• Italian Delegation Visits ShanghaiTech
    On December 7, a delegation representing Italian universities and industries visited ShanghaiTech. Headed by Professor Silvio Aime, Deputy Rector for Research and Director of Biotechnology Department, University of Turin, delegates included Francesca Natale, industrial Partnership Officer, University of Turin; Fuvio Uggeri, Research Center Director of Bracco Imaging; Luigi Ricciardi, CEO of Menari...
    2017-12-13
  • President Jiang Tours European Universities and Institutions
    A ShanghaiTech delegation headed by President Jiang has recently returned from a European tour of universities and research institutions, including Leiden University, Royal Dutch Shell, Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, University of Leuven,RWTH Aachen University, Juelich Research Center, Heidelberg University, German Cancer Research Center, European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Swiss F...
    2017-12-08
  • 2013 Chemistry Nobel Laureate Visits ShanghaiTech
    Professor Michael Levitt, 2013 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for “The development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems,” visited ShanghaiTech from October 30thto 31st. Levitt is also a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Member of the US National Academy of Sciences and Member of the US National Academy of Arts & Sciences.   Born in South Africa in 1947, Professor Levitt...
    2017-11-15
  • Executive Dean of Cornell Ag School Advises on Graduate Admissions
    Cornell University’s School of Agriculture and Life Sciences Executive Dean Professor Max Pfeffer visited ShanghaiTech on October 18th, on the invitation of Vice President Gong Jinkang. Professor Liu Jilong, Vice Dean of School of Life Sciences and Technology, met with Professor Pfeffer and gave a detailed overview on the education and research of SLST and Professor Pfeffer toured the lab spaces ...
    2017-10-25
  • New U.S. Consul General at Shanghai Visits ShanghaiTech
    Cornell University’s School of Agriculture and Life Sciences Executive Dean Professor Max Pfeffer visited ShanghaiTech on October 18th, on the invitation of Vice President Gong Jinkang. Professor Liu Jilong, Vice Dean of School of Life Sciences and Technology, met with Professor Pfeffer and gave a detailed overview on the education and research of SLST and Professor Pfeffer toured the lab spaces ...
    2017-10-23
  • Forging Ahead with High Aspirations-ShanghaiTech Holds Opening Ceremony for Incoming Students
    On September 15th, ShanghaiTech held an opening ceremony to welcome 355 incoming undergraduate students, 456 incoming master’s degree students and 200 incoming PhD students. The ceremony was attended by representatives from institutes affiliated to Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), ShanghaiTech faculty and students. A video presentation showed ShanghaiTech’s first four years of achieveme...
    2017-09-21
  • Japanese Consul General Katayama Kazuyuki Visits ShanghaiTech
    On August 8th, ShanghaiTech President Jiang Mianheng met a delegation headed by Katayama Kazuyuki, Consul-General of Japan in Shanghai.   President Jiang welcomed the delegates and made a brief introduction to the university, highlighting the partnerships that ShanghaiTech has developed with many institutions of higher education in Europe and United States and expressing hope for S...
    2017-08-25
  • Father of Wearable Computing Professor Steve Mann Visits ShanghaiTech
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021 recently selected Chinese scholars as the host team of CVPR 2021 conference. Professor Jingyi Yu, from the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST), was appointed as Program Chair of the conference. CVPR is the top conference in the field of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR provides an academic communication s...
    2017-08-10
  • AAAS/Science delegation visits ShanghaiTech University
    On 5th July 2017, AAAS/Science delegation headed by Dr. Valda Vinson, deputy editor of Science, and Chu Xiaoying, director of business development in Asia, came to visit ShanghaiTech. Professors from ShanghaiTech held a broad and productive discussion with the delegation. During the meeting, Professor Liu Jilong, Vice Dean of SLST, expressed warm welcome to the delegation, and gave a general intr...
    2017-07-08
  • The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra Delegation Visits ShanghaiTech University
    On May 27th 2017, the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra delegation visited ShanghaiTech and met with President Jiang Mianheng. Coming off a successful performance at Shanghai Oriental Arts Centeron the previous night, Allison Vulgamore, President and CEO, Ryan Fleur, Executive VP of Orchestra Advancement, Leslie Behur, Executive Assistant to the President and CEO and Freda Wang, Senior Adviser ...
    2017-06-11
  • Drexel University Scientists Visit ShanghaiTech and Participate in Joint Research Workshop
    From June 1st to 2nd 2017, professors and doctoral students from Drexel University Biologically-Inspired & Resource-Conserving Advanced Materials (BRAVE) group and Neuro-Inflammation and Gender Research Program (NGRP) visited ShanghaiTech and participated in the ShanghaiTech-Drexel Joint Research Workshop. The goal of the workshop is to identify potential field of cooperation based on an in-de...
    2017-06-10
  • UC President Visits ShanghaiTech
    On May 18th 2017, University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer and Vice Provost Balaji Srinivasan visited ShanghaiTech and met with President Jiang Mianheng. President Jiang reflected on their meetings in the past, and warmly welcomed President Zimmer to the new campus of ShanghaiTech for the first time. Vice President Gong Jinkang then introduced ShanghaiTech and summarized the student program c...
    2017-05-25
  • President Jiang Tours American Universities and Research Institutions
    In late April, ShanghaiTech President Jiang Mianheng visited a number of prestigious American universities and research institutions, including CalTech, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Homel Institute of University of Minnesota, Mayo Clinic, and Princeton University and its Institute for Advanced Study. He met with administrators, researchers, professors and had fruitful discussions with them on...
    2017-05-15
  • ShanghaiTech Delegation Travels to Israel
    Last month, a ShanghaiTech delegation headed by President Jiang Mianheng visited and explored cooperation possibilities with Israel Institute of Technology, Weizmann Institute of Science and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, along with Mobileye, a global leader in the development of vision technology for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). ShanghaiTech President Jiang and Israel Institute...
    2017-05-15