On January 8, 2021, Mr. Vincent Hieff, Consul General of Luxembourg in Shanghai, and Ms. Ma Ying, Senior officer Financial Sector, visited ShanghaiTech University. Jiang Ge, Vice President and Executive Director of SIAIS, welcomed them together with representatives from the Office of International Affairs. Jiang Ge extended a warm welcome to Mr. Hieff and Ms. Ma, and introduced the hist...

The Center for Intelligent Power and Energy Systems (CiPES) of SIST is a subdivided research group focusing mainly on the study of electric power and energy. It studies topics including power generation, transmission/distribution, storage and utilization, and aims to propose reliable, efficient, low-carbon and intelligent power solutions for the sustainable development of domestic energy. Recently...

Ambient energy harvesting technology provides the most promising energy solution for future battery-less, ubiquitous, and maintenance-free Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Among all types of ambient energy sources, mechanical kinetic energy can be better associated with human and machine movements, as there is plenty of motion information combined with the mechanical movements of parts. The resea...

Recently, the news report entitled The two core conjectures of differential geometry were finally proved after more than 20 years was selected as one of the top ten domestic science and technology news reports of 2020.This report about mathematics research describes the convergence of high-dimensional Kellerridge flow, and was published by the IMS Founding Director Chen Xiuxiong and Professor...

The SEM course entitled Design Thinking: Scheme Design in Entrepreneurship and Management held its closing roadshows for the fall semester of the 2020-2021 academic year in the SEM lecture hall on December 21st and 24th. For this semester the course was organized by eight professors from the SEM, and two classes were run. Prof. Hong Suting, the host of the roadshow, gave a brief introduction ...

On December 18th, SIAIS held the fourth Meeting of the 1st SIAIS Academic Committee in the ShanghaiTech Conference Center. Thirteen SIAIS Academic Committee members, composed of distinguished experts in the field of biomedical research, and thirty representatives of SIAIS faculty attended the meeting.  The meeting was hosted by Rao Zihe, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of SIAIS and Membe...

As the grand finale of the 3rd Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit of ShanghaiTech University, the Entrepreneurship Carnival event was held in the Conference Center on the afternoon of December 25th. Peng Song, Executive Deputy Director of the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Office, Qiu Wenjin, Deputy Director of Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission, were joined with ...

On August 26th, 2020, a team led by SIAIS Distinguished Adjunct Professor Lin Haifan published new findings in PNAS in an article entitled “PIWIL1 Promotes Gastric Cancer via a piRNA-Independent Mechanism”. These findings reveal a new function and action mechanism of PIWI proteins in oncogenesis, guiding the identification of PIWI inhibitors to cure cancer.   Precision m...

On December 19th, the 14th award ceremony of Wuxi AppTec Life Science and Chemistry Award was held virtually. Yang Haitao, Deputy Director and PI of the SIAIS and Associate Professor of the SLST at ShanghaiTech was awarded the “Outstanding Achievement Award”; Xu Fei, Assistant Director and PI of the iHuman and Associate Professor of the SLST, was awarded the “Scholar Award”. Among the out...

Professor Shao Ziyu’s research group of SIST made an important advance in intelligent networking, addressing the following challenge: “How to systematically design effective predictive scheduling algorithms for intelligent networks?” Their results, of high importance to recent software-defined networking (SDN) systems, were published in an article entitled “Predictive Switch-Controller Associa...

On December 13th, ShanghaiTech successfully held the second competition of the 3rd Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit in the Y Building. The topic of this competition focused on biomedicine and healthcare, attracting a total of 11 student groups and 24 faculty groups to participate in the event. The group members included not only professors, researchers, graduates and undergraduates from SLST...

On December 12th, ShanghaiTech successfully held the first competition of the 3rd Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit in the auditorium of SPST. The topic of this competition focused on new energy, new materials and intelligent manufacturing, attracting a total of 15 student groups and 8 faculty groups to participate in the event. The group members included not only professors, resear...

In the past two years, two novel model reduction methods for high-dimensional stochastic computational models were proposed by the Visual and Data Intelligence Center (VDI Center) of SIST. The first method, proposed in the article entitled “Rank adaptive tensor recovery-based model reduction for partial differential equations with high-dimensional random inputs”, provided a new systematic comput...

Recently, iHuman Founding Director Raymond Stevens was identified as a highly cited researcher for his exceptional research influence, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that ranked in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™. This is the 7th year in a row he has achieved this accomplishment. Each year, Clarivate™ identifies the world...