On October 29th, the awards ceremony of the 2nd WeBank Financial Technology University Technology Competition was successfully held in the WeBank Financial Technology College of Shenzhen University, and the 80-day competition officially ended.
The competition aims to promote college students at home and abroad to explore technological breakthroughs and application innovations in the forefront of financial technology, promote cross-school and school-enterprise exchanges in related majors, and comprehensively improve students' practical ability, innovation ability and employment competitiveness. Zhang Kai, Dean of Shenzhen University's Weizhong Financial Technology College, and several senior technical experts from WeBank attended the award ceremony.
First place in artificial intelligence track: TAN's fellow
Blockchain track first place: Zijing Road Aviation Group
It is understood that this year's competition adopts a new online challenge mode, and many excellent works with both creativity and practical significance have emerged. The competition attracted more than 700 elite students from 212 well-known universities around the world to participate. The blockchain and artificial intelligence dual track received a total of 115 entries, and 19 teams entered the finals. The TAN's fellow team from Beijing Institute of Technology successfully broke through the completely unknown black-box face recognition system. With its core advantages of ultra-high transferability attack algorithm and excellent attack effects in the field of financial anti-fraud model attacks, it obtained artificial intelligence The laurel of the track; the "Time Bank" blockchain public welfare platform designed by the South China Normal University team Zijing Road Aviation Group has realized the conversion of volunteers' cumulative service time to personal digital assets, won the unanimous praise of expert judges, and finally won Champion of the blockchain track.
Dean Zhang Kai said in his speech: "The essence of finance is credit and leverage. It is an amplifier, and technology is an accelerator. When finance and technology are combined, they can exert the force of piercing the sky. The weapon of this kind of power lies in the hands of financial technology talents, so I hope that through this competition, everyone can have a deeper understanding of financial technology, and hope that everyone can become senior financial technology talents who benefit society, mankind, and the nation in the future. ."
In the roundtable discussion, three senior technical experts of WeBank-Li Bin, Li Huizhong and Wu Zeheng shared the technical progress, solutions and business model thinking of blockchain and AI in data security and privacy, deepening the students Our understanding of the future development of financial technology and employment prospects. When talking about how to achieve independent, autonomous and controllable technology, the experts expressed that they must be confident in their knowledge of cutting-edge technologies, dig deep into their fields, concentrate on technical research, and make up for existing shortcomings, and they must be able to compete on the international track. In a leading position.
After the ceremony, the organizer led the participating students to visit the Shenzhen University Micro Fintech Lab and a number of leading companies in the financial technology field of Shenzhen, to showcase cutting-edge scientific and technological research results and their applications in actual industries, and deepen students’ understanding of industrial development. Cognition and explore more possibilities for future development.