Department of Computer Science HKBU
Former PG Days

Report of 4th PG Day

The department has initiated and launched the 4th Postgraduate Research Symposium (PG Day). The purpose is to enhance the research atmosphere and share the research experience and ideas among the postgraduate students.

Acting Head, Prof. YW Leung, giving an opening address
[Acting Head, Prof. YW Leung, giving an opening address]

Following the big success of the three previous Postgraduate Day in 2005 and early 2006, the 4th PG Day was successfully held on July 3, 2006. The main program contains three sessions of presentations from the PhD and Mphil students. It covers a variety of research topics, including Mobile Positioning, Sensor network, Data Mining, Web Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, and so forth. Both of Faculty members and students have actively participated in this event.

Most the postgraduate students have been participated in the event One of our postgraduate student, Victor Cheng, is presenting his research report
[Most the postgraduate students have been participated in the event] [One of our postgraduate student, Victor Cheng, is presenting his research report]

In this symposium, Mr. Zhili Wu won the best paper award, His paper entitled "A Semi-supervised SVM for Manifold Learning" proposes a novel objective function that combines the manifold consistency of whole dataset with the hinge loss of class label prediction. Among all the presentations, Mr. Kafung Ng won the best presentation award.

Mr. Zhili Wu, Vincent Mr. Ka-fung Ng, Edward
[Mr. Zhili Wu, Vincent
(Winner of Best Paper Award)]
[Mr. Ka-fung Ng, Edward
(Winner of Best Presentation Award)]