Four disciplines of UIC have received sponsorship as Guangdong Provincial key disciplines, including Statistics, Computer Science and Technology, Mathematics, and Communication Studies.StatisticsUIC's Statistics was rated as an excellent subject of Zhuhai in 2015 and the first-class undergraduate programme of Guangdong province in 2020. In addition, it was approved by the Ministry of Education ...

UIC students excelled in the 2021 China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling (CUMCM), awarded multiple national and provincial prizes. The team of three UIC's Statistics (STAT) students, Yin Jiaying, Huang Moyuan, and Zhang Junrong, was awarded the national Second Prize and Guangdong provincial First Prize.(from left) Zhang Junrong, Huang Moyuan and Yin JiayingThis year, 49,529 teams...

Stanford University scholars have recently released an update of the World's Top 2% Scientists list, in which ten UIC scholars were selected. Eight of them are from DST.They were: UIC President and Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof Tang Tao, Vice President (Research and Development) and Dean of Graduate School Prof Jia Weijia, Prof Wang Qing-Guo from the Computer Science and Techno...

Liang Yanshan, UIC PhD student majors in Chemistry was awarded Otto Huzinger Student Award in DIOXIN 2021. This award honours Professor Otto Hutzinger as the founder of the Dioxin Symposia and his continuing interest as a teacher and researcher committed to moving science forward and to stimulating young students and the next generation of researchers. Miss Liang is one of the six awarded stude...

Zeng Ting, UIC PhD student majors in Chemistry, was awarded Best Poster Presentation in the 28th Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong. This symposium will consist of an Oral Session presented by representative postgraduate students from six universities (CityU, CUHK, HKBU, PolyU, HKUST and HKU) and an online Poster Session.From Food Science and Technolog

The Division of Science and Technology (DST) held a lecture on “An Unbiased Stratified Statistic and a Fast Gradient Optimization Algorithm Based on It” given by guest speaker Prof. Aixiang Chen on October 22, 2021. Prof. Chen introduced a novel unbiased stratified statistic  and a new algorithm named MSSG based on . He then made comparison with other existing methods.Prof. Chen giving a lect...

Sun Kexin, a 2015 graduate of UIC's Environmental Science (ENVS) Programme, assisted the organisation of a forum session of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-15) on the Convention on Biological Diversity held in southwest China's Kunming city. Sun Kexin in COP15Kexin received further education at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and obtained a master's...

Dr Hu Yu, co-founder of intelligent speech and artificial intelligence publicly-listed company iFLYTEK, came to UIC on 29 September and gave a lecture on the origin, current research, and development prospects of artificial intelligence. Dr Hu Yu is also the chief expert of the human intelligence key project of the National High-tech R&D Programme of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the executive director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Speech and Language Information Processing.