• iHuman Hosts First iHuman-SIAIS-SPST Joint Symposium
    On March 16th, iHuman Institute successfully hosted the first “iHuman-SIAIS-SPST Joint Symposium.” This symposium, held in the auditorium of Y building and attracting 100 people to attend, was aimed at promoting the collaboration among the different schools, disciplines and research areas.iHuman Institute Research Associate Professor Tao Houchao hosted the joint symposium. ShanghaiTech Provost a...
    2019-03-19
  • Three Papers Accepted by PESGM 2019
    Recently, three papers from SIST Assistant Professor Liu Yu’s research group were accepted by the 2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), the most prestigious and the largest conference sponsored by IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES).First year graduate student Wang Binglin adopted the dynamic state estimation method to protect the VSC-HVDC transmission lines in the paper ‘V...
    2019-03-14
  • President Jiang Meets Nobel Laureate and ShanghaiTech Distinguished Adjunct Professor Michael Levitt
    On March 12th, President Jiang Mianheng met with SIAIS Distinguished Adjunct Professor Michael Levitt during his stay in Shanghai for research work at ShanghaiTech. SIAIS Executive Director Jiang Ge and Levitt’s Co-PI Francesco Zonta attended the meeting.Professor Levitt briefed his research at ShanghaiTech on antibody structure prediction, virtual antibody screening, whole cell and simulation. P...
    2019-03-14
  • HiPSCs Microfluidic Reprogramming Success Advances Clinical Application
    Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are embryonic-like stem cells derived from adult somatic cells by a reprogramming process. They have a number of potential applications in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, including precision medicine. However, their potential clinical application is hampered by the low efficiency, high costs, and heavy workload of the reprogramming process...
    2019-03-13
  • UPenn Visitors Tour ShanghaiTech
    
On March 7th and 8th, University of Pennsylvania Engineering Dean Vijay Kumar and Penn Global Director Amy Gadsden visited ShanghaiTech and met with President Jiang Mianheng.University of Pennsylvania is one of ShanghaiTech’s important partners. Penn Engineering is currently working with School of Information Science and Technology on faculty development and student exchanges.President Jiang and...
    2019-03-11
  • Women and Research at ShanghaiTech
    Gender equality in STEM fields is a global hot topic. ShanghaiTech’s female researchers may make up a smaller percentage of the total faculty, but they are making their mark at ShanghaiTech with their groundbreaking research and leadership.  Shui WenQing  School of Life Science and Technology, iHuman InstituteiHuman Assistant Research Professor Shui Wenqing says research has p...
    2019-03-07
  • Rescue Robot Demo Shown at MWC
    Shanghai Institute of Fog Computing Technology ((SHIFT), in cooperation with Intel and iExec, demonstrated smart city service powered by 5G and blockchain at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 on February 25th to 28th in Barcelona. The demo presented a unified and decentralized smart city service platform based on 5G connection and blockchain technology. The robot rescue service developed by SHI...
    2019-03-07
  • Powerful Strategy Developed to Probe Histone Functions
    In a new paper published in Developmental Cell, a team of researchers from ShanghaiTech University, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Tsinghua University, Johns Hopkins University and National Institute of Biological Sciences developed a powerful strategy and valuable reagents to systematically probe histone functions in Drosophila melanogaster.Associate Professor Gao Guanjun from the Sc...
    2019-03-05
  • SIAIS Hosts 5th ShanghaiTech-SIAIS Bioforum
    The 5th ShanghaiTech-SIAIS Bioforum was successfully held November 13th to 16th at ShanghaiTech University, with the theme of “Advances in Integrative Biology of Cellular Processes.” The main topic discussed was breakthrough Technological Advances in Protein Research (Cryo-EM, Optogenetics, DNA-encoded Chemical Libraries). Over 500 attendees from universities, research institutions and corp...
    2019-03-05
  • Collaboration Defines iHuman's Research
    As iHuman and SIAIS faculty and students stood in front of international and domestic media in the Ren Building auditorium for a press conference in late January, they spoke proudly of the hard work that had gone into their research, which resulted in the recent publishing of two groundbreaking research studies in the same issue of the prestigious Cell journal. What was also apparent at the p...
    2019-02-25
  • Strain-Mediated Magnetoelectric Coupling Reviewed
    Recently, SIST Assistant Professor Wu Tao, along with Virginia Tech Professor John Domann, National Chiao Tung University Professor Tien-kan Chung, and UCLA Professor Gregory Carman were invited to write a review paper on strain-mediated magnetoelectric coupling effects. Their paper was published in the MRS BULLETIN journal, with the title ‘Strain-mediated magnetoelectric storage, transmissi...
    2019-02-20
  • GaN-Based DC/DC Module Proposed
    Recently, SIST Assistant Professor Fu Minfan proposed a 300W 110V/24V digital DC/DC module based on gallium nitride (GaN) devices. The proposed module can achieve 95.8% peak efficiency and 195 W/inch3 power density, which are much better than the state of the art (Synqor’s module: 91% peak efficiency and 80 W/inch3 power density). Recently, his work on magnetic design and high-frequency digital c...
    2019-02-20
  • Fog Computing Lab Invited to Speak in UAE
    The IEEE Global Communications Conference, a major event in the network and communications was recently held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with the theme of “Gateway to a Connected World,” attracting 3,000 top scientists, researchers and industry practitioners from all over the world.Two members of Dr. Luo Xiliang’s research group belonging to the Fog Computing Laboratory in the School of ...
    2019-02-15
  • SPST Professor Publishes Lithium Battery Review
    School of Physical Science and Technology Assistant Professor Liu Wei’s research group recently published a review tilted “Practical challenges and future perspectives of all-solid-state lithium metal batteries” in the internationally famous journal Chem.As energy storage devices, lithium-ion batteries have become fundamental building blocks of modern society for their high energy density, supe...
    2019-02-09