UIC held the Ninth Science and Technology Poster Presentation, with a total of 96 projects on display, including final year projects from postgraduates and senior undergraduates in addition to research projects from non-graduating undergraduates, on 21 April.
The projects involve several fields such as associative memory, metaphor detection, post-quantum cryptosystem, lead contamination, digital currencies, traditional Chinese medicine, and stock portfolio investment. These students come from Programmes of Applied Psychology (APSY), Computer Science and Technology (CST), Environment Science (ENVS), Financial Mathematics (FM), Food Science (FST), Data Science (DS), and Statistics (STAT).
President of UIC, Prof Tang Tao, during the opening speech, said the Poster Presentation is an annual tradition of DST. The event aims to provide students opportunities to apply theoretical knowledge to practice and communicate with experts and scholars from various fields.
President Tang gives a speech to open the ceremony
Also, Prof Tang explained that UIC's second-phase construction would boost the development of technology and research, increase the laboratory amount, and expand the postgraduate programmes. He hopes students and staff of DST could make full use of their knowledge, strengthen ties with enterprises, and promote the technology development of the Greater Bay Area.
UIC's Vice President (Academic) and the Dean of Division of Science and Technology, Prof Huang Huaxiong, said that the Poster Presentation provides students opportunities to solve problems out of classes. This experience is vital for their integrative competence cultivation and future career development.
Prof Huang says Poster Presentation provides students opportunities
External judges for the Poster Presentation include College of education for future, Assistant professor of College of Education for Future, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Dr Jiajia Zhu; Professor of the College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Prof Wu Qitang; Researcher and PhD. Supervisor of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Dr Xu Xiaoding; Founder and CEO of Zhuhai 4DAGE Technology, Dr Cui Yan; Chairman of the Board of Supervisors in Zhuhai Orbita Aerospace Science & Technology Co., Ltd, Mr Yang Ge; Dean of The Big Data Engineering Institute, Prof Li Jiongchen; Associate professor of Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Dr Chen Xianbing; as well as UIC's Chief Student Affairs Officer, Prof Wong Hong-Chung; Programme Director of Applied Mathematics, Prof Di Yana; Chairman of the 9th Poster Presentation, Professor of ENVS, Prof Daniel Ruan; Assistant Professor of ENVS, Dr Yuen Bun-Ho; Professor and Programme Director of FST, Prof Xu Baojun; Assistant Professor of APSY, Dr Chen RongRong; Assistant Professor of FM, Dr Eric Zhao Pengfei; Associate Professor of STAT, Dr Deng Yuhui; Lecturer of DS, Mr Tang Tian; Assistant Professor of Globalisation and Development (GAD), Dr Michal Vavrik.
Students and judges on the site
Dr Cui Yan mentioned that UIC students proved that practical experiences are more important than theoretical learning. Their work is excellent in theory and application innovation. For example, some students cooperate with corporates on hotel management, while some present data visualisation. They gave inspiration to enterprises when completing their final year projects.
The Poster Presentation awards
The Best Poster Award by Division (for undergraduate)
The Best Poster Award by Division (for postgraduate)
The Best Poster Award by Applied Psychology Programme
The Best Poster Award by Data Science Programme
The Best Poster Award by Environment Science Programme
The Best Poster Award by Financial Mathematics Programme
The Best Poster Award by Food Science Programme
The Best Poster Award by Statistics Programme
The Best Poster Award by Computer Science and Technology Programme
DST Awards on E-learning
Biodegradation as the solution to petroleum-contaminated soil treatment
Pang Xingming and Zhang Xinyu
Pang Xingming and Zhang Xinyu, winners of the Best Poster Award by Division (for undergraduate), presented their project Effects of pH and Microbial Interaction on Biodegradation Efficiency of Diesel Degradable Microorganisms Isolated from Petroleum-contaminated soil in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China.
Three bacterial strains were successfully isolated and used for the later biochemical and genetic analyses during the experimental period. Their finds showed that Pseudomonas hibiscicola demonstrated the highest diesel degrading efficiency. Besides, microbial interactions resulted in reducing the degrading potential of these microbes. The project could provide a solution to petroleum-contaminated soil treatment in the Greater Bay Area.
