Information Session(7 November 2017)

Available Programmes

BSc and MSc Students1. Summer project-based study at University of Surrey, UK2. UNIPG-HKBU Italy Workshop Internship3. Study Tour

BSc Students only4. Exchange Programme to McGill University, Canada

5. Exchange Programme to Technical University of Munich, Germany6. Exachange Programme to University of Ljubljana, Slovenia7. Exachange Programme to Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland8. Exachange Programme to Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain9. Exachange Programme to University of Limerick, Ireland

10. UG Summer Research Scholarship

RundownI. BSc Students only• Exchange Programme to McGill University, Canada

• Exchange Programme to Technical University of Munich, Germany• Exachange Programme to University of Ljubljana, Slovenia• Exachange Programme to Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland• Exachange Programme to Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain• Exachange Programme to University of Limerick, Ireland

• UG Summer Research Scholarship

II. BSc and MSc Students• Summer project-based study at University of Surrey, UK• UNIPG-HKBU Italy Workshop Internship

III. Q and A Session

Study Tour

• Programme details will be announce in January 2018.

• Stay-tuned to our website and email announcement!

Semester 1, 2018-19

Objective

• Provide opportunities for undergraduate students to study abroad in prestigious overseas universities for one semester

McGill University

Where is McGill University? Rank 1st in Canada*

*According to QS World University Rankings 2017/18http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/

http://www.mcgill.ca/

Credit Transfer

• Take 3-4 courses in 2018-19 fall semester

• Credits can be transferred to HKBU

• Courses offer at McGill: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/academic/courses

• Discuss with your programme coordinator

Tuition Fee and Living Expenses

• Tuition Fee: Around CAD$9,000 to 20,000, depends on selected courses

• Living Expenses: Around CAD$12,000 (including meals, rent and transportation)

• Medical Insurance: Around CAD$500 per year (compulsory)

*From: http://www.isscc.com/big5/canu.html

Scholarship

• Full Scholarship– HK$ 100,000

– CGPA ≥ 3.3

• Half Scholarship– HK$ 50,000

– 3.0 < CGPA < 3.3

* Subject to satisfactory academic performance obtained at McGill University

Application Procedure

Date Action

5:30pm, 5 December 2017

Application Deadline. Applicant should submit:(1) a statement of your learning objectives in this programme and

explain why you deserve the scholarship; (2) an updated academic transcript; and(3) TOEFL/ IELTS score report or TOEFL/ IELTS test registration

confirmation.Online Submission to: https://goo.gl/Nqzq8z

January 2018 Interview (Schedule and venue to be announced)

Jan/Feb 2018 Announcement of results

April 2018 - Submit formal online application through McGill University website- Course Selection

Full year or Semester 2, 2018-19

Objective

• Provide opportunities for undergraduate students to study abroad in prestigious overseas universities for one or two semesters

Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany

Where is München (MuniCH)? Ranked 1st in Germany *

* According to QS World University Rankings 2017/18 http://www.topuniversities.com/universities/technische-universit%C3%A4t-m%C3%BCnchen#wurhttp://www.tum.de/en/homepage/

Credit Transfer

• Take 3-4 courses in 2018-19 per semester– Lecture period:

• Semester 1: Oct - Feb

• Semester 2: Apr – July

• Credits can be transferred to HKBU

• Courses offered at TUM: – Some senior year and MSc courses taught in

English

• Discuss with your programme coordinator

Application Procedure

• Through Exchange Program of the International Office, HKBUhttp://intl.hkbu.edu.hk/student_01.php

• Deadline: 5:30pm, 5 December 2017

Full year or Semester 2, 2018-19

Objective

• Provide opportunities for undergraduate students to study abroad in prestigious overseas universities for one or two semester(s)

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (UL FRI)

Where is UL FRI? Ranked 1st in Slovenia *

*According to QS World University Rankings 2017/18 https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-ljubljana

https://www.uni-lj.si/eng/

Credit Transfer

• Take 30 credits per semester

- Lecture period: Semester 1: October to January

Semester 2: February to June

• Credits can be transferred to HKBU

• Courses offered at UL FRI

- Some courses are taught in English

• Discuss with your programme coordinator

Application Procedure

• Through Exchange Program of the International Office, HKBUhttp://intl.hkbu.edu.hk/student_01.php

