Recently, rumors have spread that the Damo Academy is going to go out of business, claiming that Alibaba cannot adhere to basic research and needs long-term support. However, the Damo Academy slapped these rumors in the face with a solid move, showing its firm support for basic scientific research.
The winners of the 2023 Damo Academy Young Fellow Award were officially announced, and 15 young scientific research scholars were on the list, each sharing 15 million awards, a move that quickly debunked the rumors. With an average age of only 33 years old, these young scholars have made significant achievements in many fields such as silicon-based optoelectronics, nanoelectronic devices, and astronomical observations, and some have even taken a leading position in the world.
Founded in 2018, the DAMO Academy invests tens of millions of dollars in bonuses every year to encourage young scientific research talents. Even in the face of a downturn, Alibaba still generously offered tens of millions of dollars in bonuses to encourage more people to devote themselves to scientific research.
This fact proves that the Damo Academy not only did not go bankrupt, but promoted the development of national basic scientific research with the support of real money. This enables China's top young scholars to devote themselves to scientific research and promote the rapid development of China's basic sciences.
It is worth mentioning that among the award-winning scholars of the Damo Academy Young Fellow Award over the years, there are many outstanding scientists such as Wei Dongyi. Among them, Jiang Wenshuai of Zhejiang University won the award and published two important articles in the internationally renowned mathematics journal "Annals of Mathematics", which successfully solved the "curvature integral conjecture" and "finite measure conjecture".
Through the Damo Academy's continuous investment in the Young Fellow Award, we can clearly see that the rumors of the collapse of the Damo Academy are pure nonsense. In the past few years, the Young Fellows Award has been successfully held for 6 years, supporting more than 60 outstanding scholars, and is committed to creating a good academic environment for basic scientific research talents to prepare for long-term scientific research challenges.