For the first time, ShanghaiTech University held its Commencement mainly for online spectators, due to the new wave of Covid-19 which started spreading in Shanghai in mid-March and was just abated in June. On the morning of June 26, about 900 graduates of the Class of 2022, faculty and staff, families, alumni, and friends watched the live Commencement remotely. The on-site Commencement was held at...

In June of 2022, ShanghaiTech and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) reached a Memorandum of Understanding, signed respectively by Vice President of ShanghaiTech Dr. Jiang Ge and Vice President of HUJI Prof. Oron Shagrir. Both institutions agree to support the development of programs and activities that advance scholarship through cooperation, which may include joint educational, cultu...

On June 7, 2022, the list of undergraduate subjects to be developed with first-class status at the national and provincial level was announced by the Ministry of Education. ShanghaiTech achieved its very first undergraduate subject to be awarded the national level first-class status: Computer Science and Technology. Three more subjects were awarded the Shanghai city (provincial) level first-class ...

A critical factor in next-generation energy storage systems is that all-solid-state lithium-metal batteries are expected to provide better safety and higher energy density than traditional lithium batteries which contain liquid materials inside which can be unsafe, flammable and hard to recycle. The significant difference in all-solid-state lithium-metal batteries is the solid electrolytes which r...

Two undergraduate teams from ShanghaiTech under the guidance of SEM Assistant Professor Liu Baolong, won the first and third prizes respectively in the 12th MathorCup College Mathematical Modeling Challenge. The two teams are composed of students from different majors. The first prize team has one SEM student and two SLST students, and the third prize team has two SEM students and one SIST student...

Recently, the research team led by SLST Associate Professor Sun Bo published a research article in PNAS entitled “The convergence of head-on DNA unwinding forks induces helicase oligomerization and activity transition”, revealing a novel activity transition pathway of a DNA-repair-involved helicase.Helicases are ubiquitous molecular motors found in all organisms from phages t...

Recently, IH research teams published two study achievements, respectively revealing the social organization structure of Neolithic settlements and the prevalence of Chenwei during the Yuan-Ming transition. The research about the social organization structure of Neolithic settlementsThe transformation of human society from a hunter-gatherer society to an agricultural society has not only chan...

Since different gases have different characteristic peaks, spectrum detection technology can be used to detect various gases. The current full-spectrum (from ultraviolet to infrared) detection technology usually utilizes multiple discrete detectors with different wavelength bands, thus the system is relatively complex, with an unsatisfactory performance, high dark currents, and rare response spect...

In natural silk spinning process, the molecular assembly synergistically realizes the complex and ordered mesoscopic hierarchies. Inspired by this, SPST Ling Shengjie's group cooperated with Yao Yuan's group from ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, to combine the “molecular-supramolecular assembly” and “phase transition-induced mechanical training” ...

Recently, the results of the 2022 International Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) were announced, and ShanghaiTech team won the Outstanding Winner, the top price of MCM. This year, the MCM attracted a total of 15,105 teams from all over the world, including teams from Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Tsinghua, UC Berkeley and other well-known universities. There are 23 teams won the Outstan...

On May 7, the results of the 2021 Young Chemistry Award of the Chinese Chemical Society were announced. SPST Associate Professor Ji Quanjiang won this award for his developing a novel gene editing system that is easy to use in disease treatment. Prof. Ji Quanjiang is mainly engaged in the research of Cas nuclease mining, mechanism, and molecular evolution, and is committed to developing ...

Photoswitches are a class of molecules that can change their structural geometry after light exposure, and have wide applications in light-responsive materials, ion transport, and biomedicine. The speed at which the photoswitch changes structural geometry (i.e. thermal relaxation rate) is an important factor that determines its application scenarios, so the regulation of this performance is of gre...

Tumor immunotherapy, enhancing the immune system to kill tumor cells and to exert clinical effects, is a revolutionary breakthrough in the field of tumor therapy. Tumor neoantigens are polypeptides with antigenicity resulting from DNA mutations and the key factors in determining the immunogenicity of tumor cells and the clinical efficacy of tumor immunotherapy. However, neoantigen immunogenicity p...

Syntactic parsing, including dependency parsing and constituency parsing, studies automatic discovery of internal structures of sentences (e.g., subject-predicate-object structures, various types of phrase structures, coordinating and subordinating relations between words). Syntactic parsing is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP) that can be used to provide useful information f...