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...

DST & ISCI Lecture: A Polynomial Algorithm for Best Subset Selection

DST & ISCI Lecture： Linear Inverse Problems with Positivity Restrictions

The Division of Science and Technology (DST) held a lecture on “Column-orthogonal Strong Orthogonal Arrays” with guest speaker Prof. Minqian Liu on April 23, 2021. Prof. Liu introduced column-orthogonal strong orthogonal arrays (OSOA), illustrated its application and made comparison with other existing methods.Prof. Liu giving a lectureProf. Liu is the Associate Dean of the Department of Stat...

The Division of Science and Technology (DST) held a lecture on “Propensity Score-based Spline Approach for Average Causal Effects” with guest speaker Professor Xingwei Tong on April 1, 2021. Prof. Tong illustrated the optimization model of causal inference based on the international causal inference, and delivered its application in precision medicine.Prof. Tong giving a lecture Prof. Tong is...

 On 31st March 2021, the Institute of Statistics and Computational Intelligence of DST invited the AI scientist Dr. Wu Zhili to deliver a lecture on Face AI. In the talk, he analyzed the great opportunities and challenges of face AI.Dr. Wu ZhiliDr. Wu Zhili is an AI scientist and the founder of Shenzhen Yiyuan Intelligence Technology Co. Ltd. He studied at Tsinghua University and Hong Kong Bapt...

The lecture theatre was packed full of students and faculty members who were all eager to listen to the Division of Science and Technology (DST) distinguished guest Prof Tze Leung Lai on 4 December.Prof Tze Leung Lai is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Statistics and by courtesy, also of Biomedical Data Science, and Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University.Prof Lai rec...

Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dr Li Buyang, gave a lecture as part of the Institute of Mathematical Research (IMR) and the Division of Science and Technology (DST) lecture series. Dr Li’s lecture was titled ‘A convergent Evolving Finite Element Algorithm for Mean Curvature Flow of Closed Surfaces’.Dr Li Buyang explaining different equationsThe Dean of DST Pro...