A team comprising students from the School of Creativity and Art (SCA), the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST), and the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech University, showcased five techno-art works at the Ars Electronica Festival 2025, held from September 3 to 7 in Linz, Austria. One of their works, “txt2img⁻¹,” stood out with its unique perspective an...

The Design for Health & Wellbeing Forum, one of the forums of the World Design Cities Conference 2023 (WDCC), an international design conference hosted by Shanghai, with its goal to be the “City of Design”, was convened on September 29 at Shanghai Huangpu Riverside. This forum was organized by SCA, co-organized by Shanghai Industrial Design Association (SIDA), and supported by BME. Leading e...

On September 18th, the School of Creative Arts and the Office of Student Affairs invited Jay Yagnik, Google Vice President and Engineering Fellow, to speak on AI at Google and share his views on the application and development prospects of the artificial intelligence industry at ShanghaiTech’s International Conference Center.Jay began by introducing different ways to deal with spam e-mails, showi...

2016 saw an expedited expansion of the collaboration between ShanghaiTech University and University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, in non-degree professional training in screenwriting, directing and producing. By nurturing both the creative and managerial sides of the film industry, the program has demonstrated its ambition to foster a healthy ecology in the film industry that...