Department News & Achievements

• Prof. Albert C.S. Chung and PhD Student Qing (Chloe) Zhang Wins Best Paper Award in MIAR 2016
• Quanming Yao and Hong Zhang as Google's Global PhD Fellows 2016
• Prof Shing-Chi CHEUNG, Dr. Yepang LIU, and PhD student Lili WEI received ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
• Tsinghua-HKUST Programming Contest 2016
• Dr Eddie Chan Awarded Championship at Create@Alibaba Cloud Startup Contest – Hong Kong
• Dr. Kai Chen and PhD Students Publish 2 Papers in ACM SIGCOMM 2016
• Dr Ke YI and PhD student Bin WU received ACM SIGMOD 2016 Best Paper Award
• HKUST 25th Celebration - CSE Department Alumni Homecoming Event and Workshop on Big Data and Deep Learning
• IBM launches new initiatives to advance developer skills and careers for the cognitive era in collaboration with Coursera and HKUST Full-stack Web Development Specialization
• Coverage on the Work of Prof. Pan Hui and his MPhil Student Muhammad Haris Mughees by MIT Technology Review on 26 May 2016
• Coverage on Hackathon@HKUST 2016 by Oriental Daily on 19 May 2016
• Project Supervised by Dr Brian MAK Won the Gold Award of 2016 President's Cup

Spotlights

Establishment of HKUST Big Data Institute (BDI) effective 1 Feb 2016

Over the past years, we have established several key big data related initiatives. These includes the WeChat HKUST AI Center (WHAT LAB), Big-Data Bio-Intelligence Center (BDBI) and the MSC Program on Big Data Technology (BDT).

With the establishment of the BDI, we wish to include more research, knowledge transfer and educational programs under the Institute's umbrella. We hope to play a major role in the development of Big Data Technology and Data Science Programs in this region and in the world.

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HKUST launches Big Data Platform at CSE Department

The HKUST Big Data effort includes a many active researchers across different fields in several large-scale industrial research projects. A versatile Big Data platform allows the research to be intimately connected with practical applications of Big Data.

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