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THU Hosts Contest in Smart Manufacturing Big Data Analysis

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Date : 2019-10-09

After a month-long preliminary, 57 teams from all over the country take on the challenge in the finals in the 2019 National Contest in Smart Manufacturing Big Data Analysis, aiming for the NTD 500K prize. The final competition was held at Tunghai University on September 21, 2019.

Team discussions during the contest

Tunghai President, Prof. Mao-Jiun Wang, together with Deputy Executive Secretary Prof. Andrew Yeh of the Office of Ministry of Science & Technology(MOST), Director Prof. Bor-Chen Kuo of the Department of Information and Technology, Ministry of Education(MOE), and representatives from industrial sponsors attended the event.

THU President Mao-Jiun Wang (front row left 7), Deputy Executive Secretary Prof. Andrew Yeh of the Office of Science & Technology, MOST (front row left 6), Director Prof. Bor-Chen Kuo of Department of Information and Technology, MOE (front row right 7) and guests

During his welcome remarks, President Wang emphasized the importance of AI talents in response to the fast-evolving intelligent systems. Tunghai University has set up the Cloud Innovation School together with Amazon AWS since 2018 to incubate cross-disciplinary AI talents. Besides encouraging the participating teams to enjoy the competition and to demonstrate team work, innovation and creativity, President Wang thanks the government agencies for administrative support and the companies for providing industrial data for the contest.

THU President Mao-Jiun Wang gives welcome remarks

Deputy Executive Secretary Prof. Andrew Yeh of the Office of Science & Technology, MOST ,thanks the industrial sponsors for putting in financial resources and real-life data. He also thanks teams in Tunghai University and Providence University for pre-processing the data provided by the companies so that it can be used in the contest.

Deputy Executive Secretary Prof. Andrew Yeh of the Office of Science & Technology, MOST is the major supporter for the event

Director Prof. Bor-Chen Kuo of the Department of Information and Technology, MOE, speaks for the ministry to support and encourage the participating students to take the opportunity to bridge the gap between classroom training and industrial implementations.

Director Prof. Bor-Chen Kuo of Department of Information and Technology, MOE makes remarks

The Contest this year has seen a growth of 28% from last year in the preliminary phase, marking a total of 600 participants. Members of the 57 teams who made their way to the final phase will have the chance of joining one of the sponsoring companies. Through joint efforts from the public agencies and the private sector, the contest sets a new cooperation model between the academia and the industry to help strengthen the momentum in big data analysis for smart manufacturing. Industrial sponsors this year include HiWin, Gongin, Tongtai, AIDC, and ITRC.

Group photo, 2019 National Contest in Smart Manufacturing Big Data Analysis

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