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AAE Student Won 1st Runner-Up at AI x HK OpenCup 2022

One of our AAE students, Mr Fuad Hasan, in collaboration with an ME student Mr Hamad Khan, won the Finalist Award and the 1st Runner-Up Award in the Tertiary Students Category at AI x HK OpenCup 2022 for their project “AICAS: Artificially Intelligent Collision Avoidance System”. The project was a sub-project within the AAE Final Year Project “Trajectory prediction and planning, and assistance control: Towards the Predictive Advanced Driver-Assistance System (P-ADAS)” under the supervision of Dr Hailong Huang.   AI x HK OpenCup 2022 was organized by Hong Kong Baptist University in collaboration with the Hong Kong Society of Artificial Intelligence (HKSAIR) and sponsored by Nvidia, Microsoft, Huawei, ASTRI, etc. It invites students in Hong Kong to address real-world problems with AI technologies focused on four Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations (UN). Participants are expected to ideate innovative AI solutions for addressing challenges in the Hong Kong context, to make a positive social impact and promote sustainability. Among 152 teams, our AAE student’s project AICAS stood Top 2 with a cash award of HK$20,000.   AICAS was proposed to tackle the safety issue of risky highway driving in complex lane-changing scenarios. In real-time, it constantly forecasts the complicated future motion of neighbouring vehicles via transformer-based neural networks. It also predicts the driver's intention through a cabin camera via KLT face-tracking and graph-based convolutional neural networks, and compares the intention with the future motion of neighbouring participants to assess risk in real-time via Gauss-Markov process modelling. In a potentially dangerous scenario, it takes over driver controls and executes the maneuver with the lowest risk, thus preventing deadly accidents, saving lives, and providing a massive impact on UN SDG 11.   The Department is proud of Mr Hasan’s outstanding performance. Congratulations!

AAE Alumni Reunion Day 2022

AAE Alumni Reunion Day was successfully held on 19 Nov 2022 at PolyU as part of PolyU’s 85th Anniversary celebration.   The homecoming event was kicked start with the opening remarks by Prof. H.C. MAN, Dean of Faculty of Engineering. Prof. Man introduced the latest development of the Faculty of Engineering and congratulated the rapid growth of AAE. Ir Ben Wong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SATS HK Ltd and the Chairman of AAE’s Departmental Advisory Committee, showed his appreciation for the achievements of our alumni and students.   The Department has the honour to have Ir Ricky LEUNG, Executive Director, Engineering & Technology, Airport Authority Hong Kong, deliver a talk and provided us with more insights on the Airport City development and the numerous potentials of the Hong Kong Aviation Industry. Ms Adalyn Tsui, HR Director of SATS HK Limited, talked through the career prospects of the aviation industry and gave advice to our graduates and students in engaging in the industry.   Two alumni were invited to deliver speeches at the event. Mr Matthew CHAN shared his valuable experience in career development and happy moments as a Graduate Engineer. Ms Red LO talked about her experience in community service and encouraged students to make the best out of their University lives. The last sharing was from AAE students of URIS team who presented their research achievements.   The highlight of the Alumni Reunion Day was a warm and cheerful mentor lunch. Prof. Chih-Yung Wen, Head of AAE Department, reported the recent achievements of the Department and its strategic plan. More than 100 alumni, undergraduate and postgraduate students, industrial professionals, as well as current academic staff engaged in fruitful conversations and networking around the tables. The event has brought the AAE community closer. Stronger bonding and partnerships were established among the AAE family. The event ends with much laughter and joyful memories.  

