Student Events 2021

Both speakers Mr. SONG Xiangchen, who will start as a PhD student in Carnegie Mellon University and Miss LI Yuqi, who is currently studying at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as a PhD student are 2017 ECE graduates, they generously shared their experience in applying graduate studies, undergraduate research and tips about how to find good research topics. They also talked about how to improve communication skills, problem solving skills and the ways to find initiatives. The talks ended with interactive and informative Q&A among participants.

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During the lab tour, students actively participated and learned to produce a diving robot in a workshop. All participants felt fruitful and learned a lot through this event.     

Winners may be further selected to join the ACM-HK Programming Contest 2021. Congratulations to the following winners! Prizes were presented to them by Dr Albert Sung and Mr Van Ting, Departmental Coordinator of ACM-ICPC Competition, on 12 March 2021.

Professor Chen shared how he found ways to jump over hurdles and get around roadblocks, so that they did not stop him from moving forward and he hoped his stories could shed some light onto positive thoughts of students when facing adversity in life. Students actively participated in the Q&A session after the seminar.

A total of 39 submissions were received and 24 were shortlisted for voting among all EE undergraduate students. Congratulations to the following winners! Awards were presented to them by Mr Van Ting, EE Mentoring Scheme Coordinator, on 26 February 2021.

The competition used ML to create a model that predicts if one has suffered from pneumonia with medical image processing and various ML techniques. The ranking was based on the average score given by our judge of faculty team including Dr. CHIU Bernard, Dr. SUN Yanni and Dr. YUAN Yixuan.

Congratulations to the winning teams of Machine Learning Contest!

Winners of Outstanding Teacher Awards 2020, namely Dr Ray Cheung, Mr Van Ting, Dr Cheng Wang and Prof Moshe Zukerman, were invited to share their teaching philosophy and experiences with students. Important factors to effective teaching and learning, innovations in teaching, blended approach on programming education, etc., were discussed on the day.

Ways for achieving simple, consistent and accurate marking and checking; how to make use of Canvas for efficient marking; and tips on improving teaching quality were shared. Some TAs were invited to share their teaching experiences as well. The talk ended with active discussion on effective teaching practices among participants.