From June 26th to 30th, 2023, the Shenzhen Conference on Random Matrix Theory and Applications (RMTA) unfurled its intellectual canvas on the campus of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen).

The School of Data Science (SDS) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen) invites applications for the Rising Star (RS) Postdoctoral Fellowship.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen) was founded in accordance with the Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Chinese-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools upon approval by the Ministry of Education. It strives to explore a new path of higher education featured by strong connections to both China and the world. The University is committed to providing top-quality higher education that features an integration of the East and the West and fostering an enriching research environment.

The World's Top 2% Scientists 2021 list released by Stanford University on Elsevier updated its Version 5, which was slightly different from the previously released Version 4. According to the Version 5 list, 17 professors from the School of Data Science, CUHK-Shenzhen were on the list; while based on the Version 4 list, 18 SDS professors made to the list. ■ Version 5

In March 2022, Haizhou Li, Professor at the School of Data Science, was inducted as the Academy of Engineering Singapore Fellow for his technical contributions to the theory and practice of speaker and language recognition.

In June 2022, Konstantinos Courcoubetis, Professor at the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen was awarded "Management Science Best Paper Award in Operations Management" by Manufacturing and Service Operations Society (MSOM) of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for his research paper “Peer-to-peer Product Sharing: Implications for Ownership, Usage, and Social Welfare in the Sharing Economy”.

In 2022, the software LogPAI (Log Analytics Powered by AI) developed by Prof. He Pinjia's team from the School of Data Science, CUHK-Shenzhen, won the first IEEE Open Software Services Award.

On September 1st and 2nd, 2022, the School of Data Science held a professor-student exchange activity for the 2022 undergraduate freshers. The professors and staff of the school welcomed them with the most sincere enthusiasm. On top of the professor-student exchange session and icebreaker games, exclusive gift bags and tasty refreshments were prepared for the new students at the event.

In August 2022, Professor Yin Zhang from the School of Data Science, CUHK-Shenzhen, was invited to give a special lecture on the Paul Y. Tseng Memorial Lectureship in Continuous Optimization at the 24th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP). Previously, Professor Zhang Yin was awarded the "Paul Y. Tseng Memorial Lectureship in Continuous Optimization" for his outstanding contributions in the research field of "continuous optimization". The "Paul Y.

A total of 18 papers by professors and students of the School of Data Science, CUHK-Shenzhen, have been accepted by NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, referred to as NeurIPS or NIPS) 2022, the top international conference in the field of machine learning and computational neuroscience. The papers are from 12 professors (Jicong Fan, Haizhou Li, Xiao Li, Zhiquan Luo, Andre Milzarek, Ruoyu Sun, Benyou Wang, Baoyuan Wu, Liyan Xie, Ming Yan, Hongyuan Zha, Ruimao Zhang), 1 postdoctoral fellow (Dandan Guo) and 1 doctoral student (Yushun Zhang).

New postgraduate programme, Master of Science in Bioinformatics (BIM), has been launched by the School of Data Science as the third master’s programmes of the School. BIM, a joint programme between the School of Life and Health Sciences and the School of Data Science, has embraced its first cohort of students this fall. This new programme along with the two existing programmes, Master of Science in Data Science and Master of Science in Financial Engineering, form a wide coverage of our scientific disciplines for the School's educational programmes.

Professor Jianhua Huang from the School of Data Science at CUHK-Shenzhen was awarded the 2022 INFORMS Impact Prize in November 2022 in recognition of his important influence on operations research practice. Impact Prize, handed out every other year, is a lifetime achievement award in operations research. Past winners are all top experts and scholars in this field

In November, one project from the School of Data Science at CUHK-Shenzhen was funded by the General Program of the Natural Science Foundation of the Guangdong Provincial Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, and one was funded by Guangdong-Shenzhen Joint Research Fund.

The26th International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2022),co-hosted by CUHK-Shenzhen and the Chinese and Oriental Languages InformationProcessing Society (COLIPS, Singapore), took place in Shenzhen from October 27to 28, 2022.