Category: News

10-Jul-2012

Future Science Park – Dandelion Cross-Strait Business Plan Contest was held in Zhejiang University from 3 to 9 July 2012. The contest was organized by Zhejiang University with the aim of promoting innovation and academic exchange among the students from cross-strait universities. A total of thirteen teams from universities in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau participated in the competition. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) won the Second Prize and there were only two teams received this award.

The team of CUHK comprised Chau Tsz Fung, Wong Cheuk Wing and Law Kin Fun, from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. Under the guidance of Prof. Wong Kam Fai, Director of Centre for Innovation and Technology and Associate Dean (External Affairs), Faculty of Engineering, Mr. Zhou Lanjun, postgraduate student of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, their award-winning project is about an intelligent system on public transportation. The idea is to provide accurate, reliable and timely information to passengers such as the distance between the next bus and the bus stop, arrival time, bus speed, as well as the updated number of passengers. With such information available, passengers could have a better control on their travelling plan. More …

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Apr-2011

香港中文大學系統工程與工程管理學碩士蘇怡文之論文『利用中國期貨市場動態對沖下跌風險——基差的非對稱性不容忽視』獲取首屆“期望杯”高校 期貨論文大獎賽一等獎，詳情見 http://www.cfachina.org/news.php?id=48697

Mar-2011

The Department is very glad to learn that a final-year SEEM student has recently received a dream-offer from an international investment bank carrying the job title of Graduate Analyst with the annual salary of around HK$400K.

His responsibility will be to build up mathematical models and develop software for option pricing.

DEC-2010

Professor Helen Meng and her research team from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management won the Best Oral Paper Award at the Annual Summit and Conference of The Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA2010). The paper, entitled “Development of Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis Technologies to Support Chinese Learners of English — The CUHK Experience”, presents the recent achievements in computer-aided pronunciation training made by the team. The list of authors include:
Helen Meng, Wai-Kit Lo, Alissa Harrison, Pauline Lee, Ka-Ho Wong, Wai-Kim Leung and Fanbo Meng.

APSIPA aims to be one of the most competitive conferences covering the area of signal processing, information technology, and communications. The acceptance rate of oral papers in APSIPA2010 is 23.4%.
http://apsipa2010.i2r.a-star.edu.sg

Mr XiaojunQian, a Ph.D. student supervised by Professor Helen Meng and Dr. Frank Soong from MSRA, won the best student paper award in the 5th Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum-2010 ( https://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/PHDForum/2010/start ). The paper is titled “Discriminatively Trained Acoustic Models fro Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training”. The objective of the Forum is to bring together Ph.D. students from top universities who are conducting research in areas such as cloud computing, social networks, computer networks, data management, rich media computing etc. A total of more than 100 papers were submitted this year, and about 40 Ph.D. students were selected to participate in this Forum. Three best student paper awards were given.

Nov 2010

Xiaojun is one among the 25 students selected for the fellowship from a pool of 98 distinguished Ph.D. candidates nominated from more than 50 leading research universities/institutions in the Asia-Pacific region. In the twelve years since the MSRA Fellowship Program started, more than two hundred and eighty Ph.D. candidates from fifty universities/institutions have been awarded the Fellowship. The program has been highly successful in fostering advances and collaboration in computer science and research.