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Congratulations to our PhD student Mr Huaqing Jin on receiving the Hung Hing Ying Scholarship. This competitive scholarship is awarded to outstanding research postgraduate students in physical sciences on the basis of academic merit.
 
(Post date:December 23, 2020)

Senior Executive Assistant/Executive Assistant (at the rank of Clerk I/II) in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science (Ref.: 502745)

(Post date:November 24, 2020)

HKU Professoriate Recruitment (Computational, Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence fields for Research Division for Mathematical and Statistical Science, Faculty of Science) (Ref.: 502567)
 
(Post date:November 6, 2020)

HKU "Hong Kong Scholars" Professoriate Cluster Recruitment (Data Science and/or Big Data Related fields) for the Institute of Data Science (10 or more posts) (Ref.: 502558)
 
(Post date:November 6, 2020)

Tenure-track Assistant Professor/Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence. (3 posts) (Ref.: 502068)
 
(Post date:September 8, 2020)

Postdoctoral / Research Assistant positions in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science.
 
(Post date:July 10, 2020)

Warmest congratulations to our staff members Dr YK Chung, Dr CW Kwan, Ms Ada Lai and Ms Irene Cheung on receiving the 15, 25, 35, or 40 years’ Long Service Award this year.

(Post date:June 12, 2020)

Lecturer in Data Science in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. (Ref.: 500415)

(Post date:June 10, 2020)

HKU statisticians develop online diagnostic system for screening COVID-19 with AI technologies based on chest CT dataset.

(Post date:June 3, 2020)

Congratulations to our PhD candidates, Mr ZHANG Chenyang and Mr JIN Huaqing on receiving the finalist award of the SCT Thomas Chalmers Student Scholarship by the Society for Clinical Trials, and Miss LU Kexin on receiving the HKU Presidential PhD Scholarship. For the recent awards of our RPGs, please click HERE.

(Post date:June 1, 2020)

Senior Executive Assistant/ Executive Assistant (at the rank of Clerk I/II) in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. (Ref.: 500302)

(Post date:May 28, 2020)

Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. (Ref.: 500253)

(Post date:May 22, 2020)

MDASC is one of the listed eligible programmes in the Targeted Taught Postgraduate Programmes Fellowships Scheme sponsored by UGC. Selected Fellowship Students can receive HK$120,000 of subsidy.

(Post date:March 20, 2020)

Tenure-track Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in Quantitative Analysis in Environmental Sciences in the Faculty of Science. (Ref.: 495673)

(Post date:January 24, 2020)

Post-doctoral Fellow in Statistical Genetics in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. (Ref.: 499157)

(Post date:November 22, 2019)

Associate Professor/ Assistant Professor in Big Data in Environment and Climate Science in the Research Division of Mathematical and Statistical Science. (Ref.: 498769)

(Post date:October 11, 2019)

Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence (2 posts) in the Research Division for Mathematical and Statistical Science. (Ref.: 498526)

(Post date:October 11, 2019)

Congratulations to our Actuarial Science students Mr Marco Lam and Miss Linhong Qiu, who were awarded for excellent standing at the 2019 Munich Re Cup Actuarial Mathematics Competition! Marco came in second overall, whilst Marco and Linhong were champions for Hong Kong and Chengdu regions respectively.
 
(Post date: Septebmer 5, 2019)

Random Matrices and Complex Data Analysis Workshop on December 10-12, 2019, Shanghai.
 
(Post date: August 30, 2019)

Two teams formed by our Actuarial Science students have won the Ernst & Young NextWave Data Science Challenge (Hong Kong region) including monetary prize and internship opportunity!
 
With over 350 students registering for the competition, 14 top performers from different Hong Kong universities have been invited to present their work in terms of methodology, findings, and thoughts in the final held on 30 May 2019.
 
(Post date: June 27, 2019)

HKU was ranked No.2 worldwide and No.1 in Asia based on research contributions from the top 4 actuarial journals (Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, North American Actuarial Journal, ASTIN Bulletin, and Scandinavian Actuarial Journal) amongst non-business schools over a 25-year period from 1994 to 2019. It was 1994 when the BSc in Actuarial Science programme was launched. HKU was even ranked No. 1 in 2006 and 2013 worldwide in this global study conducted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
 
(Post date: June 26, 2019)

We were absolutely thrilled to have a group of aspiring form 4-5 HKDSE students from Ho Lap College visiting us yesterday to learn what statistics is! We hope that the students found the talk fruitful while having a taste of university life at HKU.
 
(Post date: March 21, 2019)

According to the QS World University Rankings by Subject Statistics & Operational Research 2019, HKU ranks No.34 worldwide overall. For details, please click here.
 
(Post date: February 28, 2019)

Congratulations to our Statistics student LO Siu-Chun and her team on winning the championship at the Data and Media Hack 2019. The winning team members also include our Decision Analytics student WONG Ho-Yeung and Actuarial Science student LAU Ching-Hei.
 
Co-organised by the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Journalism at Hong Kong Baptist University, the event had three themes -- health and ageing; leisure, retail and tourism; and media, culture and entertainment.
 
(Post date: February 11, 2019)

Congratulations to Professor Jeff Yao on being elected as a Council Member of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability.
 
(Post date: December 31, 2018)

Congratulations to our PhD candidate Miss Yu Kexin on winning the Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student 2016-17 of the University of Hong Kong. Miss Yu is one of the ten awardees this year to receive the award in recognition of her thesis of exceptional quality and outstanding performance in other academic aspects.
 
(Post date: December 7, 2018)

University of Hong Kong places 25th in 2019 QS World University Rankings – its top marks in seven years.
 
