Mr. Sui Ip Ng, a 3rd year undergrad from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at CUHK, has won the Best Paper Award at the 9th International Conference on Machine Vision and Applications (ICMVA 2026). The conference took place from 24 to 26 April in Nanjing, China. Fewer than 6% of the submissions received this prestigious recognition, demonstrating the exceptional quality of the awarded research. Award-Winning Research The award recognises the work of the BME team: undergraduate researcher Mr. Sui Ip Ng (first author), Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Xin Shu (mentor), and Prof. Renjie Zhou (supervisor), for their paper titled "An FPGA-Based Real-Time Artificial-Intelligence-Enabled Hematology Analyzer with Reagent-Free Imaging." In this work, Sui Ip demonstrated the deployment of a compact neural network on a low-cost (US$129) FPGA platform for reagent-free white blood cell classification, achieving 94.3% classification accuracy with deterministic real-time inference. By eliminating the need for chemical reagents and leveraging efficient on-device AI acceleration, the system offers a promising pathway toward portable, low-cost, and real-time hematology analyzers for point-of-care diagnostics. Sui Ip joined Prof. Renjie Zhou's lab as a student helper in March 2025 to gain research experience in his spare time. Under the mentorship of Dr. Shu, Sui Ip carried out all the experiments and data analysis, and wrote the manuscript. His journey exemplifies how early and dedicated involvement in research can empower an undergraduate to make impactful contributions to cutting-edge science. About the Conference ICMVA is an annual international forum that brings together researchers, scientists, and engineers working in machine vision, image processing, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and related areas. This year’s event attracted participants from across the globe to present cutting-edge research and foster academic exchange in the rapidly evolving area of intelligent vision systems. The conference was chaired by Prof. Wolfgang Osten (University of Stuttgart, Germany), a world-renowned authority in optical metrology and digital holography and the recipient of the 2019 Emmett N. Leith Medal from Optica.
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