Research excellence outlined in global analysis Twenty-seven University of Sydney academics have been recognised as leaders in their field in this year‘s 2023 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list.The Clarivate list recognises the most influential researchers who have published multiple papers frequently cited by their peers that rank in the top one percent of citations for field and year in the Web of Science.Deputy Vice-Chancellor(Research)Professor Emma Johnston congratulated the Sydney researchers recognised as world-leaders in their fields.This year’s list includes recent NSW Australian of the Year winners,Professor Richard Scolyer AO and Professor Georgina Long AO,whose pioneering melanoma research has saved thousands of lives and turned adiagnosis of advanced melanoma from being fatal to acurable disease.They have also developed aseries of world-first treatments based on their melanoma breakthroughs after Richard was diagnosed with incurable grade 4brain cancer in June 2023.Richard is now the world’s first brain cancer patient to have pre-surgery combination immunotherapy. 查看详细>>

北京时间10月24日，美国物理学会在其官网上宣布，中国科学院院士、清华大学教授、南方科技大学校长薛其坤获得2024年度巴克利奖。这是该奖项自设立以来首次颁发给中国籍物理学家。巴克利奖被公认为国际凝聚态物理领域的最高奖，旨在表彰在凝聚态物理领域作出卓越贡献的科学家。清华大学24日下午发布消息称，薛其坤凭借拓扑绝缘体研究和在拓扑绝缘体中发现量子反常霍尔效应的创新突破而获此殊荣。巴克利奖的授予，是国际物理学界对薛其坤和他所率领的研究团队多年来在拓扑绝缘体及量子反常霍尔效应相关领域持续深耕的高度认可。量子反常霍尔效应是凝聚态物理中的一个重要量子效应。长期以来，使其“现身”并实现实验观测难度极大，是各国研究者奋力追寻的科学目标。2009年起，薛其坤联合来自清华大学物理系、中国科学院物理研究所、美国斯坦福大学的多个研究组，组成攻关团队，从拓扑绝缘体研究方向尝试攀登这座科学高峰。2012年底，薛其坤和团队终于从实验上首次成功观测到量子反常霍尔效应。该成果于2013年3月在《科学》杂志发表，被审稿人称为“凝聚态物理界一项里程碑式的工作”。“科研成果的取得，得益于改革开放以来国家科技实力持续壮大和基础科学研究的长期深厚积累。这一荣誉，属于团队当中的每一位研究者，更属于所有的中国科学家。”薛其坤在获奖后表示，相信未来中国会有越来越多引领国际发展的科学发现和成果涌现。 查看详细>>

