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Sixteen GC projects secure NSFC funding in 2025

Sixteen GC projects secure NSFC funding in 2025

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Global College (SJTUGC, abbreviated as GC) has been awarded funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) for its 16 research projects, according to a recent NSFC announcement on the results of its 2025 project...

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Nature Futures publishes short story by JI faculty

Nature Futures publishes short story by JI faculty

Nature Futures, the award-winning science-fiction section of Nature, has published a short story by University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) Assistant Teaching Professor Christopher Linforth. Titled “The...

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JI doctoral students sweep top three awards at SPIE conference

JI doctoral students sweep top three awards at SPIE conference

Three Ph.D. students from the University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) have won the top three awards in the Best Student Paper Competition on Structural and Biological Systems Health Monitoring at the SPIE Smart...

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JI team publishes novel findings in Physical Review Letters

JI team publishes novel findings in Physical Review Letters

A research team led by Associate Professor Lei Shao at the University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter), has published their latest research findings in Physical Review Letters, a leading journal in the field of physics. The paper, titled “Self-Injection Locked and Phase Offset-Free Micromechanical Frequency Combs,” introduces a novel self-injection locking mechanism for micromechanical frequency combs, offering significant advancements in nonlinear dynamics and precision clock signal sources.

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ISSCC 2025 accepts two papers by JI research team

ISSCC 2025 accepts two papers by JI research team

The research team led by Associate Professor Xuyang Lu of the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) has had two papers accepted by the 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), a top conference in the field of integrated circuits. The papers, first-authored by JI doctoral students Yutian Zhao and Runqing Cai, focus on innovations in digital beamforming power amplifiers and microrobots with on-chip energy harvesting. Professor Lu is the corresponding author for both papers.

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Top science journal features mechanical transistors developed by JI team

Top science journal features mechanical transistors developed by JI team

A research team from the University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) has published an article titled “Thermal Computing with Mechanical Transistors” in Advanced Functional Materials, a top-tier materials science journal with a Nature Index Impact Factor of 19. Featured on the inside cover of the journal, the article highlighted mechanical transistors developed by the research team and demonstrated thermal computing to supplement traditional electronic computing.

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