Another year and another class of graduating students will say goodbye to their alma mater and start a new journey. The four years spent at UIC is some of the best years of their life. How many stories and sceneries have been treasured along...

It was on 22 December 2019 when UIC graduate, Wu Kefu, set sail on his 22-day journey from Fremantle Harbour in Western Australia aboard the yacht called "Zhuhai". He was participating in the 2019-2020 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race as...

Division of Science and Technology (DST) held a high table dinner on the evening of 17 October. Professor Yang Qiang, the chief artificial intelligence officer of WeBank, served as the speaker, bringing the speech themed on “Challenges and Future of Artificial Intelligence." Prof Yang talked about the challenges and possible solutions for artificial intelligence, and gave students a better understanding of human intelligence and artificial intelligence.

A team that consists of mostly UIC students worked on an innovated project that was titled ‘Mobile Body 3D Reconstruction for Scoliosis Patients’. This project was awarded a grant of 100,000 Hong Kong Dollar (HKD) by the the 2018 Cyberport Guangdong-Hong Kong Young Entrepreneur Programme (GD-HK YEP). According to Yang Jiayu (UIC's 2018 CST graduate), who was responsible for research and development in the team, the project was aimed at helping young scoliosis patients by building braces through 3D printing, based on the spinal data captured by the camera on a mobile phone.

In Jan 2019, three teams of year two and year three Computer Science and Technology (CST) students performed research on artificial intelligence in natural language processing. The three teams entered the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation competition and achieved good results in three main tasks against some of the best graduate-level students from this field in the world.

On 9 December, Chair Professor of Computer Science and Associate Vice President of Hong Kong Baptist University, Prof Liu Jiming, came to UIC to give a talk titled ‘You and A.I.’. The room was filled with students eager to hear from Prof Liu, as he is an expert in his field, and had a lot to teach the students about Artificial Intelligence (A.I.).

Year 3 Computer Science and Technology (CST) student Zhang Tianhao was in Beijing from 16 to 18 April for the International Conference on Educational Research and Practice. As one of the very few undergraduate attendants, he presented...

Over 60 academics attended the Ninth International Conference on the Frontiers of Information Technology, Application and Tools (FITAT) held at UIC between 1 and 3 April. They presented the latest developments in the field of information...