Our Centre Staff, Mr. Lam Hin Shun Thomas (M.Phil) has won top awards at the Global AI Challenge for Building E&M Facilities – AI Competition with Miss Li Qingyun (China Studies – Geography).

The Global AI Challenge for Building E&M Facilities is a global event to boost AI development and applications in the building services industry through a Technical Conference and an AI Competition, organized by the Guangdong Provincial Association for Science and Technology and the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department of the Government of the HKSAR. The Awards Ceremony will be held in late-April 2022.

The AI Competition is open to participants around the globe to develop AI models to predict the cooling demand of commercial buildings. Students from Computer Sciences, Finance and Decision Sciences, Geography, and Physics formed multi-disciplinary teams and collaborated to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and highlight the role of AI technology in smart city development.

The winners of the Grand Prize include Li Qingyun (China Studies – Geography), Yin Yiao (Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence), Zhou Shucheng (Information Technology Management), and Min Rui (Green Technology (Energy)). The other four winning teams for the Gold, Silver and Bronze prizes include the following students:

Lam Hin Shun Thomas from Geography and Asian Energy Studies Centre;
Ou Weijin, Hu Liu Ruochen, Xie Maokai, Zheng Boyu from Green Technology (Energy);
Mak Lok Yi, Tang Zhiye from Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence;
Yang Xu from Information Technology Management;
So Tin King from Finance and Decision Sciences; and,
Fong Long Lon Elvis from FinTech and Financial Analytics.

Lam Hin Shun Thomas
Research Assistant & M.Phil Student @ Asian Energy Studies Centre