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Once a year, the “fairies fight” in Tsinghua Park, the voting results have been released.

According to the official news of Tsinghua University, the 2020 Tsinghua University Special Scholarship (Undergraduate) defense meeting will be held on the afternoon of November 12. After 15 candidates completed their defenses, the on-site judges voted to select the top 10 list.

△The list comes from the official account of Tsinghua University

The “highest honors” list of Tsinghua students was released, and there was once again a lively discussion on the growth process of Tsinghua students.

Some people sighed with the hard core of the academic resumes of the “seed players” Liu Hong, Zhang Chen and others.

Chen Yixian, who has both strength and beauty in the Department of Physics, screened the Tsinghua official micro comment area.

In addition, some netizens have also paid attention to the fact that the selection criteria for the highest honor of Tsinghua undergraduates have also undergone some “changes”-becoming more comprehensive.

But Tsinghua’s official evaluation of enrollment: There has never been a genius to learn.

What’s the matter? Let’s take a look at the resumes of several candidates together.

Liu Hong: Three articles and one writing meeting

Liu Hong from the Department of Electronics may be the most “hardcore” academic among all candidates.

As an undergraduate, he has been cited 86 times in Google Scholar. Under the guidance of his tutor, Associate Professor Long Mingsheng, he has published 5 papers as a work.

Of these 5 papers, 3 are top conferences.

CVPR 2019, ICML 2019 and NeurIPS 2020 are all included in the bag.

Among them, the most cited papers in ICML 2019. This paper innovatively combines adversarial training and transfer learning, and advances the technical level of transferable features in CV and NLP tasks.

This is also the first time Liu Hong has gone abroad and gave an oral report at the summit.

For this experience, Liu Hong said:

The first time I went abroad, it was an unforgettable experience and a challenge for me. I went to the ICML site to give a 20-minute oral report and explained my work to hundreds of colleagues in the audience, which gave me a sense of mission that represents the spirit of Tsinghua.

Communication and cooperation are really everywhere, not only in reporting, but also in research. Among the co-authors of Liu’s thesis, we can see many familiar Daniel names.

For example: Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of WeBank, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Chair Professor Yang Qiang (CVPR 2019), famous scholar in the field of machine learning Michael I. Jordan (ICML 2019), etc.

△Source: Tsinghua University

And Liu Hong, who is not in research, is actually a veritable “student tyrant”.

According to the official introduction of Tsinghua University, Liu Hong has a total of 91 credits and achieved excellent results of A or A+, ranking second in the Department of Electronics in the research results.

Currently, Liu is also a reviewer of Tsinghua Computer Science Class A academic conference journals.

He also served as a member of the No. 75 class of the Department of Electronics, and the Deputy Director of the Software Department of the Department of Electronics Science and Technology Association. He was awarded the Jiang Nanxiang Scholarship, Academic Excellence Award, and Science and Technology Excellence Award.

Zhang Chen: Competitive and academic correctness

Student Zhang Chen from the Department of Computer Science has a “fairy” resume in academics and competitions.

Last year, Zhang Chen participated in the International College Student Supercomputer Competition (SC19) as a member of the Tsinghua Supercomputing Team.

SC, both a competition and an academic conference, is the top international conference in the field of supercomputing initiated by the United States. In the process, the contestants must not only complete the contest topic, but also complete an English paper with the ability to publish in an international authoritative journal.

A total of 16 teams from 7 countries participated in the live finals last year. The student supercomputer team of Tsinghua University finally won the championship. And Zhang Chen is the only girl among the 6 team members.

And this year, she became the captain. And this is also the first female captain in the history of the supercomputing team of students from the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University.

△The fourth from the right is Zhang Chen, source: Tsinghua University News Net

In addition, Zhang Chen has made many gains in academics and competitions (organized from Tsinghua official news):

In the CCPC China College Student Programming Contest for girls, Zhang Chen and his teammates completed all the questions in only 2/3 of the prescribed time, achieving Tsinghua University’s first championship in the competition;

For the scientific research project of “Shenwei·Light of Taihu Lake”, the research results were transformed into papers and published in the top international journal IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS.

△Source: Tsinghua University

Student Zhang Chen, who is not in research, is also a veritable “student tyrant”.

According to the introduction of Tsinghua University, Zhang Chen’s academic performance is excellent, ranking first in the department in terms of research results, with an average credit score of 3.8, of which all courses offered by the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics are 4.0.

In addition, she has won national scholarships and the “CCF Outstanding College Student Award” of the Chinese Computer Society.

