CAAI Chinese Congress on Artificial Intelligence 2018 (中国人工智能大会) - Day 2

The 4th Chinese Congress on Artificial Intelligence (CCAI2018) which was led by Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), was held on July 28-29, 2018, in Shenzhen, China. As the largest official AI conference in China, CCAI has been held annually to promote the advancement of artificial intelligence globally.  I attended the Congress and summarized it for sharing AI trend to all quality professionals.

During the congress, I met the Prof. Tie-niu Tan (谭铁牛) (Vice President of CAAI; Academician of CAS) and we took a photo for memory.

I also met Prof. KF Wong (黃錦輝) (Associate Dean (External Affairs), Faculty of Engineering, CUHK; Professor, SEEM Dept., CUHK) and we are both technical committee members in different discipline of CAAI.  He appointed in the First Batch of Natural Language Processing Experts of CAAI. And I am Extenics Society committee members of CAAI since 2017. 

Day 2 (29 July 2018):

In the beginning of the congress, Prof. Chengqing Zong (宗成庆) (Professor of CASIA) chair the morning reporting session.  

Prof. Jiawei Han (韩家炜) (Abel Bliss Professor of UIUC; ACM/IEEE Fellow) was the first speaker and his presentation topic entitled “Mining Structures from Massive Text Data: A Cross Point of Data Mining, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing”.  Prof. Han said over 80% of our data is from text/natural language/social media, unstructured/semi-structured, noisy, dynamic, but inter-related!  So that Prof. Han’s research roadmaps are “Mining hidden structures from text data”, “Turning text data into multidimensional text-cubes and typed networks” and “Mining cubes and networks to generate actionable knowledge”.

CAAI Chinese Congress on Artificial Intelligence 2018 (中国人工智能大会) - Day 1

The 4th Chinese Congress on Artificial Intelligence (CCAI2018) which was led by Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), was held on July 28-29, 2018, in Shenzhen, China. As the largest official AI conference in China, CCAI has been held annually to promote the advancement of artificial intelligence globally.  I attended the Congress and summarized it for sharing AI trend to all quality professionals.

During the congress, I met the Prof. Deyi Li (李德毅) (President of CAAI, Academician of CAE) and took a photo for memory.

I also met Prof. Qiang Yang (杨强) (Vice President of CAAI, AAAI/ACM/IEEE Fellow, President of IJCAI; Chair Professor, Department Head of CSE, HKUST).

Day 1 (28 July 2018):

In the beginning of the congress, Prof. Deyi Li (李德毅) (President of CAAI, Academician of CAE) gave an opening speech and shared the AI Trend in China.

Mr. He Haitao (贺海涛) (深圳市人大常委会党组成员、罗湖区委书记) gave guest speech and supported AI industry in Shenzhen

Mr. Wang Lixin (王立新) (广东省深圳市副市长) gave guest speech and he said his mind though Artificial Intelligence after he was on board in Shenzhen.

Prof. Tie-niu Tan (谭铁牛) (Vice President of CAAI; Academician of CAS) gave guest speech and he said using four Chinese words for coming AI development that was “理性务实” (meaning Rational and Pragmatic).

CityU EngD Society Meeting with Provost

We are honor to have meeting with Prof. Alex KY Jen (Provost, Chair Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science, CityU) and Prof. Duan Li (Associate Provost (Strategic Planning) Office of the Provost; Acting Dean, School of Data Science; Chair Professor of Operations Research, CityU) for discussing the future of EngD(EM) program and development.  Dr. Raymond Leung (CityU Distinguished Alumni), Dr. Herbert Yeung (Chairman, CityU EngD Society) and I represented EngD Society for this meeting.

(Left: Prof. Duan Li, Prof. Alex KY Jen, Dr. Raymond Leung, Dr. Herbert Yeung and I)

We expressed EngD(EM) cohorts’ opinions including, support the development of the School of Data Science and proposed to continue the EngD(EM) Program as well as reposition to the higher level hierarchy of CityU such as under College of Engineer .  We also mentioned the MSc of Engineering Management would be the pipeline of EngD (EM) Program; and the importance of HKIE recognition.

We discussed the different between DBA and EngD that EngD more focused on integration of Industry and Academic thinking; it is a unique program for engineering professionals. 

