Fields Medal Mathematicians Make Their Debut After Joining Huawei, Saying Discovery of "a New World"

Nandu News Reporter Cheng Yang On December 6, Huawei France's social media for the first time released a video of the appearance of Laurent Lafforgue, a French mathematician and winner of the 2002 Fields Medal, in which Laurent Lafforgue said that joining Huawei was a discovery of a new world for me.

Born in 1966, Lafog won a silver medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad at the age of 18, and at the age of 35 won the Nobel Prize of mathematics for his outstanding contributions to logarithm and algebraic geometry, the Fields Medal, and he is considered to have cracked the most important conjecture about the nature of mathematics and made a great contribution to the largest single project of modern mathematical research, "Langlands".

Recruiting the world's top scientists is an important layout for Huawei to explore basic research and look to the future, and many people think from the perspective of the next 10 or 20 years.

Lafog joined Huawei in the study of topological theory

The theory is expected to open up a new world for communications, artificial intelligence and other fields

In September this year, Lafog joined the Huawei Paris Institute, and his current research on tobolism theory is a highly abstract mathematical proposition and an important step towards the "no man's land" of the mathematical community. Once the breakthrough is made, it will not only promote the process of mathematical research, but also open up a new world for communication, computing, and artificial intelligence as a theoretical basis.

On 18 November 2003, Lafog became a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Since 2017, he has cooperated with Huawei's French research team for his research in the direction of Topology, and in 2019, he became the first Huawei Chair Professor of Algebraic Geometry at the Institute of Advanced Science. On September 1, 2021, he joined Huawei France to continue his work in this direction.

In addition to the Huawei Paris Institute where La Fogg works, Huawei established the Lagrange Center for Mathematical Computing in Paris, France in 2020, which attracts outstanding scholars to participate in research and trains young researchers with an open mechanism. It is reported that there are also three Fields Medal winners involved in the work of the Lagrange Center for Mathematical Computing.

Huawei also has six R&D centers in France, and two in mathematics research centers, because France is a gathering place for mathematicians. In 2016, Huawei opened a mathematical research center in Boulogne, France, and at that time, the center had more than 80 researchers, all of whom had doctoral degrees or above. He is committed to the research of basic algorithms such as communication physical layer, network layer, distributed parallel computing, and data compression and storage. In 2020, Huawei Lagrange R&D Center was inaugurated in Paris, France, which is the second mathematical research center set up by Huawei in France, which gathers more than 30 researchers to engage in scientific research in the field of mathematics and computing.

Ren Zhengfei once said that the root of artificial intelligence is mathematics, and the most developed mathematics in the world are two countries, the first is France, and the second is Russia. For example, he said, the camera technology of Huawei mobile phones is currently the best in the world, which is actually designed by French mathematicians and synthesized images in a mathematical way. In the future, artificial intelligence will be developed in a wider range of fields, and more outstanding mathematicians will be recruited to join Huawei.

Huawei recruits talented teenagers and scientists

Focus on basic research and theoretical breakthroughs

More than 10% of revenue is invested in research and development every year

In addition to attracting scientists around the world, Huawei also launched the "Genius Teenager" program, implementing an annual salary system, the highest annual salary of 2.01 million, the plan once rushed to the hot search to attract attention. The introduction of the "Genius Youth" project on Huawei's official website is to challenge world-class problems and create industry standards. Its key research and development areas focus on connectivity, artificial intelligence, intelligent terminals, cloud and computing, intelligent vehicles, intelligent manufacturing and other aspects.

Ren Zhengfei has said that the launch of Huawei's "Genius Youth" program is a project to attract top talents with top challenges and top salaries. Ren Zhengfei likened these talented teenagers to "loaches", drilling organizations and activating teams. He said: "Huawei will drag the world forward in the future and create its own standards. ”

It is not difficult to see that whether it is attracting scientists to join or recruiting "talented teenagers", Huawei is winning the development opportunity in the era of intelligence. Huawei's internal document "Striving for the Revitalization of Science and Technology in the Past Century of the Motherland" released in 2016 emphasized that "in the era of great opportunity, we must not be opportunistic, we must have strategic patience." The development of basic science must be able to withstand loneliness. If the company wants to have ideals, it must have the spirit of abandoning the calculation of interests on a local scale. Major innovations are difficult to plan. ”

Ren Zhengfei also stressed in a discussion with Bao Xinhe, president of the University of Science and Technology of China in 2018: "Without basic research, there is no perception of the future, and without perception, it is impossible to lead." We should strengthen cooperation with domestic universities and use 20 years to fund the creation and development of China's elements. Move laboratories to universities with conditions around the world to jointly promote basic research and experimentation. ”

Huawei insists on investing more than 10% of its sales revenue in research and development every year, with special emphasis on basic research and theoretical breakthroughs. Ren Zhengfei once said: "We have at least 700 mathematicians, more than 800 physicists, more than 120 chemists, 6,000 or 7,000 experts in basic research, and more than 60,000 senior engineers and engineers of various kinds. He said that China should be down-to-earth in mathematics, physics, chemistry, neurology, brain science... Only by working hard to change can we stand up in this world.