FCMS Launch Ceremony & Academic Forum on Future AI Computing

The Launch Ceremony of the newly established Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (FCMS) was held on 7^th Apr 2025. In the beginning, COMP teaching team took a photo in front of the banner for memory. 

(Left: Dr. Raymond Pang, Dr. Jeff Tang, Dr. Kevin Yuen, Prof. Andy Chun and I)

I met Prof. Li Qing (Dept Head of COMP) and Prof. KF Wong (CUHK) and took a photo together.

I also met Prof. Witman Hung. I knew him a long time ago in the Science Park when we supported Dr. Samson Tam for Legislative Council election.

Took a photo with my colleague Prof. Hongxia Yang. We both come from industry, but she is proficient in large language models, and I come from a semiconductor testing laboratory in Science Park.

Dr. Leong Hong-Va and Dr. Mohamed Aquil Mirza were also here.

Afterwards, I took a group photo with Prof. Kay Chen Tan, Prof. Sam Kwong, and Prof. Andy Chun, all of whom had served in CityU.

In the beginning of the launch ceremony, Prof. Sun Dong (Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry) gave an opening remark. He congratulates for the new faculty establishment and expected us to lead AI innovation and technology.

Then Prof. Jin-Guang TENG (President, PolyU) gave welcome speech to all guests, students and colleagues. 

And then Prof. Chang-Wen CHEN (Interim Dean, FCMS) gave speech to introduce FCMS that we had first AIDA second major in the world with outstanding academic leaders in PolyU Academy of Artificial Intelligence (PAAI). 

FCMS had three departments and they are Applied Mathematics, Computing and Data Science & AI. 

FCMS is unique in offering a second major in AIDA for a new generation of students with strong AIDA skills. Combined with computing and mathematical skills, it provides a strong foundation for advances in artificial intelligence.

Finally, Prof. Chen shared FCMS vision and mission.

The Ceremony started.

All the guests took a group photo and raised their glasses to toast.

We enjoyed the tea break before the forum.

I together with Prof. Henry Chan and Dr. Leong Hong-Va to take photo with Prof. KF Wong (CUHK) for memory. Dr Leong and Prof. KF Wong have known each other for a long time.

After that the Academic Forum on Future AI Computing started, the guests included Prof. Yi Ma (HKU), Dr. Tao Mei (HiDream.ai), Prof. Xin Yau (LingnanU) and Prof. Hongxia Yang (PolyU).

Prof. Chang-Wen CHEN chaired the forum and reviewed four topics for discussion.

The first topic is sustainable AI computing for the future.

The second topic is general intelligence issues.

The third topics is synthetic data issues.

The last topics is AI for medicine and healthcare issues.

Q&A

Reference

FCMS, PolyU - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/fcms/

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

ICAC Guest Talks for PolyU Students 2025

I am honor to invite ICAC senior officer – Ms. Katherine Ma giving guest talk to my students in courses named COMP 3511 – Legal Aspects and Ethics of Computing and COMP 3512 – Legal Aspects, Professionalism and Ethics of Computing in the Department of Computing, PolyU on 3 & 11 Apr 2025. Each class has near 120 students and COMP 3512 is not only for computing students but also engineering students.  ICAC guest talks aimed to equip our students’ anti-bribery concepts and business ethical dilemma. I presented appreciation certificate to Ms. Katherine Ma before the class.

I also selfie with Katherine and students for memory.

In the beginning, Ms. Ma gave outlines of the talk included Why professional ethics matters, Corruption prone areas, Prevention of Bribery Ordinance and Ethical decision.

After that she surveyed students about common corruption risks in computing and IT industries. Students replied different factors such as leak of data, procurement fraud, selling data, etc.

She also explained what is “Advantage” defined by the ordinary.

In the second class, I also presented appreciated certificate to Ms. Katherine Ma before the talk.

She played two videos for different scenarios and asked student any violation of laws and any advantages involved.  

Students poll results are hacking software, disclosing private information and data leakage that could be common corruption risk. COMP students replied more technically.

At the end, Ms. Katherine Ma used the words ETHICS PLUS as conclusion. ETHICS stands for E-Establish facts, T-Track stakeholders, H-Have assessed positions, I-Identify alternatives, C-Compare options and S-Select action.

PLUS stands for P-Professional, L-Legal requirements, U-Uncompromising self-vales and S-Sunshine test.

Remark: My courses designed for professional body (e.g. HKCS and HKIE) requirements on code of conduct. The course content mainly included Ethical Management and Analysis, InfoSec and AI Ethics, Privacy Law and Computer Related Crime Issues, IP management, Entrepreneurship – Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Startup ecosystem, as well as, Professional Bodies Code of Conduct, etc.

Reference:

ICAC - https://www.icac.org.hk/en/home/index.html

HKIE article: Revamping the computing ethics course for the age of AII - https://www.hkengineer.org.hk/issue/vol52-nov2024/feature_story/?id=18470

BSc in Computer Science - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/comp/study/ug-programmes/comp/subjects/

20240411: ICAC Guest Talks for PolyU Students - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/04/icac-guest-talks-for-polyu-students.html