We are pleased to announce that our project TwinSmart won the Silver Award in the New Zealand Regional Finals of the 2025 China International College Students’ Innovation Competition. The New Zealand regional event was hosted by Zhengzhou University and held on July 26, 2025, in Wellington, New Zealand. Warm congratulations to the TwinSmart team and their supervisors!
Supervisors: Professor Xun Xu, Dr Jan Polzer
Professional Advisors: Professor Ying Bi (Zhengzhou University), Professor Yong Sun (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
Team Members: Yinwang Ren, Yangyang Liu, Jinyi Huang, Jinlong Chu, Niklas Polzer, Mohamed Salman Mohamed Haniff, Seyed Hesam Hosseinizadeh Mazloumi, Anton Averyanov, Vikram Arunkumar Dhotre
The project’s full title is “TwinSmart: Empowering small and medium‑sized enterprises through digital twin and GenAI integration.” TwinSmart focuses on the fusion of digital‑twin modeling and generative AI, leveraging real‑time, data‑driven insights and intelligent reasoning to help SMEs optimize production scheduling, equipment maintenance, quality control, and managerial decision‑making. In the competition’s pitching and Q&A sessions, the team was earned the Silver Award.