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April 19, 2018

Mr. Bowen Chin, undergraduate student in the SEEM department, submitted his final year project on an “Interactive Mobile Application to Assess and Detect Cognitive Impairment in Elderly Individuals”, supervised by Professor Helen Meng, to the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2018 and received the Student Innovation Award. This project has huge potential as it automates the pen-and-paper cognitive assessments used by psychiatrists to assess elderly people for dementia via a mobile application, which employs an interactive user interface, speech recognizer, and natural language processing technologies. This innovative approach has the potential to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the cognitive assessment process, which would help increase early detection and diagnosis of dementia amongst the elderly population in an ageing society and help demented patient get early intervention and treatment.

2018-04-19

Two engineering projects from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management have received two Hong Kong ICT Awards 2018 including a Smart People Silver Award (Smart Inclusion) and a Student Innovation Award.

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Smart People Award (Smart Inclusion)
The Electronic Communication Book (E-Commu-Book), an application jointly developed by Prof. Helen Meng and her team from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management and the Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Centre, has won the Silver award in the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2018: Smart People Award (Smart Inclusion). The E-Commu-Book is a means of Alternative and Augmentative Communication for users with speech disorders and communicative impairment. The traditional, paper-version of the communication book is expensive to print and distribute. It also has limited extensibility for new vocabulary items. This motivates Prof. Meng’s team to develop the E-Commu-Book based on mobile device and cloud-based technology.

The team built a multilingual version by integrating CUHK’s home-grown Cantonese speech synthesis technology, and cloud-based automatic text-to-speech synthesis and automatic text-to-text translation technologies. At the same time, anonymous user’s usage patterns will be encrypted and stored in the cloud to inform further design improvement with Big Data Analytics technology. The E-Commu-Book is has gained recognition from the international research community through invited and keynote talk, publications and demonstrations at flagship international conferences in Germany, Macau and US. The project is collaborated with the Hong Kong Hospital Authority and is funded by the Innovation and Technology Fund’s Public Sector Trial Scheme.

Student Innovation Award
Mr. Bowen Chin, an undergraduate student from the SEEM department received the Student Innovation Award with his project titled Interactive Mobile Application to Assess and Detect Cognitive Impairment in Elderly Individuals. It was his final year project supervised by Prof. Helen Meng.

The projetc automates the pen-and-paper cognitive assessments used by psychiatrists to assess elderly people for dementia via a mobile application, which employs an interactive user interface, speech recognizer, and natural language processing technologies. This is an innovative approach to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the cognitive assessment process, which can then help early detection and diagnosis of dementia amongst the elderly population in an ageing society and help demented patient get early intervention and treatment.

April 2018

Prof. WONG Kam-fai, Associate Dean (External Affairs) of the Faculty of Engineering and Professor of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (SEEM); Dr. Gabriel FUNG Pui-cheong and Mr. LI Bo from SEEM — Development and industrialisation of ‘Bilingual Trilingualism’-based retrieval and understanding platform on large scale social media

The research team led by Prof. Wong Kam-fai, in collaboration with the Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, the University of International Relations, and the 54th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, have jointly developed a ‘Bilingual Trilingualism’-based Retrieval and Understanding Platform on Large Scale Social Media. This platform is able to effectively retrieve targeted information from a complex web environment, which includes simplified and traditional Chinese, English, and Cantonese for Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan residents. The platform can also distinguish leaders and followers of a particular topic through the comments and forwarded messages of Weibo. Thus, the conversation will be identified and analysed more precisely, and the influential information will be extracted for topic summarisation. Novel technologies including deep learning, conditional random fields, and distributed cloud computing are adopted to provide services such as ‘Bilingual Trilingualism’-based social media information retrieval, multi-source and multi-dimension hot event evolution, cross-languages and cross-domains text analysis and summarisation, as well as sentiment analysis of the spread and evolution of topics on social media. These services will perfectly meet the needs of large scale ‘Bilingual Trilingualism’-based social media information retrieval and understanding, which are beneficial to the development of Internet information security and cross-border e-commerce related industries.

March 12, 2018
Dr. Gabriel Fung and Dr. Keith Wong, both from SEEM, won the championship (FinTech Group, HKD$300,000) of the BOCHK FinTech Hackathon. BOCHK FinTech Hackathon is organized by Bank of China (Hong Kong) and supported by the Haccelerator Platform organized by Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Cyberport. The competition aims at promoting new and innovative services for banks. The winning proposal is “BOC A.I. Stock Analyzer”. The proposal uses Big Data, Machine Learning and NLP to instantly analysis broker reports and market behaviour so as to provide a customized investment solution to the bank customers.

Judges:
Nelson Chow (Chief FinTech Officer, HKMA)
Toa Charm (Chief Public Mission Officer, Cyberport)
Terry Lo (Chief Executive, BOC Group Life Assurance)
Rocky Cheng (GM of IT Department, BOCHK)
Liu Saili (GM of PB & WM, BOCHK)
Wang Lan (GM or E-Finance Centre, BOCHK)
Samson Tai (CTO, IBM HK)

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December, 2017

As part of the FinTech Education Week, HKUST organized a 24-hour FinTech hackathon opening to all university students in Hong Kong and alumni. The hackathon centers around FinTech solutions with no particular restrictions on the area, so themes from blockchain, insurTech to regTech are all welcome.

The event was held on November 4-5, 2017 at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, inviting over 150 participants. CUHK team won first runner up against the 27 student teams with their solutions on cryptocurrency analytics. The team compromises of Stanley YING (SEEM), Kenny Chan (CSE), Lau Yu Hei (CSE) and Wong Kam Shing (CSE)

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Sep 28, 2017

Professor Helen Meng, Chairman of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, received 2017 Outstanding Women Professionals and Entrepreneurs Award (OWA) by the Hong Kong Women Professionals & Entrepreneurs Association (HKWPEA) in recognition of her professional accomplishment and service to the society. HKWPEA first organized the Outstanding Women Professor and Entrepreneurs Award in 1999 and it is a tri-annual event. The Award honors and celebrates the achievements of women in Hong Kong. It recognizes women who have made significant contributions to their professionals, Hong Kong’s business environment, and society. They are women of integrity and high moral standards, providing outstanding role models to business leaders, peer and youth alike.

Biography of Professor Helen Meng