The Division of Science and Technology (DST) held an award ceremony for the 2020 CUMCM (China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling) and the 2021 MCM/ICM (Mathematical Contest in Modeling/Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling) participating teams on May 6, 2021. The ceremony was hosted by Miss Hongyi Lu, a Year-2 Statistics student, and Dr. Timothy Wu, supervisor for the MCM participan...
UIC students excelled in the 2021 Mathematical Contest in Modeling/Interdisciplinary Contest In Modeling (MCM/ICM), with one group designated as Finalist, four groups being Meritorious Winners, and 14 groups winning Honorable Mentions.MCM/ICM, sponsored by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP), is the most influential mathematical modelling competition globally. A t...
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...
Wei Xuan, a fourth-year student studying Statistics in the Division of Science and Technology (DST) at UIC, received the admission letter from Yale University’s Master of Science in Public Health in Biostatistics. Wei Xuan’s college life is coming to an end; she says she will remember the beauty of the campus and the days studying with friends in the Learning Resource Centre. She grew a...
On April 9, 2021, the Statistic Programme invited Dr. Ivy Liu, the Head of School of Mathematics and Statistics of Victoria University of Wellington, to give an online introduction meeting ofthe Applied Statistics master programme.Dr. Liu started the meeting by introducing the culture and lifestyle of New Zealand. She then briefly talked about the history, research level and social recognition ...
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 lectureProf. 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...
UIC's Statistics Programme, which is part of the Division of Science and Technology, has been approved as the provincial-level top undergraduate major by the Ministry of Education.Founded in 2005 by Prof Fang Kaitai, an internationally renowned statistician, the Statistics Programme was one of UIC's first programmes. The application of statistics has been constantly emphasized throughout the co...
