InnoHK Launch Ceremony
The InnoHK Launch Ceremony was successfully held today on May 25, marking a new milestone in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government’s commitment to promoting Hong Kong’s innovation and technology (I&T). As the flagship I&T initiative of the HKSAR Government, InnoHK aims to promote global research collaboration with a view to putting Hong Kong on the global advanced technology map.
Award – DialDoc@ACL 2022 Challenge
We are pleased to announce that our Principal Investigator Professor Helen Meng’s system ranks an overall FIRST in the 2022 DialDoc Workshop which was organized by The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This year, ACL organized the 2022 DialDoc Workshop which hosted the Shared Task on building open-book goal-oriented dialogue systems. Out of the many systems that entered the Challenge, the organizers conducted automatic evaluation on two tests. The CPII-NLP system topped both leaderboards. Then the organizers selected a fraction (100) of the dialogs for human evaluators who scored them manually. Thereafter the top 3 systems were-reranked based on human-scoring. The CPII system ranked top on the SEEN leaderboard and ranked second in the UNSEEN leaderboard, and achieved the BEST System Overall in the DialDoc@ACL 2022 Challenge!
International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva
CPII is pleased to announce that our Principal Investigator Professor Chen Shih-Chi has been awarded the Gold Medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in recognition of his contribution to the city’s innovation ecosystem.
The International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva is the world’s most prestigious award devoted exclusively to inventions. This year, the event was held virtually on 16 – 20th March and attracted nearly 800 inventions from 25 countries and regions. Total 78 awards were scooped by HKSTP’s partner companies, while Prof Chen’s team contributed to one of the triumphs.
Partnering with Key Global Institutions to Establish the Principles on AI for Climate Action
CPII is partnering with key global institutions from Artificial Intelligence (AI) Science and Technology to establish the Principles on AI for Climate Action. To address the importance of global climate change and ecosystems, CPII is now partnering with key global institutes, including International Research Center for AI Ethics and Governance of Institute of Automation, Institute for AI International Governance of Tsinghua University, Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence of Technical University of Munich, Center for AI and Data Governance of Singapore Management University, SPARK UNDP Sustainable Development Goals Innovation Lab, CUHK’s Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Centre, AI for Sustainable Development Goals Cooperation Network, Centre for AI Research from South Africa, Research Center for Brain-inspired Intelligence from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Institute for Science and Technology Policy of Tsinghua University. We believe that stakeholders of AI industry should deeply collaborate with other sectors to address climate change and to contribute to the global climate agenda.
Inaugural Lecture of Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professorship of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management by Professor Helen Meng
Professor Helen Meng gave an inaugural lecture as the Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management on Dec 7, 2021 (4pm). Details can be found at:
https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/event/inaugurallecturehelenmeng/
CUHK launches six InnoHK Centres to power the innovation agenda
EVENTS Categories CUHK launches six InnoHK Centres to power the innovation agenda MEDIA COVERAGE November, 2021 Details can be found on the following website: CUHK launches six InnoHK Centres to power the innovation agenda
IEEE William E. Sayle II Award
Professor Rosanna Chan has been awarded the IEEE William E. Sayle II Award for Achievement in Education in recognition of her contributions to the field of learning technologies for special education needs.
Source from:
https://ieee-edusociety.org/awards/ieee-william-e-sayle-ii-award-achievement-education
SciTech Challenge 2021
CPII’s team in spoken language research participated in the SciTech Challenge 2021 and won the championship with the entry entitled “Dysarthric Speech Reconstruction”. The goal of our work is to leverage AI-enabled speech technologies to help people with difficulty in pronouncing words due to a neuromotor disorder — a condition known as dysarthria. Dysarthria has a number of causes, including stroke, Parkinsons, brain injuries, etc. The individual needs to devote much effort to speaking and yet dysarthric speech often has reduced intelligibility for listeners. In order to overcome reduced communicative ability due to the speech impairment, our team proposed a state-of-the-art neural approach to automatically reconstruct dysarthric speech to become normal speech. This work is not only novel from the technological perspective, but it can potentially offer great enhancements towards social inclusion for dysarthric individuals. The project aligns well with the commitment of our centre to advance AI-enabled perceptual and interactive technologies for societal benefits.
AI for Cognitive Health
Population ageing is a global concern. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people aged over 60 will nearly double to make up 22% of the world’s population by 2050, while the number of Hong Kong people aged over 65 will rise to make up 35% of the local population. Neurocognitive disorders (NCD), which include various types of dementia, are particularly prominent in elderly people. As spoken language can be easily captured (even remotely) and enables sensitive cognitive assessments, it can be used for early NCD diagnoses.
In this event, the Dr. James Glass from MIT and Prof Helen Meng from CPII presented the latest Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven research that automatically extracts spoken language biomarkers for early detection of NCD. This research aligns well with WHO’s plan of making dementia a public health and social care priority at national and international levels.
2022 Claude E. Shannon Award
IEEE Information Theory Society announced that Professor Raymond Yeung will be awarded the 2022 Claude E. Shannon Award for consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the IEEE Information Theory Society. The award recognizes consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Source from:
https://www.itsoc.org/honors/claude-e-shannon-award
https://www.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/lnews/21-07-20.shtml
https://www.itsoc.org/news/yeung-named-2022-claude-e-shannon-award-winner