Marissa Weichman,an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry,has been awarded a2023 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for her proposal to study atmospheric aerosols and their potential role in climate change.Weichman is one of 20 scientists nationwide to receive the prestigious,early-career fellowship,among the nation’s largest nongovernmental awards.Designed to allow maximum flexibility in the use of award funds,the Foundation allots$875,000 over five years to each fellow to spend on research as they wish.Fellowships are awarded to encourage innovative,blue-sky thinking that could one day foster discoveries to improve lives and broaden our understanding of the universe.Weichman,a physical chemist,was selected for her proposal“The Stratosphere in Focus:New Spectroscopic Tools for Aerosol Science.”“I’m especially thrilled with this fellowship to get to join the community that comes with being aPackard Fellow—all people who are doing such exciting things in their fields across scientific boundaries,”said Weichman.“I’m excited to meet my cohort of fellows on the tenure track,so it really is about finding peers and forming those bonds that are so inspiring.“The Foundation gives you the startup money without restrictions,recognizing that maybe you’ll have other great ideas or there’s something else that you think of tomorrow that you might want to do,”Weichman added.“So for the next five years,that flexibility allows me to go for bigger,riskier ideas that can have greater impact.”Paul Chirik,Princeton’s Edwards S.Sanford Professor of Chemistry and the chair of the department,said:“This highly competitive award speaks to what we all know at Princeton:that Marissa is asuperb scientist,teacher and colleague.Just afew years into her independent career,she has developed an impactful and visible program on light-matter interactions.As aformer Packard fellow,I know these awards allow for the freedom to explore new,high-risk,high-reward ideas outside the realm of traditional funding streams.I have no doubt Marissa will make the most of this opportunity.”Weichman plans to use spectroscopic techniques to investigate uncertainties around the role of aerosols in the atmosphere and their involvement in climate change.Aerosols are ubiquitous,micro-sized particles suspended in the air—such as water droplets,dust and soot—that influence two phenomena central to the Earth’s climate and weather:the scattering of sunlight and the seeding of clouds.These roles,however,are poorly understood.Weichman will look at how aparticle’s size and composition influences its chemistry,the scattering and absorption of light,and its ability to seed cloud droplets.“Aerosol-light and aerosol-cloud interactions remain the largest sources of uncertainty in our best models of Earth’s radiative balance.Our current knowledge of these intricate systems is not sufficient to capture their role in the climate crisis,much less predict the impact of potential climate interventions,”said Weichman.“All of these complicated interactions depend on the size of the particle and its composition.If you’re measuring how these particles behave and averaging over millions of particles of various sizes and compositions,you’ll never be able to understand what’s actually happening.“So instead,we’re going to look at asingle particle.Let’s hold one single salt particle or dust particle,trap it with electromagnetic fields and hold it in place for minutes or hours or days,and watch what happens under abattery of simulated atmospheric conditions.”Weichman believes the data gathered in her lab will provide astrong foundation for decisions about solar radiation management strategies and other efforts to counteract global warming.The daughter and granddaughter of physicists,Weichman was born in California and raised in California,Colorado,and Massachusetts.She also has family roots in the Princeton area.She joined Princeton chemistry in 2020 from the University of Colorado-Boulder,where she was apostdoctoral fellow.She received her B.S.in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology and her Ph.D.in chemistry from the University of California-Berkeley. 查看详细>>

A team from the Department of Urban Planning and Design of the University of Hong Kong(HKU)has won the prestigious First Prize under the Innovation category at Baidu‘s 2023 National Large Model Application Innovation Challenge Competition in Artificial Intelligence.Led by Assistant Professor Dr.Jun Ma,the award-winning team comprises Master of Urban Analytics(MUA)students Huiyuan Xue,Peizhuo Guo,and Yiyan Li.Held by China’s largest search engine Baidu,the highly competitive national event aims to foster creative and innovative ideas in developing cutting-edge solutions and applications through large generative AI models.With the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence technology and products,the competition has drawn more than 2,500 teams comprising experts,scholars,and students from renowned universities,research institutions,and technology giants such as Baidu,Alibaba,Tencent,and Google,to compete under two categories:Innovation and Challenge.Given the intense competition,two first prizes were awarded under the Innovation category this year.HKU’s award-winning project,titled"Application of Large Language Models in Compliance Control for Architectural Design Models",seeks to revolutionise the model evaluation process in the building and construction industry by utilising Large Language Models.“Currently,building plans submitted through Building Information Modelling(BIM),in accordance with statutory building regulations,undergo amanual verification process for approval by relevant authorities.The process is labour-intensive and time-consuming.By harnessing the capabilities of advanced Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Wenxinyiyan,we can automate this procedure and significantly expedite the inspection process.This transformation will substantially diminish the workload associated with model verification for both governmental bodies and private companies,thereby revolutionising the building and construction sector.,”said Dr Jun Ma.Launched in 2020,HKU’s Master of Urban Analytics programme aims to equip students with the latest urban science theories and analytical methods for smart planning and management of cities.This recent victory at Baidu‘s national competition is atestament to the programme‘s success in preparing its students to become future leaders in the rapidly evolving field of urban analytics.For more details about the competition,please visit:https://aistudio.baidu.com/competition/detail/998/0/introduction 查看详细>>

