At the age of 15, he was admitted to the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China, graduated with a doctorate at the age of 24, and became an associate professor of Sun Yat-sen University at the age of 26. Under the media reports, Chen Yilun became popular, and now at the age of 28, he is taking a number of graduate students of the same age as himself, or even the elderly, to carry out research around the "typhoon".
From public reports, it can be seen that Chen Yilun was hired as an associate professor two years after graduating from his doctorate, and quickly went through the long growth process of ordinary "green peppers" (young teachers). Upstream news browsed the network and found that with the reform of the personnel system in colleges and universities in recent years, many young talents with outstanding academic contributions have obtained the title of associate professor or even professor in a short period of time.
Chen Yilun:
When I was in the junior class, I retook two courses
"If you have a special idea in a certain field (such as the meteorological metaverse), I can also follow you!" Chen Yilun's admissions slogan on his personal homepage shows the openness and liveliness of the post-95 mentors.
At present, Chen Yilun has published more than 20 articles in well-known journals as the first author or corresponding author. He has also won honors such as the President's Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Guangdong Meteorological Science and Technology Outstanding Youth Award.
Chen Yilun was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province in 1995, and at the age of 15, he was admitted to the junior class of China University of Science and Technology. But at the beginning of the school year, Chen Yilun ranked low in the English placement test, and later in the final exam, he even retook two courses. A huge sense of disparity surrounded him, and he even found a sense of existence in online games for a while.
Professor Fu Yunfei of USTC is the leader of Chen Yilun's approach to atmospheric science. He discovered Chen Yilun's programming talent early, and after a while of research, Fu Yunfei gave Chen Yilun a rather difficult task. Using the programming method, the "rain mass" is identified from the massive satellite data. Unexpectedly, only 3 days later, Chen Yilun finished compiling the program, which made Fu Yunfei impressed. Based on this, they proposed a satellite remote sensing rain mass recognition technology that combines geometric form and physical characteristics, and applied for a national patent. Since then, he has published a number of important articles and won the 2018 Chinese Academy of Sciences President's Award.
In April 2022, Chen Yilun was approved as an associate professor and master's supervisor.
"Typhoon Circle" is a WeChat group established by Chen Yilun's mentor when he was a postdoctoral fellow and Professor Li Weibiao of Sun Yat-sen University. In this "rudder" composed of 9 post-90s and post-95s, Chen Yilun and the students are like partners who mingle together. In addition to academic discussions, their WeChat group also has life talks.
Angel:
After graduation, he returned to the university to which he belonged
He entered Tsinghua University at the age of 16 and graduated with a doctorate at the age of 24, and will go to the School of Astronautics of Northwestern Polytechnical University as a prospective associate professor...... On July 17 last year, Tsinghua University shared the experience of Angel, a doctoral student in the Department of Electronic Engineering, which attracted attention.
During her undergraduate years, Angel did not immediately show her strength in scientific research training programs or competitions such as the Challenge Cup like others, but chose to "dive" in the research groups and laboratories of teachers in various directions of the Department of Electronics. "Communications, Images, Artificial Intelligence, Circuits...... When I was an undergraduate, I went to audit the research group meeting of the representatives of all majors in the department. ”
After in-depth thinking, Angel found a blue ocean field that has not yet made a complete technological breakthrough: in today's increasingly automated and intelligent social life, to make autonomous driving more complete and robots more intelligent, it is inseparable from the solution of a key problem - visual perception.
Angel and her research team hope to achieve multi-machine collaboration through multiple robots or multi-mobile platforms, so that visual perception can achieve the effect of "1+1>2".
She sees the five years of her PhD as a marathon, and the finish line is to achieve "multi-machine collaborative visual perception", around which all of Angel's research topics during her PhD studies revolved.
In the past five years, Angel has published a total of 11 papers in internationally renowned journals and conferences as the first author, including 6 SCI journal articles and 5 EI conference papers.
In addition, Angel has also won many honors such as the National Scholarship for Doctoral Students and the University-level Scholarship of Tsinghua University.
In the graduation season last year, Angel, who graduated from the High School Affiliated to Northwestern Polytechnical University in high school, finally chose to join Northwestern Polytechnical University as a prospective associate professor of the School of Astronautics.
