The mid-infrared (MIR) band shows significant promise in various fields, including thermal imaging, spectroscopy sensing, infrared countermeasures, and free-space communication, due to its distinctive characteristics. Despite substantial efforts to develop on-chip photonic integrated circuits for MIR applications, which aim to miniaturize systems and expand their application scopes, the challenge ...

Recently, the Annual ShanghaiTech Symposium on Information Science and Technology (ASSIST) 2024 concluded at the University Auditorium. The conference, themed “Information, Intelligence, and Sustainable Development,” spanned two days and featured speeches from five academicians and over 40 distinguished guests from top institutions such as the University of Hong Kong, University of Washington, P...

Recently, Associate Professor Liang Junrui at the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) has been elected as a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).ASME was founded in 1880. It is an engineering society, a standards organization, a research and development organization, an advocacy organization, a provider of training and education, and a nonprofit organization. F...

Microbubble cavitation-based focused ultrasound therapies can non-invasively open biological barriers temporarily, such as the blood-brain barrier and blood-tumor barrier. This emerging new type of therapy is undergoing a huge number of clinical investigations for drug delivery and for removing pathological tissues without opening the human body, and has great potential for the treatment of brain ...

 The development of artificial intelligence relies, primarily, on deep neural networks, and the large-scale neural network language models like ChatGPT have posed great challenges to the electronic computing chips based on the von Neumann architecture. As a promising solution, optical computing can boost energy efficiency and reduce computation latency. In recent years, a large variety o...

Associate Professor Zheng Jie’s lab in SIST has recently proposed an advanced artificial intelligence model named KR4SL. By integrating knowledge graphs and explainable graph neural networks, KR4SL has made strides in identifying anti-cancer drug targets based on synthetic lethality. This work has been formally published as a Proceedings paper in the top international bioinformatics conferen...

Recently, Assistant Professor Wang Chundong’s research group in SIST independently discovered a covert channel based on the fsync function within computer storage and named it Sync+Sync. The result was published in an article entitled “Sync+Sync: A Covert Channel Built on fsync with Storage”, and was accepted by USENIX Security 2024, one of the top four international conferences in the field of...

At the 61st Annual Conference of the International Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the paper submitted by Associate Professor Tu Kewei’s group, entitled “Do PLMs Know and Understand Ontological Knowledge?”, was honored with the Outstanding Paper Award. SIST graduated student Wu Weiqi ’23 is the first author, doctoral student Jiang Chengyue ’19 is the second author, and Prof. ...

As a novel electromagnetic imaging technique that combined the feature of microwave imaging and ultrasound imaging, microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography (MITAT) has seen a rapid growth in numerous biomedical applications during the past decades. For the application in transcranial brain hemorrhage detection, the major challenge of MITAT is the big acoustic inhomogeneity induced by the ...

Waveguide array is one of the fundamental building blocks for integrated photonics, a branch of study that examines the ability of integrated devices on a single chip to achieve faster and more efficient transmission and processing of information. A dense waveguide array could enable a high-density integration of waveguide components and significantly reduce on-chip occupancy area and cost. This c...

ShanghaiTech Automation and Robotics Center (STAR Center) of SIST has long focused on research and innovation in the fields of robotics and automation. Recently, some outstanding results were achieved and published in papers at top conferences and journals, including IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Ad...

The upcoming 6G wireless network poses numerous challenges, including continuous space coverage, hybrid near-/far-field beamforming, multi-user positioning/sensing, and holographic multiple-in-multiple-out (MIMO), and requires economical antenna solutions. Low-cost, high-gain beam-steerable antennas are therefore in high demand to overcome these difficulties. Compared to conventional microstrip ph...

In the 2022 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (IEEE APCCAS) held in Shenzhen from November 11 to 13, a paper co-authored by ShanghaiTech graduate students won the Best Paper Award. The paper is entitled “Hierarchical and Recursive Floorplanning Algorithm for NoC-Based Scalable Multi-Die FPGAs”, whose co-authors are second-year master student Luo Jianwen, fifth-year Ph.D. ...

Recently, the Optical Society of America (Optica) announced the list of 2023 elected Fellows. A total of 109 scholars from 24 countries and regions around the world were selected. Professor Yu Jingyi of ShanghaiTech was elected for his contributions to computational imaging systems. Prof. Yu has long been engaged in the fields of computer vision, computational imaging, computer grap...