The review results of the 2023 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects application were recently announced, and four FST scholars were awarded project grants, including two general projects, one youth fund project and one foreign scholar fund project. The funding recipients for the two general projects are Prof Wang Qing-Guo and Prof Wang Tian; both are of the Department of...
UIC's Class of 2022 Statistics Programme graduate Yin Jiaying was admitted to the University of Cambridge's MPhil in Population Health Sciences programme, a fruitful outcome of her four-year study at UIC. In UIC's internationally liberal arts education atmosphere and with her determination to walk further on the academic road, she managed to locate her passion and head towards it firmly.Yin Jia...
The 12th International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) International Conference was held from 7 to 9 July 2023 in Hong Kong, China. At the conference, Dr Ma Chuoxin of the Department of Statistics and Data Science of UIC's Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) won the Junior Researcher Award for her paper, Multi-state model and structural selection for the analysis of depressive sympto...
The final results of the 17th "Challenge Cup" Guangdong Undergraduate Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works by Race were recently announced. A team of UIC students is expected to be awarded first prize in the natural science category for their paper on an estimation algorithm research of carrier frequency offset estimation in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing based on the li...
Peng Yawei is a fourth-year student in UIC's Statistics Programme, and she is prepared for her next adventure at Cambridge University's MPhil in Population Health Sciences for her master's study.Peng YaweiPeng has been diligently pursuing knowledge since the moment she arrived at UIC. She spent most of her time studying at the Learning Resource Centre and received numerous academic awards...
On March 1, 2023, the Department of Statistics and Data Science of the Faculty of Science and Technology invited Professor Guocan Feng to give a lecture entitled "Problem-driven Mathematical Modelling." Professor Feng is the director of the Guangdong Provincial Mathematical Modelling Competition Committee and the judge of the Mathematical Modelling Competition for many years. He is also a membe...
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.Professor Jianxin PanHe was a Professor of Statisticsat the University of Manchester before joining UIC. Heis a Fell...
On 12 March 2022, Dr Kay Lo lp gave an online lecture on "The Flu Seasons and the Missing Data: A Matched-Pair Analysis Northern and Southern Hemispheres 2021-2022 and Hong Kong, China 2004-2009" to UIC students and faculty. He presented the trends and characteristics of different influenza viruses based on the data he collected.Dr. lp is a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Manitoba, wh...