Find out more and sign up at https://sieberrsec.tech!
Inviting all hackers!
HCIRS’ Cybersecurity Section is organising its second SieberrsecCTF 3.0, an exciting jeopardy-style Cybersecurity Competition for secondary school and junior college students! Sign up at https://sieberrsec.tech!
Hello 2021 IP/DSA J1s!
Are you interested in the field of Infocomm or Robotics? Do you have a burning passion for technology? Feel like immersing yourself in the world of coding and engineering?
If your answer to any of the above questions is a ‘yes’, then the IRS welcomes you to sign up at https://tinyurl.com/IRS2021! Especially if you are keen on website design or development, as *we are specifically scouting for web developers this year!
Look forward to learn more about Competitive Programming 🔢, Cybersecurity 🔒, Machine Learning 🖥️, Robotics 🤖 & Webapp 🌐 from 18 Jan – 24 Jan. Check our Instagram profile https://www.instagram.com/hcirs/ as well as other parts of this website for more information!
Cheers,
IRS ExCo 2020/2021
From 11 December 2020 to 9 January 2020, IRS Machine Learning & Competitive Programming competed in the Nanyang Technological University School of Computer Science & Engineering Computing Challenge 2021. Congratulations to the team comprising Wang Yiqin, Chen Zerui, Alistair Cheong, Tan Yikai and Jiang Zhiheng for winning Overall Champions with their RetinaNet object detection model, Sliding CNN+LSTM model, and stellar presentation. Thank you to NTU for the amazing learning opportunity, and thank you to HCI for giving us the opportunity to participate in this competition!
HCIRS has organised its very first jeopardy-style CTF this year for secondary school students. The event was held on the 9th of January and received active participation from students across various schools. We would like to congratulate the winners:
1st place – Sean Seah (ACSI)
2nd place – Ivan Tung (HCI)
3rd place – Joey Tang (HCI)
4th place – Zhao Yun (NUSH)
5th place – Theodore Lee (HCI)
Thank you everyone who joined us for our first CTF! We hope that everyone had fun and we can’t wait to bring you an even better CTF next time!
From June to September 2020, HCIRS took part in the Amazon Web Services Build On Singapore 2020 hackathon. After months of grueling preparation, our team comprising Alistair Cheong, Chen Zerui, Wang Yiqin and Wu Jiayang, have emerged as Joint Champions of the Junior Category with their Learning Management System catered to volunteer tuition groups.
We would like to thank AWS for organising this competition, as well as the school for giving us the opportunity to embark on this unique learning experience!
Over the past weekend, HCIRS took part in GovTech Cyber Security Group’s inaugural STACK the Flags CTF, and achieved commendable results:
Champions
Team Mitsusha: Sherman Chann Zhi Shen, Teo Kai Xiang, Choo Zheng Jun, Zhang Yao William
1st Runners Up
Team Chomusuke: Beh Chuen Yang, Zhao Zhongqi, Lim See Min, Wu Jiayang
7th Place
Team Bear: Zhou Taidi, Luo Hongxun, Lien Cai Ting, Theodore Lee Chong Jen
Congratulations to all participants! Thank you to the team at GovTech ensuring that their first CTF ran smoothly for all of us. We look forward to reading everyone’s writeups!
Singapore has emerged first in the 2020 Cyber SEA Games after a close competition with many other SEA countries. We are proud to announce that our very own member from HCIRS, Beh Chuen Yang, participated as one of the representatives from the Singapore team. Congratulations to all other participants as well, and let’s continue learning together as a region!
On the 24th of August 2020, IRS Machine Learning built its first PC outfitted for Machine Learning purposes. A huge thank you to our CCA teacher Mr Loh for approving our purchase after negotiations. The GPU runtime will sit in Hwa Chong’s Data Centre and will be used by IRS members to provide hardware acceleration for Machine Learning / AI applications, projects and research.
The Asia Pacific International Olympiad 2020 was held online and attracted participants from many countries. We are proud to announce that our very own HCIRS member, Benson Lin Zhan Yi, was able to represent the Singapore delegation and managed to clinch an Individual Silver award. Congratulations to all other winners too!
Last week, HCIRS participated in the Whitehacks 2020 competition organised by the SMU Whitehat Society. We are pleased to announce that we have achieved commendable results:
Champions
Team Saliency: Teo Kai Xiang, Zhao Zhongqi, Lien Cai Ting
1st Runner-Up
Team Mihara: Zhang Yao William, Sherman Chann Zhi Shen, Luo Hongxun
7th Place
Team X Æ A-12: Zhou Taidi, Lim See Min, Wu Jiayang
15th Place
Team Sannin: Beh Chuen Yang, Choo Zheng Jun, Tan Teong Seng
Congratulations to all winners and thanks to the organisers for creating such a fun event for all of us! We learned a lot and we look forward to next year’s iteration!