The "cross-border" journey of scientific recruits
"Brave out of your comfort zone and unlock your new self!" Every time you see this sentence, Tao Zilong, who likes watching the variety show "Crossover Singer", will flash in his eyes.
As a "recruit" in the cognitive photonics team of the Frontier Interdisciplinary College of National University of Defense Technology, Tao Zilong is experiencing the taste of "cross-border" growth.
In the second year of graduate school, most of the classmates around him were busy with the topic of the professional thesis and doing research on the subject. Tao Zilong, who studied neural network for 5 years, went into the "Interdisciplinary Center" building to study optics, and started the first "crossover" in his military school career. "Innovation.
Two years have passed, and now he has first-class optical research results, and he has received full praise.
The same "cross-industry", Zhao Yue, who studied electronics as an undergraduate, and turned to engineering research when she was in graduate school, and Kang Yan, who graduated with a master's degree in chemistry and a PhD in optical engineering... The temperament of the military academy's "recruits for scientific research" is the envy of peers.
The future is here, and the enhancement of new-quality combat effectiveness requires compound military scientific research personnel, and calls for a diversified military scientific research pattern.
New research directions with strong crossover colors have emerged one after another, and batches of graduates and doctoral students have joined the research team of the college one after another like fresh blood.
They have grown rapidly in "cross-industry" innovation, constantly breaking through themselves in academic warfare and research, and marching toward a new frontier of discipline.
"Cross" a different confidence
"Either you don't take the usual path, or you stay in place, which one do you choose?" Wei Ke always remembered the teacher's question.
In this group of new recruits in scientific research, as a "big brother", he is exploring new cutting-edge technology with his schoolmates, feeling the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, and writing his own answers with personal experience.
The calendar flips back to the beginning of 2018.
"Recently, a foreign research result shows that in addition to electricity-based processing of traditional electromagnetic signals, the use of light can also process information, and it is efficient, fast, and portable. This is a good opportunity to dig treasure!" At a research group meeting, The instructor threw up a new topic.
"Wow! To be able to solve this problem, it is no longer a small slapstick in the past." "Maybe this is a milestone breakthrough." ... I want to make the fledgling "recruits in scientific research" happy. .
However, where is the way forward in the face of many challenges such as new interdisciplinary fields, crisscross scientific research content, and team members with different professional backgrounds?
"What can we do? What should we do?" At that time, the confused students were asking themselves "What should I do?"
One day, the trainees passed by the laboratory building and suddenly saw the famous "Frontier Interdisciplinary College" plate, and shouted excitedly: "Look, even the name of the college reminds us that only by being good at interdisciplinary research can we improve. Ride freely in the era of intelligence!"
For doctoral student Zhang Jun, he has taken an unusual path in the "repeated jump" from undergraduate computer major to master optics major, and then to doctoral computer major.
Until now, Zhang Jun can't forget the first research group meeting attended by the research team.
The blackboard is full of formula symbols of "It knows me I don't know it", and his ears are full of unfamiliar technical terms... At that moment, he was sitting on pins and needles, just wanting to end this awkward cold field as soon as possible.
"Young people, should be more courageous, less timid, more adventurous, and less comfortable." The words of the senior of the research group, like a trace of warmth and light in the cold night, relieved Zhang Jun's anxiety in time.
With peace of mind, there is motivation.
Nibble the professional literature bit by bit, make notes when encountering problems, communicate and discuss with teachers of new majors, ask students who are good at basic research for theoretical thinking, and find students who are good at application to improve their practical skills... The difficulties are overcome one by one , Doubts are solved a little bit.
From the initial question marks on various new formula symbols and professional terms, to the scientific research results with his own signatures one after another; from the daunting new professional "Xiaobai" to the "translator" and "glue" between the various professions of the team ; From a single discipline "student hegemon" to a "expert" in cross-field scientific research... Zhang Jun has defeated himself time and time again to achieve "upgrading" of his skills.
"In the past, traditional single disciplines were like a single tree, lacking understanding of each other. Now, through cross integration, I have discovered a large forest. Only by mastering different fields of thinking and symbolic language can I be'cross-boundary' Rapid growth in integration." Zhang Jun said with deep feeling.
"Crossing" to the distance is destined to go both ways
"The experiment has been done for 2 years, and I can't count how many times I have done it." "The data volume of a research result is 5G, and it has been changed 27 times..." Wei Ke could not think of it anyway, and did basic research. The taste is so "sour and refreshing."
