Recently, Assistant Professor Liu Yu’s research group, the Center for Intelligent Power and Energy Systems (CiPES) in SIST, proposed a new dynamic-state-estimation (DSE) based protection (DSEBP) method for transmission lines in MMC-HVDC grids. The work has been published in an article in the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, the leading peer-reviewed journal in the field of power system protec...

In addition to the exciting competition, the new technology involved in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has also attracted widespread attention. The Visual & Data Intelligence Center (VDIC) of SIST and its incubated startup DGene, developed the “Free-Viewpoint Video Effects Live Application System” to serve the video broadcast of the Winter Olympic Games, providing viewers with a live, free...

 On February 14, ShanghaiTech, for the first time, entered the list of China's World-Class Universities Project (the second-round list of universities and disciplines included in this project was jointly released by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, and the National Development and Reform Commission). ShanghaiTech's Materials Science and Engineering was listed as the...

In the quest for understanding how the mammary gland epithelium forms its distinctive branching pattern, a team led by SLST researchers found that it uses a completely different system than what was previously believed In their new study, published on February 15 in Cell Reports, scientists from Lyu Pengfei’s group found that mammary gland epithelium lacking the polarity gene Lgl1 ...

Recently, Associate Professor Wang Cheng’s group at SIST developed a broadband hyperchaos laser source in the mid-infrared regime. The related work has been published in Light: Science & Applications in an article entitled “Mid-infrared hyperchaos of interband cascade lasers”.Chaos is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, and is a disordered behavior similar to a random process generated ...

According to the 2019 World Health Organization (WHO) report, over 350 million people worldwide live with depression, with an annual increase rate of approximately 18%. In China, depression affects over 95 million people. About 67% of those with depression had suicidal ideation, and 25% attempted suicide. However, most existing antidepressants are slow-acting, short-enduring and have low response ...

On January 25, Associate Professor Guan Ji-Song’s research group of SLST published a research paper in Neuron entitled, “ASH1L haploinsufficiency results in autistic-like phenotypes in mice and links Eph receptor gene to autism spectrum disorder”. This study describes the role of Ash1l mutation in autism spectr...

The latest research by Associate Professor Lyu Pengfei’s group at SLST has found that the traditional tight junction component Occludin plays a crucial regulatory role in lipid droplet secretion, one of the fundamental cellular behaviors. On January 18th, 2022, the work from Lyu's lab was published online in PLOS Biology, in an article entitled “Occludin is a target of Src kinase and promote...

On December 24, the Carnival Event of the 4th Innovation & Entrepreneurship Summit (IES) was held in the Conference Center. This year, the IES was co-organized by Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center and lasted for 3 months, including 4 startup-practice lectures, 3 different industrial innovation specialties (physical science specialty, life science specialty and information science spe...

Recently, Assistant Professor Liu Jia’s group at SIAIS along with his collaborator, Professor Qu Jieming at Ruijin Hospital and the Institutes of Respiratory Diseases of Shanghai Jiao Tong University designed a novel surfaceome CRISPR library and identified OLFML3 as a novel host factor of rhinovirus (RV). They found that OLFML3 could promote RV infection by antagonizing type I interferon (IFN) s...

Recently, Clarivate Analytics released the list of Highly Cited Researchers for the year of 2021. A total of 6,602 scientists from more than 70 countries have been selected. The highly cited papers of the selected scientists on the list have a cited frequency in the top 1% of their disciplines, reflecting their significant academic influence among their peers. Assistant Professor Liu Wei of SPST w...

The stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation is one of the most interesting and influential research directions in the field of partial differential equations in recent decades. Assistant Professor Yue Haitian at IMS with his collaborators have made important progress in this direction. The research results were published in the November 17 issue of Inventiones Mathematicae, one of the four ...

Richard Lerner, Distinguished Adjunct Professor and the Founding Director of the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS) at ShanghaiTech University, passed away on December 2, 2021 in San Diego, USA, at the age of 83.Professor Lerner is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a winner of the Wolf Prize in Ch...

With the advantages of non-radiation, non-invasive and flexible operation, the 3D ultrasound imaging technique has been greatly refined and applied in medical imaging and diagnosis. In general, the 3D ultrasound imaging system is comprised of a conventional ultrasound probe and a location sensor, which can generate 2D transverse images and the corresponding spatial information needed for the ...