On 13 June 2024, at 20:00, the School of Data Science (SDS) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), hosted a live Q&A session on its WeChat channel titled "Face to Face with the Dean." The session featured Professor Jim Jiangang Dai, Dean of SDS; Professor Tianwei Yu, Associate Dean (Student Affairs); Professor Ming Yan, Assistant Dean (Undergraduate Affairs); and Ying Xu, Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions and Communications at Columbia University. They addressed questions about applying to SDS, undergraduate programme selection, and the elite "Columbia Engineering 3+2" bachelor-master's programme (details provided by Xu).