On May 23, Shih-Fu Chang, Dean of Columbia Engineering, along with Helen Haiyan Lu, Senior Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs and Advancement, and Keely Henderson, Senior Associate Dean of Advancement, visited ShanghaiTech University. They were accompanied by Cheng Yan Davis, President of the Forum for World Education (FWE). ShanghaiTech President Jiang Mianheng extended a warm welcome to the delegation...

What are the frontier topics in the field of life science? What are the latest breakthroughs in the challenging areas of research? The Forum on Frontiers of Life Science and Technology (FoLST-ShanghaiTech) offered answers to these questions. The forum was held from May 10 to 12 in the Conference Center as one of the activities marking ShanghaiTech’s 10th anniversary. Consistent with the vision of...

On May 11, Director Kuroda Yoshiaki and Representative Liang Xiao, and Guo Yunfei from the Beijing Office of NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) visited ShanghaiTech University, accompanied by Consul Tatsuishi Takuya from the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai. Vice President Jiang Ge, Dean of SEM Wang Shouyang, Assistant Dean of SEM Yang Yu, and Professor Ka...

ShanghaiTech Automation and Robotics Center (STAR Center) of SIST has long focused on research and innovation in the fields of robotics and automation. Recently, some outstanding results were achieved and published in papers at top conferences and journals, including IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Ad...

Erythritol is a C4 sugar alcohol that naturally exists in some vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, and fermented foods. Because of its stable physical and chemical properties, low price, high biological safety, and the fact that it cannot be metabolized by the human body, erythritol is widely used in the food industry as a natural sugar substitute (such as in sugar-free sodas). Due to the lack of eryth...

The Awards Ceremony of the 5th ShanghaiTech Innovation & Entrepreneurship Summit (techIES) was held in the Conference Center on April 26, marking an official conclusion of the summit. The university leadership and distinguished guests from the government and other organizations attended the Ceremony. Winners of the First Prize The most prominent feature of the 5th techIES i...

The School of Entrepreneurship and Management (SEM) welcomed two renowned scholars from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Liu Xielin and Yang Xiaoguang, as distinguished adjunct professors, and held an appointment ceremony in April. The two professors respectively have long focused on the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation, and financial innovation and risk management.&n...

On April 10, Associate Professor Han Lin from the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems of Drexel University, paid a courtesy visit to ShanghaiTech. Vice President Jiang Ge extended a warm welcome to him and briefly introduced the education concept, talent cultivation, and research progress of ShanghaiTech. Han Lin hoped that this visit could further promote a...

CAR-T cell therapy is a tumor immunotherapy that activates the expression of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) on patients’ T cells, enabling them to recognize and kill tumor cells. CAR-T therapy has shown remarkable efficacy against blood cancers but poor efficacy against solid tumors. One of the primary reasons is that the tonic signal of CAR-T cells leads to their exhaustion. Recent studies...

The inspiration for the logo for the 10th anniversary of ShanghaiTech University comes from paper crane, which symbolizes the beauty of the modern folding architecture on ShanghaiTech campus and a solid academic foundation of the university.The logo is based on the aesthetics of Chinese paper folding crafts, and uses the most concise design language to form the image of a flying crane spreading it...

Synapse is the contact between neurons where information passes through. According to the types of information, there are excitatory and inhibitory synapses, and the inhibitory synaptic transmission plays a pivotal role in maintaining the excitatory and inhibitory balance. Disturbance of inhibitory synaptic transmission has been reported relevant to many neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorder...

The world’s first list of Chinese Young Female Scholars in AI, released by Baidu, was announced recently. A list of 80 top young Chinese female scholars from around the world, who have made outstanding contributions in the field of AI, were selected. Assistant Professor Wang Jingya of SIST is on the list. The list was formed through big data mining and automated assessment technology, based ...

On March 27, Gu Sai, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (China) of the University of Warwick and Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), visited ShanghaiTech University. ShanghaiTech Vice President Jiang Ge extended a warm welcome to him. Yu Jingyi, Vice Provost and Executive Dean of SIST, and Gao Lin, Chief of University Administrative Affairs and Director of the University Office, an...

 Yang Nan, Assistant Professor in SPST, was awarded the inaugural “Science, She Says!” Award by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI). The Award is established to recognize outstanding junior female scientists, with no Italian descent, who has remarkable contributions to the advancement of bilateral cooperation in science and technology. Candidates fr...