Project Title: Reinforcement Learning via Duality
UK Organisation: University of Warwick
LIANG Gechun
Overseas Organisation: Chinese University of Hong Kong
WONG Hoi Ying
The purpose of this scheme is to contribute at the highest level of scientific research and education at the University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the City University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, by awarding Visiting Fellowships each year to UK or USA based scientists to collaborate with a Hong Kong based academic, or for Hong Kong based scientists to collaborate with an academic based in either the UK or USA.
Further reading:
Royal Society Kan Tong Po Fellowship 2024
last update: 20241115
Prof. Chan Kin Wai was awarded the Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2023 in recognition of his distinguished teaching performance.
Further reading:
Faculty of Science, CUHK website
last update: 20240822
Prof. Gen LI has received the Junior Researcher Award in ICSA 2024 China Conference.
Students or Junior Researchers who received their degrees no earlier than January 1, 2019, are encouraged to submit a high-quality research paper on cutting-edge statistical methodology, novel applications of statistical methods to problems in other disciplines, or other suitable contributions to statistics and data sciences.
Prof. Li’s paper (with Yuting Wei), “A non-asymptotic distributional theory of approximate message passing for sparse and robust regression”, was submitted to Annals of Statistics.
More information can be found at:
ICSA 2024 China Conference
last update: 20240708
ZOU Yudan (Statistics PhD Year 4), who is supervised by Professor SONG Xinyuan, has received the Postgraduate Research Output Award 2023.
To encourage quality research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong established a Postgraduate Research Output Award in September 2002.
Further reading:
ORKTS website
last update: 20240628
RMSC student Mr. Hung Kim Pong won the Second Runner-up in CUHK Capstone Project Presentation Competition 2024. The competition aims to provide a university-wide platform for students to showcase the outcomes of their year-long capstone projects to a much wider audience. It is believed that this initiative will promote academic excellence and interdisciplinary communication by providing an opportunity for final-year students from various backgrounds to gain valuable experience in presenting their research work in public. Winning students will receive trophies, certificates and Amazon gift cards, and their great performances will be showcased as exemplary samples in their capstone programmes.
For more details, please visit:
https://eltu.cuhk.edu.hk/cuhk-capstone-project-presentation-competition-2024/
last update: 20240520
Prof. Song Xinyuan has been elected to the Institute of Mathematical Statistics’s Fellowship. The IMS Fellowship honors their members’ outstanding research and professional contributions, which help keep IMS in a leading role in the fields of statistics and probability.
Further reading:
https://imstat.org/
last update: 20240503
WU Zhihao (Statistics PhD Year 4), who is supervised by Professor SONG Xinyuan, has received the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2024 Paper Award from the American Statistical Association (ASA) Biometrics Section (Paper title: Longitudinal Mixed Membership Image-on-Scalar Model).
Further reading:
https://community.amstat.org/biometricsbiom/award/byaraward/2024recip
https://community.amstat.org/nonparametricstatisticssection/paper-awards
last update: 20241115
Our former PhD student Dr. Shen Guohao (currently an Assistant Professor in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) who was supervised by Prof. Lin Yuanyuan was awarded the HKSS – John Aitchison Prize in Statistics, 2024. The Prize was established in 2022 by the Hong Kong Statistical Society (HKSS), to honour the distinguished career and contributions of Professor John Aitchison (1926-2016), Chair Professor of Statistics at the University of Hong Kong between 1976 and 1989 and founder and first President of the HKSS. The objective of the Prize is to reward excellence in PhD research, as demonstrated by a research paper, in Statistics or a closely related discipline.
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The Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo 2023 was held on 5 December 2023 and Dr. John Wright received the gold award for the poster called “Transforming teaching statistics to non-background students through bespoke training – lessons from five TAs” which refers to the Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG) project “Supporting statistics research postgraduates to teach quantitative data analysis to postgraduate students without statistics background”.
The Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo is jointly organised by the Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research (CLEAR), Centre for eLearning Innovation and Technology (ELITE), and Information Technology Services Centre (ITSC) of CUHK. It provides an excellent mutually supportive platform for educators at CUHK, to share educational experiences and insights with the education community. Throughout the years, creative ideas or practices that lead to teaching and learning enhancement have been exchanged via conversation, interactive presentations and seminars at the event.
Further details:
https://www.expo.elearning.cuhk.edu.hk/
last update: 20231218
Our former PhD student Dr. Shen Guohao (currently an Assistant Professor in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) who was supervised by Prof. Lin Yuanyuan was awarded Itarle Scholarship 2021/22. Itarle is a sponsor of PhD awards at CUHK. The Faculty of Business Administration, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science each have an award for the Student with outstanding performance in their thesis. An internship at Itarle (Hong Kong) will also be offered to each prize winner.
More details can be found:
https://itarle.com/itarle-sponsors-phd-awards/
last update: 20231110
Prof. Keith Chan attended the poster presentation at the Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo 2022 which was held from 14 Dec 2022 to 16 Dec 2022 and received “Educational Impact – Silver Award” for his e-learning platform (https://www1.sta.cuhk.edu.hk/stady/).
