Bulletin No. 1, 2015

44   Chinese University Bulletin No. 1, 2015 ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS Prof. Jao Tsung-I’s 100th Birthday Celebration The Chinese University hosted a banquet on 17 March 2015 to celebrate the 100th birthday of Prof. Jao Tsung-I, a world-renowned sinologist. Some 120 guests were in attendance. On behalf of the University, Prof. Joseph J.Y. Sung, CUHK Vice-Chancellor, presented a scarf embroidered with the CUHK emblem and a piece of calligraphy of a couplet composed by Prof. Yau Shing-tung, Distinguished Professor-at-Large, and calligraphy written by Professor Sung himself to Professor Jao as birthday presents. The Institute of Chinese Studies held an open lecture on ‘Memories of My Relations with My Laoshi Jao Tsung-I’ by Prof. Léon Vandermeersch, distinguished French sinologist, on the afternoon of the same day. Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Centre CUHK established the Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Centre, the first among tertiary institutions in Hong Kong, to bring together faculty members and researchers from different disciplines to address challenges pos ed by the unprecedented volumes of data. Prof. Helen Meng has been appointed as founding director of the centre. The centre’s research aims to address important issues spanning six major areas, namely health care, environment, social networks, finance, logistics and learning. The centre also collaborates with industry partners including IBM and Microsoft.