[People of UIC] Meet Wang Yihong: A versatile girl heads to Carnegie Mellon University

Yihong received offer letters from two world-renowned institutions -- the Master of Science in Software Engineering programme at Carnegie Mellon University and the Master of Science in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Yihong dreamt of being a scientist and worked hard towards the goal. These offers have acknowledged her hard work and shown that every effort she paid was not in vain.

2022/04/22

UIC President Prof Tang Tao elected Fellow of European Academy of Sciences

UIC President Prof Tang Tao has been elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc).EurASc is a non-profit, non-governmental, independent organisation of the most distinguished scholars and engineers performing forefront research and the development of advanced technologies, united by a commitment to promoting science and technology and their essential roles in fostering social a...

2022/04/14

Lecture on the Modelling and Learning Strategy for Medical/Health Data

On 7 April 2022, Professor Jianxin Pan, Dean of the Division of Science and Technology, UIC, gave a lecture on "Modelling and Learning Strategy for Medical/Health Data" to UIC students and faculty, introducinghis recent researchon data modelling in the field of medical and health. He was a Professor of Statisticsat the University of Manchester before joining UIC. Heis a Fell...

2022/04/11

UIC establishes provincial key lab

UIC's Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Research and Application for Data Science has been approved by the Guangdong Science and Technology Department.The Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Research and Application for Data Science, led by Prof Pan Jianxin, Dean of UIC's Division of Science and Technology, mainly focuses on multi-modal data processin...

2022/03/18

[People of UIC] Meet Dong Shengkun: liberal arts inspire research career

Receiving a liberal arts education at UIC inspired Dong Shengkun to firmly step on the road of scientific research and helped him lay the foundations to become an associate professor in a renowned university in China.Dong Shengkun, who graduated from UIC's Environment Science (ENVS) Programme in 2011, continued his Master's and PhD studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), US.

2022/03/16

Long lasting love: UIC alumni continue life's journey as PhD students and parents

Scientific research could be a lonely and arduous adventure. Luckily, Luo Jiaqiang and Wu Tong have each other by their sides on their academic journey. The couple met at UIC and then went to Australia for their Master's and Doctoral degrees together. Wu Tong, 2014 FST graduate, obtained a Master's Degree in Food Sciences at the University of Melbourne, pursuing Doctoral...

2022/03/10

[People of UIC] Meet Qiu Yitao: from UIC to ICL

In October 2021, Qiu Yitao started his journey at Imperial College London (ICL), a top research university globally, where he is exposed to new learning resources and opportunities. Having experienced the teaching pattern at UIC, which involved group work and an internationalised atmosphere, Yitao adjusted to postgraduate studies quickly.

2022/03/04

UIC opens Math Learning Centre

UIC launched the new Math Learning Centre (MLC) on 15 December to facilitate math and statistics studies.Located at T3-101, the MLC is equipped with interactive teaching facilities. Students can come here to discuss math and statistics-related questions without making appointments, and there are teachers and student tutors on duty to help. Moreover, math learning workshops and sharing sessions ...

2021/12/31