PolyU students triumph in global ICT competition

Huawei ICT Competition is one of the largest ICT skills contests in the world developed by Huawei to promote a sound talent ecosystem. This year marks the sixth Huawei ICT Competition, which included three competitions – Practice, Innovation, and Industry – attracted 150,000 students from over 2,000 universities and colleges across 85 countries and regions.

In the Practice Competition, entrants had to compete in one of two technology tracks: Network or Cloud. After winning the First Prize in Hong Kong SAR Final and Third Prize in the APAC Region Final in the Cloud Track, the PolyU’s Team “Polynomials” continued their journey for the Global Final in June 2022 held in Shenzhen, China. Finally, The team stood out among 130 teams from 43 countries and regions and won the First Prize in Cloud Track of the Practice Competition in the Huawei ICT Competition 2021-2022 Global Final.

“Polynomials” is a multi-discipline team composed of students and teacher from the Department of Computing and the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics at PolyU. The team is passionate about big data, AI, cloud, and geospatial technologies and their applications in E-Commerce, IoT, and Smart City. 

Under the guidance of their instructor Dr Xu Yang, Assistant Professor of the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI), the PolyU team formed by Feng Yunlin and Tang Man-kit from the Department of Computing and Zhong Xiuming from LSGI have shown their passion for big data, artificial intelligence, the cloud and geospatial technologies, as well as the application of such technologies in e-Commerce, the Internet of Things and Smart Cities.

In the future, the “Polynomials”  team hopes to continue to enhance their practical capabilities and strive to become the next generation of talent in the ICT ecosystem.

Congratulations!

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