Liang Wenfeng, 40, took part in the meeting where a select group of industry experts – in the fields of technology, education, science, culture, health and sports – offered Li their opinions and suggestions for a draft government work report, according to official news agency Xinhua. Hangzhou-based start-up DeepSeek last December made waves in the…
An annual gathering of the world’s top minds in artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining wider attention as it emerges as the new battleground in the competition between the US and China, according to event attendees. The six-day Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, or NeurIPS, wrapped last week in Vancouver, Canada, and attracted more than…
After more than a decade of working in the US, at the start of this year, star geometer Sun Song made the move back to China. He joined Zhejiang University’s Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics after leaving his most recent post as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Sun, who has been…
Wang Xujia, a renowned Chinese-Australian mathematician and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences, has returned to his hometown of Hangzhou to join China’s prestigious Westlake University after nearly three decades abroad. Wang left his position as a professor at the Australian National University’s Centre for Mathematics and its Applications – where he has…