28 January 2016

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics held the second day of “Symposia in Data Science” on 28 January 2016. The theme of the day was “Bioinformatics and Medical Imaging”. The Department invited Dr Annie Tang (Queen Elizabeth Hospital, HK), Dr Richard Bilonick (Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, USA) and Dr Fuhai Li (Biomedical Informatics Department, Ohio State University, USA) to be the guest speakers of the event. The participants were fascinated to learn how data science can be applied to medical industry.

The Symposia in Data Science is fully supported by Research Grant Council of Hong Kong Special Administration Region, China (Project Reference No: UGC/IIDS14/P01/15).

Interaction between speakers and participants

Speakers shared their research in bioinformatics and medical imaging

Speakers received souvenirs from Mr Stanley Zel

A group photo of the participants and the speakers