The International Summit of West Lake University was hired, and Principal Shi Yigong was overjoyed!
When the freshmen of Westlake University received an international invitation from the top club, President Shi Yigong was ecstatic"
Some people believe that the key to evaluating the quality of a university lies in the quality of personnel training and scientific research results. While this statement is not entirely accurate, there is no doubt that these two aspects are indeed very important factors.
Just five years after the establishment of Westlake University, it has been accused by the outside world of problems in running the school and cultivating talents. On the one hand, the university mainly focuses on postgraduate training, and on the other hand, only a small number of undergraduate students are enrolled in Zhejiang Province.
In this case, will Westlake University be able to attract high-quality students?What is the value of low enrollment in cultivating talents?
In fact, this also means the positioning of Westlake University. Shi Yigong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of Westlake University, has always emphasized the need to build one"Small but fine"A research university and has made great efforts to do so.
On the one hand, the university employs a number of top scientists as professors around the world, and insists on assigning each undergraduate student a supervisor, and the first batch of 60 undergraduates can share the resources of more than 200 doctoral supervisors, which is quite rare in the field of higher education in the country. On the other hand, all undergraduate students at the university are in college.
1. The sophomore year is not divided into major directions, and only the supervisor is selected from each other in the first year.
Does this talent development model work?With the passage of time, Principal Shi Yigong's efforts gradually bore fruit.
Recently, the official website of Westlake University announced that Zhang Lecheng, a first-year graduate student at the school, acted as a student"First Author"One of them, submitted a presentation to the top international conference on artificial intelligence entitled"understanding and overcoming the limitations of deep models for molecular attribute prediction "and was eventually hired by the conference. This is an admirable achievement.
It is understood that this paper was accepted as a poster at the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, which mainly focuses on deep machine learning, computer vision, and large-scale machine learning. The conference is one of the world's top academic events in the field of artificial intelligence, ranking ninth in scientific and technological literature such as Nature and Science, and has a wide influence.
Westlake had nine articles accepted, including one from freshman Lecheng Zhang. This student was a freshman at the time of submission, and his work was done during his freshman year.
For many first-year undergraduate students who may still be learning the basics and taking public classes, Zhang Lecheng has already dabbled in the application of artificial intelligence modeling, which makes them a little unbelievable. His graduation** focused on the limitations of artificial intelligence in discovering new drugs.
Some people question whether college students are capable of doing this work independently, as it takes considerable skills and experience to collect data, write **, design experiments, analyze problems, and solve problems. This is actually due to the talent training model of Westlake University.
Zhang Leqing excelled in high school, achieved impressive results in computer science competitions, and mastered Introduction to Algorithms, Combinatorics Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics, and Stanford Special Mathematics. After entering Westlake University, he soon joined Li Ziqing's lab to learn the basics. His supervisor arranged for doctoral student Xia Jun to mentor him, and Xia Jun is also another author. With the help of Xia Jun, Zhang Lecheng gradually entered the state, and his performance surprised his mentor and called it"Rare"。
Although some people think that there is a difference between a good conference** and a good journal**, and the 26% acceptance rate is relatively high, it is already a very remarkable achievement for a college student. Most industry insiders believe that Shi Yigong, president of Westlake University, would definitely be happy to see college students achieve such excellent results, so he released a separate piece of publicity on his official **.
This is just a microcosm of Westlake University's talent training, and there will be more surprises as time goes by. Principal Shi Yigong will also get more and more rewards in talent training.
It is worth noting that in terms of scientific research, some disciplines at Westlake University have occupied the forefront. According to the data of the 101 Program of the Ministry of Education, scholar Shi Yigong became the leader of the national biological science expert group, and the biological science of Westlake University was successfully selected into the 101 Program, ranking first among 33 universities in the country, surpassing Peking University and Tsinghua University.
When it comes to Westlake University and President Shi Yigong, many people think that it is"Shameful boasting"。In fact, Chinese universities need to introduce new training methods, achieve new breakthroughs, and go beyond specific fields. A series of actions of Westlake University in the past two years, both in terms of discipline construction and scientific research achievements, are very outstanding. We have reason to believe that the talent training and scientific research of Westlake University will surely embark on a characteristic road. What do you think?