Central China Normal University students and teachers achieved outstanding results at the 10th Huawei ICT Competition China Final held on April 19, 2026, at the Optics Valley Gymnasium of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
In the innovation category, two projects guided by Prof. Peng Xi from the School of Computer Science won first prize (qualifying for the global final) and second prize respectively. The faculty team also claimed third prize in the teaching track, demonstrating CCNU’s strong capacity in information technology innovation and industry-education integration.
The award-winning project Ascend Sentinel: An Intelligent Campus Violence Intervention System Based on Multimodal Perception addresses supervision blind spots on campus. It integrates full-stack Huawei ICT technologies including Ascend, StarFlash, and MindSpore, using audio and millimeter-wave radar point cloud fusion as well as edge-cloud collaboration to realize real-time early warning and intervention for misconduct in privacy-sensitive or blind areas. It will represent China in the global final to be held in Shenzhen in June.
In the teaching track, Prof. Yang Xiulong, Li Pei, and Sun Shuyuan won third prize with Innovative Practice of High-Performance Computing Courses Based on MindSpore, which integrates cutting-edge AI knowledge into the curriculum aligned with domestic computing ecosystems.
The Huawei ICT Competition is a flagship global event for college students, listed in the national university student competition catalogue. This year’s China contest attracted over 160,000 participants from 1,483 institutions. Among 1,430 finalists from 475 teams, 83 teams including CCNU will compete with more than 100 global teams at the grand final in Shenzhen from June 2 to June 5.
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