Located in the western area of Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, is a small plot with pink tulips in bud or in blossom. These tulips are tended by three students from the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology. The newly-imported tulip bulb from the Netherlands is as large as an egg, but it will be reduced to the size of a quail egg due to nutrition absorption after one-year growth. The degenerated bulb cannot bloom for lack of nutrients, so new bulbs will have to be imported from the Net...

Recently, a paper focused on the Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) has been received by the 2018 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Symposia). The paper was written by Prof. ZHAO Yi’s research group in ZJU’s College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering.This work utilizes semiconductor integrated circuit technology to design and develop a new kind of TCAM based on memory diodes. VLSI Symposia is a top international conference in the field of semiconductor t...

Normal010 磅02falsefalsefalseEN-USZH-CNX-NONEZJU's College of Energy Engineering has achieved top grades during a three-day international evaluation. Image: Experts visit research facilities at ZJU.According to a recent evaluation, Zhejiang University’s academic programs in Power Engineering and EngineeringThermophysics have been considered “outstanding” by international standards.The highly strict evaluation took place in ZJU’s College of Energy Engineering from March 24 to 26...

From March 27 to 28, ZJU's Zijingang Campus received a group of special guests from Japan's Hokkaido University (Hokudai), led by President Professor Toyoharu Nawa. This delegation consists of 25 faculty and staff members from different schools, including agriculture, engineering and health sciences, as well as 21 students. During their stay in Hangzhou, the Japanese guests had an in-depth discussion with ZJU scholars in corresponding schools.In the opening remarks for the Hokudai d...

Artificial intelligence can tell whether your next post to an online forum will engage others or fall flat.JIAO Yunhai, a senior student majoring in computer science at Zhejiang University, developed a deep learning model called the ConverNet, which can judge whether or not a conversation will continue after careful analyses. AI can tell what kind of words will run a higher risk of becoming a conversation killer via a deep learning model driven by big data.This kind of chat-savvy computer code, ...

On April 3, 2018, the “SmartCloud Laboratory”, jointly initiated by the Information Technology Center of Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud, was officially inaugurated. The lab will be committed to research into technologies and theories concerning cloud computing, artificial intelligence, the 5th generation wireless system (5G), future networks and the Internet of Things (IoT) and introducing cutting-edge technologies into institutions of higher learning. It will aim at pioneering in ...

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), including human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), offer a promising solution to study human early development and investigate human diseases.It is of paramount importance to develop methods for rapid, efficient, and controllable genetic manipulation of hPSCs. However, precise genome editing in hPSCs remains time-consuming and labor-intensive.CRISPR-Cpf1 has been recently identified as being able to identify thymi...

On April 4, seventeen Rhodes Scholars and 17 student representatives from Zhejiang University gathered on the Zijingang Campus for talks and discussions on significant global issues.Rhodes scholarship was founded by British politician and businessman Cecil Rhodes in 1902. Also known as the Global Nobel Prize for undergraduates, the scholarship aims to finance students from all over the world to study at the University of Oxford and cultivate future world leaders with a strong sense of oblig...

A senior official from the United Nations visited Zhejiang University on April 2 to share his professional experience with students.Dr. Yong Ho, a Chinese Language Supervisor of the UN Chinese Program, was on ZJU’s Xixi Campus to give a lecture titled “Approach to the United Nations”. The talk is part of the Lecture Series on Talent Training for International Organizations organized by ZJU’s College of Education.Drawing upon his working experience, Dr. Ho introduced the UN’s general mission...

With China’s economic development stepping into the new normal, “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” has become the strategic thrust of the comprehensive development of a city. The unique entrepreneurial climate and pragmatic innovative spirit have made Hangzhou one of the leading cities in innovation and entrepreneurship nationwide, according to a recent index.The “2018 Hangzhou Index of Innovation and Entrepreneurship” was recently launched by Weilian, a ZJU alumni company and an o...