List of Awardees
Best Paper Award
Decreasing decay rate of tropical cyclones in response to ocean warming
Mo Zhou and Shuo Wang
Best Paper Runner-up
Achieving ultrahigh strength and ductility in high-entropy alloys via dual precipitation
Jiaming Guo
Multifunctional zeolite film enables stable high-voltage operation of LiCoO2 cathode
Zezhou Lin and Haitao Huang
Best Paper Merit
Adaptive Debiased SGD in High-dimensional Generalized Linear Models with Streaming Data
Yuanhang Luo, Ruijian Han, Lan Luo, Yuanyuan Lin and Jian Huang
Global dynamics of an indirect prey-taxis system with an anti-predation mechanism
Jiawei Chu
Livelihood, Belief, Life, and Ecology: Unveiling the Warmth Wisdom of Farmers and Herdsmen in the Gra-nang Valley of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Heng Peng
Opioid Crisis and Firm Downside Tail Risks: Evidence from the Options Market
Jie Cao, Yajing Wang, Xintong Zhan and Weiming Zhang
Best Presentation Awards
Session 1
Lower extremity kinematic measurement using markerless motion capturing (MMC) in persons with a stroke: A cross-sectional experimental study
Wing Tung Lam and N.K. Kenneth Fong
Session 2
A Phone-based Distributed Ambient Temperature Measurement System with An Efficient Label-free Automated Training Strategy
Dayin Chen, Xiaodan Shi, Haoran Zhang, Xuan Song, Dongxiao Zhang, Yuntian Chen and Jinyue Yan
Session 3
Size effect on the mechanical behaviours of pure copper sheet-based triply periodic minimal surface structures fabricated by micro-laser powder bed fusion
Dien Hu
Session 4
Elderly-Friendly AI Financial Assistant Design
Ziyi Chen, Yujie Zhu and Stephen Jia Wang
Session 5
Liner shipping fleet planning with uncertain demand: a data-driven distributionally robust chance-constrained optimization approach
Xu Xin, Shuaian Wang and Tao Zhang
Session 6
Discovery of antimicrobials targeting RNA polymerase-sigma factor interaction
Jiang Liu and Cong Ma
Session 7
High-throughput drugs screening platform for Glioblastoma Multiforme utilizing p21/MSI-1 interactions
Pok Kong Tsoi, Man Ding Wong, Xian Liu and Liang-Ting Lin
Session 8
Advanced Phased Array Technology Facilitated by Multi-Functional Metasurfaces for Satellite-Assisted Internet of Things Application
Yuqi He and Wei Lin
Session 9
High-strength and high-conductivity additively manufactured Cu-O alloy enabled by cellular microstructure
Qi Liu and Zibin Chen
Session 10
Small talk in academic workplace: time-wasting or work facilitator?
Xinrui Li
Session 11
BaiTest: an AI Evaluation Platform for Deploying ML-based Forecasting Models in Building HVAC System
Yang Deng, Rui Liang and Dan Wang
Session 12
A Conditional Generative Adversarial Network for Signal Data Augmentation in Ultra-precision Machining Surface Roughness Prediction
Suiyan Shang, Chi Fai Cheung and Pai Zheng
Session 13
Association of L/M cone amplitude ratios and myopia in human adults
Nandini Ravi and Henry Chan
Session 14
Non-convergence Analysis of Probabilistic Direct Search
Cunxin Huang and Zaikun Zhang
Session 15
Non-Prehensile Tool-Object Manipulation by Integrating LLM-Based Planning and Manoeuvrability-Driven Controls
Hoi Yin Lee, Peng Zhou, Wanyu Ma, Anqing Duan, Chenguang Yang and David Navarro-Alarcon
Session 16
Therapeutic efficacy of Glypican-3 peptide-link Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-Macrophage in HCC
Wing Hei Leung, Oi Ning Leung, Tsun Ting Wong and Kin Wah Lee
Session 17
Designing Electrolytes with Steric Hindrance and Film-Forming Booster for High-Voltage Potassium Metal Batteries
Zhenlu Yu and Biao Zhang
Session 18
Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Trash Collection Robot with Speech Recognition, Dynamic Control, and YOLO Object Detection
Xianzhe Chen, Zian Wang, Hengyu Wu, Hailong Huang and Guanzhong Zhou
Best Presentation Runner-up
Session 1
A novel way to measure refractive errors using a semi-automated refraction system - “Eyeropter”
Lok Hin Chan, Jinhong Sun, Elie De Lestrange Anginieur, Venus Suen, Eric Cheng, George Woo, Allen My Cheong and Lydia Yu
Cortical Activity during Freezing of Gait and Voluntary Stopping in Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease: A Protocol of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study
Yawen Chen
Session 2
Addressing Multimodel Forgetting in Continual Learning with Growing Model Capacity
Zhao Yuqing, Divya Saxena, Jiannong Cao, Xiaoyun Liu and Changlin Song
Artificial Intelligence Boost Bridge Life Cycle Management
Lai Li and You Dong
Session 3
Development of a Vanadium-Chromium Redox Flow Battery for Future Large-Scale Energy Storage
Xiaoyu Huo, Xingyi Shi, Yuran Bai, Mingcong Tang, Yikai Zeng and Liang An
Two-terminal Organic Electrochemical Transistor Biosensors with Super-Nernstian Response
Zhiyuan Tian and Feng Yan
Session 4
Design and Implementation of the Joule Heating Network for Simultaneous Thermal and Moisture Management in Advanced Fabrics
Wanyu He