Shao Dian:
With the "Improper Admissions Guide" became popular
"I look cute, I have a round face, and I look small, I can roughly refer to the image I took in the department......" In May last year, a 28-year-old female doctoral supervisor's enrollment guide sparked heated discussions in academic circles.
According to reports, Associate Professor Shao Dian of the Institute of Unmanned System Technology of Northwestern Polytechnical University posted this "Improper Enrollment Guide" on the Zhihu account and the teacher's homepage on the school's official website. said that it was an "improper admissions guide", but the content of Shao Dian's enrollment was still quite hardcore.
According to the resume provided on the official website of Xi'an University of Technology, Shao Dian received a bachelor's degree from Peking University, and then a doctorate degree from Hong Kong Chinese University, and his doctoral supervisor is Professor Lin Dahua, a deep learning and computer expert and professor at Hong Kong Chinese University, who joined Xi'an University of Technology in January 2023. At present, Shao Dian is open for master's enrollment in two units: Northwestern Polytechnical University and Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Among them, Northwestern Polytechnical University - Laboratory Research Direction: The laboratory focuses on cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, computer vision, and new sensing, including visual object detection and tracking, weakly supervised learning, new dynamic camera motion detection, scene modeling, behavioral semantic recognition, fine-grained visual analysis, deep video understanding, multimodal learning and other fields.
Regarding the requirements for admissions, Shao Dian wrote: integrity, kindness (the premise of being a man), not afraid of hardship (doing scientific research is not an easy thing), academic ethics (this is the bottom line), research foundation (if you don't like mathematical computers to write code, forget it), spontaneous interest in artificial intelligence (interest is the best teacher, don't become me forcing you to read papers every day), easy to communicate (I just have the character of what to say). Additional requirements can be found in the Admissions Strengths and Weaknesses section below.
What attracted the most attention was Shao Dian's list of strengths and weaknesses. In the advantages part, she said that she "looks cute, round face, small, you can roughly refer to the image photos taken for me in the department", and in the disadvantages part, she includes "fast speech: I don't like students who don't communicate in their hearts, I hope you can express and communicate".
Gao Haoyu:
When he was a student, he participated in major national financial projects
Also in the "post-90s" who obtained the title of associate professor in a short period of time is Gao Haoyu, a young teacher at the Chinese People's University.
In 2011, Gao Haoyu graduated from Beijing University of Chemical Technology with a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics with the first grade in his major, and was admitted to the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences to study for a master's and doctor's degree in management science and engineering, under the supervision of researcher Yang Xiaoguang. Under the leadership of his mentor, Gao Haoyu has participated in major research projects of government departments such as the People's Bank of China, the China Banking Regulatory Commission, the China Development Bank and the National Development and Reform Commission, which made him fully realize that the research on these topics not only brings academic results, but also directly faces the main economic battlefield and major national needs.
According to public information, Gao Haoyu graduated from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the City University of Hong Kong, he was a senior researcher at the City University of Hong Kong, a visiting scholar at Nanyang Technological University, and an assistant professor of finance and master's supervisor at the Central University of Finance and Economics in 2016. In September 2019, Gao Haoyu joined Chinese Renmin University as an associate professor of finance.
According to the National People's Congress, the school opens up various promotion channels, which not only encourages competition but also respects contributions, so that all kinds of talents can go their own way and do not interfere with each other. Among them, outstanding young talents can be promoted to associate professors and professors, and extremely outstanding lecturers and associate professors can be directly promoted to professorial and third-level positions.
Hu Jian:
18 hours a day for several months
After graduating from the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hu Jian was hired as a professor at the School of Materials Science and Technology of East China Jiaotong University, becoming the first post-90s professor in the school.
