the Best Paper Award in the 9th WACBE World Congress in Bioengineering
Ma Yichuan X., PhD student supervised by Professor L. K. Yeung of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, received the Best Paper Award and the Young Scholar Award for a paper entitled ‘A spatial temporal model for decoding dynamic vision with convolutional neural networks” in the 9th WACBE World Congress in Bioengineering.
The 9th WACBE World Congress took place from August 16 to 19, 2019, at National Taiwan University. It attracted about 400 delegates from all over the world, including academic researchers, industry practitioners, medical officers, business leaders and students.
First Prize in China Pan-Pearl River Delta Region IT Project Competition 2019
Supervised by Dr Beta Yip Chi-lap, two BEng(CompSc) students Jacky Mo Cheuk-yin (left) and Shaun Zhong Shun (right) participated in the China Pan-Pearl River Delta Region IT Project Competition 2019 with their final-year project "Virtual Music Tutor”. They first won a First Prize in its regional competition in Hong Kong and was awarded a First Prize and the Most Creative Award in the final competition held in Macau in early July. Their project was one of the projects which are related to music in the competition, and the only one specifically about electric guitar.
Recipient of Li Ka Shing Prize
Dr You Chang-Sheng, a recent graduate of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, was awarded the prestigious Li Ka Shing Prize for his PhD research at HKU. His thesis research, under the supervision of Dr Kaibin Huang, lie at the frontiers of communication and computing. It makes pioneering contributions to the emerging area for 5G and beyond. The relevant publications have attracted more than 1,000 citations and many of them are on the popular-read lists of various IEEE databases. Dr You have filed a USA patent for his research and had agreed to transfer the technology to LG Electronics, a world-leading telecommunication company, for commercialisation.
Winner of Student Project Competition by HKIE MI Division
(From left) Dr H.H. Cheung, Anson Ho and Fernaldy Soeginatio
A Student Project Competition was hosted by HKIE MI Division on June 29, 2019. Among the nine projects nominated by the tertiary, Anson Ho Chun-chi (BEng(IELM)) won the Champion with his project “Digital Twin for Industrial Robot Applications”, while another student from the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Fernaldy Soegianto got an Outstanding Award with his project entitled “An Efficient and Effective Heuristic for Allocating Airport Stands”.
Awards at Young Professionals Exhibition & Competition by Institution of Engineering and Technology
The Institution of Engineering and Technology organises Young Professionals Exhibition & Competition with an aim to act as a dynamic platform for prospective or young engineers from five different sections (Secondary School, Sub-Degree, Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Open) to exhibit their engineering projects in presentations and booths. Two HKU engineering projects were awarded in Postgraduate and Undergraduate sections respectively.
Gianni Heung, MSc(EEE), crowned champion in the Postgraduate Section with “Project SunbYte – Sheffield University Nova Balloon Telescope”. SunbYte is a student-led project with 20 Engineering and astrophysics students across the UK. They aim to design a low budget telescope and focusing system that replaces the current rocket-based technology. It aims to revolutonise solar observation by delivering low-cost high quality images of the sun.
Another award-winning project “Find A Seat App” was developed by two BEng(CompSc) students Olivia Lai Cheuk-wing (right) and Wong Sun-day (left). Through using Computer Vision techniques and Internet of Things (IoT) device, the app can detect real-time seat occupancies in HKU Main Library. The project was awarded a 2nd runner-up in the Undergraduate section of the competition.
1st runner-up of HKIE MI Division Young Engineers Programme 2018/2019
A team comprised of Kwok Tsz-kin (BEng(IELM)), Maisie Kwok Tsz-Ling (BEng(IELM)), Choy Ying-wai (BEng(CE)), and Tsou Ngai-yan (BEng(CompSc)) won a 1st runner-up at the Young Engineers Programme 2018/19 of the HKIE MI Division. Teams were required to identify operational problems during the factory visit and made proposal to tackle the problems for enhancing operational efficiency at an affordable cost. The programme was supported by ASM Pacific Technology Group.
Outstanding performance at the ASM Technology Award
Two student projects were awarded Outstanding Award at the ASM Technology Award, they are "Design and Implementation of a Practical, Compact and Low-cost Wireless Power Transfer System" by Sharif Mohammed Nawaj (left), supervised by Professor S.C. Tan, and "Development of Quantitative Phase Imaging for Label-free Studies of Oral Bacteria" by Chun Ha-eun (right), supervised by Dr Kevin Tsia and Dr Prasanna Neelakantan.
1st runner-up at DreamCatchers MedTech Hackathon HK 2019
Edward Lui Wui-wang, BEng(CompSc) final year student, won a 1st runner-up at the DreamCatchers MedTech Hackathon HK 2019 with his team "Alluminate" which was comprised of students from Stanford University, CUHK, HKUST and HKU Medicine. The project was an idea on preventing photo-epileptic seizures by detecting harmful light frequencies with computer vision, and blocking them out with electrochromic glasses.