COMP Retreat 2025 cum Research Student Conference (Day 1)

The second COMP retreat in 2025 was held from 18 to 20 Jun 2025. This time included the PolyU COMP – HKUST (GZ) INFH Research Student Conference on 19 Jun 2025. The theme is “The Future in an AI-Driven World”. In the beginning, Prof. Andy Chun and I took a photo for memory.

Many colleagues arrived and prepared the meeting.

In the beginning, Prof. Li Qing (Head of COMP) gave opening speech, welcome the new staffs and reported the departmental achievement.

Then Dr. Hong Va Leong introduced the new COMP teaching and learning grands.

And then Prof. Ken Yiu reported the undergraduate scheme in computing and AI.

After that Prof. Yixin Cao briefed the postgraduate programmes.

Then the Invited Talk by Prof. Lei Chan (Dean of Information Hub, HKUST (Guangzhou)) and his topic entitled “Data Science for AI and AI for Data Science”.

He discussed the benefits of data management for AI and then pointed out challenges including “data preparation”, “optimized model training and inference” and “model validation and explanation”. 

Finally, Prof. Lei Chan mentioned the recent research on data for AI and discussed its challenges.

Prof. Li presented COMP souvenir to Prof. Chan for appreciation of his sharing.

I also took a photo with Prof. Lei Chan and Prof. Li Qing for memory. 

Before the lunch, Dr. Raymond Pang, Dr. Jeff Tang and I took a photo in front of the conference banner for memory.

We had a lunch together.

(Left: Dr. Hongcheng Xie, Dr. Mohammed Aquil Mirza, Dr. Mingsong Lyu, Prof. Li Ping, Dr. Raymond Pang, Dr. Jeff Tang, Dr. Kevin Yuen, Prof. Andy Chun and Dr. Walter Fung)

In afternoon, Prof. Allen Au reported research assessment exercise (RAE) which is a comprehensive peer review on research quality of UGC-funded universities.

And then Prof. Henry Chan reported the collaboration and partnership.

After all reporting and discussion, the guest speakers Prof. Lui Sha, Prof. Allen Au and Prof. Jieming Shi shaed the topic named “Reaching for the Top”.

Prof. Lui Sha shared the common best R&D practices topics to us.

And then Prof. Jieming Shi shared grant applications and teaching experience.

Lastly, Prof. Allen Au shared the working productively with industry. His lesson learn was “Do not work for free: value your expertise and time!”

In night, we had dinner in the hall. So many research students joined together!

Reference

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

20250107: COMP Retreat 2025 cum Sharing Talk “Bridging Academia & Society” - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/01/comp-retreat-2025-cum-sharing-talk.html

20240522: My second retreat in COMP Dept., PolyU 2024 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/05/my-second-retreat-in-comp-dept-polyu.html

20240111: My first retreat in COMP Dept., PolyU 2024 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/01/my-first-retreat-in-comp-dept-polyu-2024.html