Application of Representative Points from Mixture of Two Normal Distribution in Statistical Inference
Li
Yinan, a first-year PhD student of Probability and Mathematical
Statistics Programme, won the Best Poster Award by Division (for
postgraduates). Her research topic was the Application of Representative Points from Mixture of Two Normal Distribution in Statistical Inference.
Li Yinan
Li Yinan said that her future research would focus on the applications of representative points on statistical inference. She will conduct further research and studies based on the current simulation results got in this project.
Project Study of Working Parents got the Student Choice Poster Awards
Xian Zijing, a fourth-year student of the APSY Programme, won the Student Choice Poster Award with his project Study of Working Parents: A Causal Model of Subjective Well-being, Work-family Enrichment and Influencing Antecedents.
Xian Zijing
The current study intended to integrate the causal relationship between subjective well-being, work-family enrichment, and standard antecedent variables using a structural equation model (SEM). The successful implementation of SEM confirmed the causal relationship between the variable factors in this study and simultaneously provided practical guidance for organisational management and further studies.
New model improves the performance of metaphor detection
Tian Zhanming, Wang Qizheng, Huang Zihao, fourth-year students from CST Programme, completed their studies on Integrating Word Knowledge and WordNet for Neural Metaphor Detection. A practical end-to-end metaphor detection framework with knowledge information of words is proposed.
(from left) Tian Zhanming, Wang Qizheng, Huang Zihao
Their contribution includes proving that augmenting knowledge information of words and incorporating knowledge base can significantly improve metaphor detection performance. The model outperforms their baseline in the metaphor detection task.
Efficient Arithmetic for Post-Quantum Lattice-Based Cryptosystem on RISC-V Core
Zhao Haosong, Su Rui, Lin Rui, both fourth-year students from the DS Programme, won the Best Poster Award by Data Science Programme with their project called Efficient Arithmetic for Post-Quantum Lattice-Based Cryptosystem on RISC-V Core.
(from left) Zhao Haosong, Su Rui, Lin Rui
Their project aims to adapt the Saber cryptosystem to an energy-efficient RISC-V development board T-Core and seek efficient arithmetic algorithms to accelerate the encryption and decryption processes.
New Insights into Molecular Mechanisms of "Cold or Hot" Nature of Food: When East Meets West
Zhou Yifan, a fourth-year student from the FST
Programme, collected the cold-hot nature-related studies in the recent
20 years in several popular databases such as PubMed, Google Scholar,
and Science Direct. She discovered that the nature of food is closely linked to chemical components, including minerals, water, carbohydrates, lipids, and amino acids.
Zhou Yifan
Yifan also found that chemical components correlated to the biological effects, comprising energy metabolism, inflammation response, oxidation reaction, immune response, and cell growth and proliferation. The thesis is currently issued on Food Research International.
Stock Portfolio Optimisation during COVID-19
Lu Yi, a fourth-year student from the STAT Programme, mentions that the aim of her Stock Portfolio Optimization during COVID-19 is to help investors to reduce the risk of investing during the pandemic. Her project provides some investment suggestions since the pandemic has brought considerable changes in the financial markets, with investors risking more than ever before.
Lu Yi
Lu Yi had to read lots of relevant works of literature since the thesis involves economics. Besides, she collected data and finish the programming and analysis of the models step by step, guided by her supervisor.
Bubble Test and Analysis of Bitcoin
Yang Fang and Kang Ziqing, fourth-year students from the FM Programme, analyse the nature of the Bitcoin bubble through the bubble model in their project Bubble Test and Analysis of Bitcoin.
Yang Fang and Kang Ziqing
They found that the bubble in the digital currency market was verified through the GSADF test. They also analysed the relationship between bitcoin price and Longold, SPX index and USD. They found that there are weak positive effects between them.
AWARDS LIST
DST Awards on E-learning
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Reporter: Du Jiewen
Editors: Samuel Burgess, Deen He, Covee Wang