Every year the poster awards recognize the best efforts in teaching and learning in higher education, research, poster designs and presentations at the annual Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo.
More details can be found at the following link:
https://www.expo.elearning.cuhk.edu.hk/expo2022-poster-award
Our student Zhang Wenyu (PhD in STAT) won the champion with his teammates in the Huawei ICT Competition 2022-2023 Hong Kong SAR and achieved the highest score among 600 participants. The champion team will represent HK to join a regional competition in February.
The Hong Kong Final Competition was held on 10 Dec 2022.
More details about the ICT Competition can be found at
https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/first-cohort-of-eight-distinguished-students-awarded-cuhk-vice-chancellors-scholarships-for-excellence/
Our QFRM student Mr Cheung Chun Hin Angus was awarded the CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarships for Excellence 2021/22.
The CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarships for Excellence is a prestigious award that is presented annually to students with excellent academic achievements at entrance, academic results at CUHK, communication skills, track record of distinguished leadership and non-academic performance.
The presentation ceremony was held on 28 Sept 2022.
More details can be found:
https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/first-cohort-of-eight-distinguished-students-awarded-cuhk-vice-chancellors-scholarships-for-excellence/
Young Researcher Award 2021: Prof. WEI Yingying
The Award was established in 2002 with the aim of recognising the research achievements of young faculty members of the University, and nominations from each Faculty features a young faculty who produces the best research output for the award.
Our former PhD student Dr. Yan Tingjin (currently an Assistant Professor in East China Normal University) who was supervised by Prof. Wong Hoi Ying was awarded the Science Faculty Postgraduate Research Output Award 2020/2021 in recognition of his remarkable and impressive accomplishment in research studies.
The Faculty Award Ceremony will be hosted on 27 August 2022.
Our QFRM student Mr Cheng Kak Chi (team Plutus) won the Awards for
in the Joint-University Algo FX Trading Challenge 2021 (Global) organised by Algo Challenge Association.
Approximately 200 contestants from prestigious institutions in Hong Kong and all around the world have taken part in the global event started on November 2021.
More details can be found:
https://algochallenge.org/globalfx2021/
Our former PhD student Dr. Yan Tingjin (currently an Assistant Professor in East China Normal University) who was supervised by Prof. Wong Hoi Ying was awarded Itarle Scholarship 2020/21. Itarle is a sponsor of PhD awards at CUHK. The Faculty of Business Administration, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science each have an award for the Student with outstanding performance in their thesis. An internship at Itarle (Hong Kong) will also be offered to each prize winner.
More details can be found:
https://itarle.com/itarle-sponsors-phd-awards/
last update: 20220413
The Faculty’s annual postgraduate research day was held on Tuesday, 14 December 2021 in face-to-face mode. The event provided a platform for postgraduate students to gain exposure in the seminar, to present their innovative research results and to share research ideas and experiences.
Two students of our department were presented on the event and they both won the Presentation Award.
Champion: WANGWU Jiaxuan, Statistics PhD student. Presentation Title:
scAMACE: Model-Based Approach to the Joint Analysis of Single-Cell Data on Chromatin Accessibility, Gene Expression and Methylation.
Second Runner-up: LEUNG Cheuk Wai, Dominic, Risk Management Science MPhil student. Presentation Title: Testing Variance Change under Varying Mean Structure.
For details, please visit: http://www.sci.cuhk.edu.hk/en-gb/research/seminars/pg-research-day.
Professor Wong Hoi Ying has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award 2020 and the Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2020 in recognition of his distinguished teaching performance. The Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award is a prestigious award that is presented annually to outstanding teachers of the University, one from each of the eight Faculties and the General Education programme. The awardees’ achievements in teaching are considered by their peers and students to be of the highest order.
Professor CHAN Ngai Hang was awarded Journal of Time Series Analysis Distinguished Author Award in recognition of his significant contributions to the journal, based on publications appearing in Volumes 1–41 inclusive. For details, please visit: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14679892/homepage/distinguished-authors.
The Journal of Time Series Analysis started in 1980, has since become the leading journal in its field, publishing papers on both fundamental theory and applications, as well as review papers dealing with recent advances in major areas of the subject and short communications on theoretical developments. Further information can be found at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14679892/homepage/productinformation.html.
Professor CHAN Kin Wai has been awarded the Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award, CUHK (2019) and Early Career Award, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (2019), in recognition of his distinguished teaching performance and outstanding research talent.
For details about Prof Chan’s Early Career Award, please visit: https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/six-outstanding-cuhk-scholars-awarded-rgc-early-career-award-and-humanities-and-social-sciences-prestigious-fellowship-2019-2020/.
Further Reading: https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/W-J-Youden-Award-in-Interlaboratory-Testing.aspx
Our hearty congratulations to Professor Poon!