Achievement of Students
BEng (Hons) Aviation Engineering Year 2 student Mr Jershon Ainsleigh Entote Ang is being selected as the awardee of the IET Prize 2022.
The IET Prize is presented by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Hong Kong. Apart from outstanding academic results, the awardee is also selected based on his strong leadership ability demonstrated in his extra-curricular activities, engineering institution and community service. Mr Ang will join the IET mentorship program and have a chance to learn the experience from the IET senior members. He will also serve as the student ambassador of the IET Hong Kong.
(https://www.polyu.edu.hk/aae/news-and-events/news/2023/aae-student-won-the-iet-prize/)
The 8th China International College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition has become the largest global event for innovation and entrepreneurship. It invites excellent young people engaged in innovation and entrepreneurship all over the world to participate in this event where entrants can work to realize their dreams of innovation and entrepreneurship, and to create a better future for the world.
The competition of the 8th China International College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was held on November 26, 2022 at Chongqing University. More than 14.5 million participants from 111 different countries registered, and up to 3.4 million projects were received. In Hong Kong, the number of participants who attended this competition this year reached 798, together with 266 projects. At this year’s ceremony, Dr. Kai Xu, Vice Minister of Education and Technology Department of the Liaison Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, sincerely congratulated the awardees for their outstanding achievements and contributions to innovation and technology development for Hong Kong. Professor Dong Sun, JP, Secretary for Innovation, Technology, and Industry, delivered a speech at the event, presented trophies to the grand prize winners under three categories, and celebrated their outstanding performance.
After the final round of competition in the Hong Kong region held in Hong Kong Science Park on November 11, the RAIDS student team from Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Shufei Li/Chin-Lok Tsang/Junming Fan/Yat-Ming Pang/ Hin-Chi Kwok/ Chengxi Li/ Mengyang Ren) won one of the only 4 Gold Awards among 266 participated teams. They were chosen as representative teams from the Hong Kong region to present their work on the “Mutual Cognitive Human-Robot Collaboration System”and exchange ideas with other worldwide winners. The student team mentor, Ir Dr Pai Zheng believes that this work is in line with the Hong Kong Government's Re-industrialization policy and can effectively improve industrial productivity towards a human-centric smart manufacturing paradigm, by leveraging the cutting-edge robotics, digital and AI technologies. In detail, the work advances the intelligence of existing industrial collaborative robots to seamlessly work with human operators in a symbiotic manner, which effectively alleviates the high cost of land and labor in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, it provides a feasible solution for Hong Kong, which once again promotes the ambitious goal of "Made in Hong Kong" and internationalization. The team captain Shufei Li said he could not hide his excitement when he learned they won the gold award, which is an irreplaceable encouragement for their efforts. Chin-Lok Tsang, a vital team member, expressed his feeling and hope in the winner's speech, which encouraged young people in Hong Kong to show their enthusiasm for cutting-edge technologies and contribute their domain knowledge for the better development of Hong Kong.
(https://www.polyu.edu.hk/ise/news-and-events/news/2022/20221201-student-award/)
Mr. Tsang Chin-Lok, Mr. Li Chengxi, and Ms. Kwok Hin-Chi from the Research Group of AI for Industrial Digital Servitization (RAIDS), Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, received the Gold Award in the “Tertiary or Above” stream of the “Hong Kong ICT Awards 2022”. They also stood among the 300+ teams and received the overall championship – Grand Award in Student Innovation Stream.
The Hong Kong ICT Awards is a competition steered by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, and organized by Hong Kong ICT industry associations and professional bodies. It aims at recognizing and promoting outstanding information and communications technology (ICT) inventions and applications, thereby encouraging innovation and excellence among Hong Kong's ICT talent and enterprises in their constant pursuit of creative and better solutions to meet business and social needs.
The team won the award with the project entitled “Mutual Cognitive Human-Robot Collaborative Manufacturing System”, which was supervised by Ir Dr Zheng Pai. The system aims to enhance the intelligence of industrial cobots and industrial personnel with the use of the cognitive AI model and AR platform, in a human-robot collaborative manner towards futuristic human-centric smart manufacturing.
Mr. Tsang Chin-Lok is currently an MPhil student from the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering (AAE), and was formerly an Interdepartmental FYP student under the ISE Department.
Mr. Li Chengxi is a Ph.D. student in the ISE department. His Ph.D. topic is related to robot learning, computer vision, augmented reality, and digital twins for futuristic human-robot collaborative manufacturing.
Ms. Kwok Hin-Chi is currently a third-year student of the BSc (Hons) in Enterprise Engineering with Management and Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scheme (URIS) holder in the ISE department.
(https://www.polyu.edu.hk/ise/news-and-events/news/2022/20221012-hkict-student-award/)
Ms. Kwok Hin-Chi, Mr. Li Chengxi and Dr. Pai Zheng from the Research Group of AI for Industrial Digital Servitization (RAIDS) have won the 2022 Champion Award (Bachelor/Sub-degree Level) of Paper Competition, organized by the Control Automation & Instrumentation Division of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). Their winning paper is entitled “A Meta-Reinforcement Learning Based Control Approach for Assisting Human-Robot Collaboration in Personalized Production”, which aims to enable collaborative robots (cobots) to acquire basic skills and perform tasks based on personalised production requirements. The proposed method can improve robotic learning efficiency and quickly adapt to new tasks for human operators.
