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Miss Liu Xin (PhD, Supervisor: Prof. Chen Nan) was a finalist (top 5) in the Best Student Paper Competition of Financial Service Society, INFORMS 2015 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, November 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)
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 Anthony Man-Cho So received the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award (November 20, 2015)
The paper entitled “Recurrent Neural Networks with External Memory for Language Understanding” by Baolin Peng, Kaisheng Yao, Jing Li and Kam-Fai Wong won the MSR Best Student Paper Award in the Fourth China Computer Federation (CCF) Conference on Natural Language Processing & Chinese Computing (NLPCC2015) October 9-13, 2015, Nanchang, China
Miss Liu Xin (PhD, Supervisor: Prof. Chen Nan) has received the 2nd Place Prize, Student Paper Competition, the 3rd Asia Quantitative Finance Conference, Hong Kong, July 2015
The paper “Handling Query Skew in Large Indexes: A View Based Approach” by Mr. HUANG Weihuang (PhD), Professor YU Xu Jeffrey and Mr. SHANG Zechao (PhD) has won the Best Paper Award in the Australasian Database Conference 2015, Melbourne, Australia, June 4-7, 2015
Our Final Year Students have won 2nd Runner Up prize and Merit prize in the 14-15 Student Project Competition organized by The Manufacturing and Industrial (MI) Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) in June 2015
Professor Helen Meng elected Distinguished Lecturer of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
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.
Our students have won the Championship of CILTHK Case Competition in The 2015 Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong (CILTHK) Student Day
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.
