Shanghai Institute of Fog Computing Technology ((SHIFT), in cooperation with Intel and iExec, demonstrated smart city service powered by 5G and blockchain at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 on February 25th to 28th in Barcelona. The demo presented a unified and decentralized smart city service platform based on 5G connection and blockchain technology. The robot rescue service developed by SHI...

Recently, SIST Assistant Professor Wu Tao, along with Virginia Tech Professor John Domann, National Chiao Tung University Professor Tien-kan Chung, and UCLA Professor Gregory Carman were invited to write a review paper on strain-mediated magnetoelectric coupling effects. Their paper was published in the MRS BULLETIN journal, with the title ‘Strain-mediated magnetoelectric storage, transmissi...

Recently, SIST Assistant Professor Fu Minfan proposed a 300W 110V/24V digital DC/DC module based on gallium nitride (GaN) devices. The proposed module can achieve 95.8% peak efficiency and 195 W/inch3 power density, which are much better than the state of the art (Synqor’s module: 91% peak efficiency and 80 W/inch3 power density). Recently, his work on magnetic design and high-frequency digital c...

The IEEE Global Communications Conference, a major event in the network and communications was recently held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with the theme of “Gateway to a Connected World,” attracting 3,000 top scientists, researchers and industry practitioners from all over the world.Two members of Dr. Luo Xiliang’s research group belonging to the Fog Computing Laboratory in the School of ...

Recently, School of Information Science and Technology Professor Yu Jingyi and Assistant Professor Gao Shenghua’s research group’s work on personalized saliency detection problem was published online in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) in an article titled, ‘Personalized Saliency and Its Prediction.’Nearly all existing visual saliency models so far have fo...

Recently, School of Information Science and Technology Assistant Professor Wang Haoyu’s research group proposed a highly efficient LLC resonant topology for plug-in electric vehicle charging applications. Their work, “A Five-Switch Bridge Based Reconfigurable LLC Converter for Deeply-Depleted PEV Charging Applications,” was recently published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.This ...

Recently Shanghai hosted BitRun Hackathon 48H, a national contest for blockchain technology developers and enthusiasts. Undergraduate and graduate students competed on the blockchain hackathon, and nearly one hundred technology enthusiasts from Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Tongji University and Central University of Finance and Economics, and others took part. After several days, Pyxis, ...

The 2018 World VR Industry Conference was held in Jiangxi from October 19-21. Jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Jiangxi Province Government, the conference featured 14 sub-forums, including one hosted by SIST on Artificial Intelligence. Ma Yun, chairman of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group and George Smoot, Nobel Laureate in Physics, and academician...

Recently, the Baidu Star Developer Competition, a deep learning algorithm competition for global AI technology enthusiasts was held in Beijing, and a team from ShanghaiTech took the second place to the team from South China University of Technology who won the first prize; competing alongside teams from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Northwestern Polytechnical U...

Professor Shi YuanMing and his collaborators at HKUST and Tsinghua University have recently developed large-scale sparse and low-rank frameworks for optimizing across the communication, computation and storage resources in ultra-dense networks (UDNs), thereby providing principled ways to design communication-efficient mobile artificial intelligence (AI) systems and intelligent internet-of-things (...

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...

The 2018 ASC World Supercomputer Contest (ASC18) ended on May 9th at Nanchang University with Tsinghua University successfully defending their championship. ShanghaiTech University, a first-time finalist, won Silver Medal and the e Prize award. National Tsing Hua University won the award for Highest Computing Performance. Russian St. Petersburg National University, Shanghai Jiao Tong Universi...

The paper "Network Information Flow" by Professor Cai Ning and his co-authors was honored with the 2018 ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award. The paper, first published in Volume 46, Issue 4 of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory in July of 2000, is universally recognized as a landmark paper in the field of network coding. This seminal work on network coding has had a pro...

After two months of preliminary competition, Geekpie from ShanghaiTech University successfully submitted a proposal to the Asia Supercomputing Community (ASC) HPC Contest. The team, comprising of five undergraduate students and led by Dr. Shu Yin, an assistant professor at ShanghaiTech University, finished first at the preliminaries and gained acceptance to the finals, which will take place in May...