The University of Macau (UM) and State Power Investment Corporation Limited (SPIC) recently signed a strategic collaboration framework agreement. The agreement aims to promote technological innovation and the commercialisation of research results at the university, enhance SPIC’s capacity for independent innovation and core competitiveness, and promote the joint development of both parties.

The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation held an award ceremony today (3 November) at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Liu He, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, attended the ceremony and delivered a speech.

The University of Macau (UM) held a launch ceremony for Macao’s first Autonomous Driving Bus Testing Platform today (23 October), marking that the first autonomous bus has become operational in Macao. The autonomous bus will run on the UM campus on a trial basis. During this period, data will be collected for analysis in preparation for future testing on public roads in Macao.

The University of Macau (UM) has achieved two major breakthroughs in autonomous driving research. A study at the university has provided new insights on autonomous driving under bad weather and complex road conditions while another study has developed new learning models that will be specifically applied to autonomous driving in Macao.

The University of Macau (UM) and Nam Kwong Petroleum & Chemicals Co.,Ltd (NKOIL) have signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. Through this agreement, both parties hope to promote the commercialisation of research results, cultivate talent, and jointly create a smart city in Macao.

In a study on online matching, a scholar at the University of Macau (UM) has discovered a new model that can be widely used in today’s society, such as in the DiDi carpooling service, or landlord and tenant matching. The study is the only breakthrough in arbitrary online matching problems in the past 30 years.

A latest paper by a research team at the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, University of Macau (UM), titled ‘Preserving Dynamic Attention for Long-Term Spatial-Temporal Prediction’, has been accepted by ACM SIGKDD 2020, a top conference in the field. This year, a total of 1,279 papers were submitted to the Research Track of KDD, of which 216 were accepted (16.8%).

Unmanned driving is regarded as one of the signs of artificial intelligence, and it is an inevitable trend of the development of intelligent transportation in the future. The State Key Laboratory of the Smart City Internet of Things at the University of Macau is actively conducting research on driverless technology

The University of Macau collaborated with Zhuhai Hengqin Technology Development Co., Ltd., South China University of Technology, Wuhan University and other units to independently develop the “Cross-domain Multi-dimensional Electronic Fence Key Technologies and Applications” project

A research team formed by researchers from the University of Macau (UM) and more than ten universities, research institutes, and companies in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao has been tasked with two key research projects in China, by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the government of Guangdong province, respectively.