Advocate, a team comprising students and a teacher from Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU), brought home the First Prize in the Innovation Track at the 10th Huawei ICT Competition Global Final in June. Only seven teams worldwide have received this honour.
(Previously: BNBU students head to ICT Competition final)
They are: two fourth-year students, Liu Chenxi from the Data Science Programme, and Zhang Hanyuan from the Business Analytics Programme; and Dr Chen Donglong from the Faculty of Science and Technology.
Zhang Hanyuan (left) at the award ceremony
This year's ICT Competition attracted more than 220,000 university students and faculty members from over 2,000 tertiary institutions across more than 100 countries and regions. After progressing through national and regional rounds, 177 teams from 49 countries and regions advanced to the Global Final and received awards.
During the competition, Liu was responsible for implementing the project’s core technical architecture, large-scale model fine-tuning, and agent logic design. Meanwhile, Zhang drew on his dual background in technology and business to identify clinical needs within the healthcare sector and assist with adjustments to the technical direction.
Liu Chenxi in the competition
Dr Chen, the team supervisor, remarked that the collaboration between these two students from different disciplines, who successfully integrated AI technology with the humanistic needs of healthcare, exemplifies the strengths of the liberal arts education at BNBU in the area of interdisciplinary collaborative innovation.
Dr Chen Donglong with Liu
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Editor: Cecilia Yu
