PolyU Info Day 2024

 PolyU Info Day 2024 was held on 12^th October 2024. Department of Computing booth located in Core A. I took a photo in front of the booth.

The booth photo was taken before the event.

In the Info Day, many student helpers who welcome visitors in the entry.

The large screen showed the schedule and events.

Info seminars of BSc (Hon) Scheme in Computing and AI were held in three timeslots today. I attended the morning session. Prof. Ken Yiu was speaker who introduced our program to participants. 

I met my student Mr. Dylan Haryoto and took a photo for memory.

During the seminar, Ken briefed the programme and curriculum. Year 1 is fundamental year that students learned fundamental subject and found their strength for selection of degree scheme (Computer Science or Enterprise Information System) in second year. 

Then he introduced SMILE approach that stands for Student-centered Model with Integrated Learning Elements. 

Finally, Ms. Julie Hui briefed the game for souvenir.

It included Capsule Toy (扭蛋).

The second Info seminar was led by Dr. Hong Va Leong and he briefed PolyU background in the beginning.

Details of BSc (Hons) in Computer Science core subjects were mentioned.

New approach for career preparation plus non-local experience such as internship or outbound exchange were introduced.

In afternoon, we were on duty in the booth. I took photos with my colleagues for memory.

(Left: Dr. Jeff Tang, Dr. Tayyab Muhammad, Dr. Mohammed Aquil Mirza and I)

I met Dr. Richard Lui and took photo with Tayyab together.

Dr. Walter Fung is also here.

We also took a photo with Dr. Kevin Yuen (Middle) and Ms. Eling Yim (Right 1).

Confucius Institute of Hong Kong is near our booth.

When I left, I met BCH cohort in CityU Mr. YIP Wai Yuen.

At the end, I took a photo with Dr. Lam Kim-hung in ABCT department’s booth.

Reference:

PolyU Info Day 2024 – https://www.polyu.edu.hk/study/events/infoday2024

20240322: PolyU Career Fair 2024 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/03/polyu-career-fair-2024.html

PolyU COMP Seminar on Trends & Opportunities in AI and LFM

PolyU COMP 50^th Anniversary Distinguished Talk entitled “Trends and Opportunities in AI and Large Foundation Models” organized by Department of Computing, PolyU on 10^th Oct 2024. Prof. CHUA Tat-Seng (Chair Professor, School of Computing, National University of Singapore) was the guest speaker.

In the beginning, Prof. Chua briefed the history of AI since 1950. With the recent advancements in machine learning, particular in the emergence of large Large Foundation Model (LFM) would be the future direction. He introduced some great success of AI past case such as Deep Net, IBM’s Watson, AlphaGo, to LLMs.

And then Prof. Chua said LLMs with AGI attributes including domain versatility, output diversity, human-level semantic coherence and generative capability but some challenges we faced including hallucination, trust, safety and high cost. He also mentioned from LLMs to LFMs that multimodal tasks are current approach.

After that he discussed the evolution of smaller-sized LFMs and towards LFM-based agents to perform most functions that humans done. Prof. Chua briefed the key research directions of multimodal LFMs including multimodal alignment, alignment towards human value with trust & safety, multimodal agent, AI governance and policies, etc.

Finally, he introduced NExT-GPT’s human-machine interactions in a multimodal world. 

In order to avoid hallucination in visual instruction data, simple solution is to learn to see and analyze before answering that LFMs can develop manipulation ability from prior training (Grounding, OCR, Counting) and imitate human-like behaviors (Zoom in).

Mixture of AI Experts (MoAI) concept was introduced that employed multiple Cross-validation (CV) models as experts. And then he also introduced reinforcement learning with human and AI feedback. 

Lastly, Prof. CHUA Tat-Seng discussed from LFM-based agents to Network of Experts (NoE) overall architecture. In addition, “Quality assessment of LFM output is a neglected area of research but important towards self-reflective LFM” he said. At the end, he pointed out some key research topics such as LFM & Human brain relationship, super-alignment, leveraging human-machine intelligence and NoE framework.

Q&A session for both onsite and online

Group photo and souvenir presentation

Reference

COMP, PolyU - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/comp/

Leaflet - Trends and Opportunities in AI and Large Foundation Models

 

ART Laboratory Zoom Meeting 2024

After a year, A&R (Macau) Testing Limited (ART) is time to reassess by IAS (Online reassessment in Dec 2024). Thus, Leo invited me to join their zoom meeting. Crystal and Emme also joined the meeting too. 

Horizontal Audit Checklist was reviewed together and I remind them to review the following items: Previous Internal Audit Report, Previous IAS NCs & follow up actions Intralab & Interlab report, Any change (organization structure, staff, test method) Staff training record, new method with MU and validation. Then they need to perform Horizontal Audit and Vertical Audit. Finally, to hold management review meeting.

Hopefully, we have time to meet in Macau for holiday.