• Deadline: 5:30pm, 5 December 2017

Full year or Semester 2, 2018-19

Objective

• Provide opportunities for undergraduate students to study abroad in prestigious overseas universities for one or two semester(s)

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland (HSLU)

Where is HSLU? The largest educational institution in Switzerland *

*According to HSLU’s official website

https://www.hslu.ch/en/

Credit Transfer

• Take 24 credits per semester

– Lecture period:

Spring Semester: February to early July

Fall Semester: September to end January

• Credits can be transferred to HKBU

• Courses offered at HSLU

- Some courses are taught in English

• Discuss with your programme coordinator

Application Procedure

• Through Exchange Program of the International Office, HKBUhttp://intl.hkbu.edu.hk/student_01.php

• Deadline: 5:30pm, 5 December 2017

Full year or Semester 2, 2018-19

Objective

• Provide opportunities for undergraduate students to study abroad in prestigious overseas universities for one or two semester(s)

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain (UAM)

Where is UAM? Ranked 1st in Spain *

*According to QS World University Rankings 2017/18 https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/ universidad-aut%C3%B3noma-de-madrid

http://www.uam.es/ss/Satellite/en/home.htm

Credit Transfer

• Take 4-5 subjects per semester

- Lecture period: Semester 1: September to January

Semester 2: January to May/June

• Credits can be transferred to HKBU

• Courses offered at HSLU

- Some courses are taught in English

• Discuss with your programme coordinator

Application Procedure

• Through Exchange Program of the International Office, HKBUhttp://intl.hkbu.edu.hk/student_01.php

• Deadline: 5:30pm, 5 December 2017

Full year or one Semester, 2018-19

Objective

• Provide opportunities for undergraduate students to study abroad in prestigious overseas universities for one or two semester(s)

University of Limerick, Ireland (UL)Where is UL? Ranked QS 5 star in Ireland*

*According to QS World University Rankings 2017/18 https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-limerick

https://www.ul.ie/

Credit Transfer

• Take 4-5 subjects per semester

- Lecture period: Autumn Semester: September to December

Spring Semester: January to May

• Credits can be transferred to HKBU

• Courses offered at UL

- Most courses are taught in English

• Discuss with your programme coordinator

Application Procedure

• Through Exchange Program of the International Office, HKBUhttp://intl.hkbu.edu.hk/student_01.php

• Deadline: 5:30pm, 5 December 2017

Summer, 2018

Objective

• Aims to support students who plan to have graduate study overseas to attach to an overseas research laboratory for 4-8 weeks (Year 3 summer)

What you can Gain

• Opportunity to collaborate with international professors and researchers

• Hands-on research experience in overseas research laboratory

• Enrich your portfolio in academic research

Internship requirement

• IS students who participating this scheme upon satisfactory completion can be considered as fulfilled the requirement of COMP3016 Internship

Overseas Research Laboratories (2017-18)

Faculty Member Overseas Research Laboratory

Research Areas

Dr. William CheungInformation Sciences Institute (ISI)

University of Southern California, USA

Artificial Intelligence, Health Data

Analytics, Social Network Analysis

Dr. Byron Choi

Data Management Research Group

School of Computer Science and Engineering

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Big Data Management,

HCI-aware Data Management,

Graph Data Management,

Social Data Management,

Data Privacy,

Database Usability

Prof. J. L. XuCenter for Data-Intensive Systems (Daisy)

Aalborg University, Denmark

Databases and Data Management,

Geographic Information Systems, and

Mobile/Pervasive Computing

Prof. P. C. Yuen

Department of Computer Science

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH

Zurich), Switzerland

Theoretical Computer Science and IT in

Education

Prof. P. C. YuenCollege of Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Computer Vision and Pattern

Recognition

Scholarship

• Up to HK$15,000 per student to support the air ticket and accommodation expenses.

Who can Apply

Year 3 students who

• attaining a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or above at the end of Year 2 study

• attaining satisfactory performance after engaging in a research project under the supervision of an academic staff for at least one semester to pick up fundamental knowledge and skills in the respective research field.

