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

In celebration of PolyU's 85th Anniversary, the Outstanding PolyU Alumni Award (OPAA) was introduced to publicly give public recognition to outstanding PolyU graduates for their professional achievements and significant contributions to the community and their alma mater. The Award was organised at three levels, i.e. Department level, Faculty/ School level and University level with 4 achievement categories, namely “Professional Achievement”, “Ent

8 Apr 2022

The Global Game Jam (GGJ) 2022 was held virtually from 20 to 30 January, attracting over 26,000 jammers from 680 jam sites in 10 countries. This year, the GGJ Hong Kong site was co-organised by Cyberport and COMP, which was the 11th biggest among all jam sites worldwide, with 241 jammers from students to professional game designers who created 59 games remotely. The best teams in nine different categories were awarded. Amongst them, two COMP team

31 Mar 2022

We are glad to announce that our final year student, Mr Zhang Caiqi, (BSc (Hons) in Computing, Year 4), has been awarded the “Outstanding Student Award of Faculty” and “Outstanding Student Award of Department” for his excellent academic performance, active involvement in extra-curricular activities and exemplary personal qualities. This year, a total of 26 students were selected as outstanding students at the departmental level while eight outsta

23 Mar 2022

The year 2022 marks the 85th Anniversary of PolyU, and in celebration of this important milestone, the University has introduced the Outstanding PolyU Alumni Award (OPAA) to publicly recognise our distinguished alumni’s diverse accomplishments and contributions to the community and their alma mater. OPAA was conducted at three levels: Department level, Faculty/School level and University level with 4 achievement categories, namely “Professional A

10 Mar 2022

Following the first seminar of the "COMP x CAA Academic-Industry Seminar Series" last October, the second seminar themed on “Blockchain” was held virtually on 16 February. More than one hundred students and alumni participated in the session. The seminar series is co-organised by COMP and the Computing Alumni Association (CAA). Blockchain technology can be extensively applied in many areas, from cryptocurrency, trading, NFT (Non-Fungible Token) t

4 Mar 2022

We are proud to announce that our Professors, Prof. Song Guo, Prof. Wenjie Li and Prof. Bin Xiao, recently received the Faculty of Engineering (FENG) Research Grant Achievement Award for 2020 in recognition of their great efforts and contributions in securing external competitive research grants. Prof. Guo’s research interests are mainly in the areas of Big Data, Edge AI, Mobile Computing, and Distributed Systems. Prof. Li focuses on the researc

25 Feb 2022

Congratulations to our Professor, Prof. Song Guo, on receiving the 2020 Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Computers by the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board with his paper titled “A Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Offloading Game in Edge Computing”. Edge computing is a new paradigm to provide strong computing capability at the edge of pervasive radio access networks close to users. A critical research challenge of edge computing

21 Feb 2022

We are proud to announce that Prof. Jiannong Cao, Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Data Science and Chair Professor of Distributed and Mobile Computing, has recently been named the Fellow of China Computer Federation (CCF), the leading organisation on computing technology and applications in China. With the outstanding achievements and contributions in distributed computing, wireless network and mobile computing and big data analysis,

26 Jan 2022