Reference:

20240904: Dinner with Leo Choi in PolyU 2024 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/09/dinner-with-leo-choi-in-polyu-2024.html

20240228: Dinner with Benny and Leo 2024 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/02/dinner-with-benny-and-leo-2024.html

20231123: BLC Lab Last Zoom Meeting 2023 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/11/blc-lab-last-zoom-meeting-2023.html

20231102: Visit to Macau and Laboratories - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/11/visit-to-macau-and-laboratories.html

20231027: Laboratory Accreditation Assessment in Macau - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/10/laboratory-accreditation-assessment-in.html

20230929: IA and MR in BLC Lab in Macau - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/09/ia-and-mr-in-blc-lab-in-macau.html

20230821: Onsite review for BLC Lab in Macau - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/08/onsite-review-for-blc-lab-in-macau.html

20230805: Visit to Benny's house in Kent, UK - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/08/visit-to-bennys-house-in-kent-uk.html

20230601: Visit to BLC Lab in Macau - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/06/visit-to-blc-lab-in-macau.html

20230512: BLC Lab Meeting 2023 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/05/blc-lab-meeting-2023.html

HKSQ Strategic Meeting & 1st Exco Meeting 2024

Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) annually strategy meeting and the 1^st Exco meeting was held on 5th Oct 2024. Dr. Jane Wong (Chairman, HKSQ) led the meeting in TQM office. 

(Left: Dr. Aaron Tong, Mr. Ben Tsang, Dr. Jane Wong, Ms. Angela Wong and Dr. Mandict Wong; Dr. Vincent Fung, Dr. Jack Wu, Ms. Minda Chiang and I attended online)

Thanks Aaron arranged the venue and online meeting for us.

At the end, we took a group photo online and onsite.

After the meeting, Dr. Jane Wong recorded a congratulations message to CSQ 60^th anniversary on 9^th Nov 2024. Angela, Minda and I would visit Taiwan to join the celebration.

Reference:

HKSQ - www.hksq.org

HKSQ Strategy Meeting:

HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2023 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/10/hksq-strategy-meeting-2023.html

HKSQ Strategy Meeting and the 1st Exco Meeting 2022/2023 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2022/10/hksq-strategy-meeting-and-1st-exco.html

HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2021 cum IKA Silver Medal Award Celebration - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2021/10/hksq-strategy-meeting-2021-cum-ika.html

HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2020 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/12/hksq-strategy-meeting-2020.html

HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2019 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/11/hksq-strategy-meeting-2019.html

HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2018 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/09/hksq-strategy-meeting-2018.html

HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2017 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2017/08/hksq-strategy-meeting-2017.html

HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2016 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/09/hksq-strategy-meeting-2016.html

HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2015 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/08/hksq-strategy-meeting-2015.html

HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2014 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2014/08/hksq-strategy-meeting-2014.html

HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2013 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2013/09/hksq-strategy-meeting-2013.html

The HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2010 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2010/08/hksq-strategy-meeting-2010.html

HKSQ Exco Meeting and Other Meeting:

20240408: HKSQ Bank Meeting 2024 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/04/hksq-bank-meeting-2024.html

20240127: HKSQ Website Knowledge Transfer Meeting 2024 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/01/hksq-website-knowledge-transfer-meeting.html

20230727: HKSQ Financial Meeting and Visit to CityU Exhibition - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/07/hksq-financial-meeting-and-visit-to.html

20230520: HKSQ The 3rd Exco Meeting 2023 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/05/hksq-3rd-exco-meeting-2023.html

20221120: HKSQ Knowledge Transfer Meeting 2022/2023 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2022/11/hksq-knowledge-transfer-meeting-20222023.html

20220702: HKSQ The 3rd Exco Meeting 2022 (Online) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2022/07/hksq-3rd-exco-meeting-2022-online.html

20211211: HKSQ - The 3rd Meeting for the 35th Anniversary Book - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2021/12/hksq-3rd-meeting-for-35th-anniversary.html

20211010: HKSQ - The 2nd Meeting for the 35th Anniversary Book - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2021/10/hksq-2nd-meeting-for-35th-anniversary.html

20210829: HKSQ Meeting for the 35th Anniversary Book - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2021/08/hksq-meeting-for-35th-anniversary-book.html

20210306: HKSQ The 1st Exco Meeting 2021 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2021/03/hksq-1st-exco-meeting-2021.html

20200523: HKSQ 3rd Exco Online Meeting using Zoom - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/05/hksq-3rd-exco-online-meeting-using-zoom.html

20200430: HKSQ Official Bearers Meeting and Online Exco Trial Meeting - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/04/hksq-official-bearers-meeting-and.html

20200307: HKSQ Exco Meeting during Coronavirus Spreading Period - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/03/hksq-exco-meeting-during-coronavirus.html

20181029: HKSQ Special Meeting for Bank Issue - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/10/hksq-special-meeting-for-bank-issue.html

The 9th meeting of HKCTC Panel on Manpower Development

I was honor to be invited by HKCTC as a member of the panel on manpower development again in 2024. The 9th meeting of HKCTC Panel on Manpower Development was held on 4^th Oct 2024. We took a group photo at the end for memory. 

