The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO) was held in Dali, Yunnan, from Dec 6th to 8th. The conference, which will be held in Florence, Italy next year, accepted 403 papers from 739 paper submissions for oral presentations. The ShanghaiTech Automation and Robotics Center (STAR Center) groups of Assistant Professors Sören Schwertfeger and Andre Rosendo  submit...

On November 22-23, ShanghaiTech University invited an international evaluation team of 12 members composed of distinguished experts and scholars in the field of information science and technology to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of SIST’s development and construction. On the afternoon of the 23rd, the evaluation team gave their overall assessment to President Jiang Mianheng, Chairman of the ...

On October 26th, SIST Professor Yang Yang and Assistant Professor Laurent Kneip were to speak at the Global Autonomous Driving Summit in Suzhou. The event was organized by the local government of Suzhou’s Xiangcheng district, who released an exhaustive and well-coordinated plan on urban development and attraction of emerging high-tech industries focusing on intelligent transportation. The ev...

Recently, SIST professor Wang Haoyu’s group from CiPES proposed a novel LLC-based, highly efficient hybrid hierarchical equalization structure for series-connected battery strings. The paper, titled “An LLC Based Highly Efficient S2M and C2C Hybrid Hierarchical Battery Equalizer,” was published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.  Compared with traditional equalization techniques, t...

SIST Assistant Professor Liao Qifeng’s group recently proposed a novel ANOVA based model reduction method for high-dimensional Bayesian inferences, which was published in Journal of Computational Physics with the title of “An adaptive reduced basis ANOVA method for high-dimensional Bayesian inverse problems.” This work provides an efficient method for the challenging high-dimensional Bayes...

Recently, four papers from SIST were accepted by International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019. Among them, two papers come from Professor He Xuming’s research group, one paper comes from Professor Gao Shenghua’s research group and one paper comes from Professor Yu Jingyi’s research group. The International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) is one of the highest-level internat...

The 2nd International Conference on Vibration and Energy Harvesting Applications (VEH 2019) was held in the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) from July 13th to 15th, attracting 150 scholars, researchers, and students from universities and research institutions around the world such as Imperial College London, University of Paris-Sud, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Stevens Instit...

SIST Assistant Professor Chen Baile’s group demonstrated high-speed photodetector at 2-micron waveband. This photodetector, operating at 2-micron wavelength band, has a high 3dB bandwidth up to 25 GHz, and achieves a clear eye pattern at 30 Gb/s. It is reportedly the fastest photodetector operating at 2-micron. Their achievement was recently published in Optica in an article entitled “High-...

ASSIST 2019, ShanghaiTech’s annual information science and technology symposium , was held from June 30th to July 2nd. With the theme of smart life, interdisciplinary integration, this conference attracted many experts and scholars from universities and research institutions at home and abroad, including California Institute of Technology, University of Southern California’s School of Engineerin...

Recently, many papers from SIST’s Intelligent Vision Center have been received by four top international artificial intelligence conferences. 2019 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) received seven articles, 2019 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) received three articles, 2019 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)...

Recently, the 53th IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2019) was held in Shanghai, China, attracting almost 3,000 participants including talented scientists, researchers, and industry practitioners from all over the world. With the theme of “Empowering Intelligent Communications,” this flagship conference aims to provide a platform for sharing and demonstrating cutting-edge...

SIST Assistant Professor Wang Cheng’s group proposed a Q-switched quantum-dot semiconductor laser based on a new physical mechanism in a recent issue of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, with the title of “Intensity Noise and Pulse Oscillations of an InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Laser on Germanium.” This laser doesn’t require an absorber section which are required byt conven...

As one of just the second undergraduate class to graduate from ShanghaiTech, Xie Zhiqiang feels the immense influence he and his classmates have had on the development of the university. “We students shaped something here at the school,” he says with pride. His four years here were about constantly challenging himself and discovering new things. Entering as a freshman, Xie started out as a ...

Recently, three papers from SIST Assistant Professor Liu Yu’s research group were accepted by the 2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), the most prestigious and the largest conference sponsored by IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES).First year graduate student Wang Binglin adopted the dynamic state estimation method to protect the VSC-HVDC transmission lines in the paper ‘V...