Both the 6th Final Year Project (FYP) Competition and 3rd Postgraduate Paper Contest organized by the IEEE (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter has been recently concluded. This year, we have received more than 20 entries from different universities in Hong Kong, including the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong , the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Each submitted project/paper went through a review process by our panel consisting of experts in the area of computational intelligence. Finally, the six papers/projects were short listed, and then presented in the ceremony, which was held on September 5, 2009. As a result, the competition results are as follows:

Postgraduate Paper Contest:
1. First Prize: “Intrinsic Colorization”, Author: Xiaopei LIU (CUHK) Supervisor: Tien-Tsin Wong.
2. Second Prize: “Creating Competitive Products”, Author: Qian WAN (HKUST) Supervisor: Raymond Wong.
3. Third Prize: “Heteroscedastic Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis with Semi-Supervised Extension”, Author: Yu Zhang (HKUST) Supervisor: DY Yeung.

FYP Competition:

1. First Prize: “Optimal keypad solution for 4-key to16-key devices from WAVE approach”, Student: Warner Wa Lun, Hong (HKUST) Supervisor: Brian Mak.
2. Second Prize: “Internet Content Aggregation”, Student: YU Ki-Fung, Rocky (CUHK) Supervisor: Lee Yiu-Bun, Jack.
3. Third Prize: “Mining Document Similarity for Job Recommender System”, Student: CHEUNG Ching Yan, LAU Yip Wai, WONG Pui Man (HKU) Supervisor: Alwin Kwan