(Remark: Dr. David Chung also participated as observer to support our discussion.)

Reference:

CityU Engineering Doctorate Society - http://www.engd.org/  

Engineering Doctorate (Engineering Management) - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/prg-engd.htm

20180419: CityU EngD Society Lunch Meeting - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/04/cityu-engd-society-lunch-meeting.html

20180621: CityU EngD Society Lunch Meeting with Prof. Dang and Dr. Alan Chan - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/06/cityu-engd-society-lunch-meeting-with.html

HKSTP Robotics Catalysing Centre

The Robotics platform is one of the three initiatives steered by HKSTP aimed at driving the growth of the technology sector in Hong Kong. The Robotics Catalysing Centre (RCC) is the latest project that reinforces HKSTP’s determination to grow the local innovation and technology ecosystem, connect local talent with strategic networks and help raise Hong Kong’s profile as a regional robotics hub.  The official opening was held on 18 Dec 2017.  Recently, I visited in the RCC and took a photo for sharing.

We also work closely with a diverse range of visionary partners including the Robotics Alliance which allows robotics start-ups to connect technology companies with industrialists to accelerate collaborative and result-driven innovative efforts. 

There are 5 units and totally 4,000 sq ft providing flexible working space for solution providers and system integrators to conduct development, integration, assembly, validation and complete the factory acceptance test (FAT) upon deployment to production.  4 of them were rented and the last one is coming soon.

The inside of the unit was showed. The solution providers and system integrators would configure their robots by themselves and then provide services. 

Reference:

HKSTP - http://www.hkstp.org

RCC - https://www.hkstp.org/en/how-we-serve/labs-and-services/robotics-catalysing-centre/

RCC Official Opening - https://www.hkstp.org/en/about-us/press-room/hkstp-officially-opens-robotics-catalysing-centre-to-raise-hong-kong-s-profile-as-a-regional-robotics-hub/

Zhejiang University visit to HKSTP

Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong (SEEM, CityU) has exchanging scheme with College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University (CSE, ZJU) in this year and HKSTP laboratory is one of selected places to be visited and aimed to broaden students’ views.  The visit was led by Dr. Zhengguo Xu (Associate Professor, CSE, ZJU) (Right 1^st at 2^nd row) and Ms. Jing Wang (International Relations Officer, CSE, ZJU) (Right 2^nd at 1^st row). We took a group photo in the lobby.

In the beginning, I introduced Hong Kong Science Park vision and mission, as well as our Re-industrialization under 5 key technology cluster and 3 key technology platform.

Then I briefed different laboratories’ facilities before visit.

The first location was Reliability Laboratory.  There are many different type of ovens and different reliability testing that I explained to students.

HKAS & HKCTC Seminar on Cybersecurity Testing

Hong Kong Accreditation Service (HKAS) and Hong Kong Council for Testing and Certification (HKCTC) co-organized a Seminar on Cybersecurity Testing on 12 July 2018. With the rapid development and wider use of new technology applications, such as online services, mobile payment, cloud services and smart products, the transmission of digital data has become frequent. This has also resulted in increasing public concern about associated information security risks. This seminar aimed to introduce the standards developed to address protection of smart products and IT systems from security threats and cyber-attacks.

All guest speakers took a group photo.

The first speaker was Mr. Ronald Pong (Council member, Smart City Consortium) and his topic named “How to apply ISO/IEC 15408 in Smart City for IoT Security Risk Mitigation?” Firstly, he shared smart city smart criminal that many security issues came from IoT devices.

Minitab Seminar on “Machine Learning enhance Product Reliability from Prediction to Execution”

Minitab co-organized Techmax to arrange a seminar named “Machine Learning enhance Product Reliability from Prediction to Execution” on 12^th July 2018. HKPC was executive organization and Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) and ASQ (HK) were supporting organization.  HKSQ former chairman Dr. Albert Tsang was invited to be one of guest speakers.  I took a photo with Dr. Albert Tsang for memory.

The first speaker was Mr. KT Li (Consultant, Reliability Testing Centre, HKPC) and his presentation topic entitled “Introduction of Reliability Engineering & Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT)”.  He briefed the definition of reliability that “The ability of an item to perform a required function under given conditions for a given time interval”.  

