Global top 2% scientists' rankings released with 7 FST scholars on-Faculty of Science and Technology

The world's top 2% scientists list for 2024, made by Stanford University and Elsevier, has been published with 13 UIC scholars included. Among them, 7 are from FST. The research of the selected FST scholars spans multiple fields, including numerical and computational mathematics, artificial intelligence and image processing, food science, statistics and probability, networking and telecommunications and industrial engineering and automation.

This year, five FST scholars have been included in both the career-long impact and single-year impact sub-lists. They are: Chair Professor and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study Prof Tang Tao; Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science Prof Wang Qing-Guo; Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Life Sciences Prof Xu Baojun; Chair Professor, Director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Future Networks Prof Jia Weijia; and Associate Professor Dr Luo Zongwei of the Department of Computer Science.

Chair Professor with the Department of Statistics and Data Science and Director of the Institute of Statistics and Computational Intelligence Prof Fang Kaitai has been selected in the sub-list of career-long impact. Moreover, Chair Professor Sun Weiwei of the Department of Mathematical Sciences has been included in the single-year impact sub-list.

Prof Tang Tao