[People of UIC] Wei Xuan: Next station, Yale University

Wei Xuan, a fourth-year student studying Statistics in the Division of Science and Technology (DST) at UIC, received the admission letter from Yale University’s Master of Science in Public Health in Biostatistics...

2021/04/21

Online information session: Victoria University of Wellington

On April 9, 2021, the Statistic Programme invited Dr. Ivy Liu, the Head of School of Mathematics and Statistics of Victoria University of Wellington, to give an online introduction meeting ofthe Applied Statistics master programme.Dr. Liu started the meeting by introducing the culture and lifestyle of New Zealand. She then briefly talked about the history, research level and social recognition ...

2021/04/15

DST & ISCI Lecture: Propensity Score-based Spline Approach for Average Causal Effects

The Division of Science and Technology (DST) held a lecture on “Propensity Score-based Spline Approach for Average Causal Effects” with guest speaker Professor Xingwei Tong on April 1, 2021. Prof. Tong illustrated...

2021/04/07

DST & ISCI Lecture: Great Opportunities and Challenges of Face AI

On 31st March 2021, the Institute of Statistics and Computational Intelligence of DST invited the AI scientist Dr. Wu Zhili to deliver a lecture on Face AI. In the talk, he analyzed the great opportunities and challenges of face AI. Dr. Wu ZhiliDr. Wu Zhili is an AI scientist and the founder of Shenzhen Yiyuan Intelligence Technology Co. Ltd. He studied at Tsinghua University and Hong Kong Bapt...

2021/04/07

[People of UIC] Meet Guo Jiaxin: Tackling environmental challenges

Graduated in 2014, Guo Jiaxin is an alumnus of UIC's Environmental Science Programme. He then obtained a master's degree in Chemistry and Biomolecular Engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a doctorate in Environmental Energy from City University of Hong Kong. Guo JiaxinAfter graduating with a PhD, Jiaxin was selected into the Research Talents Programme of th...

2021/03/19

UIC's Statistics Programme selected as provincial-level top undergraduate major

UIC's Statistics Programme, which is part of the Division of Science and Technology, has been approved as the provincial-level top undergraduate major by the Ministry of Education.Founded in 2005 by Prof Fang...

2021/03/17

UIC students and their "green dream"

UIC students have their own opinions and actions when faced with environmental issues. Wang Xiaomao: Preserving the precious seagrass beds (SGB) Wang Xiaomao graduated from UIC Environmental Science (ENVS) Programme in 2018. She enjoyed the excellent view of the grassland when she looked out of the window during her senior high school time. She said a particular tree had grown there since s...

2021/03/16

[People of UIC] Meet Wang Yixin: Using research to fight COVID-19

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) threat cannot be defeated without the in-depth study of COVID-19 by scientists. Wang Yixin, a post-90s graduate from Environment Science (ENVS) Programme at UIC, who continued her PhD study in Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKU Med), has been conducting scientific research and hopes to unlock the rest of the novel coronaviru...

2021/03/04