UM students win second prize in information communications technology competition

A team of students from the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) of the University of Macau (UM) represented Macao at the 8th Huawei ICT Competition Asia Pacific 2023-2024 and won the second prize in the Cloud Track. The UM team will participate in the global final of the competition in Shenzhen in May.

The competition, held in Jakarta, Indonesia, witnessed the participation of over 6,400 top students from 14 countries and regions in Asia Pacific. Under the theme ‘Connection, Glory, and Future’, the competition included four tracks: Innovation, Network, Cloud, and Computing. The UM team, comprising FST students Wong Iok Keong, Zhou Wenjie and Xie Daixu who won the regional competition in Macao last year, competed in the Asia Pacific final under the guidance of U Leong Hou, head of the Centre for Data Science of the Institute of Collaborative Innovation and associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science of FST at UM.