On the morning of October 26, a delegation from Mahidol University led by President Banchong Mahaisavariya and Vice President Nopraenue Sajjarax Dhirathiti visited ShanghaiTech, accompanied by representatives of the Chinese  Academy of Sciences (CAS) Innovation Cooperation Center Bangkok. Jiang Ge, Vice  President of ShanghaiTech extended a warm welcome to them. Zhu Chouwen,  Direct...

The Design for Health & Wellbeing Forum, one of the forums of the World Design Cities Conference 2023 (WDCC), an international design conference hosted by Shanghai, with its goal to be the “City of Design”, was convened on September 29 at Shanghai Huangpu Riverside. This forum was organized by SCA, co-organized by Shanghai Industrial Design Association (SIDA), and supported by BME. Leading e...

At the 61st Annual Conference of the International Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the paper submitted by Associate Professor Tu Kewei’s group, entitled “Do PLMs Know and Understand Ontological Knowledge?”, was honored with the Outstanding Paper Award. SIST graduated student Wu Weiqi ’23 is the first author, doctoral student Jiang Chengyue ’19 is the second author, and Prof. ...

Shi Yuanming, Associate Professor in SIST has been elected as a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Back row, fifth from right, is Associate Professor Shi Yuanming IET is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution based in London, with a current worldwide membership of over 158,000 in 153 countries. A large number of outstanding scholars have emer...

Mitochondria and chloroplasts are organelles that include their own genomes, which encode key genes for ATP production and for carbon dioxide fixation, respectively (Fig. 1). Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) can cause diverse genetic disorders and are also linked to aging and age-related diseases, including cancer. Targeted editing of organellar DNA should be useful for studying organellar g...

With the sound of the National Anthem, ShanghaiTech University opened the celebration of its 10th anniversary at the Athletic Center on the morning of September 28. Over 2,000 people attended the celebration on site, including officials of the state and Shanghai government, members of the University Governance Board, leaders of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), universities and...

To expand and enhance further collaboration between ShanghaiTech and Elsevier, a delegation led by Kumsal Bayazit, Chief Executive Officer of Elsevier, and Lynn Li (Li Lin), Managing Director of Elsevier Greater China, visited ShanghaiTech University on September 8. Vice President Jiang Ge, along with professors and a number of representatives from administrative offices, attended the reception.&n...

As an annual pitch conference and competition, the ShanghaiTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit (techIES) unites innovative minds from ShanghaiTech and beyond. It is a gathering to connect visionary entrepreneurs with angel investors, mentors, industry leaders, government representatives, and scientists. The primary goal of this event is to spotlight rapidly advancing entrepreneurial projec...

On the morning of September 10, Dr. Roger I. Glass, President of the China Medical Board (CMB), and Li Wenkai, Chief Representative, Beijing Representative Office of CMB, visited ShanghaiTech University. Zhu Chouwen, Director of Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center (SCRTC), along with Hu Peng, Executive Dean of BME, and Lei Ying, Research Director of SCRTC warmly welcomed and received the C...

As the current integrated circuit (IC) industry is fast developing, the IC disciplines and their relevant competitions are also booming. The National College Students IC Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (CICIEC) for undergraduates, organized by the Talent Exchange Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, is the key discipline competition in the field of IC for coll...

The 14th China Undergraduate Physics Tournament (CUPT) officially concluded on August 24. In this year’s competition, 64 teams competing from nearly 300 participating universities all around the nation entered the final stage. The ShanghaiTech team was awarded a First Prize and ranked overall sixth among all the teams. This was the best performance since ShanghaiTech’s first participation i...

The ShanghaiTech Summer Lab Program for International Students, held from July 10 to August 20, welcomed a visiting student from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) after a three-year suspension due to the COVID-19, injecting new vitality to the campus as well as facilitating the exchanges between the two universities. After the online application and a careful interview...

This summer, ShanghaiTech offered admission to a historically-high number of new undergraduate students. A total of 515 freshmen from 14 provinces and 4 municipalities were enrolled in 10 majors. Compared to last year, the average admission scores across most provinces this year maintained a steady increase, but declined slightly in some regions due to the already high admission scores there. ...

**This article is provided by Prof. Feng Jicheng, and is originally published on the Materials Community of Springer Nature on August 16High-performance electronics requires billions of transistors, but their downsizing and interconnections, and materializations impose technological limits. Three-dimensional (3D) printing at nanoscale can probably provide a solution. Convergence between ...