On February 20th, Stanford University Acting Dean of Engineering Thomas Kenny came to ShanghaiTech at the invitation of President Jiang Mianheng. ShanghaiTech Vice President and Provost Yin Jie provided an overview of ShanghaiTech. Vice President Gong Jinkang focused on the introduction of international partnership. School of Physical Science and Technology Associate Dean Liu Zhi, School of...

On February 13th, James Miller, Former Dean of Admission at Brown University and now Admission Consultant to Harvard College shared his experiences with ShanghaiTech’s admission team, at the invitation of President Jiang Mianheng.   Having been the Dean of Admission at Brown for 11 years, James Miller has extensive experience in admission and financial aid. His team, composed of 38 sta...

On January 20th 1996 Nobel Laureate in Economics Professor Sir James Mirrlees and Mrs. Patricia Mirrlees visited ShanghaiTech at the invitation of President Jiang Mianheng. The visit started with a meeting with the School of Entrepreneurship and Management faculty members and after the warm welcome from President Jiang, SEM professors discussed domestic and world economic issues with Professor Mir...

On January 10th Babson College President Dr. Kerry Healey visited ShanghaiTech, together with Mr. Fred Kiang, member of the Babson Board of Trustees. Following Vice President Gong Jinkang’s detailed introduction of ShanghaiTech, Dean May Lee of School of Entrepreneurship and Management (SEM) talked about the school’s latest developments and reflected on the ongoing communication and dialogue bet...

Delegates from Swiss universities visited ShanghaiTech on December 15th, headed by Professor Yves Flueckiger, Rector of University of Geneva. Other members included Professor Astrid Kaptijn, Vice Rector of University of Fribourg; Professor Kilian Stoffel, Rector of University of Neuchtel; Professor Stephan Morgenthaler, Dean of International Relations of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in La...

Representatives from the Italian embassy and consulate visited ShanghaiTech University on December 9th, including Professor Plinio Innocenzi, Science and Technology Counsellor at the Italian Embassy of Beijing; Professor Roberto Pagani, Science and Technology Counsellor at Consulate General of Italy in Shanghai; and Dr. Lorenzo Gonzo, Science and Technology Counsellor at the Italian Consulate of C...

The Zuo Labat the School of Physical Science and Technology recently published details oftheir breakthrough method in the journal Angewandte Chemie-InternationalEdition, titled “Photocatalytic C–C Bond Cleavage and Amination ofCycloalkanols by Cerium(III) Chloride Complex”. Dr. Guo Jingjing and Dr. Hu Anhuaare co-first authors and Professor Zuo was the corresponding author. Over the last60 year...

SHANGHAI, CHINA –The iHuman Institute of ShanghaiTech University held its 4th Annual iHuman Forum on November 5th. More than 330 representatives from leading academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies gathered at the two day event to present and discuss cutting-edge progress in the field of human cell signaling and imaging across the scales. In the opening ceremony, Vice President an...

ShanghaiTech held its first academic conference at its new campus last week. The 2016 Symposium on Research and Application in Computer Vision (RACV2016) was held from September 18th to 20th. Sponsored by China Computer Federation (CCF) and undertaken by China Computer Federation on Computer Vision (CCFCV), the RACV was co-organized by ShanghaiTech’s School of Information Science and Technology (...

Professor Hartmut Michel, Director of Max Planck Institute of Biophysics and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1988) visited ShanghaiTech University on September 14th at the invitation of Founding Director and Professor Raymond Stevens and Vice Director and Professor Liu Zhijie of iHuman Institute at ShanghaiTech University. During his visit he delivered the second lecture of ShanghaiTech’s lecture se...

On September 9, ShanghaiTech welcomed its new class of students to the new campus and faculty members, staff as well as principals from concerned institutes were invited to witness this memorable moment. This year ShanghaiTech enrolled 353 undergraduate students from 14 provinces. 424 students chose to continue their graduate studies at ShanghaiTech. Professor Yang Peidong, Dean of School of Phys...

In the afternoon of September 7, 2016, a Springer Nature delegation came to ShanghaiTech, headed by Mr. Stefan von Holtzbrinck, CEO of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and Chairman of Springer Nature. ShanghaiTech President Jiang Mianheng extended a warm welcome to the delegates from Springer Nature and introduced ShanghaiTech attendees. Vice President and Provost Yin Jie gave a brief introduction to...

On July 4th 2016, Dr. Vladimir Sucha, Director General of European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC) visited ShanghaiTech. Associate Provost Jiang Ge welcomed the delegation and gave a presentation on the development of the university. JRC has been collaborating with some research institutes of Chinese Academy of Sciences, said Dr. Vladimir Sucha, and he was very interested to learn more abou...

The ShanghaiTech Symposium on Informaiton Science and Technology 2016 (SSIST’2016) was held successfully from June 23 to 25, 2016, at Parkyard Hotel, Shanghai. SSIST 2016 focused on three topics: Robotics, Virtual Reality, and Computing Theory and Systems. The Symposium featured some of the most exciting developments in robotics such as unmanned helicopters and cars as well as the revolutio...