时隔3年后，国际多通道语音分离和识别评测CHiME-7再次“上线”。继2016年以来参与CHiME-4、5、6三届评测并夺冠后，中科大语音及语言信息处理国家工程研究中心（NERC-SLIP）杜俊副教授带领团队联合科大讯飞研究院（以下简称“USTC-NERCSLIP联合团队”），投入了长达5个月的时间和精力，尝试各种不同的方法和策略，以应对复杂的语音信号处理和语音识别的挑战，最终在参与的多设备多场景远场语音识别任务（DASR）中获得全部两个赛道的第一。作为有“最难语音识别任务”之称的语音领域权威评测，CHiME（Computational Hearing in Multisource Environments）系列评测发起于2011年，致力于集聚学术界和工业界优秀的学术力量，持续突破语音识别技术水平，不断在更高噪声、更高混响、更高对话复杂度的场景下提出具有创新性的解决方案，解决著名的“鸡尾酒会问题”——难点在于怎样在充满噪声的鸡尾酒会，分辨并听清多人同时交谈的声音。参与CHiME-7的团队高手如云，如日本电信公司NTT（CHiME-1和CHiME-3冠军）、俄罗斯STC（CHiME-6 Track 2冠军）、英伟达、剑桥大学、帕德博恩大学、捷克布尔诺理工大学BUT（国际说话人日志评测DIHARD-I和DIHARD-II冠军）、中科院声学所、西北工业大学等国内外知名研究机构、高校和企业。本次CHiME-7中的语音识别任务由卡内基梅隆大学、约翰霍普金斯大学、东京都立大学和马尔凯理工大学的学者们共同组织，称为“多设备多场景远场语音识别任务（DASR）”。在CHiME-6的基础上，CHiME-7进一步提升了难度，不仅在对话场景、麦克风设备类型上进行了扩充，同时要求参测者只能使用统一的一套算法系统进行测试，这对语音识别系统的鲁棒性提出了极高的要求。具体如下：Ø在考察场景中，扩大了CHiME-6测试集范围，同时新增加了两个数据集DiPCo和Mixer 6；Ø三个数据集分别使用不同的麦克风设备，包含线性阵列、环形阵列、分布式麦克风等；Ø数据集中多人对话空间场景更加丰富，除朋友聚会之外还新增了采访、打电话等场景。该任务分为主赛道（Main Track，默认提交）和子赛道（Sub Track，自由提交），具有很高的挑战性，也与真实复杂场景中的语音识别要求更为贴近：Ø主赛道需要首先要完成远场数据下的说话人角色分离任务，即从连续的多人说话语音中切分出不同说话人片段、判断出每个片段是哪个说话人，然后再进行语音识别；Ø子赛道中说话人角色分离的信息是人工标注的，参测者可以直接使用，在人工分离边界的基础上直接进行语音识别。此次评测核心考察指标为DA-WER（Diarization Attributed WER），即综合考察系统对多个说话人的角色分离效果，以及语音识别效果。USTC-NERCSLIP联合团队参加了所有两个赛道，在主赛道和子赛道分别以21%和16%语音识别错误率拿下双冠，将真实说话人角色分离情况下的语音识别错误率与使用人工标注间的差别控制在5%，这也标志着在实际环境中的应用效果将得到进一步提升。 查看详细>>

Rockefeller has topped asurvey that weighs what percentage of an institution’s scientific publications are frequently cited by other researchers.According to the CWTS Leiden Ranking of over 1,400 universities from 72 countries,Rockefeller has the highest percentage of most frequently cited scientific publications as aproportion of the total number of its publications.This impact ranking underscores how the findings of Rockefeller scientists are seen as significant and relevant to others in the scientific community.Each year,the ranking is conducted by the Netherlands-based Center for Science and Technology Studies of Leiden University.While Rockefeller was not included in the rankings due to achange in eligibility criteria in 2019,every other year since 2016,Rockefeller topped the Leiden ranking in the same categories.Rockefeller has also repeatedly excelled in similar reports such as U-Multirank.In the 2023 Leiden ranking,which examined the time period of 2018 to 2021,31%percent of Rockefeller publications were among the top 10 percent most frequently cited of all scientific publications.In second place,MIT,had 23.3 percent;and Princeton,Caltech,and Stanford University were close behind.When measuring the proportion of publications in the top one percent,Rockefeller also took first place with 5percent of university publications in the top one percent.MIT,Princeton,Caltech,and Stanford University were also in the top five.The Leiden Ranking’s methodology accounts for differences between scientific fields in citation and collaboration practices.Institutional publication data was collected from the Web of Science database. 查看详细>>