Moreover, Zhang Chen is also keen on sports. He is a member of the school Taekwondo team and won the individual runner-up in the Capital University Taekwondo Championship.

Chen Yixian: Top Six English Speeches in the World

Finally, let’s introduce a “popular player” from the Department of Physics-Chen Yixian.

A few days ago, after Tsinghua University officially announced the news of the special prize candidates, the comment area was like this.

Indeed, after all, he on the poster looks like this:

△Source: Tsinghua University

It is indeed a very good “face”. However, Chen Yixian’s strength cannot be underestimated.

Currently, Chen Yixian has published 3 articles as the first author in the research direction of astrophysicsPaper:

“The Inhibition of Dust Diffusion in the Protoplanetary Disk on the Growth of Super-Earth Atmosphere”, published in The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), one of the four major journals in the field of astronomy.

“The influence of Lindblad resonance point movement on the migration of giant planets in the protoplanetary disk”, ApJ.

Limits of tidal gravitation on the accretion of giant planets, ExSoCal 2020 Conference on Exoplanets in Southern California (ExSoCal 2020).

△Source: Tsinghua University

Student Chen also has a commendable skill—extremely strong English speaking ability.

In various domestic English speech contests, Chen Yixian often reports with excellent results. And in foreign competitions, it is not too good: participated in more than 50 national champion speech contests held in London, and won the honor of the world’s top six.

Furthermore, Chen has also actively used his academic advantages and language ability to promote basic science research and exchanges. During only 3 years in university, he had 7 international conference attendance/exhibition experiences.

It is worth mentioning that Chen Yixian actively participates in cultural and sports activities after school, and has participated in more than 10 school-level performances with the collective in the past three years. And he himself is a member of the chorus of the school art troupe.

New selection trend

Among the candidates entering the list, there is also Cai Yeyi, who is from the Department of Automation, who can conduct research on the “Brain-Computer Interface-based Semi-mechanical Bee Flight Control System” project, and has both liberal arts and sciences and has published three children’s literature works; There is Gong Dongyu from the College of Social Sciences, who is a liberal arts student who is fascinated by “brain and cognition” research and aspires to become a cognitive neuroscientist…

△Source: Tsinghua University

Indeed, “there has never been a genius to learn hegemony”, but more of diligent, comprehensive and comprehensive development.

It is understood that this year is the 21st year of the establishment of Tsinghua University Special Scholarship, and it is also the second year that the special award selection method has been revised.

On the basis of previous selections, Tsinghua emphasizes on the one hand morality first, guiding and cultivating a good style of study, on the other hand, it also rigorously review the process to give full play to the supervision role of the publicity link. The purpose is to hope that the winners of the special scholarship can fully reflect the courage and responsibility of Tsinghua people in shouldering the mission and pursuing excellence.

According to Tsinghua News.com, Guo Yong, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University, mentioned in the defense that the 15 students who participated in the defense are all examples of Tsinghua’s “red, professional and comprehensive development” talent training characteristics.

He said that he hopes that everyone will pay attention to the academic interests and growth experience of the special scholarship candidates, not pay too much attention to the achievements, but pay attention to the selection orientation of the special scholarship, and encourage students to develop personally and grow into a better self.

What are the Tsinghua special awards doing now

But whether on campus or off campus, as the most representative undergraduate of Tsinghua University, the winners of the special prizes always have more expectations placed on them.

On station B, the defense videos of “Shen Shen” Chen Lijie, Han Yanjun and others have been viewed more than 400,000, which still attracts many younger students to “watch”.

△Chen Lijie Special Award Defense

After the aura of special awards, their results are constantly refreshing.

Chen Lijie is now studying for a PhD in theoretical computing at MIT. Not only won the STOC 2019 DannyLewin Best Student Paper Award, the top conference in the field of theoretical computer science, but also FOCS 2019 consecutive high school three articles, also won the best student paper award.

Han Yanjun is currently studying for a PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. It is also constantly producing new academic results, and its presence is not uncommon at top conferences such as COLT and NeurIPS.

Interestingly, there is a wonderful heritage between the special awards.

Han Yanjun once said that during his exchanges in the United States, he was greatly influenced by the 2011 Tsinghua Special Award winner Jiao Jiantao.

And Lu Xin, a student of the Yao class who was shortlisted for the Special Award Defense this year, is also interested in the field of theoretical computer science, and cooperated with his brother Chen Lijie to publish a two-part paper on FOCS 2020.

This year’s special award selection has come to an end, but for the special award candidates, I believe this is just the beginning.

In this era of new technologies, there are more possibilities waiting to be created.

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