Luiza LABAZANOVA, Samantha LEE Hoi Yin, Valen QIU Liuming and Aamir MEHMOOD formed a PolyU student team to participate in the Cathay Hackathon held on 19 to 20 November 2022. Their project “Metaverse In-Flight Entertainment” won the Best Innovation Award.
The Cathay Hackathon 2022 is an aviation-related hackathon organized by Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific. The event brings teams together to design, develop and pitch technology solutions, which can improve the passengers' flight experience or make operations involved in in-flight management sustainable and eco-friendly. The aim of the Hackathon is to inspire and nurture emerging talents by providing behind-the-scenes insight into the industry and comprehensive support during the corresponding ideation process.
Luiza and Samantha are PhD students under the supervision of Dr David Navarro-Alarcon in PolyU Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME). Valen is an undergraduate student of PolyU ME. Aamir is a PhD student in PolyU Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Luiza, Samantha, and Valen conduct research in the Robotics and Machine Intelligence Laboratory. Their research interests focus on Metaverse and multi-robot systems.
