Vietnamese engineer wins first prize at artificial intelligence competition in Hong Kong

A team of Vietnamese engineers won first prize at an artificial intelligence competition on construction and engineering, held in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.

Vietnamese engineers at the award ceremony held at Hong Kong Science Park on August 8 - Photo: VNA

A group of three Vietnamese engineers has just won first prize at the Global AI Challenge for Building E&M Facilities held in Hong Kong (China). The award ceremony took place at the Hong Kong Science Park on August 8.

This year's competition attracted more than 200 teams from 26 countries and regions, taking place from June to August, both online and in person.

The competition has two categories, including "Developing a general AI model to predict cooling demand for multiple buildings" and "Proposing innovative solutions in the construction and engineering industry". This will be a platform for researchers, students, AI experts, startups and industry experts to exchange ideas and showcase how advanced AI technology can drive the development of the construction and engineering industry.

Mr. Nguyen Hoang Vu, AI engineer and CEO of start-up company AIZ, said that according to information from the competition's organizing committee, buildings are the largest energy consumers globally, accounting for more than 40% of total energy use.

In Hong Kong, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems alone in buildings cost about HK$12.3 billion (more than US$1.5 billion) in electricity each year.

The competition's theme is to build AI models that can predict building cooling loads, helping to save operating costs and easily deploy them in many different types of buildings.

Faced with this requirement, the Vietnamese engineering team focused on an approach that can be flexibly deployed on many types of devices, including those with limited computing resources, while still meeting quality requirements.

Engineer Luong Duc Long ( Viettel Group) shared that in order to solve the problem of building a model to support the prediction of cooling capacity of buildings, the group tested many different models, from which the best model that could be done for this problem was selected.

By participating in the competition, the team had the opportunity to learn more knowledge and problem-solving methods from their peers in many countries. They also hope to be able to apply this problem to Vietnam, to help reduce the huge energy consumption in buildings.

Engineer Dang Quang Minh (VCCorp Company) said that besides choosing the right model, the difficulty of the competition is that the provided data sets are limited by lack of data, or incorrect data due to problems with building sensors or limitations due to new buildings.

Therefore, the team also spent most of the competition time processing and analyzing the raw data of the buildings provided by the organizers. This contributed greatly to the team's final results.

Speaking at the awards ceremony, Ms. Bernadette Linn, Secretary for the Hong Kong Development Bureau, said that in recent years, AI has driven significant development in areas such as energy, construction and innovative technology, creating many opportunities for cooperation and efficiency.

This competition not only contributes to promoting Hong Kong's AI transformation but also lays a solid foundation for the younger generation to master AI applications.

The Global AI Challenge for Building E&M Facilities competition is co-organized by the Hong Kong Electrical and Mechanical Services Department and the Guangdong Association of Science and Technology (China), with sponsorship from technology companies such as Huawei, Alibaba, Siemen, attracting engineers and students from many countries including Singapore, mainland China, Hong Kong (China), Vietnam...

The first competition took place in 2022 in an online format, and the above-mentioned group of Vietnamese engineers also won first prize.

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