(Left: Ms., Dr. Lillian Chow, Ms., Dr Lesly Lam, Mr. Lau Wai-Ming (Assistant Commissioner, ITC), Mr. Steven Chan, Mr. Steve Lai, Dr. Emmie Ho (Convener), I and Ms. Fiona Lee; Online: Dr George LAU, Mr. Joseph Poon and Gray Ho; Early left: Ms Gilly Wong, Dr Crystal Fok and Mr Robert Lui)

Before the meeting, I met Dr. Lillian Chow. Long time no see. I remembered she and Ms. Bella Ho promoted ISO 15189 in the past. (She is one of speaker in the HKAS Seminar of the Transition Arrangement ISO 15189_2012 at https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2013/04/hkas-seminar-of-transition-arrangement.html )

I took a photo during our discussion. Mr. Robert Lui sit near me. We are both member of CityU Eminence Society.

Our meeting is both onsite and online.

Hopefully, our support would enhance the manpower development in T&C industry.

Reference:

HKCTC - https://www.hkctc.gov.hk/en/home/index.html

Panel on Manpower Development - https://www.hkctc.gov.hk/en/about/p_manpower/member.html

Testing and Certification Manpower Development Award Scheme - https://www.hkctc.gov.hk/en/event/mpaward/

TC Manpower Development Award website - https://tcmpaward.hk/

HKSQ - https://hksq.org/

20240103: Rebranding Project Workshop of HKCTC - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/01/rebranding-project-workshop-of-hkctc.html

20231204: HKCTC Testing and Certification Manpower Development Award Scheme Award Presentation Ceremony cum Luncheon 2023-24 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/12/hkctc-testing-and-certification.html

20231117: HKCTC Networking Trip to Shenzhen - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/11/hkctc-networking-trip-to-shenzhen.html

20230224: The 8th meeting of HKCTC Panel on Manpower Development - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-8th-meeting-of-hkctc-panel-on.html

20230209: Lunar New Year Luncheon by HKCTC Chairman - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/02/lunar-new-year-luncheon-by-hkctc.html

Wudang Tai Chi Special Class on 1st Oct 2024

Minda and I joined special class for N team in Master Andy Law (羅哲英) home on 1^st Oct 2024. We discussed some video for different types of Tai Chi.

Afterwards we had lunch together.

And then we joined celebration banquet for 20^th anniversary dinner. Very good tea time arrangement. We took a group photo with Senior Brothers and Sisters.

Finally, Mr. Andy Law (羅哲英) demonstrated the force transfer through the queue that was one of shows in the 20th Anniversary Dinner.

Reference:

Andy Law Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andy.law.7965692/?locale=ms_MY&paipv=0&eav=AfYoFdQSsjWOQLlRVP4mbPIPSmAcx1ENubAVBYvXTIt-AmFF0uC1kcmTRohorpy9VV0&_rdr

香港道教聯合會: http://www.hktaoist.org.hk

香港道教聯合會 Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@user-ny3du4qx1z/videos

Wudang HK: https://sites.google.com/site/wudanghk/main

20240921: Wudang Tai Chi Class 20th Anniversary Dinner (武當太極拳班20週年聚餐) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/09/wudang-tai-chi-class-20th-anniversary.html

20240825: 學習秘傳武當太極拳的感想 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/08/blog-post.html

20230709: Wudang Health Exercises (武當養⽣功) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/07/wudang-health-exercises.html

PolyU Drama“Distinguished Chinese Scientist - Qian Xuesen”

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) original drama (《錢學森》原創話劇) “Distinguished Chinese Scientist - Qian Xuesen” was performed at Jockey Club Auditorium, Hong Kong Polytechnic University on 25^th and 26^th Sep 2024. Minda and I joined the drama on 26^th Sep and took a photo in front of banner. 

Before the drama, we had quick dinner in staff canteen.

The ticket we got.

When we went to the Auditorium, I met my old classmate Prof. Kenneth Leung (Chair Professor, CHEM Dept., CityU) and took a photo for memory.

Many students attended the drama. It is good for the new generation to know about the great scientists who had significant contribution to China.

We took a photo inside the auditorium.

PolyU President and SJTU Vice President gave opening speech and took a group photo before the show.

Finally, all the actors took their final bow.

The drama let me remember Liu Yuanzhang (劉源張) that we met in ANQ Congress 2011 in Vietnam. At the invitation of Qian Xuesen (錢學森), Liu Yuanzhang (劉源張) returned to China after 15 years of absence from his motherland to work in the Operations Research Laboratory of the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and established China's first quality management research group.

(Third from the left is Liu Yuanzhang)

In my understanding, Qian Xuesen (錢學森) should also be the Father of Systems Engineering in China!

Reference:

PolyU Culture Promotion and Events Office - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cpeo/

上海交通大学原创话剧《钱学森》在香港理工大学上演 - http://www.cnsphoto.com/newDetail/single/13135210?pictureId=39843676

20140406: Remember Academician Liu Yuanzhang (劉源張) - Father of Quality Management in China - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2014/04/remember-academician-liu-yuanzhang.html