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© 2022 Kenny Ma

Research Works

I am finally qualified as phd candidate this year. Hope I can get more hang of doing research in the up-coming future.
Year Description
2022-Present
Accessible Visualization for Blindness and Visual Impariment Users
On-going project in collobrative with Wang Yong and Kotaro Hara in Singapore Management University.
2022
What drives K-12 teachers’ behavioral intention and actual use of visual game learning analytics system?: A extended behavior prediction model
Collobrating with Yiming Liu from Hong Kong University, Department of Education
2019-2021
DCity Fighter: An ATC21S-framework-driven serious game designed for Assessing Collaborative Problem Solving Skills
A data driven by design serious game. I built the game in unreal engine as designed by the HKU Team. You can check more information with this Link
2015
Strands Project (Robotics)
I was a undergraduted students in Bsc Computer Science in University of Birmingham (in the uk) back in the days. I don't think I have done much in this project but it is the first research project I have ever participated in. I actually learnt a lot by watching other people(and robots).
This project inspired me putting a lot of efforts into robotics and the field of doing research. Our team ended up scored 2nd price in UK-RAS filed robotics challenge in 2016. Horrrray!

TEACHING & WORKSHOPS

I never thought I would perform this much teaching so far in my life because I am being too self-righteous and depressive, which doesn't fits any part of my imagination of the characteristics you can get from a decent teacher.

But I have done them anyway.

I received a scholarship(Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship) for being one of the best teaching Assistant in the computer science engineering department, HKUST, which feels like the biggest compliment I have ever received in my life so far.

A few workshops related with creative coding in music are hosted by me because I like the idea of gathering.

Year Description
2020-2021
COMP 4021 Internet Computing -- Teaching Assistant -- HKUST
Professor Dik Lee was leading this course and I serve as one of his teaching assistants during the crazy pandemic online-teaching period. I got the Best TA award for this one.
2018-2019
COMP1022Q Introduction to Computing with Excel -- Teaching Assistant --- HKUST
Honestly I don't really understand why this course even exist in 2020, but I have done my duty.
2018-2019
The Literature of the Pre-Qin and the Two-Han Dynasties 先秦两汉原典导读 Teaching assistant, China Academy of Arts

It's a Master-level fine art course instructed by Hongli Wang（王宏理 ） . My main contribution for this course as an TA was sucessful PEST control in the classroom(it was a bad season).
2017
Workshop: Hybrid Sound Installations (w Yuri Kuzmin),China Academy of Arts

We all think it's a bad workshop name, but it's too late to recall any posters so we sticked with it till the end

In this workshop, we have done a lot of hardware bending/creative coding to help the artists create their own sound installations.

2016
Workshop: Creative Coding for Musicians,Zhejiang Conservatory of Music

It was a week long workshop with inspiring students from Zhejiang Conservatory of Music.(It's a newly built school with crazy architectures!) Very possitive feedbacks from the students and my collobrator, Ruilei Duan. (though we were physically broken tired after a full week run of this topic).