Anyone who uses a laptop or mobile phone knows that the screens on the devices use a lot of power. Discovering new ways to make the screens more efficient at a reasonable cost is the goal of a new research project involving Tian Yang, an associate professor at the...
The 2013 list of research projects funded by National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) has been published. Totally eight JI faculty members are granted by NSFC. They are Prof. Benjamin Yellen, Prof. Hua Bao, Prof. Wenjie Wan, Prof. Peisen Huang, Prof. Mian...
To beef up students’ knowledge of the business world and expose them to the frontier technology, the Business Division of JI’s Students Union organized a visit to Google, Shanghai in Pudong on July 10. Twenty students participated in the event. Mr. LiAn Yi, a SJTU...
JI’s Associate Professor Yaping Dan has been awarded a research grant from the 2013 Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program. His project title is “Laser-like Highly Collimated Light Sources Based on Nanowire LEDs,” which he described as follows, “A regular light emitting...
To bring the American culture to the SJTU campus and to celebrate the Independence Day of the United States of America, the Joint Institute hosted the first “American Culture Night” on July 4, 2013. The festive activity attracted 150 students from across the SJTU...
As the vice president for research at the University of Michigan, Stephen Forrest oversees all of U-M’s research initiatives. He travels widely, assessing science and technology around the world. During a recent visit to Shanghai, Forrest shared his views about...