Admitted by the MA programme in Statistics of the University of California, Berkeley, Lu Hongyi is a fourth-year student of UIC's Statistics Programme, who won the First Class Award and Dean's Award at UIC.Lu HongyiLu improved her learning efficiency during her study life at UIC. In addition to concentrating on classes, she would also spend time after class reviewing the highlights of the cours...

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...

The UIC Scholarship Presentation Ceremony for the Academic Year 2021-2022 was held on 22 February 2023.The total amount of scholarships for this academic year exceeded RMB 20 million, benefiting more than 2,200 students, a record high for the total amount of scholarships and the number of recipients.UIC President, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the European Academy of S...

UIC’s Centre for Teaching and Learning organised the 3rd Innovative Teaching Contest, with 11 teams from the Faculties and Schools participating. The results were released in December 2022 and four winning teams were chosen to vie in the Guangdong session of the National Teaching Innovation Contest.UIC President, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the European Academy of S...

Mr Zhang Tianfu, a successful entrepreneur of two tea companies in Yunnan, was invited to give a lecture on "Origin of Pu'er Tea" at UIC on 6 December 2022. President Tang Tao, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, attended the lecture. Prof Xu Baojun, Head of the Department of Life Sciences, held the lecture. The lecture also welcomed partici...

UIC unveiled the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Research and Application for Data Science on 13 December 2022 and held the Lab's first academic committee meeting.The Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province in 2022 approved the key laboratory’s establishment. It is the first laboratory that settles in a university of Zhuhai and the highest-standard r...

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 ...

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...