Once, during a survey at a noncommissioned officer’s school, Wei Ke learned that the infrared sensor of the night vision equipment "has stuck" during the detection process during the night training of officers and soldiers.
The needs of the battlefield are the direction of scientific research.
An inspiration was captured in an instant: If a new type of high-performance photoelectric sensor is designed that can penetrate the dark night, won't military equipment be able to see farther and more clearly?
In the laboratory, a hard and silent "cross-border battle" started.
During the day, the trainees do experiments and analyze data in the laboratory; at night, they are immersed in thinking and analysis.
Walking out of the laboratory, it was dead at night.
"At that time, I felt like I was thinking about problems all the time, like being surrounded by a magical force." This process of doing one thing with all his strength made Wei Ke can't help but think of the scene of struggling to do one thing before the college entrance examination.
He likes the thrill of "fighting"-tension and excitement.
"Found a new signal!" One day, Wei Ke, who had been doing experiments, shouted excitedly.
On the screen of the instrument that had been empty before, suddenly "surprise surprise"-a series of repetitive and regular signals appeared.
"From'invisible' to'visible', success is just around the corner!" Wei Ke immediately grabbed the pen and recorded it excitedly, for fear that it would disappear if he didn't pay attention.
From the successful establishment of the model, to the successful preparation of the sample, to the appearance of key signals, and finally to the formation of a complete research result... More than 700 days and nights have witnessed the transformation and strength of this group of "recruits in scientific research".
Completing research is not easy, and getting recognition is even more difficult.
"Fighting wits and courage" with international experts time and time again, a 10-page research result, they literally obtained nearly 40 pages of reply content, and finally won the unanimous recognition and support of international experts.
When the colleagues saw the work they did, they sighed again and again: "This group of'back waves' are amazing, and their combat effectiveness is super!"
On Wei Ke's computer desktop, the five words "Love to fight to win" are particularly eye-catching, and a gesture of making a fist to cheer is also attached to the background.
Now, one of their achievements has been tried out by the frontline troops, and they are waiting to receive feedback from officers and soldiers to improve optimization.
As they themselves said: "Short the distance from the laboratory to the frontline of the training. We are always on the road."
Keep your feet on the ground, the more you "cross", the more stable you are
There is not an empty table in the laboratory. All you can see are computers, large and small instruments, all kinds of materials, and intertwined wires.
The ticking of the wall clock on the wall and the airflow of the air conditioner are all submerged in the sound of keyboard knocks...
Graduate students Zhang Xin and Zhao Yue have been sitting in front of the computer all day.
On the screen, there are sample pictures of software design, dense device parameter data... They are working hard to improve the performance of a prototype.
But the passion was poured out by reality.
In the experiment, Zhang Xin found that after amplifying the light with an amplifier, what is obtained is not an ideal signal, but noise.
"What's the reason?" "What should I do?"...The time passed by, and the atmosphere gradually dropped to freezing point.
"Don't worry, Monkey King is ready to send out to fight monsters!" The seniors of the same group humorously eased the dull atmosphere.
They searched everywhere, eliminated little by little, and finally found a small obstacle.
After the fault was resolved, the obviously optimized experimental results gave everyone a sigh of relief.
"Small negligence that seems inconspicuous can become a stumbling block in scientific research practice. In the future battlefield, in order to make the troops' equipment aim steady, defensible, and fight hard, it must be more serious and meticulous, strive for perfection, and beware. The tragedy of a horseshoe nail losing a war is staged!" Zhang Xin said with emotion.
One wave just flattened, another wave started.
How to enhance the equipment's ability to adapt to the complex and harsh environment of the battlefield has hurt the students' brains.
From the red sun to the sky full of stars, during that time, the laboratory was almost uninterrupted 24 hours a day.
"There are no less than a hundred attempts to improve the instrument technology, and the parameter settings do not remember how many times of debugging until the detection performance is significantly improved."
One by one question marks were straightened, and each technology was broken through.
It took less than one and a half years for the team from demonstrating the system, to prototype forming, to trial use by the troops.
"Ding..." The office phone of the laboratory rang again, and the phone from the frontline troops rang like an emergency assembly post, arousing the enthusiasm of these "recruits in scientific research" again.
Fading away the youth, embracing the unknown, overcoming timidity, and facing difficulties.
On the stage of "cross-border", in the journey of building the "Youth Dream Team" of learning warfare, their figure is so persistent, their footsteps are so firm...
Fang Shuyang Yang Yanqing