Mao Kailing is a UIC graduate from the Class of 2015. After graduating from UIC and working at Microsoft for four years, she gained her master's degree from the University of Washington, and now she has decided to head towards Carnegie Mellon University and pursue her doctoral degree.Mao KailingMao learned about UIC when she was still in high school. Attracted by its unique location and environ...

UIC graduate Qiu Yifu won the 2023 Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship, among the 22 researchers that tech giant Apple selected globally this year.Qiu YifuThe Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship recognises the contributions of researchers in computer science and engineering at the graduate and postgraduate level. Each Scholar receives funding as they pursue their PhD, internship opportuni...

Lin Yuxuan, 26, graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Statistics from UIC and a PhD in Probability and Mathematical Statistics from UIC and Hong Kong Baptist University's joint programme.Yuxuan's research focuses on experimental design. In November 2022, as her final achievement, Yuxuan graduated from her PhD programme with five SCI papers. She was recruited by the esteemed Zhejiang Lab to expand her ...

Xu Longhao is a UIC student from the Class of 2020 Statistics Programme. He has been admitted to a PhD programme concentrating on medical statistics at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Maths has been one of Xu's favourite subjects since high school. Knowing that Prof Fang Kaitai, an internationally well-known statistician, teaches at UIC, Xu chose to spend his four years at UIC de...

Although the academic path is always considered lonely and challenging, Liang Yanshan's never is.UIC PhD graduate in Chemistry (UIC and Hong Kong Baptist University)Admitted to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Postdoctoral ProgrammeGraduating from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Southern Medical University with a bachelor's degree, she was admitted to the School of Biomedica...

Qiu Yifu is a UIC student from the Class of 2020 Computer Science and Technology Programme. He now is studying for his doctoral degree in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), led by tutors from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Cambridge. "Studying NLP requires strong interest. If not, it's very likely ...

UIC encourages experiential learning, guiding students with solid skills both in theories and practice and releasing their potential for good. Here are three students sharing how they locate their paths in scientific research after their four-year study at UIC. Yao Yueying graduated from UIC's Food Science and Technology (FST) programme in 2021. Sh...

Success is about how high you bounce when you hit bottom. Having successfully counterattacked adversities twice, Huang Kaiyuan, a Food Science and Technology (FST) graduate, is currently studying at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Analytical Chemistry. In his freshman and sophomore years, Kaiyuan didn't have any goals. At that time, his...