Awards and Achievements
World leading research and top world ranking
According to the Research Assessment Exercise 2020, 89% of AMA's research has achieved 4- or 3- star rating i.e. 'world leading' or 'Internationally excellent' by international standards. In 2024, our research excellence has reached new heights.
In addition to retaining our position among the World Top 100 in the QS World University Ranking for “Statistics and Operational Research” for the seventh year in a row, PolyU has proudly achieved a new ranking of 32nd in “Data Science & AI” subject.
According to The US News & World Report 2024, PolyU retains its high ranking of 47th place for “Best Universities for Mathematics”. Our excellence in mathematics has also been recognized by Research.com, which ranked PolyU as the 5th Best Mathematics Universities in China. (Source: https://research.com/university-rankings/mathematics/cn).
Moreover, AMA achieved a very satisfactory performance in the 2023/24 GRF/ECS Exercise. The no. of funded projects and funding amount awarded to the Department reaches a new high record.
In addition to the GRF/ECS scheme, the Department has also received other grant sources:
- 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 & Learning Project
In addition to our research accomplishments, we take pride in our efforts to make significant advance in teaching.
Building on the success of leading the award-winning project “Developing Active Learning Pedagogies and Mobile Applications in University STEM Education” in 2017, our Teaching & Learning Team has expanded its efforts to bring technology-enabled active learning pedagogies to secondary school mathematics education. The team's project, “Developing Active Learning Pedagogies and Mobile Applications in Secondary School Mathematics Education” , has received funding support from the Quality Education Fund (QEF) of the Education Bureau of Hong Kong in 2020.
In 2024, our Teaching & Learning Team proposed a project titled “Empowering Gifted Minds: Nurturing the Next Generation of Data Scientists” and received funding support from the Gifted Education Fund of the Education Bureau of Hong Kong.
We are honored to patriciate in and contribute to the development of research and teaching in Mathematics education and remain committed to striving for further improvement.
