UIC vigorously promotes scientific research to improve education quality while encouraging students to embrace new academic aspects and enhance their research capabilities through subject research. As a result, plenty of undergraduate graduates of 2021 have published papers in international journals, academic monographs, and international conferences.

Enriching professional knowledge while researching

Li Xinyue and Xu Bokai from the Data Science Programme have both been admitted for an MSc in Applied Data Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Li Xinyue(left) and Xu Bokai (right)

Li Xinyue and Xu Bokai, as co-authors, published a paper entitled Fish Detection Based on Grey Markov Model at the International Conference on Applied Machine Learning (ICAML) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and also published another paper entitledExploration of a Balanced Reference Corpus with a Wide Variety of Text Mining Tools at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Li Xinyue (second from right), Xu Bokai (middle) and another student with their teachers

It is not an easy task to finish a paper. However, Li Xinyue and Xu Bokai said that although the process was quite painful and struggling, a great sense of accomplishment rose after publication. It did enrich not only their professional knowledge but also improved their research capabilities.

As for improving academic writing, Li Xinyue believes that having unique ideas is the key to publishing one's papers. Therefore, she usually reads excellent papers extensively, trying to get inspiration from them, and then makes bold attempts and innovations.

From MPRO

Reporter: Xia Meng

Editors: Samuel Burgess, Deen He, Covee Wang