Skin-inspired permeable structure-gradient fiber mats for pressure sensing in rehabilitation assistance
Jinxing Jiang and Qiyao Huang
Session 5
Multi-level genetic analysis identified a candidate mutation for myopia with changes in genetic activity
Lordjie Marr Otamias Morilla
Elucidating the functional impact of copy number variations in complex diseases through an enhanced computational pipeline
Jiahong Sun, Kent Wong, Wenfei Jin, Shea Ping Yip and Chien-Ling Huang
Session 6
Tiny endotoxin, big impact: How a minuscule portion of PM2.5 causes disproportionate toxicity
Jinyan Yu, Tian Chen and Ling Jin
Enhancing Robustness in PV Segmentation: A General Generative AI-based Image Augmentation Method
Hongjun Tan, Zhiling Guo, Zhengyuan Lin and Jinyue Yan
Session 7
Does social capital influence care planning among older migrants relocating to their adult children? Evidence from urban China
Rui Kang
Urban Metagenomics in Action: A Metagenomic-Enabled Surveillance of Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance in the Hong Kong Subway System
Alison Yee Ting Lam and Kit Hang Siu
Session 8
User-Assisted Networked Sensing in Ofdm Cellular Network with Erroneous Anchor Position Information
Xianzhen Guo, Qin Shi, Liang Liu and Shuowen Zhang
Distributed Compressive Sensing for Wireless Signal Transmission in Structural Health Monitoring Systems
Yiwei Li, Jiannong Cao and Youliang Ding
Session 9
Interactions between transport phenomena and transient characteristics of solid oxide cell
Zhaojian Liang, Jingyi Wang, Keda Ren, Zhenjun Jiao, Meng Ni, Liang An, Yang Wang, Jinbin Yang and Mengying Li
Bioinspired In-Sensor Spectral Adaptation for Perceiving Spectrally Distinctive Features
Jialiang Wang, Bangsen Ouyang, Guang Zeng and Yang Chai
Session 10
The development of definitional skill in Mandarin-speaking Preschoolers: Evidence from a novel word learning experiment
Weihua Duan, Jiayu Yu and Li Sheng
Exploring the Formation of Place Attachment in Zoo Tourism: Attachment Transfer and the Role of Human-animal Interactions
Yang Zhou, Guyang Lin and Mimi Li
Session 11
Towards Smart Contract Fuzzing on GPUs
Weimin Chen, Xiapu Luo, Haipeng Cai and Haoyu Wang
A Reddit-based suicide ideation detection approach using multi-task learning
Ziyan Zhang and Qing Li
Session 12
Enhancing Bimanual Robotic Manipulation through Safe Reinforcement Learning and Visual-Language Model
Rui Cao, Jiannong Cao and Zhixuan Liang
Learning Predictive World Models for Intelligent Agents in 3D Open-World Virtual Environments
Yuqi Wang and Bing Wang
Session 13
Evaluation for Applying Traditional Chinese Medicine Large Language Models in Hong Kong's Primary Healthcare: A Mixed-Methods Study Protocol
Shuya Lu, Jiqiao Lu, Yini Lai, Janice Ho, Joyce Chung and Lin Yang
A Scoping Review on Motor Imagery to Improve Cognitive Function and Depression among Adults with Neurological Disorders or Mobility Impairments
Yule Hu, Yan Li, Jiaying Li, Xiaoxiao Mei, Jed Montayre, Janelle Yorke and Angela Leung
Session 14
Probabilistic Building Load Forecasting via Conditional Diffusion Model
Rui Liang, Yang Deng and Dan Wang
Personalized route designing and decision making for autonomous vehicles
Yijia Chen
Session 15
Hierarchical Bayesian Model Updating and Structural Condition Assessment of Long-span Bridges Considering Operational Uncertainties
Lanxin Luo, Mingming Song, Limin Sun and Yong Xia
rLSTM for Metamodeling of Stochastic Dynamic Systems and its Application to Reliability Analysis
Yu Zhang and You Dong
Session 16
Modulation of insulin release by non-invasive ultrasound for diabetes treatment
Xinyi Zhao, Yong Wu, Jinghui Guo, Yizhou Jiang and Lei Sun
Generation of a NFAT5-GFP fusion protein using CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene knock-in strategy to understand the regulation of NFAT5 biomolecular condensate
Kai Yuan
Session 17
Novel organic compounds for highly efficient conversion-based energy storage in zinc battery
Xianhong Chen and Wai-Yeung Wong
Development of bacterial transcription antitermination inhibitors as novel antimicrobial agents
Sin-Yu Ke and Cong Ma
Session 18
A Prospective Cross-border Transport Infrastructure: Effects of the China-Nepal Railway on Regional Development
Angxi Xie
Coordinated delivery riders and drones for food delivery
Mingzhi Lyu and Wei Liu
Best Poster Award
Low-Rank Tensor Networks with Inter- and Intra-Modality Consistency Regularization for Psychological Resilience Prediction
Zhi Zhang, Yan Liu, Mengxia Gao, Yu Yang, Jiannong Cao, Wai Kai Hou, Shirley Li, Sonata Yau, Yun Kwok Wing and Tatia M. C. Lee
Best Poster Runner-up
Traffic-related PM2.5 pollution in Hong Kong: source- and component-resolved health risks and cytotoxicity
Qian Yang, Jiawen Xie, Yihua Wang and Xiangdong Li
Older adults’ perceptions and acceptability toward the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based health technologies: A qualitative study
Hiu Toon Jessica Lee and Kwan Ching Arkers Wong