From July 17th to July 27th, the 2018 Santander-ShanghaiTech Innovation Workshop was successfully held at School of Entrepreneurship and Management. The theme of workshop was “InnoLab: Innovation for Urban Living.” SEM Vice Dean Professor Lu Ding pointed out in his opening remarks that the workshop is of great importance as the Chinese economy transitions from quantitative expansion to qual...

The Zuo Group at the School of Physical Science and Technology recently developed a photocatalytic methane conversion methodology which can directly transform methane, ethane and other gaseous alkanes into value-added liquid product. This breakthrough in organic chemistry provides a novel, green and mild catalytic platform for natural gas utilization, and could lead to broad applications in the en...

On July 23, 2018，Professor Christian Terwiesch from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania visited ShanghaiTech University to deliver a lecture on “Connected Strategy and Digital Disruption.” The lecture was hosted by Professor Hanming Fang, Dean of School of Entrepreneurship and Management at ShanghaiTech University.In his talk, Dr. Terwiesch discussed three significant and highl...

The Annual ShanghaiTech Symposium on Information Science and Technology (ASSIST) 018 was held at ShanghaiTech from July 2-4, 2018.Focusing on artificial intelligence and computer vision, the symposium aims to provide a forum on state-of-the-art information technology that is “international, high-level, and application-oriented.” Nearly 800 people from both academia and industry participated in t...

SEM successfully held the International Students Innovation Competition (ISIC 2018) from July 7, 2018 to July 14. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO) and ShanghaiTech University were the co-sponsors of this event. Professor Ding Lu, Vice Dean of SEM, hosted the final session on Investor Pitching where the stud...

Ivan Sutherland, known as the "father of computer graphics" and winner of the 1988 ACM Turing Award, was invited to give the ShanghaiTech Lecture, along with his research partner and wife Marly Roncken.Before he began his speech, Sutherland chatted with the audience, including college students from different colleges, high school students and corporate employees, to understand ...

ISC-2018 Student Cluster Competition(ISC-SCC) announced the final results on June 27th local time at Frankfurt am Main, Germany. ShanghaiTech University team GeekPie_HPC won the Fan Favorite Team award. In addition, GeekPie_HPC team achieved the highest scores for HPCG Benchmark and AI application. Nearly three hundred teams from all over the world took part in the ISC-SCC this year, and 12 teams ...

On June 27-28, the School of Entrepreneurship and Management (SEM) held an international conference on "Addressing Population Aging: Institutional and Public Policy Innovation." The conference was co-organized by SEM, Center for Employment and Social Security (Fudan University) and ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (University of New South Wales). The one and ha...

Research groups led by Professor Li Tao and Zhong Chao from the School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) at ShanghaiTech University have co-developed a method that can grow metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) on nearly any polymeric surfaces using bacterial adhesive curli nanofibers (CNFs) as a mediator. Their work, "Adhesive Bacterial Amyloid Nanofibers-Mediated ...

On June 16, ShanghaiTech celebrated a momentous occasion, as the university's first class of undergraduates graduated, along with the third class of Master's Degree students and the first class of PhD students jointly cultivated by ShanghaiTech University and Chinese Academy of Sciences. University Council Chairman Zhu Zhiyuan presided over the ceremony, which was held in the Shanghai...

Four years ago, ShanghaiTech’s campus was a construction site. Today, it is a cutting-edge research university. Four years ago, a small class of incoming freshmen entered the campus, eager for opportunities and willing to take a chance on a brand-new school. Today, these students stroll on a beautiful modern campus and are preparing to continue their research at top universities across the globe....

A recent international research collaboration has shed new light on DNA replication. The collaboration, led by Professor Bo Sun from the School of Life Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University and Professor Michelle D. Wang from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Cornell University, revealed a new replication recovery pathway. Their paper, “Helicase Promotes Replication Re-in...

On June 4th and 5th, ShanghaiTech hosted SWEDCS 2018, offering a platform for top scientists and experts in emerging devices, circuits and systems to share their research results and inspire next-generation talents in all areas of information science and technology. SWEDCS 2018 focused on the theme of “Internet of Things” (IoT), and included a technical program covering four sessions in ele...

Back when ShanghaiTech’s first class of undergraduates visited for Campus Assessment Day back in 2014, there was not much of a campus to visit and ShanghaiTech was more of an idea than reality. Now, four years later but in what seems just a blink of an eye, ShanghaiTech’s senior class has made it from impressionable young freshmen to accomplished and promising graduates. In this first of a two p...