近日，记者从2023第15届国际代谢工程大会（ME15）获悉，清华大学合成与系统生物学中心主任陈国强荣获2023年度国际代谢工程奖（IMES Award），这也是首个获得该项荣誉的中国大陆学者。同时，陈国强在ME15大会上作题为“Next Generation Industrial Biotechnology based on Synthetic Biology of Halomonas spp.”的特邀报告，分享其在代谢工程领域的最新研究成果。据悉，国际代谢工程奖由国际代谢工程学会发起，每两年授予一位在代谢工程领域做出卓越贡献的研究人员，并在其和美国化学工程师协会（AIChE）共同举办的国际代谢工程大会上颁奖。在颁奖典礼上，国际代谢工程奖评选委员会主席Sang Yup Lee介绍了该奖项的评审情况，他表示：“陈国强教授团队最初采用了基于传统微生物底盘的工业生物技术（CIB），如使用大肠杆菌等作为底盘，然而在放大过程中存在染菌的问题。这促使他对嗜盐菌Halomonas进行开发，避免了染菌问题，并且实现连续开放、无需灭菌的发酵过程，这一技术已被广泛采用并应用于化学品的开放生产。因此组委会决定将2023国际代谢工程奖颁发给陈国强教授，以表彰他通过开发嗜盐菌和‘下一代工业生物技术’对代谢工程领域做出的杰出贡献。恭喜陈国强教授！”陈国强表示：“我很荣幸能够得到这一奖项认可，也很激动能够再次与大家相聚在代谢工程领域的学术盛会。非常感谢国际学术界同仁一直以来的交流与帮助，是他们的杰出成就推动了代谢工程领域的发展，也非常感谢我的团队、学生为‘下一代工业生物技术’所作出的贡献。在各位同仁的努力下，代谢工程和合成生物学正在对更多领域产生积极的影响，我相信这些技术未来将扮演更加重要的角色，也期待能够为推动学术界、产业界发展做出更大的贡献。”资料显示，相较于传统化工制造，以合成生物学为核心的生物制造通常以可再生生物资源为原料，可摆脱对石油资源的依赖，降低能耗，大幅减少污染物生成，具有高效、绿色、可持续的优势特性。但由于微生物原有的生物系统限制，工业化生产过程中往往会遇到许多技术瓶颈。陈国强长期从事“生物合成PHA材料及其下一代工业生物技术（NGIB）”的研究，利用合成生物学和代谢工程学方法，构建了更加符合规模化生产的工程菌株和技术体系，实现了生物制造产业关键核心技术的不断突破。 查看详细>>

