Shi Yigong, President of Westlake University. The scientist, who graduated from Tsinghua University in 1989 and received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1995, is already a legend in China's scientific community. So far, he has received numerous academic and academic appointments: Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Academician of the National Academy of Sciences, Vice President of Tsinghua University, etc. In 2018, Shi Yigong left Tsinghua University to become the first president of Westlake University.
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This should start with the famous scientist Shi Yigong founding Westlake University. Born in 1967 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, Shi Yigong has had a talent for learning since childhood. At the age of 17, he won the first prize of the National High School Mathematics League, and was directly escorted to Tsinghua University, becoming the first undergraduate student after the resumption of the Biology Department of Tsinghua University. After graduating as an undergraduate, he went to Hopkins University in the United States for further study and obtained a doctorate, and conducted postdoctoral research at memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. In the ten years from 1998 to 2008, Shi Yigong completed his teaching career in the United States.
In 2008, Shi Yigong declined the invitation of Howard Hughes Medical Center in the United States and returned to teach at Tsinghua University. In April 2013, he became a foreign member of the American Academy of Sciences and was re-elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in December. Two years later, Shi Yigong became vice president of Tsinghua University. However, Shi Yigong has always had a wish in his heart: he can start a university that trains researchers.