The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's engineering professors Matthew McKay and Bing Zeng from the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering were recently awarded the 2011 Stephen O Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory and the 2011 … Our paper “Extreme eigenvalue distributions of Jacobi ensembles: New exact representations, asymptotics and finite size corrections”, with Laureano Moreno-Pozas and Matthew McKay (HKUST) just appeared in Nuclear Physics B. Center for Education Innovation. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Department of Computer Science and Engineering PhD Thesis Defence Title: "The Emotional Characteristics of Western Orchestral Instruments with Different Pitch and Dynamics" By Miss Hiu Ting CHAN Abstract: Recent research has shown that different musical instrument sounds have strong emotional characteristics. Signed (in alphabetical order) by following professors from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: Prof. Rashmi Adaval, Prof. Sunil Arya, This work presents theoretical advances in the field of high-dimensional random matrix theory and, in particular, of relevance to the applied statistics community. “Among the SARS epitopes that can trigger an immune action, we found a small fraction which exists in both SARS and COVID-19, with their genetic sequences being exactly the same. Prof. Matthew McKay . Along with Matthew McKay (professor at HKUST), a (not too) sparse PCA method based on random matrix theory was also devised. Prof. Matthew MCKAY Elected 2021 IEEE Fellow 23/12/2020 Prof. Pascale Fung is recognized for her significant contributions toward statistical NLP, comparable corpora, and building intelligent systems that can understand and empathize with humans. Nicolas Auguin 1 David Morales 1 Matthew Mckay 1 Romain Couillet 2 Détails. Credit: HKUST As genetic sequences of SARS-CoV-2, the cause of the novel pneumonia (COVID-19), are similar to those of the [+] Speaker: Prof. Matthew McKay (HKUST) (June 12, 2020, 10:00am) Title : Computational approaches for guiding rational vaccine design: Case studies in HCV, HIV, and COVID-19 ( DataSci ) Abstract : This talk will describe how computational modelling and high-dimensional statistics can aid the rational design of vaccines. Details Research 26 February 2020 A team of scientists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has recently made an important discovery in identifying a set of potential vaccine targets for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, providing crucial leads for guiding experimental efforts towards the vaccine development against the novel pneumonia (COVID-19) caused by the virus.