The Google PhD Fellowship Program announced its recipients for 2025 at the end of October. This fellowship primarily aims to support outstanding PhD students worldwide in computer science and frontier fields, with the goal of cultivating the next generation of scientists in key foundational research. This year’s fellowship listed 155 PhD students from 35 countries across 12 research areas. Among the 37 selected Chinese students, Wang Peihao ’21, a ShanghaiTech alumus is listed.
Wang is currently a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, with research interests in machine learning and computer vision, aiming to enhance the reasoning capabilities of language models and optimize generative visual models. He graduated with a bachelor degree in Computer Science and Technology from ShanghaiTech University in 2021. He received the Disruptive Idea Paper Award from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Best Paper Award at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, and was selected for Stanford University’s Rising Star in Data Science program.
The School of Information Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech encourages undergraduates to engage in research practices, allowing students to fully explore their personal development paths during their studies. Among the past seven cohorts of graduates, 80% have chosen to pursue further studies, with 30% opting for overseas programs and 50% for domestic ones. Admitting institutions include globally renowned universities such as MIT, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Fudan University.
The research achievements of the school’s undergraduates are equally impressive. In just the past two years, students have won multiple Best Paper Awards, Best Student Paper Awards, and Best Paper Award nominations at top international academic conferences, with some results being co-first-authored.