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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...

​UIC students excelled in the 2020 Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling (CUMCM). Li Xinyue and Xu Bokai, both majoring in Data Science, as well as Computer Science and Technology student, Xu Zimu, won the national Second Prize and the provincial First Prize. Another two teams won the provincial First Prize, while nine teams got the provincial Second Prize, 16 teams won the provincial Third Prize, and 24 teams gained the provincial Successful Participants.

Chair Professor and Department Head of Statistics and Data Science, Southern University of Science and Technology, Prof Shao Qi-Man, gave a lecture on “Self-normalization: Taming a Wild Population in a Heavy-tailed World”, at the invitation of UIC's Division of Science and Technology (DST) and the BNU-UIC Research Center for Mathematics, on 4 November. Prof Shao Qi-Man started from the definition of Self-normalization. He humorously explained the origin of the name of Student's t-statistic, and how W.S. Gosset invented Student's t-statistic by using data from the winery, thus creating a precedent for small samples. Student's t-statistic is one of the most important statistics, which is widely used in probability, statistics, finance and other scientific fields.

​At night, He Xin set the alarm clock at 6:30 am the next day, ready to go to sleep. He would take the commuter bus at 7 am to Huawei's Songshan Lake Base for work tomorrow. Working at the Alipay Building of the Ant Group in Hangzhou, Li Qianqian got off duty a little later than usual. Still, she decided to go to the gym to complete the goal for today's exercise.

The year 2020 has been a challenging time for all of humanity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, many researchers are conducting abundant research to fight against this awful virus. In the first half of 2020, a paper has been published in the international academic journal titled ‘Nature’, stating that by analysing data, researchers have successfully identified 332 kinds of protein-protein interaction involved in the coronavirus infection, and about 1/5 of them were targets of existing drugs or could be used for developing therapies for COVID-19. This paper was completed by an international team of about 100 researchers, of which Zhou Yuan, an alumna who graduated in 2017 from Statistics Programme of UIC, was a member of the research.