The Division of Science and Technology (DST) welcomed two guest speakers on 5 December. The first speaker was Dr Wang Dan, who is an Assistant Professor of Finance at New York...

Delegates from Georgetown University visited Zhuhai to sign the Memorandum of Understanding with UIC on 14 November. The new agreement is valid until November 2023. The renewal improves the terms under which students receive scholarships.Dean of DST, Prof Stephen Chung (right) and Dr Robert Clarke sign an agreementThe delegates from Georgetown University were Dean of Research and Director of ...

On 12 September, Dr Qinghua Song, who is an Associate Director at Biostatistics Gilead, gave a talk at UIC titled, “Applications of Machine Learning Methods in Biomarker Analyses in Clinical Development”. This talk was organised by the UIC Statistics programme and was part of the Division of Science and Technology (DST) lecture series. Dr Song is the Associate Director at Biostatistics Gile...

On 28 June, UIC’s Applied Psychology programme (APSY) and Statistics (STAT) programme invited Prof Peter M. Bentler to come to UIC and organized a talk for him to give that was titled, “Regularized GLS and Monte Carlo Probability for Improved Structural Equation Model Evaluation”. Prof Bentler is an American psychologist, statistician, and distinguished professor at the University of Calif...

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...