Hu Jian's first entry into the public eye originated from a video titled "Post-90s Ph.D. Appointed Professor: I'm Not a Scholar" on September 26, 2019. In the video, Hu Jian was interviewed as the first "post-90s" professor of East China Jiaotong University. He said that he is not a top student, "I can have a little result, maybe it is more because we work harder or are a little more diligent, for many months we go to the laboratory around 6 o'clock, and only go back to the dormitory at 12 o'clock at night." ”
In this regard, the official website of East China Jiaotong University once published an article mentioning that Hu Jian once published a high-level article in Science as the first author, and due to his outstanding scientific research performance, he directly enjoyed the performance salary of a professor after coming to the university in July 2017, and successfully became a provincial professor in 2018. In Hu Jian's own opinion, the most important thing to become a professor or be elected as a master's supervisor is diligence and perseverance, "If you can devote most of your time to scientific research, you will definitely have results, and everything else will come naturally." ”
In fact, Hu Jian's resume is outstanding. According to the official website of the School of Materials Science and Technology of East China Jiaotong University, Hu Jian, born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province in 1990, graduated from the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with a doctorate, studied under Academician Lu Ke, and won the "Outstanding Graduate" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the "Shi Changxu Award" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the "Dean Award" Special Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
On September 21, 2019, the official website of East China Jiaotong University published an article introducing the specific situation of the 2019 (first) International Young Scholars Forum held by the university, which clearly introduced the specific reasons for the university to introduce Hu Jian. According to the article, during the forum, Hu Jian spoke as a representative of young scholars. "Dr. Hu Jian, the first 'post-90s' professor of our university, has published high-level articles in Science as the first author, and due to his outstanding scientific research performance, he directly enjoyed the performance salary of professors after coming to the university in July 2017, and successfully became a provincial professor in 2018. ”
Behind the rejuvenation of university professors and associate professors:
It has become a vanguard in overcoming difficulties
Upstream News noted that in recent years, with the reform of the personnel system of colleges and universities, many young talents have been promoted to professors and associate professors by virtue of their outstanding academic achievements, and many of them are "post-90s".
In 2022, Zhang Zhiwei, a doctoral student at Hangzhou Dianzi University, will stay on as a teacher as soon as he graduates and was hired as a distinguished associate professor. During the five-year master's and doctoral studies, he published more than 10 SCI papers as the first author.
In 2021, Zhao Haoan, a 2021 Ph.D. graduate of the School of Chemical Engineering of Northwest University, stayed on to teach. At that time, he held more than 20 domestic and foreign academic journal papers and won 5 national invention patents.
In 2020, Hou Taogang, a 2020 doctoral graduate of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, was hired as an associate professor in the School of Electronic and Information Engineering by Beijing Jiaotong University as soon as he graduated. During his three years of Zhibo, he published 7 first-author papers, and the intelligent robot he designed won a total of 11 patents, which were permanently reserved for exhibition by Beihang University.
Li Shengman, who graduated with a Ph.D. in June 2020, has published more than 10 high-level SCI papers, and was hired as an associate professor and doctoral supervisor by Hunan University as soon as he graduated.
According to the Fourth National Survey Report on the Status of Scientific and Technological Workers, the average age of scientific and technological workers in mainland China in 2018 was 35.9 years old, showing a trend of younger and more highly educated, and young scientific and technological talents have become the vanguard in overcoming difficulties in many fields. However, long-term stable support for young people is something that needs to be improved in the current evaluation and funding management reforms.
In 2021, Ren Youqun, Director of the Department of Teacher Work of the Ministry of Education, said: "We encourage colleges and universities to promote outstanding young talents and use them boldly, determine the evaluation and assessment cycle of young teachers according to the characteristics of the discipline, encourage bold innovation and continuous research." ”
This year's government work report pointed out that this year will accelerate the formation of a basic system to support comprehensive innovation, deepen the reform of science and technology evaluation, science and technology awards, scientific research projects and fund management systems, and improve the mechanism of "unveiling the leader".
Regarding the phenomenon of younger professors and associate professors in colleges and universities, Peng Zhenming, a professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, once wrote an article on the blog of Science Network that the younger professors are an inevitable trend for colleges and universities to adapt to the times. He believes that giving young people a platform and opportunity for rapid growth is also the inevitable way for the development of colleges and universities. As for young people, if they are promoted to professor early, it is up to them whether they can grasp the opportunity and promote healthy development under the halo of premature development.
Upstream news is synthesized from the official WeChat public account of Chinese People's University, The Paper, Jimu News, Elephant News, Beijing News, China Youth Network, Global Network, etc