(https://www.polyu.edu.hk/ise/news-and-events/news/2022/20220902-hkie_ca-student-award/)
Dr Liang Liu of Department of Electronic and Information Engineering and his collaborators in the Chinese Academy of Sciences won the Best Student Paper Award in the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) for their paper “Efficiently and Globally Solving Joint Beamforming and Compression Problem in the Cooperative Cellular Network Via Lagrangian Duality". ICASSP is the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s flagship conference on signal processing and its applications. Dr Liu’s research team considers the joint beamforming and quantization problem in the cooperative cellular network, where multiple relay-like base stations connected to the central processor via rate-limited fronthaul links cooperatively serve the users. In this paper, they first show that there is no duality gap between the considered problem and its Lagrangian dual by showing the tightness of the semidefinite relaxation (SDR) of the considered problem. Then they propose an efficient algorithm based on Lagrangian duality for solving the considered problem. The proposed algorithm is highly efficient and is guaranteed to find the global solution of the problem.
Supervised by Dr Ivan Ho, our MSc in Electronic and Information Engineering Programme student, Guo Jingtao, obtained the Champion of the Tertiary Education Category in the Hong Kong Electronics Project Competition 2022! The competition was organized by the Electronics Division of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) with the theme of “Advancing Innovation and Technology in New Normal Smart City” this year. It aims to uplift the awareness and knowledge of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in Hong Kong, and to nurture engineers to apply innovative IoT technologies to improve the quality of life. The winning project “Channel State Information (CSI) based Self-quarantine Monitoring System” proposed a system to monitor people under self-quarantine using wireless sensing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. The system is user-friendly and privacy-preserving without the use of any wearable devices. The prize presentation ceremony was held in the Hong Kong Electronics Symposium 2022 on 25 July 2022.
Our BEng in EIE student, Rizalino Antonio LABOS, won the Champion in the Accenture Case in the Global Social Innovation Summit 2022 between 18 and 19 June 2022 together with three teammates from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The Summit was organized by the Enactus Hong Kong to inspire university students to explore issues related to the green economy and promote the concepts of social innovation. The contestants were required to solve real-life cases from international corporations and social businesses. The winning team proposed to develop a VR experience and reward tracking app that could encourage the Accenture employees to adopt a sustainable lifestyle.
To identify outstanding final year projects in the field of computational intelligence, Hong Kong Chapter of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society organised the 19th Final Year Project Competition in August 2022.
Sweta Das, our recent graduate of BSc (Hons) in Computing, received the first runner-up award in the competition with her capstone project titled “Affective Awareness Agents in Virtual Reality”. The project aims to create an affective awareness agent, which can understand the user’s emotions from multiple input channels and make responses in support of VR.
Analysis of speech or facial expressions alone usually depicts human emotions inaccurately. The awarded project addresses these limits and examines the emotions of users with both speech and facial recognition. The speech of the user is captured in the microphone, while the facial expressions of the lower mouth are captured through the facial tracker attached to the headset. In return for the inputs, an agent replies by lip synchronising the response to the user according to the emotion analysed. The project was inspired by a few successful research projects published in academia and industry.
Dr LI Chen Richard, COMP Research Assistant Professor, is the supervisor of the project. “I am thankful to Dr Richard Li for his invaluable guidance and support throughout”, said Sweta.
The Greater Bay Area Blockchain Olympiad (GBA IBCOL) was held virtually from 5 to 7 August 2022. The GBA IBCOL is a regional blockchain competition amongst students in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR, with sponsorship from the Innovation and Technology Commission.
Claire YU Tzu-Yin teamed up with Harriet LO Yan-Suet (Both from BSc (Hons) Financial Technology & Artificial Intelligence, Year 3) to develop a project called “Blockarian – B-Safe”, which won triple awards at the competition, including the Award of Merit, Tertiary Track Award and Fintech Runner-Up.
“Blockarian – B-Safe” is an artificial intelligence app targeted at construction issues, promoting bio-friendly buildings as well as ensuring the safety of the architecture. It can provide professional advice according to the construction guidelines of different cities in the Greater Bay Area. Claire shared that the competition offered a wonderful chance to extend perspectives and absorb new information.
“Before the tournament and throughout the event, there were numerous opportunities for conversations and sharing. I gained a lot of knowledge from other teams, not just from their project ideas but also from the way they arranged and displayed the study data and created an attractive prototype,” she said. Another team member, Harriet, also said: “This programme has given me great motivation to become an entrepreneur, a role I would have never considered otherwise…Sharings from professionals in FinTech field have inspired me a lot, also enlightened me on unlimited opportunities in this field.”
On the other hand, three COMP students, Daisy LIU Mingci, Mars MA Siqi, and Sunny WANG Zhuchen (All from BSc (Hons) Financial Technology & Artificial Intelligence, Year 4, 4, 3), together with teammates from other universities, were awarded the Award of Merit with their project “Innotar”, a blockchain-based platform for file notarization (proof of existence, ownership of a document and transfer of ownership), e-signing and verification.
The Award of Merit is the most important award in the blockchain olympiad and is designated for projects which have satisfied the minimum of a complete blockchain solution design. Top Tertiary Track Award is awarded to the project scoring over 80% from a tertiary-level academic institution. Fintech Runner-Up is given to the recognised teams in the Fintech or Financial Technology category.
