Campus Digest

BUers shine in Techathon+ 2024

Friday, 23 February 2024

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Dr Debajyoti Chowdhury (1st right) and his teammates win the Gold Award in in the “Trusted AI and Data Science” (Open Group) track.
HKBU winning participants share the joy with each other at the Hong Kong Techathon+ 2024.

 

Four HKBU students and five alumni forming into different teams and won six awards in Hong Kong Techathon+ 2024 jointly organised by the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), and 10 co-organising universities, including HKBU, from 26 to 28 January.

Among them, the team project named “CUROBIT” led by Dr Debajyoti Chowdhury, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Teaching and Research Division of the School of Chinese Medicine, has won the Gold Award in the “Trusted AI and Data Science” track as an open group. The project aims to develop an intelligent abnormality detection system that utilises a smart ring to analyse sleep health and provide real-time alerts to caregivers when users are approaching a dangerous threshold level, thereby intercepting in-sleep strokes.

In addition to the cash prizes, all winning teams were granted direct admission to HKSTP's Ideation Programme and had the opportunity to receive up to HKD100,000 in seed funding to actualise their business plans.

Hong Kong Techathon+ 2024 aims to identify more young people in Hong Kong who are passionate to get involved in startups. Participants collaborated in teams and designed their own innovation proposals with a balance of innovation, creativity, social impacts and feasibility, based on one of the four major technology themes, namely “Trusted AI & Data Science”, “Sustainability & ESG”, “Digital Economy” and “Smart Cities”.