Tsinghua female professor Zhang Ying's "routine": using students to build an experimental platform and kicking it away, and also mocking them on the Internet
Zhang Ying, a female professor at Tsinghua who had just returned from abroad, recruited a group of students with the same research direction as her and asked them to help build a laboratory platform. When the platform was built, she drove all the students away on the grounds of "no match". What's more hateful is that she also made some mocking and provocative remarks on her social account, showing off what she did as a glory and achievement.
This behavior not only hurts the feelings and trust of students who have put in time and effort, but also seriously damages the reputation and image of Tsinghua University. As a college teacher, she did not reflect the proper teaching style at all, but showed an extremely selfish, shameless, and rogue character.
What's going on here? Let's take a look at what happened.
Professor Zhang Ying is a postdoctoral fellow who returned from studying abroad and joined Tsinghua University in early 2023. She is mainly engaged in computer vision research and has a certain influence in the world. In order to carry out her academic project, she needed to build a laboratory platform.
In Tsinghua University, many students are interested in computer vision and have a solid foundation and ability. After seeing Professor Zhang Ying's notice to recruit graduate and doctoral students, they signed up one after another. They hope to learn from Professor Zhang Ying and make progress together.
When Professor Zhang Ying saw these students, she was secretly happy in her heart. She feels that these students are all "cows and horses" that can be used to help her complete the construction of the experimental platform. So she agreed to the students and assigned them tasks.
These students carried out the tasks given to them by Professor Zhang Ying very seriously. They spent months debugging, testing, and optimizing the experimental platform. They even sacrificed their courses, papers, graduations and other important things just to be able to complete the experimental platform as soon as possible and get the recognition and guidance of Professor Zhang Ying.
However, just when they thought that the experimental platform had been set up and could start formal research work, Professor Zhang Ying's face suddenly changed. She told these students that they did not match her research direction and were not suitable for staying in the lab. She told them to pack up immediately and leave the lab.
These students were shocked and incredulous when they heard this. They didn't understand why Professor Zhang Ying would do this to them. They didn't understand why Professor Zhang Ying did not raise any dissatisfaction and objections when helping to build the experimental platform. They didn't understand why, after the experimental platform was set up, Professor Zhang Ying kicked them away without giving them any opportunity or explanation.
These students feel very aggrieved and sad. They felt that they were being used by Professor Zhang Ying and used by her as cheap labor. They feel that their time and efforts have been wasted and that they have not received any return and respect. They feel that their confidence and dreams have been destroyed by Professor Zhang Ying, and they have no hope or future.
These students all left the laboratory silently without saying a word to Professor Zhang Ying. Professor Zhang Ying, on the other hand, did not feel the slightest hint of guilt and guilt. She felt like she was doing it right and smart. She felt that she had used these students to achieve her goals. She felt that she could play with these students at will with her ability and status.
In order to prove her "success" and "superiority", she also made some mocking and provocative remarks on her social accounts. She published a small essay in English that read: "I built a great experimental platform with the help of some students. But they didn't match my research direction, so I had to let them go. This is not for individuals, just purely commercial practices. You know, sometimes you have to be a little cruel to be kind. I'm sure they'll eventually find their way. I'm looking for some new students who can really match me and my lab. If you are interested, please contact me. ”
This passage is undoubtedly an insult and mockery of the students who helped her. She saw herself as a high-handed, ruthless, shrewd businessman, and the students as a dispensable, casual tool, just a cheap commodity. She did not treat them at all as thoughtful, affectionate, and dignified human beings. She didn't respect them as her students, colleagues, partners. She did not consider them at all as her responsibility and responsibility for teaching morality.
This behavior not only violates the basic professional ethics of teachers, but also violates the basic norms and principles of academia. As a teacher, she should be student-oriented, care about their growth and development, give them appropriate guidance and help, and not use their labor and wisdom and then discard and harm them at will. As a scholar, she should respect academics, abide by academic integrity and fairness, and conduct equal and cooperative exchanges and discussions with peers and students, rather than being self-centered, engaging in small circles and small actions, damaging the quality and atmosphere of academia.
What's more, someone also found a shocking detail on Professor Zhang Ying's laboratory homepage. In the list of lab members, in addition to Professor Zhang Ying herself and a few of her approved students, there is also a picture of "Niu Ma" and marked "You". This is obviously a mockery and insult by Professor Zhang Ying to the students who were driven away by her. She compares them to cows and horses, implying that they can only do hard work and have no value or status. She treats them as You, implying that there is a huge gap and gap between them and her.
Such a picture not only reflects Professor Zhang Ying's bad character and psychological state, but also reflects her great disrespect and provocation for Tsinghua University and Chinese education. Tsinghua University is one of the most famous, excellent and respected institutions of higher learning in China, enjoying a high reputation and influence at home and abroad.
We hope that Tsinghua University and Chinese education can continue to maintain a high standard, high quality and efficient development, we hope that more outstanding teachers and students can thrive in such an environment, and we hope that more outstanding achievements and contributions can be displayed on such a platform. We believe that as long as we adhere to the principles of people-oriented, morality first, learning and quality, we can realize such aspirations.