Recently, Dr. Ji Quangjiang’s group from the School of Physical Science and Technology deciphered the molecular mechanism of how the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus utilizes staphylopine (StP) to recognize and capture metal ions from its surroundings.Their research was published in an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled “Mechanistic insights into staph...

A research team led by Professor Chen Gang of the School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University has solved the long-standing mystery of the origin of the attractive forces between like-charged colloidal particles. Their work was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.Colloids adsorbed at a fluid interface are ubiquitous in nature and central to a...

World-renowned economist Laurence J. Kotlikoff visited ShanghaiTech and delivered a lecture to faculty and students at the School of Entrepreneurship and Management on April 12. Professor Kotlikoff started his speech “Our Global Economic Future and How To Fix It” with his characteristic wry humor. “Economists are called dismal scientists. I won’t disappoint, ” he joked. He then presented the ...

A delegation led by Temasek Holdings Executive Director and CEO Ms. Ho Ching visited ShanghaiTech and met with President Mianheng Jiang on April 10th. President Jiang extended a warm welcome to Ms. Ho Ching and the Temasek delegates. Provost and Vice President Jie Yin introduced ShanghaiTech’s development and Wu Yibing, Joint Head (China) of Temasket International, introduced the company.Ms. Ho d...

An international effort within the immunology research community resulted in the first genome-wide CRISPR screen focused on the molecular mechanism of T cell function regulation. A group of scientists led by Dr. Haopeng Wang of ShanghaiTech’s School of Life Science and Technology, along with Dr. Arthur Weiss at UCSF and Dr. Lai Wei of the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center at Sun Yat-sen University...

A team of scientists led by Professor Huaidong Jiang and Professor Zhi Liu of the School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, along with Professor Chunying Chen of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, Professor Renzhong Tai of the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics have made important progress in the field of bioimaging based on synchrotron radi...

Dr. Yi Deng, Dean of College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), Drexel and Professor Xia Lin, Head of Information Science Department & International Programs visited ShanghaiTech on April 7th and met with Dr. Lin Gao (Director of President Office), Yu Zhou (Vice Dean of SIST), Professor Jingyi Yu and other academic representatives. Professor Jingyi Yu made a thorough introduction of Shangha...

Richard Lester, Associate Provost and Bruce Tidor, professor of biological science and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visited ShanghaiTech and met with President Mianheng Jiang on the morning of March 28th.ShanghaiTech Provost and Vice President Jie Yin introduced ShanghaiTech, followed by presentations on the School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) by Profes...

In our daily lives, we often have to make quick judgments about strangers based on very little information. The face, as a distinct cue for social communication, is particularly useful for inferring individual characteristics in interpersonal judgment and decision making. The facial width-to-height ratio (FWHR) is one cue that people implicitly use to determine the extent to which men might be tru...

At the Shanghai Science and Technology Award Conference held on March 23, 2018, Professor Kurt Hermann Wüthrich, distinguished professor of ShanghaiTech University’s iHuman Institute, was presented the 2017 Shanghai International Science and Technology Cooperation Award. Professor Wüthrich was appointed as Distinguished Professor of the iHuman Institute of ShanghaiTech University in 2013 a...

The paper "Network Information Flow" by Professor Cai Ning and his co-authors was honored with the 2018 ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award. The paper, first published in Volume 46, Issue 4 of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory in July of 2000, is universally recognized as a landmark paper in the field of network coding. This seminal work on network coding has had a pro...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Jia Chen and Dr. Xingxu Huang of the School of Life Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, along with Dr Li Yang of the CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a series of novel CRISPR/Cpf1 (Cas12a) bases editors. The paper entitled “Base editing with a Cpf1– cytidine deaminase fusion”...

After two months of preliminary competition, Geekpie from ShanghaiTech University successfully submitted a proposal to the Asia Supercomputing Community (ASC) HPC Contest. The team, comprising of five undergraduate students and led by Dr. Shu Yin, an assistant professor at ShanghaiTech University, finished first at the preliminaries and gained acceptance to the finals, which will take place in May...

A famous line from a novel by Henry Miller reads, “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” For ShanghaiTech students who have returned from study abroad, it seems that their time abroad has been both an academic and personal journey.Half of ShanghaiTech students will have the opportunity to study abroad before graduation, in a summer school program or a s...