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Professor Anthony Man-Cho So, together with Professor Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Dr. Shixiang Chen (former SEEM PhD student), Dr. Jiaxiang Li, Professor Shiqian Ma (former SEEM academic staff), and Professor Tong Zhang, received the 2024 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting for their “path-breaking work in Riemannian Optimization”. The detailed citation can be found at https://connect.informs.org/computing/awards/ics-prize/ics-prize-2022-2026

The ICS Prize is an annual award for the best English language paper or group of related papers dealing with the Operations Research/Computer Science interface.

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Admission Talk: Financial Technology (JS4428)

Admission Talk: Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (JS4458)

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Mr. KWAN Wai Chung Cyrus, a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. WONG Kam Fai, received the outstanding paper award at ACL2024.

Professor Daniel Zhuoyu Long, along with our 4^th year PhD student Yu Sun, our recent PhD graduate Bin Hu, and their collaborator, Professor Qingwei Jin from Zhejiang University, won the Second Prize in the Best Paper Award at the 16th CSAMSE Conference (International Annual Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering), July 13-July 15, 2024.

The title of the paper is “Distributionally Robust Discrete Choice Model and Assortment Optimization”.

COSMO 2024 is co-organized by the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Department (SEEM) and The Hong Kong Association for Computer Education (HKACE) for all high school students.The purpose of this competition is to encourage students to actively study mathematics and hence tries to improve their ability in building system model, use of mathematical method and computer technology to solve problem.

• URL : Competition on System Modeling & Optimization (COSMO)
• Application Deadline: 31 May 2024 Mon
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The PhD summer workshop 2024 is organized for potential applicants to CUHK Engineering PhD programmes in the 2025-2026 intake.

WORKSHOP APPLICATION INFORMATION

• CUHK Department of SEEM PhD Admission Workshop 
• Online Workshop Date: 15-17 July, 2024 Monday – Wednesday
• Application Deadline: 11:59:59pm 14 June, 2024 Friday
• Application Form: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13685204
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Mr. Lewen Zheng, a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Dohyun Ahn, won the INFORMS-Sim Best Student Paper Award at the 2023 Winter Simulation Conference, held from December 10 to 13, 2023, in San Antonio, TX, USA. The awarded paper is titled “Conditional Importance Sampling for Convex Rare-Event Sets.”

The INFORMS Simulation Society (INFORMS-Sim) sponsors the Winter Simulation Conference PhD Colloquium for PhD students within two years of graduation and awards a Best Student Paper prize among those students making a presentation at both the PhD colloquium and a regular track of the conference.

Prof. WONG Kam Fai receives the Saint Francis Prize in Techno-Humanities (2024) organized by Caritas Institute of Higher Education. Prof. Wong is selected for the Prize in the area of Language for his outstanding contribution in Natural Language Processing (NLP), promotion of Asian NLP research, and popularization of science in Hong Kong. More information about the prize can be found in the attached document.