With 97 competing projects and over 300 experts serving as judges, the seventh ShanghaiTech Innovation & Entrepreneurship Summit (techIES), successfully  concluded on July 18. The techIES featured three specialties—physical science, information science, and life science—bringing together innovative teams from 38 renowned domestic and international institutions, including Tsinghua Uni...

Zu Weiqin MSE ’25Computer Science and Technology, School of Information Science and TechnologyTrained in the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Art Lab (AIDA), School of Creativity and Art (SCA)Undergraduate university: ShanghaiTech UniversityPost-graduation destination: Joint PhD Program by ShanghaiTech University and Beijing Institute for General Artificial IntelligenceHonors: &...

At the 62nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) recently convened in San Francisco, a collaborative research effort between ShanghaiTech University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, titled “LVM-MO: A Large Vision Model Pioneer on Full-Chip Mask Optimization,” earned a Nomination for Best Paper Award, marking the second consecutive year that ShanghaiTech’s research has been honore...

Zhou Shouchen ’25School: School of Information Science and Technology (SIST)Major: Computer Science and TechnologyCollege: Dadao CollegeHigh school: Qingdao No. 2 High School, Shandong ProvincePost-graduation destination: Tsinghua University, master’s program in Mathematics and Artificial IntelligenceHonors and awards:2025 Graduate Excellence Award of Shanghai2025 Gradua...

Recently, a departure ceremony was held at Fudan University, Shanghai, for students who participated in the Go West program during 2025. The Go West program was launched in 2003 as a collaborative endeavor by the Central Committee of the China Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Education, and other central ministries. The program aims to invite university graduates or current students nationw...

A single teaching journey, a 2,000-kilometer pilgrimage.Deep into the mountains, where the simplest landscapes nurture the purest hearts.  In one fleeting year, they undertake a mission unforgettable for a lifetime.Time flies by. The second cohort of graduate volunteer teachers from ShanghaiTech University has devoted nearly a year to their teaching mission.  Carrying packs and...

The delegation of ShanghaiTech University Boat Club visited the University of Oxford for a program of water training and cultural exchange from June 21 to 27, marking the beginning of a new chapter in sports collaboration between ShanghaiTech and top universities worldwide.ShanghaiTech Boat Club members visits Jesus and Keble Boathouse on the bank of River Thames.Early morning sunlight bathes the ...

With funding from ShanghaiTech University, Ma Yueyang ’28, from the Institute of Humanities (IH), was selected for the inaugural International Organizations Summer Study Program in Geneva. The program aims to broaden students’ global perspectives, foster versatile students with international background, and enhance their capacity to engage in global governance.From June 22 to 29, under the guida...

“Professor, the two maps on the PPT should be swapped.” In a history class at the Institute of Humanities (IH), ShanghaiTech, Ma Yueyang ’28 noticed that two maps on the lecture slides were mismatched with their respective historical eras. Without raising his hand or raising his voice, he pointed it out directly. Associate Professor Wang Luman heard him clearly, verified the error, and promptly...

On July 7, a research team led by Research Associate Professor Zhang Heqiao and Distinguished Adjunct Professor Roger Kornberg (Lab of Structural Biochemistry) at Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS), ShanghaiTech University, published a research article in Cell. The study, titled “Structures of the measles virus polymerase complex with non-nucleoside inhibitor...

ShanghaiTech University held its 2025 Commencement and Degree Conferral Ceremony in the Athletic Center on the morning of June 28. The center was filled with an audience including the 2025 graduates, parents, faculty and staff delegates, and representatives from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) institutes collaborating with ShanghaiTech. Honored guests seated on the stage included university ...

Qiao Yutang ’25Physics, School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST)College: Dadao CollegeHigh school: Dalian Yuming Senior High SchoolPost-graduation destination: Yale University, PhD in Physics (fully funded)Honors and awards:  Graduate Excellence Award of Shanghai  Graduate Excellence Award of ShanghaiTech  Member of the ShanghaiTech team in 13th China Undergr...

On June 24, a research team led by Assistant Professor Hua Tian and Professor Liu Zhi-Jie from the iHuman Institute and the School of Life Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University published a study in Nature via Accelerated Article Preview (AAP). Titled “Structural and functional characterization of human sweet taste receptor,” the study reports the cryo-EM structures of ...

Chen Hongbo PhD ’25Electronic Science and Technology, School of Information Science and Technology; Joint PhD Program with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)Advisor: Assistant Professor Zheng RuiPost-graduation destination: postdoctoral offers from Harvard Medical School (Boston Children’s Hospital) and University of AlbertaHonors and awards:   -Graduate Exc...