An outrageous storm of public opinion is hitting a scientist who is helping the rise of AI in China.
On February 6, in the women's singles free skating of the Figure Skating Team Competition at the Winter Olympics, Zhu Yi, as a participant, encountered undeserved pressure from internet public opinion because of his defeat on the field. In the noise, Zhu Yi's father, zhu Songchun, a famous scientist, was caught in a "conspiracy theory."
As a top scientist in the field of computer vision, Zhu Songchun is regarded as the "light of the Chinese". He once said that he went to the United States to study in order to explore the unified theory of artificial intelligence, and returned to China to make this framework land in China.
△ Zhu Songchun (Source: I am a scientific person)
As for the "network trolls" who questioned Professor Zhu Songchun's original intention of returning to China, Rao Yi, a famous professor at Peking University and a colleague of Zhu Songchun, said, "That is people who do not understand the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain."
The "Light of the Chinese" in the field of computer vision
In 1991, after graduating from the University of Science and Technology of China majoring in computer science, Zhu Songchun went to the United States to study under the famous mathematician David Mumford, and successively obtained a master's degree and a doctorate degree in computer science from Harvard University, and then engaged in postdoctoral research in applied mathematics at Brown University in the United States.
In the field of computer vision cognition, Zhu Songchun belongs to the top bull and is regarded as the "light of the Chinese" in this field. He was the first to introduce probabilistic statistical modeling and stochastic computing methods into computer vision research, and has won the Marr Prize, the highest international award in the field of computer vision, three times, and he has also proposed a framework model for the semantic description of images and videos, statistical theory.
In addition to having a first-class intuition and accurate grasp of the general direction of the visual field, Zhu Songchun has also been traveling to and from universities, companies, and non-profit institutions, hoping to open up the joints of universities, research institutes, and industries, and run through industry, education and research.
He prepared the world's earliest big data annotation team, released the large-scale database LHI Dataset with the highest degree of refinement and richest semantic information; he single-handedly created dark object intelligence, filling the technical and commercial gaps of strong cognitive AI in the current mainstream market, so that the general public has their own AI.
Helping china's AI rise
During his visit to the United States, Zhu Songchun has always paid attention to the development of China.
As early as 2005, Zhu Songchun took the lead in establishing the Lianhuashan Computer Vision Research Institute in his hometown of Ezhou, Hubei Province, and prepared to build the world's earliest big data labeling team. In addition, he also exhausted his contacts and resources, held many academic exchange meetings and opened free tuition classes, the purpose is to help all people interested in the computer field in China to have a place to study and discuss together, to cultivate more plastic talents in the field of computing for the country.
△ Zhu Songchun lectured (Source: Peking University News Network)
In September 2020, Zhu Songchun was invited to china as a national strategic scientist to prepare for the establishment of the Beijing Institute of General Artificial Intelligence and serve as the dean, as well as the chair professor of Tsinghua University, Peking University, and the dean of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Peking University, helping the rise of AI in China.
After returning to China, Zhu Songchun's first listed plan is to cultivate compound artificial intelligence talents through the way of "artificial intelligence + interdisciplinary". He once said that he went to the United States to study in order to explore the unified theory of artificial intelligence, and returned to China to make this framework land in China. For him, going and going back are all for the realization of his dreams.
Daughter's number one "fan"
In the impression of ordinary people, scientists are very serious and old-fashioned, but Zhu Songchun in Zhu Yi's eyes is not like this at all, nor is it like the average Chinese parent who is strict with their children in learning, but is very tolerant, according to her words, Dad is "very warm, like a good partner." ”
Zhu Songchun is Zhu Yi's number one "fan". When her daughter learned figure skating, Zhu Songchun, who was usually busy, ran to watch her daughter's game as long as she had free time, and discussed the experience of the game together.
Later, Zhu Yi became a rising star in the American figure skating world, and just when many people thought that she would have a bright future in the United States, the talented girl decided to return to Beijing.
In response to the netizens' doubts about the internal selection, yesterday, the mother who has been accompanying Zhu Yi's training posted a video of her daughter's domestic selection competition on Ins.
As can be seen in the video, Zhu Yi successfully made the action of jumping in the inner ice for two weeks after the three-week jump of the outer knot ring, and is the only player in the current mainland figure skating women's singles athletes who can complete the "advanced three-three" difficulty action.
Colleague Rao Yi raised his voice to clarify the doubts
Due to the defeat of his daughter Zhu Yi, Zhu Songchun's status as a scientist and his achievements actually became one of the "original sins" that his daughter was questioned.
After seeing the accusations of some netizens, rao Yi, a famous professor at Peking University and a colleague of Zhu Songchun, recently posted two consecutive articles for Zhu Yi.
Rao Yi said in his WeChat public account "Rao Discussion Science" that Zhu Yi was the first athlete in the mainland to officially invite "naturalization", and when he decided to invite her, he was based on the potential she showed in the youth group at that time. At that time, the Mainland General Administration of Sports did not know the importance of her father, but was just a professor abroad.
Rao Yi also pointed out that in 2018, Zhu Yi returned to China first, and Peking University Tsinghua contacted his father two years later, "After Peking University Tsinghua heard about the 'naturalization', it felt that it was possible to try to ask Zhu Songchun to return to China, and then there was her father's return to China."
In Rao Yi's view, "saying that Chinese scientists can influence the olympic selection is the fantasy of some people about Chinese scientists", questioning Professor Zhu Songchun's original intention of returning to China, "that is people who do not understand the heart of a villain to live in the belly of a gentleman."
Source: Comprehensive Zixinmin Evening News, Heart of the Machine, Harbin News Network, Rao Discussion Science, I am a scientific person, the most Chinese