Application Procedure

Date Action

12:00nn, 20 October 2017

Application Deadline. Applicant should submit:(1) the Application Form , invite supervisor to sign in

Part B

Application Form: https://goo.gl/NyCu2F

January 2018 Interview (Schedule and venue to be announced)

Early April 2018 Announcement of results

Summer, 2018

Objective

• Provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to experience research-based projects in a prestigious overseas university for one summer

– Undergraduate: up to 3 months (Jun – Aug)

– Students with MSc degree: up to 6 months

University of Surrey, UK

Where is University of SURREY? *Rank within top 10 in the UK

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/

(SOURCE: HTTP://WWW.SURREY.AC.UK/ABOUT/LEAGUETABLES/INDEX.HTM )

Project-based study

• Non-credit bearing

• Project supervision by both HKBU staff and Surrey staff– Find supervisor in HKBU first.

– Continue project at U of Surrey.

• Some project areas at Surrey– Machine learning (Prof. Yaochu Jin)

• http://www.surrey.ac.uk/computing/research/nice/index.htm

– Multimedia security and forensics (Prof. Tony Ho)• http://www.surrey.ac.uk/computing/research/msf/index.htm

What you can gain

• Overseas learning experience with close supervision in a prestige British institution

• Acquire research/project experience in summer 2018

Undergraduate students– May start doing FYP at Surrey

Students with MSc degree– May acquire fruitful research experience at Surrey

Who can Apply

• Eligible students- BSc Year 3/Year 4 students- MSc students

• Language requirements

– IELTS 6.5 or above, with min 6.0 in each component (NO exception)

• Discuss with Exchange Coordinator (Dr. H.W. Tam)

Tuition Fee and Living Expenses*

• No tuition fee, a bench fee of £100 per week, plus some admin fee at Surrey

• Students pay for:

– International travel

– Cost of accommodation, daily expenses

– Textbooks, hospitalization, medical and travel insurance, etc.

*From: http://www.isscc.com/big5/canu.html

Application Procedure

Date Action

5:30pm, 5 December 2017

Application Deadline. Applicant should submit:(1) a research proposal;(2) an updated academic transcript; and(3) IELTS score report or test registration confirmation.Online Submission to: https://goo.gl/y5pZvp

January 2018 Interview (Schedule and venue to be announced)

Early April 2018 Announcement of results

Q and A

June-July 2018

What you get?Personal & Professional growth:• an international experience in an IT Lab• an educational experience in one the world’s oldest

universities• a great time with fellow Italian students

Official Certification from UniPG organizing committee:

• Certificate of Course Attendance• Certificate of Internship in ITLab

Where is Perugia?

Ranked 1st Italian LargeUniversity 2017/18

Ranked 2017/18 - 1st place among Italian Large Universities

Ranked 1st by CENSIS among 15 Italian Large Universities 2017/18

Large=between 20000 and 40000 students

A University through Seven Centuries

• 1308 A.D. Pope Clement VIIestablished UniPG

we celebrated the commencing the 8th century on 2008

• Luca Pacioli, scholar Mathematician sec.XV

he wrote the Divina Proportione illustrated by

Leonardo da Vinci

University of Perugia today

• 14 Faculties (including Medicine, Vet, Agriculture)

• > 35.000 students enrolled

• Perugia is a university town >40.000 students /160.000 people

Other University level institutions in Perugia:

• University for Foreigners (Languages, Italian History/Arts course for Foreigners)

• Academic of Arts

• Conservatorio of Music

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

• 60 Faculty members• Research Topics

– Mathematical subjects: …..– Cryptography– Probabilistic, Uncertainty Management, Fuzzy Logic– Grid Computing & Parallel Processing– Evolutionary Computation– Wireless Networks Algorithms– Image Processing– Planning and Scheduling– Information Retrieval & Data Mining– Virtual Reality– User Interface & E-learning

Computer Science Programs

BSc. Computer Science (3 Years)• network• virtual reality

MSc./MD. Computer Science(2 Years)• artificial intelligence• network• information security

Joint PhD Mathematics & Computer Science

HKBU-UniPG the Exchange Agreement

Università degli Studi di Perugia

Hong Kong Baptist University

the Exchange Agreement

Who can apply?

