Provincial key lab settles at UIC, first among Zhuhai's universities

UIC unveiled the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Research and Application for Data Science on 13 December 2022 and held the Lab's first academic committee meeting.The Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province in 2022 approved the key laboratory’s establishment. It is the first laboratory that settles in a university of Zhuhai and the highest-standard r...

2022/12/19

Lin Yuxuan: My nine-year academic journey at UIC

Lin Yuxuan, 26, graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Statistics from UIC and a PhD in Probability and Mathematical Statistics from UIC and Hong Kong Baptist University's joint programme.Yuxuan's research focuses on experimental design. In November 2022, as her final achievement, Yuxuan graduated from her PhD programme with five SCI papers. She was recruited by the esteemed Zhejiang Lab to expand her ...

2022/12/09

Advisory meeting supports FST development

The 9th meeting of the Advisory Committee of UIC's Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) was held online and onsite on 23 November 2022. External members from corporates and institutes joined UIC members at the meeting, which was chaired by Prof Roderick SC Wong, former Vice-President of the City University of Hong Kong.The 9th meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Faculty of Science and T...

2022/12/06

UIC teachers funded by Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation

Six UIC teachers have been granted funds from the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, including the Natural Science Fund and the Provincial-Municipal Joint Fund.Prof Liu Luchuan of the Faculty of Business and Management (FBM) and Dr Ning Xuan of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) have applied respectively and successfully for the general projects of the Natu...

2022/12/05

Shining at national mathematical contest in modelling

UIC students stood out in the 2022 China Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling (CUMCM), winning multiple national and provincial prizes. Among them, two teams were awarded both the national Second Prize and Guangdong provincial First Prize, respectively.These winning teams were formed separately by the fourth-year students from the Statistics Programme (STAT), Liu Shuaiju...

2022/11/29

Eight FST scholars in latest world's top 2% scientists list

Stanford University scholars have recently released an update of the World's Top 2% Scientists list, in which nine UIC scholars were selected. Among them, eight scholars were from FST. UIC President, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences Prof Tang Tao; Vice President (Research and Development) and Dean of Graduate School Prof Jia Weijia; Chair ...

2022/10/26

[People of UIC] Xu Longhao: Stepping up in world of statistics

Xu Longhao is a UIC student from the Class of 2020 Statistics Programme. He has been admitted to a PhD programme concentrating on medical statistics at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Maths has been one of Xu's favourite subjects since high school. Knowing that Prof Fang Kaitai, an internationally well-known statistician, teaches at UIC, Xu chose to spend his four years at UIC de...

2022/10/24

[People of UIC] Gifted teachers who wear many hats

UIC adheres to the concept of liberal arts education, and its teachers are breaking boundaries and pursuing a well-rounded life. Dr SiuTai Tsim—Associate Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Life SciencesDr Tsim is not only a skilful barber and a good cook but an excellent birdwatcher.Dr Tsim taught himself haircutting when he was on...

2022/10/12