On September 24, the 13th International Conferenceon Biology and Synchrotron Radiation successfully concluded at ShanghaiTech University. Jointly organized by iHuman Institute, Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Biophysical Society of China, Chinese Crystallographic Society and Shanghai Society of Biophysics, it was co-...

SIST Assistant Professor Liao Qifeng’s group recently proposed a novel ANOVA based model reduction method for high-dimensional Bayesian inferences, which was published in Journal of Computational Physics with the title of “An adaptive reduced basis ANOVA method for high-dimensional Bayesian inverse problems.” This work provides an efficient method for the challenging high-dimensional Bayes...

Recently, a team of international researchers led by SPST Professor Chen Yulin made a breakthrough in the search for new topological quantum materials and discovered a magnetic Weyl semimetal phase in a ferromagnetic compound Co3Sn2S2. Their work titled “Magnetic Weyl semimetal phase in a Kagomé crystal” was published online in Science on Friday, Sept 20.The past decade has been witness to...

A university’s surroundings are often a magnet for incoming students and faculty. Stanford’s position near the business center of Silicon Valley, NYU’s central location in one of the world’s exciting cities, Harvard’s historic campus near to downtown Boston- they all make for attractive calling cards that attract top talents. ShanghaiTech University is no exception. Its location, not jus...

iHuman Institute Founding Director Dr. Raymond C. Stevens received the 2019 Magnolia Golden Award in recognition of his great contributions to scientific research achievement and for nurturing and mentoring Chinese young scientists.The Magnolia Golden Award has been awarded annually since 1993, and was established to recognize foreign experts and partners for their outstanding contributions to Sha...

iHuman Research Assistant Professor Dr. Chen Ming was awarded the 2019 Yangtze River Delta Neuroscience Young Scientist Award on August 15, 2019. Jointly established by Shanghai Society of Neuroscience, Anhui Society for Neuroscience, Zhejiang Society for Neuroscience and Jiangsu Society for Neuroscience, the award is given each year to six young scientists in the research field of neuroscience fo...

On August 19th, an article by a research group led by iHuman Institute and SLST Assistant Professor Zhong Guisheng, working with collaborators Southeast University Professor Chai Renjie and Fudan University Professor Li Huawei was published in Nature Communication, entitled ‘AAV-ie enables safe and efficient gene transfer to inner ear cells.’ They have identified a novel adeno-associated virus (A...

The Sino-German Symposium Shanghai 2019 was held successfully from September 17th to 21st 2019 at ShanghaiTech University. The symposium was jointly organized by ShanghaiTech University and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), with the support from Das Chinesisch-Deutsche Zentrum für Wissenschaftsförderung (CDZ, the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion). Under the theme of ‘Frontiers in tr...

On September 17, a delegation from Leiden University in Netherland visited Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS). The delegation, led by Professor Peter ten Dijke and Professor Jacques Neefjes, met with the Executive Director of SIAIS, Jiang Ge at the Y Building. Associate Professor David Baker and Assistant Professor Baoxu Pang from Leiden University Medical Center also a...

With graph attention mechanism, a ShanghaiTech team created an explainable artificial intelligence (AI) molecular representation method that can help medicinal chemists gain chemical insights from relevant drug discovery data directly.Hunting for chemicals with favorable pharmacological, toxicological, and pharmacokinetic properties remains a formidable challenge for drug discovery. To date, over ...

Recently, four papers from SIST were accepted by International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019. Among them, two papers come from Professor He Xuming’s research group, one paper comes from Professor Gao Shenghua’s research group and one paper comes from Professor Yu Jingyi’s research group. The International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) is one of the highest-level internat...

From August 31 to September 3, 2019, the 11th National Organic Chemistry conference was held at ShanghaiTech University. This year, the number of participants was a record high, attracting 2,700 chemical professionals, meanwhile more than 40 companies and academic institutions sponsored the academic event. The conference was organized by the Chinese Chemical Society, the Organic Chemistry Com...

After participating in an intense two weeks of orientation activities, the 398 incoming first year ShanghaiTech students attended opening ceremonies held by the Schools of Information Science and Technology, Life Science and Technology and Physical Science and Technology on September 6th. President Jiang Mianheng and Vice President and Provost Yin Jie spoke to the students, welcoming them to their...

On September 3, 2019, Dr. Christopher S. Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law from University of Pennsylvania, visited ShanghaiTech University and gave a public lecture on “Innovation and the Law.” Professor Yoo  introduced his unique career path starting from his days as an undergraduate physics major at Harvard who later earned a degree in Social Studies, an MBA from UCLA, and JD f...