COMP Student/Staff Consultative Group (SSCG) Meeting

I was invited to participant the 2nd BScFTAI Student/Staff Consultative Group (SSCG) Meeting on 28 Feb 2025. We communicated with students and subject teachers for improving the programme continuously. In the beginning, I met Dr. XIE Hongcheng and took a photo together. 

Year 1 to 4 student representatives joined the meeting and feedback different courses content and teaching as well as difficulty level.

I am subject lecturer of COMP 3511 and also teaching half course of COMP 1433 in this semester. I asked students any difficulty. They replied that it would be difficult if student without took M2 under DSE in high school.

Dr. Kevin Yuen taught the subject COMP 4432 Machine Learning.

At the end, we took a photo together with Year 4 student representative.

(Left: I, Student Rep, Dr. Kevin Yuen, Dr. Raymond Pang and Dr. XIE Hongcheng)

After SSCG meeting, we had lunch together with Kevin’s student - Mr. Cheuk Kin MA who studies COMP IT Master course and worked in ASTRI. His former boss was Mr. Jim Hui (HKSQ member).

(Left: I, Dr. Jeff Tang, Mr. Cheuk Kin MA and Dr. Kevin Yuen)

Reference:

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

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HKSQ x Intertek Technical Visit and Seminar on Compliance of GMP

Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) and Intertek co-organized Technical Visit and Seminar on Compliance of Health Supplements and Chinese Herbal Medicine with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Standards on 22^nd Feb 2025. In the morning, everyone gathered at Futian Station.

We separated into two teams to go to the Intertek in Guangdong-Macau Medical Science and Technology Industrial Park.

We passed the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge (深中大橋) to go to Zhuhai.

The first team arrived the R&D and Testing Building.

Minda and I selfie in front of the brand “Intertek GM Testing Service Zhuhai Co., Ltd.”

In the beginning, Dr. Jane Wong (Chairman, HKSQ) gave opening speech.

And then she presented the HKSQ flag to Mr. Roger Huang (GM of HBPA Intertek China) for appreciating the arrangement of this visit and seminar. 

Mr. Roger Huang was the first speaker who introduced Intertek service on GMP compliance for health products and Chinese herbal medicines. In the beginning, he started by three key questions that were “Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?”

Then he introduced Intertek background and service in China.

After that he briefed the history of GMP – 21CFR 210 & 211 as well as some key sessions.

Lastly, he shared his audit experience on Man, Machine, Material, Method, Environment, Measurement, Record and Complaint.

Mr. Zhou Haicai (Auditor and Consultant) was the second speaker and his talk named “GACP standards and certification verification points for medicinal plant bases” (藥用植物基地GACP標準與認證核查要點).

Firstly, he introduced the history of Good Agricultural and Wild Collection Practice” for medicinal and aromatic plants from 1998 to 2006.

Then he briefed China standard T/CCCMHPIE 2.1-2018 “Specification on Good Agriculture and Collection Practices for Medicinal Plants”.

After that he compared with different GACP including China, WHO, EU, etc.

Finally, Mr. Zhou explained their audit service for entering EU market.

After the seminar, we all had a gift from Intertek. It is a book named “Leadership with SOUL”.

The second part was visiting laboratory. Sample preparation room and microbiology laboratory were visited.

We observed that Intertek redefined the Total Quality Assurance and stated their purpose and vision.

Representatives of Intertek explained their daily operation.

We took a photo with flame hoods.

And then we visited the instrument room (e.g. GCMS, HPLC).

Lastly, we took a group photo for memory.

After that, we went to the canteen to have lunch. It electronically measures your food type and weight to calculate costs.

This is the recycling belt for washing dishes.

At the end, we separated two teams that Minda and I went to Futian Station. We took a photo in front of the brand “Guangdong-Macau Traditional Chinese Medicine Technology, Industrial Park” for memory.

The other team, led by Dr Jane Wong and Dr Aaron Tong, travelled to Macau to taste its special cuisine. We had a very good trip today and thanks Intertek.

Reference:

HKSQ - https://hksq.org/

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ZJU Public Online Course for DeepSeek Series

Recently, DeepSeek has become popular all over the world. Its system-level collaborative innovation of algorithms, models, and systems has achieved results that bringing infinite imagination to the technological breakthroughs and challenges towards general artificial intelligence (AGI). In order to systematically analyze DeepSeek's innovative exploration, Zhejiang University's artificial intelligence research team launched a series of online open courses on DeepSeek started on 17^th Feb 2025. The theme named “Decoding DeepSeek's "breaking the circle" power and exploring the future world of AI technology” (解码DeepSeek“破圈”之力，探索人工智能技术明日世界！) 

The first speaker was Prof. Wu Fei (吴飞教授) and his topic entitled “Review Three Major AI Principles and Strengthening General Education” (回望AI三大主义与加强通识教育). His talk separated into three parts including AI three major principles, from ChatGPT to DeepSeek and AI general education.

Three Major AI Principles are Symbolism, Connectionism, and Behaviorism. Prof. Wu explained one by one. Recently, connectionism is more popular through machine learning and deep learning.

And then he introduced what is Generative Pretraining Transformer (GPT). Prof. Wu pointed out three key elements for AI success and they are Algorithm, Big Data and Computing Power.

He quoted Rich Sutton article “The Bitter Lesson in AI” that "The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin. The ultimate reason for this is Moore's law".

After that Prof. Wu introduced DeepSeek that breakthrough the ceiling of big computation power!

And then DeepSeek V3 was discussed including its Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model.

For DeepSeek R1, he briefed that model trained via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) and demonstrated that the reasoning patterns of larger models can be distilled into smaller models, resulting in better performance.

Finally, Professor Wu Fei introduced Zhejiang University’s AI general education course, which is a compulsory course.

He also mentioned the importance of developing AI teaching materials.

Lastly, he used a poem to conclude his talk that is “Artificial Intelligence, Education First, Industry-University Collaboration, Leading Innovation”(人工智能、教育先行、產學協作、引領創新).

Prof. Chen Wenzhi (陈文智) was the second speaker and his talk named “Chatting or Acting?— DeepSeek’s breakthrough and the future prospects of “Zhejiang University Professor” (Chatting or Acting？—DeepSeek的突破边界与“浙大先生”的未来图景)

First, he briefly analyzed DeepSeek’s technological breakthroughs and explain the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) structure.

And then introduced the Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) and explained how to increase the efficiency. 

He then mentioned the optimization engineering of DeepSeek.

Deepseek’s low-precision training and cost control were discussed.

After that Prof. Chen pointed out three turning point including Strategy, Computation Power and Data. We need to gain new breakthroughs through algorithm innovation.

Finally, he introduced three ways to optimize performance of large models and they are Model Distillation, Model Fune Tuning and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Lastly, Prof. ChenWenzhi introduced “Zhejiang University Professor”+DeepSeek+Carsi to achieve “Everyone uses AI and everyone knows AI”

At the end, he introduced the vision of future study in Zhejiang University.

Reference:

浙江大学推出DeepSeek系列专题线上公开课 - https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/tiSwOaj2STUVTX7GDpN5qw

浙江大学 - https://www.zju.edu.cn/

CAAI - https://caai.cn/