Reliability is a probability that an item will last a certain time without “failure” under certain conditions including function of time and conditions.  Traditional QC assures the product will work after assembly and as designed.  Then Mr. Li mentioned the testing and reliability engineering as following diagram.  

Then Mr. KT Li stated reliability metrics as follows:

MTBF – Mean Time between Failures

MTTF – Mean Time to Failure

MTTR – Mean Time to Repair

Median Life (50% failure)

B10 Life (10% failure)

The WMD, the WAD and the WSD Forum 2018

The Hong Kong Council for Testing and Certification (HKCTC), the Standards and Calibration Laboratory of the Innovation and Technology Commission (SCL), Government Laboratory (GL), Hong Kong Accreditation Service (HKAS) and Product Standards Information Bureau (PSIB) jointly organized the World Metrology Day (WMD), the World Accreditation Day (WAD) and the World Standards Day (WSD) Forum on 11 July 2018.  Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) was one of supporting organizations.  This forum aimed to celebrate the WMD, WAD and WSD and introduce to participants various aspects and benefit of the quality infrastructure. Before the start, I met Ms. Brenda Lam (SCL) who is my old colleague in EPA Centre, CityU and we took a photo for memory.

I also met Mr Nick Leung (HKAS) that we cooperated in Science Park for Dupont project ten years ago.

In the beginning, Mr. Ivan LEE Kwok-bun, JP (Deputy Commissioner for Innovation and Technology, ITC, HKSAR Government) gave welcoming remarks.  SCL and GL played important roles on metrology and new SI unit definition.  

Group photo

Then Dr. Della SIN Wai-mei, JP (Government Chemist, Government Laboratory, HKSAR Government) gave an opening remarks.  She said Metrology, Accreditation and Standards enhanced for Innovation and Technology (I&T) development in Hong Kong.

Prof. Joachim ULLRICH (President, Consultative Committee for Units, BIPM) was the first speaker and his topic entitled “The Revised International System of Units: Creating the Future”. He said to fundamentally improve the SI for the benefit of industry and global trade, society, science and research.  

Firstly, he briefed the base quantities of length (m), mass (kg), time (s), electric current (A), temperature (K), luminous intensity (cd) and amount of substance (mol).  Four of the seven base units namely kilogram, ampere, kelvin and mole were reviewed by fixing the values of the Planck constant (h), the elementary charge (e), the Boltzmann constant (k) and the Avogadro constant (N_A).

HKSTP & TID Made in Hong Kong Seminar

The seminar named “Made in Hong Kong” was co-organized by Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) and Trade and Industry Department (TID) on 10^th July 2018.  Hong Kong products are highly regarded in the Mainland and overseas.  Products manufactured in Hong Kong can also enjoy preferential tariffs under CEPA and the Free Trade Agreements (FTA) that Hong Kong has signed with other economies.  This seminar aimed to introduce the services of the Trade and Industry Department with regard to origin certification, including issuance of certificate of origin and formulation of origin rules, as well as, strategic trade control system in Hong Kong.  In the beginning, Mr. Patrick Siu (COO, HKSTP) presented a souvenir to the speaker.

Mr. Francis Ho (Assistant Director-General of Trade and Industry (Systems)) was guest speaker and his presentation topic named “Hong Kong Origin Certification System”.  The Certificate of Hong Kong Origin (CO) aimed for Trade Facilitation and is a document certifying that a good is made in Hong Kong and is of Hong Kong origin.  It is not a mandatory export document.

For CO, factory registration is the first step.  It based on Hong Kong laws and they were “Exports (Certificate of Origin) Regulations (Cap. 60H)” and “Protection of Non-Government Certificates of Origin Ordinance (Cap. 324)”.  Only factories which possess the necessary production capability in Hong Kong can obtain a CO for their products.

There are several CO issuing authorities including TID and five government approved certification organizations (GACOs) and they were HKGCC, FHKI, CGCC, CMA and ICCHK.