• BSc. students

• M.Sc. students

• M.Phil. students

• PhD. Students

• Around 30 exchange students per year

• Selection based on motivations and study performance

When ?

• 6 weeks: mid June – end of July 2018

• Internship in an IT-Lab working team

• Course on IT subject

Instruction media: English

Internship IT Labs

Internship projects will be provided by scientific and governmental institutions, IT companies selected from Province Board of Association of IT Industry (from 2018)

Internship projects in previous editions have been held in:• IT Labs in University Hospital and Departments• INFN National Institute of Physics• Perugia Province Government, IT Department• Casa Buitoni Research Center, Nestle Co.• Team Dev Ltd., (software and dbms)• JStudios Ltd.,(graphics and communication agency)

Internship ProjectTeam work

• you will be assigned to a team of colleagues with a role depending on your skills

• each team will be assigned an IT lab project and internship tutor

• Awards: Best projects, Best presentations, etc.

Assignment of certificates upon positive attendance and positive report of internship tutors

• Certificate of Course Attendance

• Certificate of Internship

Programme

Weekly

• Course: seminars on advanced IT topics

• Internship: project team work

• Meetings with internship tutors

• Milestone presentations: project advancements

During the whole period

• Events: social and cultural activities, visits, final farewell banquet, etc.

Program FeesCategory Item Note

Program Fee EUR€ 1,100

Includes Course/seminars, Internship, hostel accommodation, pickup and return to Rome Fiumicino Airport on official arrival/departure date, social and cultural activities, visits, final farewell banquet

Transportation

Roundtrip airfare from Hong Kong-Rome

EUR€ 500-900 (depends on airline)

In town transportation Walking distance

Meals Campus Canteen EUR€ 3-6 per meal

Travel/Medical insurasnce Around HKD 500-600

other costs (estimate)

EXCHANGE PROGRAM FEES• Participation in Course/Seminars and Internship

• Accommodation in hostel/dormitory

• Pick-up service between Rome Airport and Perugia on the Arrival Date and Departure Date at established time

• No refund of participation acceptance fees (first payment)

• No refund after final payment deadline, or for partial or no participation in services, program, internship or any other activity

Each student will be assigned a Personal UniPG ADiSU card for

• Access to services: city wide wireless, library, etc.

• Canteen: (after student discount) 4-6 Euros per meal (as of 2017)

Application

Complete the online application form

• personal particulars & study status

• motivation and objectives for joining this internship programme

• a recent passport photo

• an updated copy of your CV

Important DatesInformation Session 7 November 2017

Application Deadline 5:30pm, 5 December 2017

Selection Interview 22 January 2018

Release of Admitted Participants List 26 January 2018

Deadline for Confirmation of Programme Participation& non refundable 1st payments fees (200 euro)

2 February 2018

Pre-screening of Students’ Technical Background for Internship Job Matching

mid April 2018

Deadline for Programme Fees Final Payment (900 euro) 31 May 2018

Exchange Programme starts (arrival date) 17 June 2018

Exchange Programme ends (departure date) 27 July 2018

EnquiryHKBU

Dr. TAM Hon Wahtam@comp.hkbu.edu.hk

Dr. Kristen Li

csyxli@comp.hkbu.edu.hk

UNIPG Dr. Alfredo MILANI

milani@unipg.it / milani@comp.hkbu.edu.hk

EnquiryHKBU

Dr. TAM Hon Wahtam@comp.hkbu.edu.hk

Dr. Kristen Li

csyxli@comp.hkbu.edu.hk

UNIPG Dr. Alfredo MILANI

milani@unipg.it / milani@comp.hkbu.edu.hk

Enjoy Umbria Jazz Festival (mid July)

Q and A

Enquiries:

Department of Computer Science (Attn: Miss Sophia Cheng)Tel: 3411-2385

Email: outreach@comp.hkbu.edu.hkOffice: RRS 702, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, HSH Campus