The Best Project Award Competition 2026 concluded successfully on 6 June, showcasing an impressive lineup of Capstone Projects presented by 10 outstanding finalists.
This year’s projects were evaluated by a distinguished panel of academic leaders and industry experts:
- Ms Chris CHAN, Assistant Director, Incubation, Startup Ecosystem, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
- Ms Silvia Ihensekhien, Chief Security Advisor, GCR, Microsoft
- Mr Terence LEUNG, Senior Manager, Start-up Support, Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited
- Prof. Amelia LI, Associate Professor, Department of Computing, PolyU
- Mr Edwin TAM, Managing Director, InfoTech Services (Hong Kong) Limited
- Prof. Yuanqing ZHENG, Associate Professor, Department of Computing, PolyU
(In alphabetical order of surnames)
Each finalist was given 15 minutes to pitch their project, demonstrate its core features, and field questions from the panel. The judges highly commended for the outstanding quality, rigor and innovativeness of every project. They were equally impressed by the completeness and the strong potential of our students’ works, expressing great enthusiasm for seeing these innovative ideas further develop in the future.
The high-quality entries this year made the competition highly competitive. Following a rigorous discussion, the judging panel proudly selected the following awardees for the competition. Alongside the Best Project Awards, two students were also awarded with the InfoTech Job Market Driven Scholarship in recognition of their projects' strong alignment with current industry needs and the highly practical skills demonstrated.
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Award |
Awardee |
Project Title |
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Champion |
WANG Youkang |
Probabilistic Optimization in LLM Inference-time Scaling and Training |
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1st runner-up |
HO Cheuk Hin |
UAV- and AI-based Concrete Defect Inspection System for Smart Infrastructure |
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2nd runner-up |
SREEKUMAR Sidharth |
An Intelligent Financial Advisor |
|
Merit |
ZAIDI Syed Muhammad Askar Hussain |
A Digital Twin Framework for Elderly Motion and Health Monitoring Using AI and Geolocation Technologies |
|
ZENG Tianyi |
SwarmMind: A Consensus-Driven Multi-Agent Reasoning Paradigm with Selective Peer Debate |
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InfoTech Job Market Driven Scholarship |
HO Cheuk Hin |
UAV- and AI-based Concrete Defect Inspection System for Smart Infrastructure |
|
LAI Ka Chung |
Development of a ROS-Based Mobile Robot for Environmental Monitoring and Data Analysis |
We extend our warmest congratulations to all the award recipients for their outstanding achievements. Their dedication, creativity, and hard work have truly set a high standard of excellence!
