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Our students have received the First Runner-Up Award at 2016 HKSQ Company Based Student Project Competition organized by the Hong Kong Society of Quality

March 16, 2016July 10, 2019News

Mar 16, 2016

Our students have received the First Runner-Up Award at 2016 HKSQ Company Based Student Project Competition organized by the Hong Kong Society of Quality

A team of four SEEM students won the First Runner-up in the 2016 HKSQ Company Based Student Project Competition organized by the Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ). The purpose of the event is to provide an opportunity for students to work on an actual industrial case and propose solutions. This year, the competition was held at City University of Hong Kong on 12 Mar 2016.

The SEEM team worked on “Food Assembly Process Improvement” for the LSG Sky Chefs plants at Hong Kong International Airport. After a thorough analysis of data collected in January 2016, the SEEM team found different feasible solutions to improve both effectiveness and efficiency of their process.

The SEEM team is composed of Wong Kwun Tat, Eric(Team Leader), Wong Man Yee, Irene, Yuen Ki Hin, Harry, Yu Chi Fung, Derek, under the supervision of Professor CH Cheng. Ten teams from local tertiary institutions entered this year’s competition. The Champion went to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The Second Runner-Up was awarded to the University of Hong Kong.

Mr. Pengfei Liu, PhD student (supervised by Professor Helen Meng) received the Best Paper Award from the 8th Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum, November 2015.

November 30, 2015July 10, 2019News

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.

November 30, 2015July 10, 2019News

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, 2015July 10, 2019News

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)

November 20, 2015July 10, 2019News

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

October 30, 2015July 10, 2019News

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

July 31, 2015July 10, 2019News

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

July 10, 2015July 10, 2019News

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

June 30, 2015July 10, 2019News

Professor Helen Meng elected Distinguished Lecturer of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

May 29, 2015July 10, 2019News

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.