A team of students from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DTETI), Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada (FT UGM), participated in the Huawei Developer Competition 2024 Asia Pacific.
The competition was held at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, on 20-21 Jan.
In the competition, DTETI students collaborated with students from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (DTMI) as part of the Hi-Flex team.
In the final round, the Hi-Flex team secured the First Runner-up title at the Huawei Developer Competition 2024 Asia Pacific for their innovation. They competed against 662,220 teams for a total prize pool of USD 34,000.
The Hi-Flex team consists of Aufa Nasywa Rahman, Ahmad Zaki Akmal, and Petrus Aria Chevalier Rambing (Information Technology 2021), along with Larasati Kinanti and Laurencia Otniel Sukamto (Industrial Engineering 2021).
In a statement to reporters on Sunday (Jan. 27), Rahman explained that the Hi-Flex team designed their innovation based on an idea they conceived and developed independently.
“All the creation and development of the solution (build solution) were done at DTETI,” he said.
In this competition, participants were tasked with developing information and communication technology (ICT) solutions using Huawei’s cloud technology to address real-world problems.
“All participating teams were divided into the Enterprise Track and Student Track categories. Each category had six winners after several selection stages, including proposal submission, solution demo presentations, and competing in the final round,” he added.
At this year’s Huawei Developer Competition Asia Pacific, two of the six winning teams in the Student Track category were from UGM.
The other team besides Hi-Flex was Cloudia Crew, consisting of students from the Department of Computer Science and Electronics at the UGM Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (FMIPA UGM). This team secured the Second-Runner-up title.
Reporter: FT UGM/Rasya Swarnasta
Author: Tiefany
Post-editor: Afifudin Baliya
Documentation: Huawei