China News Service, Shanghai, September 6th, title: "Super Xueba" Lu Pinyan: Creating a Common Home for Chinese Theoretical Computer Scholars in the World
China News Agency reporter Xu Jing
Professor Lu Pinyan of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and his "global" scientific research team established a first-class Theoretical Computer Science Research Center (ITCS) in five years and cultivated a large number of international talents.
Lu Pinyan herself also won the highest honor in the field of Chinese mathematics. In 2019, she won the ICCM Mathematics Award Silver Award known as the "Chinese Fields Medal".
He serves as the chairman of the program committees of five important international academic conferences and represents Chinese scientists in the international academic community.
"The accumulation of soil makes mountains, the wind and rain prosper; the accumulation of water makes the abyss, the dragons grow. Now, the world and China have changed unseen in a century. We are in the field of science and technology and shoulder the mission of history. Our generation is duty-bound." Lu Pinyan said. .
Since her Ph.D., Lu Pinyan has always had a dream: to establish a world-class theoretical computer science research center in China.
"The school has given such a stage, and I want to realize it." Today, ITCS's algorithms and complexity and computational economics have ranked eighth in the world in the computer science power rankings of global universities in the past three years.
The breakthrough of theoretical computer science is difficult, but the impact is far-reaching, and its value lies in the ability to intersect with economics, engineering and other fields to raise new problems, new perspectives and solutions.
In Lu Pinyan's view, whether it is from a scientific perspective or national strategic needs, basic research "rooted" is needed to create tools to better transform the world.
High school graduation is recommended to enter the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University, undergraduate, master, and Ph.D. After graduation, he joined the Microsoft Research Institute of Asia. Lu Pinyan's academic career is quite smooth. He placed more expectations.
He wants to cultivate research talents with scientific literacy and family and country feelings: he has the strength to find teaching positions in universities around the world, and he is willing to serve China's education and scientific research; he can send the talents he has cultivated to exchanges. It can also attract foreign talents to work in China.
"The pressure is still great, but this kind of pressure is more internally driven, wanting to pursue higher goals." Lu Pinyan encourages scientists to discuss issues together and collide with thinking sparks.
Lu Pinyan emphasized that ITCS is an open platform. In addition to doing its own research work, as a member of the world academic community, we should do our best to provide services.
ITCS focuses on a group of high-level scholars and visiting scholars, accepting students from all over the world to study and provide scientific research guidance.
Many students have grown up on the center's platform and become an indispensable Chinese force active in the field of education and research.
During his PhD study at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Nick Gravin, a young Russian scientist, worked as an intern with Lu Pinyan, and did scientific research under the guidance of Lu Pinyan for a long time. After graduating from his PhD, Nick successively worked in Microsoft Research, the United States, After three years of postdoctoral work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, he joined Lu Pinyan's team full-time thereafter.
Nick said, "I like China and I am happy to cooperate with mainland China. The center has a great open and cooperative atmosphere, and it constantly bursts out sparks of innovation. Why don't I come?"
"I am very happy to see that more and more Chinese scholars are engaged in theoretical computer research, and academic exchanges play an important role in Sino-Western exchanges. I hope ITCS can become a bridge to enable scientific research groups of different nationalities to increase their understanding of each other in practice. , To reach a better understanding." Lu Pinyan said.
When talking about the sky, he always smiles, listens carefully to questions and gives answers, "Super Xueba" Lu Pinyan also chased the historical drama "The Awakening Age."
"In "The Age of Awakening", Mr. Zhong Fu (Chen Duxiu) said that what I want is not only the vitality of Peking University, but also the vitality of China. ITCS is five years old, and I think we have already achieved wealth to a certain extent. It is full of vitality, but what we are after is the vitality of China." Lu Pinyan clearly sees the long way to go and will continue to work hard, and he also sets his sights on “through the connection of theory and application, to realize the complementarity of academic and industry.” over)