Our student of BSc in Integrative Systems and Design (ISD), Ms. CHEN Siyu, Cici won the First Runner-up award, 2023 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Award.

The research topic Cici working on is related to Deep Learning for Ophthalmology Image Analysis  and her project is about Image Quality-aware Diagnosis via Meta-knowledge Co-embedding.

Cici and her team reckoned that deep learning method application on high-quality (HQ) medical images have shown promising results, however, medical images usually suffer from image degradations leading to a totally different situations compared to HQ images. In clinical practices, researchers intend to filter out low-quality (LQ) images to increase the performance of deep learning method, ignoring the significant value of those LQ images. In this work, she and her team raised the problem of Image Quality-aware Diagnosis (IQAD) aiming to use LQ images and image quality labels to achieve better performance by utilizing medical images. They proposed a new method, noted as Meta-knowledge Co-embedding Network (MKCNet) for this problem, outperforming other methods.

The awarded paper has also been accepted by the top-tier conference IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023. Please join us to congratulate Cici for her great job.

Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD) is one of the first divisions recruited students from SNDAS once introduced by the Education Bureau for the 2022/23 entry.

At HKUST, we celebrate diversity and recognize the different talents our students bring to the university community. Apart from academic results, students with outstanding performance in extra-curricular activities would receive special admission consideration.

SNDAS (More information)

School Nominations Direct Admission Scheme (SNDAS) is a school nominations scheme introduced by the Education Bureau (EDB) and takes effect from the 2022/23 entry. SNDAS aims at recognising the talent of local students that could not be fully assessed by the HKDSE.

SAAS (More information)

SAAS applicants would receive special admissions consideration based on their sport achievements. Successful applicants would enjoy scholarships, living allowance, our full support and great flexibility in their study arrangements, allowing them to chase their sporting and academic goals at the same time.

Watch below video and article to understand more from our students’ perspective.

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFFcBxiNJ30

Read more: https://topick.hket.com/article/3407383/%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%B8%E5%9F%B9%E9%A4%8A%E5%A4%9A%E5%85%83%E7%B2%BE%E8%8B%B1%E3%80%80%E7%99%BC%E5%B1%95%E9%9D%9E%E5%AD%B8%E8%A1%93%E6%BD%9B%E8%83%BD?r=cpsdlc

Our alumni of MSc in Technology Leadership and Entrepreneurship (TLE), Ms. FUNG Ka Yan won the Merit Award of ICT Startup (Social Impact) Award, Hong Kong ICT Awards 2022, recognising and promoting outstanding information and communications technology (ICT) inventions and applications.

Her project AI Dyslexia Pre-screening System aims to provide a quick pre-screening service to students at risk of Dyslexia. The system consists of four sets of pre-screening questions, based on the criteria from our patient. The main pre-screening attributes are Word Recognition, Reading, and Writing.

The system applies AI technology, Visual Communication Methods, and Human-Computer Interaction Methods to maintain our competitive edge. Under the integration of multi-gameplay puzzles, the system provides students a pleasant learning environment, helping them rebuild their self-esteem. The aspiration of her team is to embrace an inclusive, quality, and equal educational opportunity for our lovely kids.

SOCAM Development Limited has been supportive on learning, innovation and student project development at ISD in establishing the Shui On Innovation Fund. There were 63 ISD students forming 15 teams in total who have participated in the yearlong project supported by Shui On Innovation Fund in the 2021/22 academic year.

Mr Freddy Lee, Chief Executive Officer, and Ms Vanessa Wo, Assistant General Manager, Corporate Communications of SOCAM Development Limited paid a visit on 24 November 2022 (Thursday) to meet with our faculties and ISD students, and to present the award.

12 students from 3 year-long project groups were honored the Shui On Innovation Fund Student Awards 2021/22. The award recognizes outstanding ISD year-long projects.

ZHONG Haosong Andrew, WANG Chaoyu David, GUO Qixuan Grace, and CHOI Yiu Hei Matthew from Team Zzz, Year 2 year-long project; CHEUNG Ho Hin Alphor, MA Sze Long Evan, and YU Mukai Tom Notch from Lighthouse, Year 3 year-long project; LIN Yifei, LIANG Yuchen, HUANG Qiucan, TANG Sai Kit, and FUNG Mark Anthony from Smart Construction, Year 4 year-long project; received the Outsanding Year-long project award.