The 9th meeting of the Advisory Committee of UIC's Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) was held online and onsite on 23 November 2022. External members from corporates and institutes joined UIC members at the meeting, which was chaired by Prof Roderick SC Wong, former Vice-President of the City University of Hong Kong.The 9th meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Faculty of Science and T...
Six UIC teachers have been granted funds from the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, including the Natural Science Fund and the Provincial-Municipal Joint Fund.Prof Liu Luchuan of the Faculty of Business and Management (FBM) and Dr Ning Xuan of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) have applied respectively and successfully for the general projects of the Natu...
UIC students stood out in the 2022 China Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling (CUMCM), winning multiple national and provincial prizes. Among them, two teams were awarded both the national Second Prize and Guangdong provincial First Prize, respectively.These winning teams were formed separately by the fourth-year students from the Statistics Programme (STAT), Liu Shuaiju...
Stanford University scholars have recently released an update of the World's Top 2% Scientists list, in which nine UIC scholars were selected. Among them, eight scholars were from FST. UIC President, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences Prof Tang Tao; Vice President (Research and Development) and Dean of Graduate School Prof Jia Weijia; Chair ...
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...
UIC adheres to the concept of liberal arts education, and its teachers are breaking boundaries and pursuing a well-rounded life. Dr SiuTai Tsim—Associate Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Life SciencesDr Tsim is not only a skilful barber and a good cook but an excellent birdwatcher.Dr Tsim taught himself haircutting when he was on...
Recently, UIC students have received many awards in national and provincial competitions. Three year-three UIC students of the Applied Psychology (APSY) Programme, Zhang Zixuan, Feng An’an, and Qiu Tongyu, won the first prize in the sub-forum “Dealing with Practical Issues” under the guidance of Dr Solna Xing.
The National Natural Science Foundation of China recently announced the project review results for 2022, in which 16 FST faculty members (including teachers with joint-appointment with BNU) received funding for two key projects, one Mathematics Tianyuan Fund project, six general projects, five youth fund projects and two foreign scholar research projects.The recipients of the funding for the ke...
