Our Year 3 student, YU Man-Fai Daniel, won the Best UI/UX Award at Cathay Hackathon 2022 with a project called “Tripify”. As the team leader, Daniel joined hands with three teammates from The University of Hong Kong in creating an app extension for the “Cathay Learn” application. The concept of Tripify is building an ecosystem that not only motivates continuous learning activities by implementing a reward system, but also connects the airline to

19 Jan 2023

Congratulations to all COMP graduates! The graduation ceremonies of bachelor and master degrees students were successfully concluded on 8 November 2022 at the Jockey Club Auditorium of PolyU. Families and friends of graduates were also invited to join the celebration to share the joy at this memorable moment. In 2022, Outstanding PolyU Alumni Award (OPAA) was introduced to publicly give public recognition to outstanding PolyU graduates for their

19 Jan 2023

Knowledge graph (KG) is a knowledge base that uses a graph-structured data model or topology to integrate data. A number of studies in this area use KGs as peripheral sources of educational materials. A COMP research team proposed a novel framework which employs KGs as a primary tool for instructional design in the paper entitled “Intelligent Instructional Design via Interactive Knowledge Graph Editing”. This paper won the Best Paper Award at th

13 Jan 2023

We are proud to announce that the paper entitled “Curvable Image Markers: Towards a Trackable Marker for Every Surface” won the Best Paper Award at the 20th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia Intelligence (MoMM2022). The first author of the paper is our PhD Candidate, Mr Zackary Ping Tat SIN, and his supervisors are Dr Hong Va LEONG (Associate Professor) and Dr Peter NG (Assistant Professor). This paper proposed

11 Jan 2023

COMP will broaden the Master of Science (MSc) programme spectrum in the academic year 2023/24. In addition to the evergreen MSc in Information Technology (MScIT) programme and Hong Kong’s first MSc in Blockchain Technology (MScBT) programme, two new members specialising emerging technology trends are introduced: MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Computing (MScAIBD) and MSc in Metaverse Technology (MScMT). On 7 January 2023, our MSc sch

9 Jan 2023

On 23rd Nov 2022, the final seminar featuring “FinTech” (i.e. Financial Technology) in the Academic-Industry Seminar series ended on a high note. Dr Henry CHAN, our Associate Professor and Associate Head of Partnership and Collaboration, joined hands with Mr Darron SUN, the Vice Chairman of The Institute of Financial Technologists of Asia, to discuss the trend and development of FinTech, especially in the post-pandemic era, and beacon participant

22 Dec 2022

PolyU recognises the distinguished accomplishments and contributions of staff members through the President’s Awards for Outstanding Achievement. We are delighted to congratulate Prof. CAO Jiannong (Dean of Graduate School, Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Data Science and Chair Professor of Distributed and Mobile Computing of COMP), for receiving this prestigious award in the category of Research and Scholarly Activities (Outstanding

5 Dec 2022

Two academic members of our Department are named Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) in 2022, as announced by Clarivate. Since 2015, Prof. ZHANG Lei, Chair Professor of Computer Vision and Image Analysis, has been named HCR in the field of Engineering seven times. This demonstrates a lasting and significant influence on engineering. According to Clarivate, Prof. ZHANG’s research works have been cited more than 27,000 times in Web of Science and his H-

17 Nov 2022

Prof. GUO Song, Professor of our Department, has been elected as the Member of Academia Europaea under the Informatics Section in 2022. Prof. GUO’s research interests are mainly in edge AI, 6G, big data and machine learning, mobile computing, and distributed systems. His research has been sponsored by RGC, NSFC, ITF, MOST, NRC, JSPS, MIC, JST, industry, etc. He published many papers in top venues with wide impact in these areas and was recognized

16 Nov 2022

We are pleased to announce that the research work “IODetector: A Generic Service for Indoor Outdoor Detection” by our Associate Professor Dr ZHENG Yuanqing  and his collaborators (ZHOU Pengfei , LI Zhenjiang , LI Mo, and SHEN Guobin) published in ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) 2012 received the Test of Time Award in SenSys 2022 for “Contributions to intelligent mobile location services with enduring commercial adopti

15 Nov 2022