At 1:30 pm EST on November 13, 2017, the 2017 Global Finals of the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) came to a close at Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts. ShanghaiTech’s team had an outstanding finish by winning the Gold Medal, Best Hardware special award and were nominated for four other awards: Best Foundational Advance Project Nomination, Best Educa...

The 5th annual iHuman Forum, hosted by the iHuman Institute was successfully held at ShanghaiTech’s brand-new conference center on November 7-8th. The theme of the forum was "Imaging across the scales & Modeling supercomputer." The goal was to bring together scholars in the area of imaging across the molecular, cellular, and human scale, as well as gather great minds in th...

Professor Michael Levitt, 2013 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for “The development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems,” visited ShanghaiTech from October 30thto 31st. Levitt is also a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Member of the US National Academy of Sciences and Member of the US National Academy of Arts & Sciences.Born in South Africa in 1947, Professor Levitt got his PhD d...

At the biannual International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), perhaps the most prestigious conference in computer vision, ShanghaiTech’s SIST had a strong presence. SIST presented six papers on exciting state-of-the-art contributions on light field imagery, fundamental geometry, and artificial intelligence problems such as object and anomaly detection, or visual question answering.SIST Prof...

ShanghaiTech’s School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) held the 5th Annual ShanghaiTech BioFrontier Conference -- Frontier of Genetics and Genomics (FoGG2017) on October 20-21st, 2017, in the auditorium of the newly completed L building, the home of SLST.Nearly 300 researchers from leading institutions gathered at the conference to present and discuss cutting-edge progress in a broad sp...

Cornell University’s School of Agriculture and Life Sciences Executive Dean Professor Max Pfeffer visited ShanghaiTech on October 18th, on the invitation of Vice President Gong Jinkang. Professor Liu Jilong, Vice Dean of School of Life Sciences and Technology, met with Professor Pfeffer and gave a detailed overview on the education and research of SLST and Professor Pfeffer toured the lab spaces ...

ShanghaiTech University’s School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) hosted the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics 2017 (SSRR2017) from October 11th to 13th, the first time the conference has been held in China. SIST Assistant Professor Sren Schwertfeger served as the General Chair of the three-day conference and President Jiang Mianheng ...

Recently, School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) Assistant Professor Lin Bolin’s research group made a major breakthrough in CO2/olefins-based polymeric materials synthesis and was selected in ACS Editors’ Choice. Combining green-house gas CO2 with a low cost olefin, they provided a convenient and highly efficient methodology for synthesis of functionalizable polymeric materials. ...

On November 27th, President Jiang Mianheng met with Sean Stein, the new U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, and Peter Dycaico, Deputy Director of Politics and Economics Section at the US Consulate.President Jiang welcomed the Consul General and briefly introduced the development of ShanghaiTech, especially the undergraduate study abroad programs and the international faculty team. They discussed issu...

ShanghaiTech iHuman Institute Founding Director Dr. Raymond C. Stevens was awarded the 2017 Magnolia Silver Award in recognition of his great contribution to scientific research achievement and nurturing and mentoring of Chinese young scientists. Established by the Shanghai Municipal Government in 1989 and named after Shanghai's official flower, the Magnolia Award recognizes foreign experts an...

On September 15th, ShanghaiTech held an opening ceremony to welcome 355 incoming undergraduate students, 456 incoming master’s degree students and 200 incoming PhD students. The ceremony was attended by representatives from institutes affiliated to Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), ShanghaiTech faculty and students.A video presentation showed ShanghaiTech’s first four years of achievements whic...

Zhang Yuebiao's group in the School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University developed a new series of mesoporous metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and achieved a new record in ultrahigh capacity methane storage. These results have been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society with the title of “Engineering of Pore Geometry for Ultrahigh Capacity ...

In a recent study, Research Associate Professor Liu Jia from SIAIS and Professor Ma Da from Fudan University developed an acid-labile acyclic cucurbit[n]uril (CB[n]) molecular containers for controlled drug release. Their study was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.Pathological conditions such as tumors often lead to acidic microenvironment, making acid-labile drug carriers attr...

A team led by Assistant Professor Huang Pengyu at ShanghaiTech University’s School of Life Science and Technology, collaborating with Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital at Guangzhou, found an important role of IGF-2 in liver regeneration induced by some chronic liver injuries. Their work entitled “Pericentral hepatocytes produce IGF-2 to promote liver regeneration during special injuries” was publis...