Department of Applied Mathematics

Achievement

World leading research and top world ranking

Our research in Mathematics and Statistics have achieved remarkable recognition since 2009. According to The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2014 conducted by the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong, 71% of AMA’s research has achieved a 4- or 3- star rating i.e. ‘world leading’ or ‘Internationally excellent’ by international standards. In the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking 2021, PolyU is listed the world top 100 in Statistics and Operational Research and 150 in Mathematics.

Number of AMA’s projects funded by GRF/ECS grants in the recent years:

Year	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22
No. of projects	9	8	16	11	16	16	12	19

In addition to the GRF/ECS scheme, the Department has also received other grant sources in the past 5 years:

Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF)
Health and Medical Research Fund
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme
AIDS Trust Fund
Germany/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme
Industrial collaborating grant from Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
Industrial collaborating grant from Value Exchange International Limited
ITF-University-Industry Collaboration Programme (UICP)
PROCORE-France/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme

Funded teaching project

On top of our research accomplishment, we are also proud of our effort in making significant advance in teaching. In summer 2017, our teaching team proposed a Teaching & Learning project titled “Developing Active Learning Pedagogies and Mobile Applications in University STEM Education” and won a funding from the University Grants Committee UGC Funding Scheme 2016-2019. The project involves three other local universities (Hong Kong Baptist University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong), while our teaching team plays the leading role. We are thrilled to win the Department’s first UGC Teaching and Learning funding, and will continue to strive for further improvement.

A New University Research Facility

In 2018, PolyU established a new University Research Facility in Big Data Analytics. AMA is tasked to manage the facility jointly with the Department of Computing. It will facilitate multidisciplinary research in big data.

Staff

Prof. Chen Xiaojun

Prof. Chen is elected as 2021 Fellows of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics for her contributions to optimization, stochastic variational inequalities, and nonsmooth analysis. Please click here for details
The President's Award for Excellent Performance and Achievements in Research and Scholarly Activities 2010/2011
Semi-Plenary speaker of the 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming Berlin, 2012

Prof. Huang Jian

The Highly Cited Researchers 2014-2018 by Clarivate Analytics (formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters) https://hcr.clarivate.com/
Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2009

Prof. Qi Li-qun

The Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Mathematics 2018-2020 by Clarivate Analytics
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The Top 15 among 27,033 authors in 'Control and Optimization' discipline according to Microsoft Academic Search, by H-Index
ISI Most Highly Cited Mathematician in the period of 1981-2007
The First Class Science and Technology Award of Chinese Operations Research Society in 2010

Prof. Sun Defeng

Prof. Sun is selected as one of the eight elected Inaugural Fellows of the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM). Please click here for details
Prof. Sun is elected as 2020 Fellows of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his distinguished work and outstanding service to the community. Please click here for details
Prof. Sun, together with his collaborator Prof Kim-Chuan Toh and their former PhD student Dr. Liuqin Yang, was awarded the triennial Beale--Orchard-Hays Prize for Excellence in Computational Mathematical Programming 2018 by the Mathematical Optimization Society. Please click here for details

Prof. Chan Cheong-ki

The President's Award for Excellent Performance and Achievements in Services 2007/2008

Prof. Kwong Man-kam

ISI Most Highly Cited Mathematician in the period of 1981-2007

Prof. Wong Heung

Faculty Award for Outstanding Performance / Achievement in Teaching 2009/2010
The prestigious statistical software Statistical Analysis System (SAS) announced in early 2010 to include the Wong and Li's ARCH test in one of its time series Procedures.

Prof. Yang Xiaoqi

The President's Award for Excellent Performance/ Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities 2017/2018
The Faculty Award for Outstanding Performance in Research and Scholarly Activities (Individual) 2016/2017

Prof. Zhao Xing-qiu

Winner of the 2014 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology) administrated by the Ministry of Education of China (MoE) - Natural Science Award (Second Class)

Dr. Chan Chi-kin

Faculty Award for Outstanding Performance / Achievement in Teaching 2011/2012

Dr. He Dai-hai

Dr. He and his co-authors receive the Second Prize for the 2019 Award for Outstanding Research Articles in Biosurveillance by The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS). The award is for their article 'Modelling the large-scale yellow fever outbreak in Luanda, Angola, and the impact of vaccination'.

Drs. James Huang (right) and Li Xun (left)

Members of the winning team of 2018 Outstanding Achievement Award in Scientific Research for Institution of Higher Education (Second Prize) administrated by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.
http://www.moe.gov.cn/srcsite/A16/s7062/201901/t20190124_367995.html

Dr. Qiao Zhong-hua

Awardee of RGC Research Fellow 2020/21
2018 Hong Kong Mathematical Society Award for Young Scholars
Winner of Early Career Award 2013/14 presented by the Research Grants Council

Dr. Raymond Sze

Winners of the 2014 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (JMAA) Ames Awards

Dr. Wang Zhi-an

2019 Hong Kong Mathematical Society Award for Young Scholars
Winners of the 2012 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (JMAA) Ames Awards in Pure and Applied mathematics

Dr. Pong Ting-kei

Dr. T.K. Pong won the Early Career Award 2015/16 presented by the Research Grants Council. Dr. Pong is the only faculty member from PolyU who received the Award in 2015.

