On December 27, the list of winners of the 2023 Damo Academy Young Fellow Award was officially announced, and 15 people, including Chang Lin, Cheng Lijing, Feng Yi and Su Jun, won the award, each of whom will receive a free bonus of 1 million yuan supported by Alibaba's public welfare project. The DAMO Academy Young Fellows Award aims to discover and help more young Chinese scientists under the age of 35 who have played an important role in promoting scientific and technological progress, encourage them to play a leading role in major scientific research, play an exemplary role, and drive more people to pay attention to and devote themselves to scientific research.
The Beijing News Shell Finance reporter noted that the average age of these young scientists is only 33 years old, but they have made cutting-edge exploration breakthroughs in their respective fields and have been widely recognized internationally, covering many key fields such as silicon-based optoelectronics, nanoelectronic devices, cell reprogramming, and embryonic development.
Feng Yi, a researcher at Zhijiang Laboratory, gave full play to China's advantages in large scientific facilities and astronomical calculations, and observed continuously active fast radio bursts through FAST, which provided key clues for unraveling the origin of fast radio bursts. Chen Xiaotian and his team from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered the site of the Lenghu Observatory, which caused a sensation in the global astronomical community and made up for the gap in astronomical observation in the eastern hemisphere. Cheng Lijing, a researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, independently constructed a model to make "data slices" for the ocean for climate and ocean change, which supported China's national needs to cope with climate and ocean change.
Their research responds to major issues of social concern and is committed to contributing to China's solutions to global issues such as climate change and reproductive health. For example, with the help of mathematical tools, Cheng Lijing has revised the observation data in the ocean that have been biased in the past, and the accuracy of the correction has been widely recognized internationally. In 2020, Cheng Lijing won the "International Data Award" jointly issued by the WCRP GCOS;In 2021, his research results were selected for the National "13th Five-Year Plan" Science and Technology Innovation Achievement ExhibitionIn 2022, he was awarded the American Meteorological Society's "The Nicholas P.""Fofonoff" Young Scientist Award.
Cheng Lijing said in an interview with the Beijing News Shell Finance reporter that many teams in the world are making corrections to past ocean observation data, but the reason why his team's work can "stand out" is that he considers the place more completely, "We will consider the temperature, humidity and instrument type of the ocean where the detector is located, but other teams may only consider one dimension." The probe is in free fall in the ocean, but the temperature of the sea affects the viscosity and thus the descent speed of the probe, and we take this into account. ”
More accurate measurements also made new scientific discoveries, he led the construction of the IAP ocean dataset, and found that 90% of the earth's heat enters the ocean, resulting in ocean warming, "After 2015, we once again used satellites placed at the top of the atmosphere to see a lot of energy 'top in', the earth system has more and more energy, but these energy has not entered the ocean, where did it go?"Why is the energy gone again?Our team is working hard to find out why. ”
Different from the selection of general scientific awards, the selection of the Damo Academy Young Fellows abandons the traditional evaluation criteria of ** and qualifications, and attaches importance to technological innovation, application and practical influence. The selection has undergone strict preliminary review, communication review and on-site defense by the organizing committee. It is worth mentioning that this year, nearly half of the "young scholars" have completed doctoral research in China, and locally trained young scholars are emerging on the international academic stage.
Attached: 2023 Damo Academy Young Scholars and reasons for awards.
Chang Lin (Researcher, School of Electronics, Peking University).
He has made a lot of international leading work in the field of integrated technology of silicon-based optoelectronics, and has opened up a series of new application scenarios of integrated photonic chips.
Chen Xiaotian (Associate Researcher, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences).
It has established the largest database of variable stars in China, depicted the intuitive three-dimensional map of the Milky Way for the first time, and promoted the development of high-precision astronomical ranging research and world-class optical astronomical observatories in China.
Cheng Lijing (Researcher, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences).
The research results support China's national needs to cope with climate and ocean change, and provide Chinese solutions for global ocean data processing.
Feng Yi (Researcher, Zhijiang Laboratory).
The groundbreaking combination of China's Sky Eye FAST and intelligent computing provides a key clue to uncover the origin of fast radio bursts.
Rong Gu (Distinguished Researcher, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University).
A series of key technologies for cloud-native data elastic acceleration are proposed to effectively solve the problems of resource imbalance and inefficient operation of big data and cloud computing systems.
Gu Yingfei (Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University).
For the first time, the theoretical physics model SYK was promoted to a high dimension, leading the development of the model in the field of condensed matter physics and quantum many-body chaos.
Xiaodong Liu (Researcher, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University).
Its research on cell reprogramming technology provides solutions for a wide range of applications in the fields of multipotent stem cell-based cells**, organ tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Quanquan Pang (Assistant Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University).
It is the first to propose a new system of low-cost and high-safety aluminum-sulfur batteries, which shows great application potential in the fields of wind and solar distribution and storage, industrial energy storage, etc.
Qiu Chenguang (Researcher, Center for Carbon-based Research, Peking University).
He is committed to the research and development of new post-molar electronic devices, achieving the highest room-temperature ballistics of transistors to date, and pushing the performance of low-dimensional semiconductor devices close to the limit of quantum theory.
Jun Su (Researcher, Beijing Institute of Biological Sciences).
His research revolves around the molecular mechanism of mammalian oocyte spindle assembly, which for the first time provides the possibility of preventing and treating abnormal chromosomal numbers in human eggs and providing solutions for women to overcome infertility.
Wang Rui (Research Fellow, School of Engineering, Westlake University).
His research has greatly improved the efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells, and laid a foundation for promoting the industrial application of perovskite.
Wang Xin (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University).
He proposed a multi-leading machine learning theory method, led the development of the world's first graph automatic machine learning framework, and promoted the in-depth exploration and application of this technology in academia and industry.
Yang Zongyin (Researcher of the 100 Talents Program, School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University).
It solves the problem of both small size and high performance of spectrometer, opens up a precedent for the field of spectrometer miniaturization, and opens up the potential of subsequent industrialization.
Zeng Yelu (Professor, College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University).
Its quantitative remote sensing research based on vegetation fluorescence and radiative transfer models greatly reduces the uncertainty of fluorescence satellite observations, and makes important contributions to the research of carbon neutrality and food security.
Zhitao Zhang (Associate Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University).
For the first time, a stretchable light-emitting diode based on all-organic polymers was developed, which promoted the application and development of new flexible wearable electroluminescent materials in bioelectronic devices and medical fields in China.
Edited by Song Yuting.
Proofread by Diyan Chen.