PhD student HUANG Lingcao received the First Place Poster Presentation Award at ACUNS18

Congratulations to Mr HUANG Lingcao, who won the First Place Poster Presentation Award at the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) 2018 Student Conference! Lingcao is a PhD student in the Graduate Division of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and is currently visiting University of Alberta with the support from the CUHK Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence. Lingcao uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence algorithms to study the cryosphere (frozen ground in particular). His presentation in the ACUNS18 conference held in Edmonton Canada in November 2018 was titled “Automatic Mapping of Thermokarst Landforms using Deep Learning”, coauthored with Professor LIU Lin.