UIC owns four courses that the Department of Education of Guangdong has selected as the provincial first-class undergraduate courses. Amony them, three courses are offered by Faculty of Science and Technology (FST), they are Optimisation, Introduction to Robotics, and Machine Learning. To date, nine UIC courses have been recognised as provincial first class.Optimisation is a course under UIC's ...

Zhou Yifan is a UIC student of the class of 2021 from the Food Science and Technology Programme. She is now studying for her PhD at the Faculty of Life Sciences of University College London.Zhou developed a research interest in food and disease during her undergraduate study. Guided and encouraged by the Head of UIC's Department of Life Sciences, Prof Xu Baojun, she began to conduct review stud...

In the Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), 86 of 103 UIC teams won awards at the national level and provincial level, including two national first prizes, six Guangdong first prizes, 13 Guangdong second prizes, 29 Guangdong third prizes, and 38 winning prizes, which is a record high in the number of national and provincial awards.CUMCM is an annual contest for u...

UIC's application to set up two postdoctoral programmes in two first-class disciplines, Mathematics and Statistics, has been approved by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. UIC is the only university in Zhuhai to receive this approval.It is the first time the application has been opened to Chinese-foreign (including Mainland-Hong Ko...

The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS) recently elected 47 new Fellows, hailing from 24 countries and regions worldwide, six of whom are from the Chinese mainland institutions. Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and UIC President Prof Tang Tao was the only Chinese person in the field of Mathe...

Guo Rui was a UIC student of the Class of 2017, studying in the Department of Life Sciences. After graduating with a master's degree in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University & Research, she was admitted to the University of Queensland's (UQ) research programme for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Environmental Technologies with support from the China Scholarship Council.Guo RuiGuo Ru...

Stanford University and Elsevier have made the World's Top 2% Scientists for 2023, a publicly accessible database showcasing highly cited researchers.The selected six UIC FST scholars are: UIC President, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences Prof Tang Tao; Dean of Graduate School Prof Jia Weijia; Prof Wang Qing-Guo of Department of Computer Sci...

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 o...