The Zhong group in SPST's Materials and Physical Biology Division has recently made important progress in the development of living functional materials based on engineered Bacillus subtilis biofilms. Their work, Programmable and printable Bacillus subtilis biofilms as engineered living materials, was published online in Nature Chemical Biology on Dec 3, 2018.Figure 1. Design for a progra...

The first Workshop for Topological Quantum Information (WTQI-2018) was successfully held November 19th to 20th at the School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) at ShanghaiTech University.This workshop was co-chaired by Professor Shoucheng Zhang of Stanford University, Professor Yulin Chen of Oxford University ( and Distinguished Adjunct Professor at ShanghaiTech), Professor Jing Wang of Fud...

On January 11, Philadelphia Orchestra President and CEO Matías Tarnopolsk visited ShanghaiTech University and met with Philadelphia Orchestra Association Executive Vice President Ryan Fleur, Senior Consultant Nicholas Platt and Senior Adviser Freda Wang. ShanghaiTech President Jiang Mianheng and School of Creativity and Art Executive Dean Yang Yang met with the delegation.This was Matías Tarnopo...

School of Physical Science and Technology Dr. Li Tao’s research group has published groundbreaking research on gas separation membrane for CO2 capture. Their work, titled “Interfacial Engineering in Metal-Organic Framework-Based Mixed Matrix Membranes Using Covalently Grafted Polyimide Brushes” was published in the leading chemical journal Journal of the American Chemical Society.Membrane ...

On November 27th, Clarivate Analytics released its annual list of “Highly Cited Researchers, which selected 6078 researchers from 21 fields for their outstanding research performance, as demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for field and year. For the first time, this year the Highly-Cited Researchers list introduced a new Cross-Field ...

On October 28th, ShanghaiTech’s team once again took gold as the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition World Finals finally drew to a close at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts. This year's iGEM competition attracted over 340 teams from top universities from around the world, including Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...

The Symposium on Probing Protein Structures with Bio-MS and Complementary Technologies was held at ShanghaiTech University on November 18th, organized by Shui Wenjing Group of iHuman Institute and supported by Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies, CAS. This symposium aims at exploring multiple Bio-MS techniques and complementary approaches to studying the structural composition, interactio...

On November 22th, Chemistry Nobel Laureate Richard Henderson delivered the ShanghaiTech Lecture on “The CryoEM Revolution in Structural Biology” in the ShanghaiTech auditorium. Vice President Yin Jie introduced the host of this lecture, Professor Rao Zihe, a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a distinguished professor at iHuman Institute and Shanghai Institute of Advanced Immunoc...

Recently, School of Information Science and Technology Professor Yu Jingyi and Assistant Professor Gao Shenghua’s research group’s work on personalized saliency detection problem was published online in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) in an article titled, ‘Personalized Saliency and Its Prediction.’Nearly all existing visual saliency models so far have fo...

On November 20th, the American Mathematical Society announced that the 2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry has been awarded to Chen Xiuxiong, along with Simon Donaldson and Sun Song, for their three-part series entitled Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds, I, II and III”, published in 2015 in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society. Chen Xiuxiong is a Distinguished Adjunct Pr...

ACS (American Chemical Society) Publications, in partnership with ShanghaiTech University,hosted Symposium: Innovation in Materials Science in late July. The three-day event at ShanghaiTech University featured world-renowned scientists from China and around the world.ShanghaiTech University President Professor Jiang Mianheng, ACS Executive Director and CEO Thomas Connelly welcomed the attendees, m...

Recently, School of Information Science and Technology Assistant Professor Wang Haoyu’s research group proposed a highly efficient LLC resonant topology for plug-in electric vehicle charging applications. Their work, “A Five-Switch Bridge Based Reconfigurable LLC Converter for Deeply-Depleted PEV Charging Applications,” was recently published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.This ...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Zhou Tao from ShanghaiTech’s School of Life Science and Technology, Dr. He Chuan from University of Chicago and Dr. Song Hongjun from University of Pennsylvania, have made a breakthrough in the field of RNA methylation (m6a) in regulating brain functions. Their work, entitled “m6A Facilitates Hippocampus-Dependent Learning and Memory through YTHDF1” was published...

Fang Hanming, School of Entrepreneurship and Management Dean and Class of 1965 Term Professor of Economics of University of Pennsylvania, was among 22 academics newly elected as fellows of the Econometric Society. He is the 14th Chinese economist to be elected to this top economics professional society.Founded in 1930, The Econometric Society is the most renowned society in economics and publishes...