PolyU Team Crowned Champion at Huawei Developer Competition 2025 Asia Pacific Region
A research team from the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) at PolyU triumphed at the Huawei Developer Competition 2025 Asia Pacific Region as the Champion and Grand Prize winner of the Society and Sustainability Track.
The winning project was developed by a dedicated team of researchers from DSAI. The team, named EvoClass Nexus, was led by Prof. Ran CHENG, Associate Professor of the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and the Department of Computing. It included core members, Mr HUANG Beichen, Mr LIANG Zhenyu and Mr ZHENG Bowen, who are PhD students. The victory earned the team a reward valued at US$5,000 (approximately HK$39,000).
The project, EvoClass, is an AI-empowered multi-agent education platform designed to bridge the "Cognitive Chasm" in modern education. The platform moves beyond traditional EdTech by creating a "Co-evolutionary" ecosystem where AI agents grow alongside students. The system has been successfully deployed in the DSAI subject DSAI2201: Data Structures and Algorithms, demonstrating significant effectiveness in enhancing student engagement and reducing educator workload.
The triumph highlights the team's commitment to "Technology Equity"—using advanced AI to make private-tutor-level education accessible to all. By automating repetitive tasks and providing context-aware feedback, EvoClass empowers teachers to focus on pedagogical innovation.
The competition involved multiple rigorous stages, including preliminary rounds, re-evaluations and semi-finals, filtering nearly 1,000 developers and 192 high-quality submissions from 10 countries and regions. Only 15 elite teams advanced to the Asia Pacific Final, which was divided into two distinct tracks: Society and Sustainability, and Finance. The award ceremony was held on 20 November 2025 in celebration of the participants' achievements.
With only one Grand Prize awarded per track, the EvoClass Nexus team claimed the Championship for the Society and Sustainability Track, distinguishing themselves as the top innovators in AI for social impact.
