The Faculty of Data Science successfully held the "2021/2022 Academic Year Graduate Student Information Session" in the Ho Yin Conference Center HG02 on the afternoon of October 27 this year. The briefing session invited Professor Wanlei Zhou, Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau, Professor Yi Mu, Vice Dean, Assistant Professor Wenjian Liu, Coordinator of Graduate Programme, Assistant Professor Chia-Wei Chu, Coordinator of Undergraduate Programme, Professor Zhiming Cai, Assistant Professor Hoi Io Kong, and Assistant Professor Weng Tak Kuok. and Assistant Professor Zuobin Ying respectively introduced the development and future prospects of the faculty, the overall situation of the Faculty's teaching projects, and the research directions of the instructors. The administrative teacher of the faculty explained the important time points and graduation requirements for master's and doctoral students during their time in faculty. Teachers who attended the briefing session answered questions raised by students about admissions.
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Dean Professor Wanlei Zhou gave a comprehensive introduction to the faculty's discipline construction, teaching staff, scientific research results, talent training and future ideas. He introduced that the Faculty of Data Science of City University of Macau is based on high-quality, multi-level, and international talent training positioning, and has formed a multi-level talent training system for doctoral, master's, and bachelor's degrees. The Faculty of Data Science is based on data science and big data technology, with multiple disciplines including big data and smart tourism, big data and smart health, big data and smart cities, big data and smart finance, and smart education. In the process of discipline construction, it has in-depth intersection and joint construction with disciplines such as humanities, arts, business and social sciences at city universities. To better promote the development of new liberal arts and interdisciplinary subjects at City University of Macau, cultivate data science talents and multi-disciplinary talents that meet the needs of academia and business circles, coordinate existing and future research projects related to big data, and establish industry relationships with industry Academic research partnership. The Faculty adopts the "learning community" model in postgraduate guidance and implements the "dual tutor" system. It selects outstanding senior technical personnel in the industry as practical tutors and cooperates with City University of Macau tutors to guide students to help students grow rapidly and improve their abilities. Finally, Professor Wanlei Zhou hoped that the students present could make their own contributions to promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities in the future.
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Professor Yi Mu gave a detailed introduction to the reform and development, goal positioning and training process of the faculty's master's and doctoral degrees. He emphasized that the faculty’s training goal for doctoral students is to cultivate high-level scholars with broad academic horizons, solid theoretical foundations, complete professional knowledge, proficiency in research methods, and ambitions to engage in data science research; the training goal for master’s degrees is to cultivate masters of modern international and domestic data Scientific theories and methods, senior professional application talents engaged in international and domestic data science related work. Finally, Professor Yi Mu combined his early study experience to emphasize the importance of academic ambition in choosing academic projects, and also encouraged students to cherish their youth and make life choices that suit them.
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Assistant Professor Wenjian Liu, Coordinator of Graduate Programme, gave an overall introduction to the faculty's teaching projects and a brief explanation of his own research direction. He looked forward to learning and growing with all students in the future.
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Professor Zhiming Cai emphasized the students' time arrangement during their studies. I hope that students will cherish their time and get the expected results in the research directions they are interested in. Assistant Professor Hoi Io Kong, Assistant Professor Weng Tak Kuok and Assistant Professor Zuobin Ying gave detailed introductions to graduate training from the perspectives of professionalism, comprehensive ability, and academic research. The administrative teacher gave a detailed explanation of the time schedule and graduation requirements for master's and doctoral students at university. Finally, the orientation session for new students ended successfully in a warm atmosphere of communication and interaction.
