November 25, 2015
Professor Helen Meng received the Outstanding ICT Women Professional Award from the Hong Kong Computer Society, the first year that the Society is launching the award (November 25, 2015)
Professor Helen Meng was elected Distinguished Lecturer of the International Speech Communications Association (ISCA) in May 2015. ISCA promotes, in an international world-wide context, activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology. ISCA is aimed at all persons and institutions interested in fundamental research and technological development that aims at describing, explaining and reproducing the various aspects of human communication by speech, that covers, without assuming this enumeration to be exhaustive, phonetics, linguistics, computer speech recognition and synthesis, speech compression, speaker recognition, aids to medical diagnosis of voice pathologies. ISCA funds its elected Distinguished Lecturers to travel to different parts of the world to give lectures to help promote research activities on speech science and technologies.
IMG-20150321-WA0010.jpgThe Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong (CILTHK) Student Day was held in IVE Tsing Yi on March 21, 2015. This event took the form of case study competition on topics of logistics and transportation with the objective to train students to formulate solutions for pressing problems under a tight time constraint. There were 9 participating teams from Hong Kong and Macau tertiary institutions.
The SEEM team consisting of Bu, Qianqian; Chuen, Wai Man Winnie; Lui, Wingki Kay; Tsui, Man Wa Tommy; Ty, Edwin has won the Championship, under the supervision of Professor C.H. Cheng. Their topic is “Do you support promoting cycling as a mode of transport in Hong Kong? How would you borrow the TfL ideas and design for cycle tracks in the urban area?”. The first runner-up went to The University of Hong Kong, and the second runner-up was Macau University of Science and Technology.
A new CUHK MSc Programme in Financial Engineering by the Center of Financial Engineering (of which SEEM has been a major player) will be launched in the coming fall of 2015 on CUHK Shenzhen campus.