Dr. Yue Man-chung

Winner of Early Career Award 2020/21 presented by the Research Grants Council

Dr. Zhou Zhi

Winner of Early Career Award 2018/19 presented by the Research Grants Council

Dr. Fridolin Ting

The President's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching 2019/2020. Please click here for details
Finalist for the "2020 UGC Teaching Award" by University Grants Committee. Please click here for UGC's video clip of the finalists of the 2020 UGC Teaching Award.
The Faculty Award for Outstanding Performance/Achievement 2019/20 - Teaching (Individual Award)
Winner of Trendsetter Award, The EdTech Awards 2020. Please click here for details

Dr. Fridolin Ting (team leader), Prof. Chan Cheong Ki, Dr. Zhang Hua and Dr. Raymond Sze

The Faculty Award for Outstanding Performance on Teaching (team) 2016/2017. Please click here for details

Dr. Fridolin Ting (left) with the PALMS team at the Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Conference and Awards in London, England on 10 December 2019

Dr. Fridolin Ting and AMA PALMS project team

Gold Award of Exemplary Teaching and Learning Award, eLearning Forum Asia 2020-2021 and Bronze Award in the 'Science of Learning' category, Reimagine Education Awards 2020-21. Please click here for details.
Won 7 international educational awards recently as recognition for their contributions to innovations in STEM tertiary education. Please click here for details.

Dr. Zhang Hua

The Faculty Award for Outstanding Performance/Achievement 2018/19 - Teaching (Individual Award)

Student

Miss ZHAO Xiaohan, student of BSc (Hons) in Investment Science

FAST Outstanding Student Award 2020

Mr. FANG Chen, student of Minor programme in Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Dr. He Daihai

Meritorious Winner of Mathematical Content in Modeling (MCM) 2019

Mr. Salihu Sabiu Musa, student of Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics. Supervisor: Dr. He Daihai

Best Research Paper Presentation Award by the 20th World conference on Applied Science, Engineering and Technology 2019

Mr. XU Zhaoyu and WANG Anbo, students of Minor programme in Applied Mathematics. Advisor: Dr. Zhang Hua

Meritorious Winner of Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling 2019

Mr. DONG Huan, Tony (on the right), Year 2 student of Investment Science

Member of the Merit Team, HKICP Business Case Competition 2018

Alumni

Dr. Yang Lei, Alumnus

2018-2019 Hong Kong Mathematical Society Best Thesis Award

Miss Lee Ka Yi, Alumna of BSc (Hons) in Investment Science

The 2019 Medal of Honour by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in recognition of her outstanding achievements in international squash competitions. Please click here for details.
Winning team of Gold Medal in Women's Squash Team Event at the 2018 Asian Games. Photo on top: Ka Yi (left) and her teammates
The PSA Women's Player of the Month Award for July 2015. Please click here for details.
Champion of Contrex SquashChallenge Cup 2015. Please click here for details.

Mr. Erwin Li and Miss Shi Yu, Alumni of BSc (Hons) in Investment Science

Winner of the first place award in the category of Mathematics and Physics in the first "Challenge Cup" of the Hong Kong University Students Extra-curriculum Technology Contest in June 2015. Please click here for details.

Mr. Erwin Li, Miss Shi Yu and Miss You Mengqiao, Alumni of BSc (Hons) in Investment Science

The team received the best results among other Hong Kong students at the 31st Annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling in February 2015. For details, please click here.

Dean's List 2019/20

BSc (Hons) in Investment Science	BSc (Hons) in Investment Science and Finance Analytics	BSc (Hons) in Data Science and Analytics
CHEUNG Hei Man	DONG Nanxi	CHAN Suet Kiu
DONG Huan	QIN Zhiyuan
FANG Xiangeng
HO Tsz Kin
JIN Huilin
LIU Xiaohan
LUO Guangze
REN Zhihao
SHAN Jingran
WANG Kexin
WANG Yingnuo
YAN Wuyuxuan
ZHANG Xingyue
ZHANG Zhonghao
ZHAO Xiaohan

MSc in Applied Mathematics for Science and Technology	MSc in Operational Research and Risk Analysis
JI Xiaoxuan	JIN Minglu
LIANG Zhensheng	LI Mo
LYU Shanzheng	LI Qian
	WANG Zhu
	YU Xinyang

Graduates awarded with First Class Honours/Distinction 2019/2020

BSc (Hons) in Investment Science	MSc in Applied Mathematics for Science and Technology	MSc in Operational Research and Risk Analysis
GAO Tang	GUAN Yue	JIN Minglu
LYU Jiangyu	GUO Zijia	LI Jinxin
REN Zhihao	JI Xiaoxuan	LI Mo
	LIANG Zhensheng	LI Qian
	LYU Shanzheng	SIU Chun Hong
	MA Yifan	SUN Ziqian
	PEI Yuwen	TANG Fengyi
	WU Liuying	WANG Ying
	XU Chang	WANG Yue
	YU Xinghua	WANG Zhu
	ZHENG Yangzi	WU Zhenjie
	ZHOU Wenjun	XIA Zefang
		YOU Jia
		YU Xinyang

Dean's List and Graduates awarded with First Class Honours/Distinction 2018/2019

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Graduates awarded with First Class Honours/Distinction 2019/2020

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