An internationally outstanding representative of the extremely innovative research field“Molecular Systems Engineering”,physicist Prof.Dr Christine Selhuber-Unkel,is to receive the Lautenschläger Research Prize for 2023.The prize winner from the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at Heidelberg University conducts research at the interface of materials science and biophysics on biohybrid life-inspired microsystems.The award comes with prize money of 250,000 euros.Dr h.c.Manfred Lautenschläger,the sponsor of the prize and Honorary Senator of Ruperto Carola,has also established aprize for outstanding early-career researchers.This award,endowed with 25,000 euros,goes to biologist Dr Victoria Ingham.At the Centre for Infectious Diseases of Heidelberg University Hospital,she investigates whether,and if so,to what extent an increasing burden of insecticides and rising insecticide resistance impact on the development of the malaria pathogen and its transmission to humans.The award ceremony of the most highly endowed research prize from aprivate donor in Germany takes place on 22 June 2023.Prize-winner Christine Selhuber-Unkel With her research studies,Prof.Selhuber-Unkel pursues the aim of linking synthetic systems from molecular components with living cells.If the cells can be made to transfer their forces and motion to the artificial structures,“living materials”can emerge.These biohybrid,life-inspired microsystems would be independent of external energy sources.Prof.Selhuber-Unkel’s vision is the development of self-regulating bio-tech hybrids,whose functionality extends far beyond the present,purely technical systems.“Prof.Selhuber-Unkel’s studies are characterised by highly innovative and original approaches with the potential for atechnological revolution,”according to the statement of reasons for awarding the prize.Christine Selhuber-Unkel–a scientist at the newly founded Faculty of Engineering Sciences–is the founding director of the Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials(IMSEAM)of Heidelberg University.After studying physics in Heidelberg and Uppsala(Sweden)Christine Selhuber-Unkel earned her doctorate at Heidelberg University in 2006 and then worked as apostdoctoral researcher at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen(Denmark).In 2010,as ajunior professor,she transferred to the Department of Material Science at Kiel University,where she led an Emmy Noether junior research group.The following year,she was appointed Professor of Biocompatible Nanomaterials in Kiel.In July 2020,she accepted aProfessorship for Molecular Systems Engineering at Heidelberg University.Before that she spent fairly long research periods abroad with aFeodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Cornell University in Ithaca,New York(USA).The scientist has acquired several highly endowed research grants,for example from the European Research Council(ERC),most recently an ERC Consolidator Grant(2020). 查看详细>>

5月21日至5月26日，2023 SID Display Week（国际信息显示学会显示周）在美国洛杉矶盛大召开。当地时间5月22日，SID显示周举行了2023年的荣誉和奖项颁奖仪式，为那些在显示行业中取得优秀创新成果和做出重大贡献的获奖者颁发奖项。我校电子与电气工程系讲席教授孙小卫荣获SID Slottow-Owaki奖，该奖表彰他在中国和东南亚地区平板显示器行业持续的学生培养和专业培训。孙小卫现为南方科技大学讲席教授，纳米科学与应用研究院执行院长，电子与电气工程系创系主任，白俄罗斯国立信息与无线电大学荣誉教授，长期从事平板显示方面的研究。孙教授是亚太材料学院院士，美国光学学会(OSA)、国际光学工程师学会(SPIE)、英国物理学会(loP)会士(Fellow)，是中国大陆学者第一个国际信息显示学会会士(SID Fellow)。在新加坡南洋理工大学和南方科技大学任教期间，他培养了大批平板显示方向的高端技术人才（博士超过50人）。据悉，Slottow-Owaki奖（Slottow-Owaki Prize）旨在表彰在信息显示领域对学生和专业人员的教育和培训做出的杰出贡献。该奖项由SID董事会根据荣誉奖项委员会的推荐并通过董事会全体认可后颁发，由Dr.Tsutae Shinoda and Fujitusu,Ltd的慷慨捐赠提供资金。 查看详细>>

Professor Gil-Ho Lee from the Department of Physics at POSTECH was recently commended with the Prime Minister’s Award at the 2023 Science and ICT Day Ceremony on May 2,2023.Professor Lee was honored with the award for his world-leading research on hybrid quantum devices and for nurturing future experts of quantum technologies in Korea and advancing basic and applied research.Having earned his bachelor’s,master’s,and PhD degrees from POSTECH,Professor Lee joined its faculty in 2017 and has been teaching the next generation of scientists at POSTECH.The Prime Minister’s Award is presented to those who have contributed to the advancement of science and technology at the national level and raising the prestige of scientists and engineers in Korea.Also at the ceremony,POSTECH professor Hyoung Seop Kim(Graduate Institute of Ferrous&Energy Materials Technology,and Department of Materials Science and Engineering)was honored with the Hyeoksin Medal of the Order of Science and Technology Merit. 查看详细>>