Time: April. 19th, 2018
Source: College of Science and Engineering

JNU's student team 98K won the Guangzhou quarterfinals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2018 at the Heungkong International Innovation Center in Nansha District March 15 and 16, qualifying for the national semifinals in April.

The team members are Bi Xiaolin, Wei Lijun and Chen Qi of the Department of Photoelectric Engineering in the College of Science and Engineering. They invented an intelligent spectrometer under the guidance of Zhu Siqi, a teacher in the department and the Innovative Practice Studio/We Creation Studio of College of Science and Engineering, to test food. Spectrum testing preserves foods so well that commercial popularization of this product and its application in the civil food safety test field may be promoted.

(The 98K team in the Guangzhou Quarterfinal)

(Demonstrating the intelligent spectrometer)

Fourteen teams from South China University of Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Jinan University, Guangdong University of Technology and other universities in Guangzhou participated this year. Most projects focused on megadata, artificial intelligence, robots and other emerging areas. Microsoft sent mentors to Guangzhou to guide them and choose the seeded team.

Lin Sheng, vice president of Microsoft China, said more than 375,000 students from over 100 countries and regions enter the Microsoft Imagine Cup every year.  About 200,000 Chinese students have participated since 2004, winning five first prizes, nine second prizes, 11 third prizes and several special awards.