The HKUST(GZ) Microelectronics team won first place in the PHM-AP 2025 Data Challenge, held during the Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society in Singapore from December 8 to 11, 2025.
The competition focused on predicting cutter wear in CNC machine tools using time-series data. It is a major biennial competition organized by the international PHM Society and brings together teams from leading universities and companies.
The team, named Lone warrior, consisted of Chao Guo, Hongji Pei, Weihang Xu, and Prof. Zhonghai Lu. Their winning algorithm was Tool Wear Prediction Using Two-Stage Trained Transformer.
The result demonstrates the team’s research capability in prognostics and health management, intelligent manufacturing, microelectronics, and artificial intelligence.