(Post date: October 26, 2018)

Highlights of our new Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Applied Artificial Intelligence programme in the media:
【AI program as uni aims to make leadership mark】
【港大明年推六文理學士課程】
【港大辦6跨文理學士課程 10學院參與 英文需5級】
【港大辦六文理學士 文憑試五科須28分】
【港大六新課程 國際機構實習】
【港大辦五跨學科學士學位 文理結合培訓人才】
 
(Post date: October 23, 2018)

Big thanks to Ernst & Young for sharing experience of the industry and diverse business services with our students! It was delightful to see our graduates (Florence, Koopa and Kermit in particular) coming home in the capacity of E&Y representatives too!
 
The Department strives to provide students with opportunities to take part in different career-related events of various natures under the Career Advising Programme.
 
(Post date: Oct 3, 2018)

Strategic Partnership with Suoxinda on Artificial Intelligence
 
索信達數據與香港大學統計及精算學系簽署AI人才戰略合作協議 (Chinese only)
 
(Post date: May 31, 2018)

Collaboration with Hospital Authority on Diagnosis of Acute Ischaemic Stroke
 
港大醫管局AI篩出九成半大血管栓塞中風個案　有望提早兩小時確診 (Chinese only)
(明報新聞網 | 2018年5月8日)
 
(Post date: May 10, 2018)

Congratulations to Professor Jeff Yao on being elected Fellow by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
 
(Post date: May 10, 2018)

According to the QS World University Rankings by Subject Statistics & Operational Research 2018, HKU ranks No.28 worldwide overall. For details, please click here.
 
(Post date: March 9, 2018)

Congratulations to Dr. K.P. Wat on being awarded the University Teaching Feedback Award (TFA).
 
(Post date: January 8, 2018)

Congratulations to Dr. Eddy Lam of our Department and his SCNC1111 team on receiving the Faculty Award for Teaching Innovations in E-learning 2016-17.
 
(Post date: November 21, 2017)

HKU partners with Cyberport to set up HKU x Cyberport Digital Tech Entrepreneurship Platform to co-develop an innovative FinTech ecosystem
 
Designed by Dr Philip Yu of HKU Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, the powerful portfolio optimization software “PORTimizer®” and MPF mobile app “MPF Optimal Allocation (MPF OpAl)” was demonstrated at the launch of the “HKU x Cyberport FinTech Nucleus” recently. Users can view the monthly market price information of each MPF fund, record their own portfolios, track the changes of the portfolios, perform optimization based on their preferences on equity contribution based on the newly developed GPQ method, and project the future performance of the optimized portfolios.
 
(Post date: October 16, 2017)

The Department is very pleased to announce the public lecture of Professor Dr. Paul Embrechts (ETH Zurich) during his visit to HKU as Hung Hing Ying Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Science & Technology. He will talk about risk and randomness, and the regularly heard "why do rare events happen so often".
 
For registration of the public lecture: https://saasweb.hku.hk/seminar/20171129.html.
 
About the Scheme
With a generous HK$20 million donation from the Hung Hing Ying & Leung Hau Ling Charitable Foundation, a permanent endowment to support the appointments of visiting scholars in the fields of science and technology has now been established. For more details, please visit here.
 
(Post date: October 12, 2017)

Congratulations to our HKU students, Mr. Jia You (PhD candidate in Statistics), Mr. Renjie Lu (PhD candidate in Statistics), Mr. Brian Chan (MPhil. candidate in Physics who is planning to study PhD in Statistics) and Mr. Haofeng Li (PhD in Computer Science), who teamed up and won the second runner-up prize of HKD10,000 in a FinTech Hackathon, a competition organised by Hang Seng Bank on May 27-28, 2017. Amongst them there were over 110 contestants from eight different tertiary institutions.
 
Leveraging “Haccelerator” platform co-organised by Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Cyberport, the Hang Seng Bank FinTech Hackathon this year was about applications of machine learning in banking.
 
(Post date: July 28, 2017)

Further to the establishment of the endowed Patrick S C Poon Professorship in Statistics and Actuarial Science, Dr. Patrick Sun-Cheong Poon has made recurrent donation to continue the Patrick Poon Lecture Series in Actuarial Science, which was established in 2004.
 
The Department is also deeply grateful to Dr. Poon for his great generosity in making donation to continue the Dr Patrick S C Poon Scholarship in Actuarial Science, which awards up to ten Actuarial Science freshmen. In 2012, Dr. Poon pledged another donation to the University of Hong Kong for the establishment of Dr Patrick S C Poon Scholarship in Statistics, which awards up to four outstanding undergraduates who pursue Decision Analytics, Risk Management or Statistics studies. Please click here for more details on the scholarships.
 
(Post date: June 22, 2017)

HKU BSc(Actuarial Science) programme has earned reaccreditation for subjects CT1-CT8 of the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) for another period of 5 years beginning 2017. It is the first programme to be accredited in Asia. For details, please click here.
 
(Post date: March 31, 2017)

HKU Statistics ranks No. 1 in Hong Kong/China and No. 20 worldwide overall in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017. In terms of employer reputation, HKU Statistics has topped the rank as No. 1 in Asia for at least 4 consecutive years according to the available information on the QS website.
 
(Post date: March 31, 2017)

As an international premier center in the science disciplines, the Faculty of Science promotes research vibrancy and leading-edge innovation, resulting in the launch of the Big Data Research Cluster project.
 
Click here for more details: https://saasweb.hku.hk/bigdata/
 
(Post date: February 14, 2017)

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science is very pleased to announce that its designation of the Center of Actuarial Excellence (CAE) has been renewed for another period of 5 years. Click here for the comments from the award body, Society of Actuaries.
 
(Post date: January 20, 2017)