UIC signs MoU with Università del Piemonte Orientale

UIC has entered into yet another Memorandum of Understanding with an overseas partner university. This latest MoU was initiated by UIC staff in the Food Science and Technology Programme of the Division of Science and Technology, and signed by UIC and the Università del Piemonte Orientale (UPO), a university in Piedmont, Italy. The two schools have pledged their mutual interest in developing cul...

2022/05/20

[People of UIC] Meet Huang Kaiyuan: Never too late to change

Success is about how high you bounce when you hit bottom. Having successfully counterattacked adversities twice, Huang Kaiyuan, a Food Science and Technology (FST) graduate, is currently studying at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Analytical Chemistry. In his freshman and sophomore years, Kaiyuan didn't have any goals. At that time, his...

2022/05/18

[People of UIC] Meet Prof Pan Jianxin: Fostering interdisciplinary talents

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...

2022/05/09

[People of UIC] From ideal teammates to perfect couple

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...

2022/04/28

[People of UIC] Meet Wang Yihong: A versatile girl heads to Carnegie Mellon University

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.

2022/04/22

UIC President Prof Tang Tao elected Fellow of European Academy of Sciences

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...

2022/04/14

Lecture on the Modelling and Learning Strategy for Medical/Health Data

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...

2022/04/11

UIC establishes provincial key lab

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...

2022/03/18