PolyU InnoTech Open Day was smoothly held at the campus on 16 July 2022. Being one of the signature events of PolyU’s 85th Anniversary celebrations, the InnoTech Open Day has showcased the university’s endeavours in interdisciplinary research, innovation, knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship. In the afternoon session, face-to-face student consultations, info seminars about PolyU’s academic programmes etc., were arranged for visitors, especiall

22 Jul 2022

Congratulations to the following staff members on receiving the Faculty Awards for Outstanding Achievement 2022. This truly reflects the great efforts and contributions made by them.    Category of Award  Award  Awardee Faculty Award in Teaching Outstanding Award (Team) Dr LEONG

18 Jul 2022

Our Associate Professor Dr Daniel LUO and his PhD students Mr ZHOU Hao and Mr WU Shuohan received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award with the paper titled “NCScope: Hardware-Assisted Analyzer for Native Code in Android Apps” at the 31st edition of ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA). Other collaborators of this paper come from Pennsylvania State University, Zhejiang University, Tsinghua University,

18 Jul 2022

We are pleased to announce that our Assistant Professor Dr SHI Jieming and his collaborators from Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore and Hamad Bin Khalifa University received the 2022 ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest Group on Management of Data) Research Highlight Award, for the paper titled “No PANE, No Gain: Scaling Attributed Network Embedding in a Single Server”. The work was also awarded Best Research Paper Award

12 Jul 2022

We are delighted and proud to announce that Prof. CHEN Changwen, Chair Professor of Visual Computing, has recently been appointed as Associate Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM). Prof. Chen is the only editor from Hong Kong in T-BIOM.   Prof. Chen joined COMP in 2021 as Chair Professor of Visual Computing. His research expands a broad range of topics in multimedia communication, Inter

6 Jul 2022

Committed to encouraging knowledge exchange between academia and industry, COMP and the Computing Alumni Association (CAA) co-organised the fourth seminar of the "COMP x CAA Academic-Industry Seminar Series" via Zoom on 21 June 2022. With more than 100 participants comprising our students, faculty members and alumni, the seminar was started with a warm welcome by Dr Henry Chan, Associate Professor and Associate Head of COMP. Dr Chan then introd

29 Jun 2022

COMP successfully organised the online Best Project Award Competition on 18 June 2022 to recognise students’ outstanding performance in their Capstone Projects. Six shortlisted students joined the final contest and competed for the awards. The panel of judges was formed by our faculty members and representatives from the technology sector, including Hong Kong Cyberport, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, and InfoTech Services (HK) Limited.

22 Jun 2022

COMP and the Computing Alumni Association (CCA) co-organised a career talk cum mentorship gathering on 13 May 2022. The topic of the career talk this time was “Coding in Action: from TDD to BDD”, which covered an overview of practical software development. The event echoed the mentorship kick-off in January 2022 which aims to prepare students for future careers and line students up with professional practitioners and industry executives. Dr Hong

24 May 2022

The third seminar of the "COMP x CAA Academic-Industry Seminar Series" was held virtually on 27 April with the topic of “Cybersecurity”. Around one hundred students and alumni participated in the session. The seminar series is co-organised by COMP and the Computing Alumni Association (CAA) to encourage knowledge exchange between academia and industry. Dr Daniel Luo, Associate Professor of COMP, started the seminar with his recent research on defe

16 May 2022

The Info Seminar for MSc in Blockchain Technology (MScBT) was smoothly concluded on 11 May 2022, attracting more than 120 participants. The Info Seminar was delivered on Zoom and live-streamed in Mainland China. Dr Xavier de Carné de Carnavalet, Research Assistant Professor, started the info seminar with a brief introduction to the background and applications of Blockchain Technology in the industry and Metaverse. Dr Korris Chung, Associate Pro

13 May 2022