The University of Macau (UM) announced in a statement yesterday that its “Smart Energy Research Group of the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for a Smart City” won an Award of Excellence and a Best Mentor award during the recent “2021 X-Game Shanghai New Energy Vehicle Big Data Competition”.
The statement did not say when the competition took place.
The statement noted that the competition was titled “Everything Connected by Data, The Future of Electric Vehicles [EV’s]” and was geared towards important issues faced by the industry, including energy-saving path-planning as well as public charging and changing facilities. The statement noted that the competition involved a total of 550 teams formed by 754 students from 179 universities around the world that participated in the online preliminaries, with 10 teams from 13 different universities entering the finals.
The statement pointed out that the UM team comprised PhD student Kong Lingming and master’s degree student Zhang Jinxi, mentored by Assistant Professor Zhang Hongcai and Associate Professor Dai Ningyi, both of which shared a Best Mentor Award. The statement underlined that the university’s winning project was titled “Data-driven Research on the Development and Planning of Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Infrastructure”, which aimed to understand “service evaluation and planning of EV charging facilities in Shanghai based on multi-source urban big data”.
The statement said that the competition was co-hosted by the Shanghai New Energy Vehicle Public Data Acquisition and Monitoring Research Centre and Shanghai Urban and Rural Construction and Transportation Development Research Institute. The statement noted that it also “received guidance” from the Shanghai Municipal Economic and Information Commission, Shanghai Committee of the Communist Youth League, and China Automobile Talent Research Association, and it was also sponsored by various entities such as the Shanghai International Automobile City and the Shanghai Student Affairs Centre.
The statement underlined that with the development of EVs around the world, and considering Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng’s 2022 Policy Address and the expected “rapid growth” of EVs in the region, the research group will continue to explore the “planning and management of EV charging facilities” and “intelligent and orderly charging of EVs”, among others, to promote the development of EVs and their charging infrastructure.
This photo provided by the University of Macau (UM) yesterday shows PhD student Kong Lingming (front), a member of the research team, providing an “oral defence” during the recent “2021 X-Game Shanghai New Energy Vehicle Big Data Competition”.