Seven AAE Scholars ranked in the World’s Top 2% most-cited Scientists by Stanford University

Seven PolyU’s Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering (AAE) Scholars Ranked World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2022 according to a recent index compiled by Stanford University. Six of them are current AAE academic staff. This ranking demonstrates their career-long publications in their main disciplines are most frequently cited by other authors globally. The research team of Stanford University, led by Professor John Ioannidis, created a database of over 100,000 top scientists around the world that provides standardized information on citations indicators. The latest dataset is based on the September 1, 2022 snapshot from Scopus. Congratulations to our top scientists who commit to benefiting the world by their research excellence! This achievement recognizes their contribution and influence in their own areas of specialty. Dr HSU Li Ta Dr HUANG Hailong Dr LIU Wei Dr NG Kam Hung Prof. WEN Chih Yung Prof. YU Simon Ching Man Prof. ZHOU Limin (former staff) Data available at Elsevier: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4 Published: 10 October 2022|Version 4|DOI:10.17632/btchxktzyw.4

The Dean's Honours List 2021-2022

Sixteen students in the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering with an outstanding academic performance were placed in the Dean’s Honours List in the 2021/2022 academic year.    ANG Jershon Ainsleigh Entote LIAN Jiarong CHONG Man Ho LUA Adrian Shalom Sy CHU Ho Sum SHETTY Parth Jitendra HASAN Fuad TSE Tsz Ching HUANG Xinyue WONG Kwan Long Clement IP Chun Man Ben WONG Wing Hung LAM Yat Long YIU Cho Yin LAU Chun Kit ZHOU Bolong

AAE Research Student Won Student Paper Award in ION GNSS+ 2022

Mr Hoi-Fung (Ivan) NG, our Research Student, who is an awardee of Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) supervised by Dr Li-Ta Hsu, and alumni of our BEng (Hons) in Air Transport Engineering, won the Student Paper Award. Paper titled ‘Multi-Epoch Kriging-Based 3D Mapping Aided GNSS Using Factor Graph Optimisation’, presented in the 35th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2022). ION GNSS+ 2022 was held on 19-23 September 2022, Denver, CO.   The Satellite Division awarded five students with Student Paper Awards out of all the papers submitted. Recognized industry and academic experts selected winners based on the basis of technical content and clarity of manuscript. This year’s awardees include: Surachet Srinara, National Cheng Kung University; Hoi-Fung Ng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Nacer Naciri, York University; Junjie Zhang, The University of Melbourne; and Qiyuan Zhang, Wuhan University.   ION GNSS+ is the world’s largest technical meeting and showcase of GNSS technology, products and services. This year’s conference will bring together international leaders in GNSS and related positioning, navigation and timing fields to present new research, introduce new technologies, discuss current policy, demonstrate products and exchange ideas. [1] [1] https://www.ion.org/

Cathay Pacific and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University sign Cadet Pilot programme agreement; Cultivating the next generation of pilots and building Hong Kong as a hub for aviation training

PolyU AAE ranked no. 1 in Hong Kong and no. 44 in the world in Aerospace Engineering

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Simon Yu’s and his team received the Faculty Awards for Outstanding Achievement 2022 - Outstanding Award in Knowledge Transfer: Industry. Led by Prof. Yu, the team includes Dr CHAN Hon Lung Nelson (Senior Research Fellow, AAE); Mr CHEUNG Tsz Kong (Project Fellow, AAE); Mr HUANG Riyong (Research Associate, previously with EE and now with AAE since July 2022); Mr ZOU Bin (Research Assistant, EE); and Mr LIAO Jingxing (Research Assistant, EE). The award is a recognition to Prof. Yu and his team’s accomplishment in knowledge transfer and its potential impact. Please join us in congratulating Prof. Yu and the team!

Prof. Simon Yu led a team in winning the Outstanding Award in Knowledge Transfer: Industry of the Faculty Awards for Outstanding Achievement 2022

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Simon Yu and his team received the Faculty Awards for Outstanding Achievement  2022 - Outstanding Award in Knowledge Transfer: Industry.    Led by Prof. Yu, the team includes Dr CHAN Hon Lung Nelson (Senior Research Fellow, AAE); Mr CHEUNG Tsz Kong (Project Fellow, AAE); Mr HUANG Riyong (Research Associate, previously with EE and now with AAE since July 2022); Mr ZOU Bin (Research Assistant, EE); and Mr LIAO Jingxing (Research Assistant, EE).    The award is a recognition to Prof. Yu and his team’s accomplishment in knowledge transfer and its potential impact. Please join us in congratulating Prof. Yu and the team!

