Announcements

Ramón y Cajal Fellow

I am a recipient of the ‘Ramon y Cajal’ Fellowship, granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and  Innovation.

The ‘Ramon y Cajal’ programme includes a five-year employment grant and additional funding for my research activities. With this programme, the Ministry aims at promoting the incorporation of researchers with an outstanding track record at R&D centers, leading up to tenured professorship. It is one of the most prestigious research fellowships (tenure-track) in Spain.

Since March 2022, I am a ‘Ramón y Cajal’ Research Professor at University of Granada.

Congrats Dr. Faraz!

Big congratulations to Dr. Syed Faraz Ahmed for his PhD at HKUST!

Faraz made a brilliant defense of his thesis entitled “Genetic Sequence Analysis to Inform Design of Universal Vaccines against Infectious Diseases“, which was jointly supervised by Prof. McKay and myself on topics related to data science, computational immunology and vaccine design. Part of Faraz’s PhD work uses computational methods based on random matrix theory. He is going to continue his research as a post-doctoral fellow in Prof.  McKay’s group at University of Melbourne (Australia). We wish him all the best in his new endeavour!! 

Congrats again Dr. Faraz!

IEEE SPCOM TC: Elected Member

I have just been appointed as an elected member of the Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (SPCOM) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for a 3-year term, effective from 1 January 2020.

I am deeply honoured for the given confidence and the opportunity to serve in this prestigious committee, and look forward to working closely with the rest of the team. 

The IEEE SPCOM TC plays a key role in the technical and professional activities of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS). Among its key responsibilities are coordinating the review process for flagship conferences such as ICASSP and SPAWC, awards nominations, elections, and educational activities of the SPS. More information at http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technical-committees/list/spcom-tc/

Our Sinica paper selected for JSM special session

Our Statistica Sinica paper “Asymptotics of eigenstructure of sample correlation matrices for high-dimensional spiked models” with Iain Johnstone and Jeha Yang (Stanford) and Matthew McKay (HKUST) has been selected to be part of Sinica’s invited special session at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2020.  Sinica hold an invited session at JSM (a huge stats meeting) only once every 2 years. Last time there were only 3 papers in the Sinica special session.

Congrats Dr. Auguin!!

Big congratulations to Nicolas Auguin for his PhD at HKUST!

Nicolas made a brilliant defense of his thesis, jointly supervised by Prof. McKay and myself on topics related to random matrix theory and large robust covariance matrix estimators with applications. Nicolas has taken up a new job in the finance industry. We wish him all the best in his new endeavour!! 

Congrats again Dr. Nicolas!

New appointment at QUB

New appointment at QUB

Since March 2018, I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) within the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EEECS) and the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB).

I am also affiliated with the Center for Wireless Innovation at the Institute of Electronics, Communications, and Information Technology (ECIT), a Global Research Institute within the Russell Excellence Group.