According to Prof Pan Jianxin, Dean of UIC's Division of Science and Technology (DST) and Chair Professor of Statistics and Data Science, integrating subjects can spark new ideas, which is crucial for cultivating interdisciplinary and innovative talents.With this notion, led by Prof Pan, DST is heading to establish a high-quality, interdisciplinary scientific research platform.Prof Pan JianxinP...

For Zhong Weibin and Ma Xiaoyang, love means going through ups and downs together and supporting each other to be better people. Starting from UIC, they went to the US for further study and work and have been together for nine years as classmates, a couple, and partners who grow together in their academic careers...

Yihong received offer letters from two world-renowned institutions -- the Master of Science in Software Engineering programme at Carnegie Mellon University and the Master of Science in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Yihong dreamt of being a scientist and worked hard towards the goal. These offers have acknowledged her hard work and shown that every effort she paid was not in vain.

UIC President Prof Tang Tao has been elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc).EurASc is a non-profit, non-governmental, independent organisation of the most distinguished scholars and engineers performing forefront research and the development of advanced technologies, united by a commitment to promoting science and technology and their essential roles in fostering social a...

On 7 April 2022, Professor Jianxin Pan, Dean of the Division of Science and Technology, UIC, gave a lecture on "Modelling and Learning Strategy for Medical/Health Data" to UIC students and faculty, introducinghis recent researchon data modelling in the field of medical and health. He was a Professor of Statisticsat the University of Manchester before joining UIC. Heis a Fell...

UIC's Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Research and Application for Data Science has been approved by the Guangdong Science and Technology Department.The Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Research and Application for Data Science, led by Prof Pan Jianxin, Dean of UIC's Division of Science and Technology, mainly focuses on multi-modal data processin...

Receiving a liberal arts education at UIC inspired Dong Shengkun to firmly step on the road of scientific research and helped him lay the foundations to become an associate professor in a renowned university in China.Dong Shengkun, who graduated from UIC's Environment Science (ENVS) Programme in 2011, continued his Master's and PhD studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), US.

Scientific research could be a lonely and arduous adventure. Luckily, Luo Jiaqiang and Wu Tong have each other by their sides on their academic journey. The couple met at UIC and then went to Australia for their Master's and Doctoral degrees together. Wu Tong, 2014 FST graduate, obtained a Master's Degree in Food Sciences at the University of Melbourne, pursuing Doctoral...