PolyU and HKIAA sign MOU to cultivate young talents and conduct research for the aviation industry

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and The Hong Kong International Aviation Academy (HKIAA) signed a two-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with an aim of contributing to the local aviation industry by cultivating talents and conducting aviation-related research projects with joint efforts. Leveraging on HKIAA’s extensive experience in talent nurturing, together with PolyU’s competence in scientific research, the parties will work closely to develop training programmes for the aviation industry, as well as optimise the execution of such programmes and the collaboration in promotion. In addition, one of the highlights of the MoU is to jointly conduct aviation-related research projects. The pair is committed to exchanging professional knowledge and experience of training and research and sharing such resources as training facilities and flight simulators, so as to maximise the synergy to cultivate talents for the industry. Witnessed by Prof. Wing Tak WONG, Deputy President and Provost of PolyU, and Mr CK NG, CEO of HKIA Services Holdings Ltd., the MoU was signed by Ir Prof. H.C. MAN, Dean of Faculty of Engineering, PolyU, and Ir Simon LI, President of HKIAA, at the signing ceremony held on PolyU campus. The Dean of Faculty of Engineering at PolyU, Ir Professor H.C. Man said, “This is a timely collaboration between PolyU and HKIAA for professional human resources development in order to support the rapid and imminent growth of our aviation industry in Hong Kong. We will work on various professional training programmes as well as research and development projects to groom our young generation in Hong Kong to be the key stakeholders in this pillar industry.” Ir Simon Li, President of HKIAA said, “We can foresee that the completion of the third runway system at Hong Kong International Airport in 2024 will create more opportunities. There is a greater need than ever for talented individuals to join the aviation industry. We look forward to working together with PolyU to attract, develop and nurture young talent to support the sustainable growth of the aviation industry in Hong Kong and throughout the region.” In spite of the challenges faced by the global aviation industry due to the pandemic, it is believed that the new opportunities ahead for the development of the industry are substantial. Through the cooperation with HKIAA, PolyU expects to make contributions to the aviation industry in Hong Kong. [From PolyU Media Release] [From PolyU FENG News] [Chines version on Sohu, Yidianzixun and qq]

AAE Students Shine in ASM Technology Award 2022

AAE students Mr CHONG Man Ho, Ms LAM Hok Sam and Mr YIU Cho Yin won the Outstanding Award in the ASM Technology Award 2022. The team was supervised by Dr NG Kam Hung. The title of their project is " Towards safe and collaborative aerodrome operations: Assessing shared situational awareness for adverse weather detection with EEG-enabled Bayesian neural networks". The ASM Technology Award is launched by ASM Pacific Technology Limited (ASMPT) in 2015 for final year students in Hong Kong. It promotes excellent technology, and honours the best and brightest students with their outstanding final year projects on technology and innovation. Every year, five established local institutions, including The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The City University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and The University of Hong Kong, are invited to join the Competition by nominating two outstanding engineering Final Year Projects (FYP). The nominated teams made their impressive presentations on 30 June 2022. AAE team won the Outstanding Award and received HK$5,000 as a scholarship. Inspired by the Tenerife airport disaster, their final year project aims to evaluate the impact of a proposed enhancement in communication protocol on cognitive workload. The team successfully developed a human-centred classification model to identify hazardous meteorological conditions using Bayesian neural network. Experiences were carried out to collect Electroencephalography (EEG) data from 30 groups of subjects in taxiing tasks under two different visibility conditions and two different communication protocols. Using the concept of explainable artificial intelligence, latent mental patterns were explored through Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) to reveal vital physiological indicators. The model can facilitate the decision to provide automation and decision-making aids to pilots under adverse weather conditions. Our Department is proud of the outstanding performance of the PolyU AAE student team. Congratulations to the team!