Have you ever wondered how long it would take to get to Mars? What about the crash likelihood of autonomous cars? Or even the cost-efficiency of turning waste into energy? UIC students were on hand to answer these questions and more at The Sixth Undergraduate Science & Technology Poster Presentation, held on 18 April, with 94 participants representing 72 projects.Year 4 Statistics Student, Zh...

Publishing giant Elsevier announced the list of 2016 Most Cited Chinese Researchers on 27 February 2017. Prof Fang Kaitai, Professor of Statistics at UIC’s Division of Science and Technology, was among the 86 researchers in mathematical sciences.Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The influence of a researcher is measur...

Young researchers care about community at Science and Technology Poster Presentation

Professor Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist of China’s first lunar mission, gave an over-two-hour lecture on “China's Dream in Lunar Exploration” at UIC on 23 November.Being a pioneer in the field of meteorites and cosmochemistry in China, Prof Ouyang is an academic of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, a member of the Internatio...

Statistics student Jiang Jia-Jian’s final year project has been accepted for publication in the October 2015 issue of Statistics & Probability Letters, one of the top international journals in statistics and probability.His research paper, titled “An Interesting Property of the Arcsine Distribution and Its Applications”, shows that important properties of a discrete approximation to the ar...

Pennsylvania State University professor on big data

Prof Martin Lee from Stanford University and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre spoke of “Aimigo: an optimisation algorithm that changes the game” at UIC on 25 November.Prof Lee said non-linear programming leverages constrained optimisation algorithms to address the challenges of inverse system design, data mining and machine learning. As data sets grow and systems become ever more comp...

The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) presented the 2014 Distinguished Achievement Award to Prof Fang Kaitai of DST's Statistics Programme at its general member meeting in Boston in August.President of the ICSA Prof Ying Lu (Stanford University) says the bestowal of this award upon Prof Fang is in recognition of his “broad and significant contributions in statistical theor...