Associate Professor Peng Xu from the Institute of Humanities at ShanghaiTech University has published a new monograph, The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama, with the University of Michigan Press (2025). This landmark study offers an interdisciplinary history of sound, performance, and female agency in Chinese theater. By centering on courtesans as key agents of theatr...

Recently, a research team led by Professor Xu Wenqing from the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech, in collaboration with other researchers, published a significant study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper, titled “De novo design of protein binders to stabilize monomeric TDP-43 and inhibit its pathological aggre...

On September 10, the group led by Assistant Professor Yu You from the School of Biomedical Engineering at ShanghaiTech, along with collaborators, published a research paper titled “Printed sensing human-machine interface with individualized adaptive machine learning” in the journal Science Advances. This work introduces a advanced 3D-printed flexible human-machine interface technology....

Translated and edited from the article originally reported by China Science Daily.Recalling the story about her university time when she asked to skip a required English course so she could listen to a signal processing course offered by the computer science department, Bai Fang—now an associate professor at the School of Life Science and Technology and assistant director of the Shanghai Inst...

Imagine a single word evolving from a simple translation of “self-government” into the unbreakable spirit of India’s fight for freedom, a term so powerful that English couldn’t fully capture it. That’s the captivating story in a recent paper, “Swaraj (circa 1885-1922): Gandhi and the Early History of an Untranslatable Signifier,” published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, by Ass...

A research team led by Assistant Professor Yang Bei at the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) and Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS) and Professor Chen Jia at SLST, ShanghaiTech University, has achieved a significantprogress in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) editing. Their study, published in Molecular Cell, revealed the first structural snapshots of...

At the SensUs 2025 Competition held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, at the end of August, the MakeSense team from ShanghaiTech, in its first-ever participation, delivered a stunning performance. Competing against top-tier global teams, MakeSense clinched the Analytical Performance Award (Global Champion) and the Innovation Award (Global Runner-Up), while also earning the SensUs Gold Medal...

The university welcomed the 540 freshmen of the Class of 2029 from 19 provinces across China at the end of August. Carrying dreams and aspirations, these students began a new chapter at ShanghaiTech University, bringing youthful energy and joy to the campus.Welcome board at ShanghaiTech’s East Gate.The university leadership gave a warm welcome to the new students. Chair of the University Governin...

ShanghaiTech held its 2025 Summer Lab for International Students from June 25 to August 20. Six outstanding undergraduates from the University of Oxford (Oxford), the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) completed an eight-week, in-depth research internship and received their certificates.Shailen Patel from Oxford joined ...

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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...