HKSTLA Seminar on Robotics and AI Application in Logistic

Hong Kong Sea Transport and Logistics Association (HKSTLA) organized a seminar named “Robotics and AI Application in Logistic”.  Around the world, the growth of e-commerce is spurring and it’s obvious that efficient storage and shipment in warehouse is crucial to meet increasing consumers’ expectations of fast and cheap delivery.  Many well-known enterprises have begun to deploy intelligent warehouse to keep up with the trend.  This seminar shared how robotic automation help logistic to achieve greater warehouse productivity and drive cost saving. The guest speaker was Mr. Lit Fung (Managing Director of Geek Plus overseas market).

Since I had only joined the last part, Mr. Fung had presented the different automation solutions included Traditional Manual Operation, Conventional Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) and Geek Picking System.

Then Mr. Fung explained sorting system that was Robots + Induction Workstation + Charging Station.

Experience Sharing by ASTRI on implementation of ISO 9001 for R&D Company and visit to Smart City Innovation Centre

During visit CEPREI in Guangzhou on 18 May, ASTRI R&D manager told me that they had implemented ISO 9001 for corporate-wide R&D projects for long time. I was very interested in they implementation ISO 9001 on R&D Company so that I asked their Chairman Mr. MY Wong that I would like to learn more about it.  Mr. Wong kindly linked me up with their management team and arranged a visit and sharing session for me on 9 July 2018.   Actually, HKSTP and ASTRI quality system team had experience sharing since 2015.  I had arranged a visit for our TSC to sharing ISO 27001 certification experience on 30 Jun 2015.  In the beginning, I met Mr. Jim Hui (Senior Manager, Quality, Quality Management, ASTRI) and took a photo in front of main entry.

Before sharing, I saw many joint laboratories brand in the wall.

After that Mr. Jim Hui explained ISO 9001 implementation in ASTRI to me and I summarized some key issues below.

IET & IEEE Technical Visit to CUHK T Stone Robotics Institute

The technical visit to CUHK T Stone Robotics Institute was co-organized by Joint Event with Informatics and Control Technology Section, IET Hong Kong and IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (IEEE-EPS) on 6 July 2018.  The CUHK T Stone Robotics Institute was established in Nov 2015, as one of the University’s strategic initiatives, with the strong support from the university and a generous donation from T Stone Group Limited to provide a platform for research collaboration and collective development in robotics and automation.  The objective is to build a world-class institute that plays leading roles in global robotics research and contributes to technological and societal development in Hong Kong and mainland China.  I took a photo in front of the institute for memory.

Firstly, we visited the research named “A robotic assistant for total laparoscopic hysterectomy” that aimed to assist the surgeon in uterus positioning during a Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy (TLH) that is the procedure of moving the uterus from a female patient.  Dr. Zerui Wang (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, CUHK) explained and demonstrated this research to us.

Then Dr. Darwin Tat Ming Lau (Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, CUHK) showed different cable-driven robots and explained their principles to us.  

A student demonstrated how to collect data during raising arm.  It could help us to understand our brain response on different situations.

Queensland University of Technology visit to HKSTP

The Hong Kong Food Hygiene Administrators Association (HKFHAA) is hosting for the second time for Health Study Undergraduates from Queensland University of Technology, QUT, Australia on their Government Funding Scheme (the New Colombo Plan) to visit Hong Kong.  Hong Kong Science Park is one of selected place to be visited to broaden students’ views I the science and technological development in Hong Kong.  We took a group photo in the lobby.

Mr. Ronald Lau (Chairman, Hong Kong Food Hygiene Administrators Association) is the team leader and I introduced my colleague Adeline who is International Business Development team to Ronald for further cooperation.  

In the beginning, I introduced Hong Kong Science Park vision and mission, as well as our 3C approach (Connect, Collaborate and Catalyze).  Then I briefed the laboratory facilities before visit.

The first location was Reliability Laboratory.  Many ovens and different reliability were explained to students.

Then we visited IC Failure Analysis Laboratories.  The X-ray inspection equipment demonstrated the inside structure of earphone.  

After that we visited Biotech Centre and explained different equipment for biotechnology, pharmaceutical and genomics applications.  

At the end, we took a group photo in front of the cleanroom under Probe and Test Development Centre which mainly serviced for IC and wafer industry. 

Reference:

HKSTP Lab & Service - https://www.hkstp.org/en/how-we-serve/labs-and-services/

HKFHAA - http://www.hkfhaa.org.hk/

QUT - https://www.qut.edu.au/