COMP 50th Anniversary Research Student Conference was successfully held on 24 June 2024 at the New World Millennium Hong Kong Hotel. The event, themed "Fostering Academic Excellence," brought together an impressive array of speakers, academics, and research students for a day of knowledge-sharing and recognition of outstanding scholarly work.
The conference was inaugurated with a warm welcome speech and opening speech from Prof. LI Qing, Chair Professor of Data Science and Head of COMP and Prof. Christopher CHAO, Vice President (Research and Innovation), respectively.
The first highlight of the conference was the keynote speech delivered by Prof. LI Baochun from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. His speech, titled "Writing Great Papers in the Era of Generative AI," provided attendees with invaluable insights into the evolving trend of academic publishing and how to conduct impactful research with the aid of generative AI.
The event also featured a thought-provoking panel discussion on "How to do good research and have a successful career in Research?" Esteemed panel members included Prof. DONG Guozhu (Wright State University), Prof. Sean WANG (Fudan University) and Prof. SU Jianwen (University of California, Santa Barbara). Their collective wisdom offered a deep exploration of the challenges and strategies for building a successful academic career and how researchers can deal with psychological changes and manage their emotions during challenges at different career stages.
In line with the conference's objectives to honour research students' hard work and facilitate the exchange of knowledge, there were eight oral presentation sessions featuring 48 students and 54 poster presentations, allowing COMP research students to showcase their research, engage in scholarly dialogue, and gain feedback from their peers and guests. Eight students have been selected for the Best Presentation Award by the panels, while 11 students have been voted by all the participants for the Best Poster Award. Below are the awardee lists.
Best Presentation Award (Cash prize of $5,000 for each awardee)
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Awardees |
Paper Title |
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MA Chenxiang |
Scaling Supervised Local Learning with Augmented Auxiliary Networks |
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HONG Zicong |
Optimus: Warming Serverless ML Inference via Inter-Function Model Transformation |
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MEI Zhimin |
Repurposing Optical Mice for Acoustic Eavesdropping |
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LI Yiran |
Efficient and Effective Attributed Networks Clustering via K-Nearest Neighbor Augmentation |
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YU Shiming |
Revolutionizing LoRa Gateway with XGate: Scalable Concurrent Transmission across Massive Logical Channels |
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ZHANG Qinggang |
KnowGPT: Black-Box Knowledge Injection for Large Language Models |
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ZHENG Tianyu |
Leaking Arbitrarily Many Secrets: Any-out-of-Many Proofs and Applications to RingCT Protocols |
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HU Xu |
Segment Anything in 3D Gaussians |
Best Poster Award (Cash prize $2,000 for each awardee)
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Awardees |
Poster Title |
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LI Ruibin |
Source Prompt Disentangled Inversion for Boosting Image Editability withDiffusion Models |
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CAI Xuyuan |
Privacy-preserving even-oriented sybil-resistance decentralized identity scheme |
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LIU Xun |
SnarkFold: Efficient Proof Aggregation from Incremental Verification and Applications |
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WANG Fangxiao |
Fair Surveillance Assignment Problem |
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DING Yunan |
Medical-SAM: SAM Adaptation for 3D Medical Image Segmentation |
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QIAN Chen |
Enhancing Sigma Protocols Efficiency and Privacy with Sumcheck Protocol Optimization |
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ZHOU Yu |
CausalBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Causal Learning Capability of Large Language Models |
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CHEN Jingfan |
Diversify-and-Aggregate: Augmenting Replay with Generative Modeling Make Stronger Incremental Segmentation Models |
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MA Yuxiao |
Noise-based Privacy Protection Assisted Homomorphic Encryption for Federated Learning |
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ZHANG Jiahao |
Linear-Time Graph Neural Networks for Scalable Recommendations |
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ZHENG Peirong |
Federated Learning with Neuron-wise Learning Rates |
The conference concluded with a banquet in the evening, with a welcome speech by Prof. LI Qing followed by an open remark by Prof. CAO Jiannong, Dean of Graduate School and Chair Professor of Distributed and Mobile Computing. Participants enjoyed a sumptuous dinner and celebrated the achievements of their peers.
