27 Chinese scholars including Yaoban and chendanqi from Tsinghua won the awards, and the list of winners of Sloan award in 2022 was issued

In recent days, , Known as the “ Nobel Prize weathervane ” The so-called Sloan research award was issued 2022 List of winners in . The Sloan research award was awarded in 1955 Established in , Once a year , It aims to support and reward outstanding scientists and scholars in their early career . This time we have 118 A scientific researcher won the award , Among them is 27 Chinese scholars won awards . They will get 75,000 Dollar bonus , Any expenses that can be used to support their research within two years .

The subject areas of this year's finalists include chemistry 、 Computer science 、 Earth system science 、 economics 、 mathematics 、 neuroscience 、 physics , The winners were from the United States and Canada 51 Colleges and universities . In the field of computer science 20 In the list of candidates , Chinese scholars 5 position , among 3 You are an alumnus of Tsinghua University , They are chendanqi 、 Fang Fei and Gu Quanquan . In the field of mathematics 20 In the list of scholars , Yes 7 Chinese won the prize , Peking University holds two seats , They are liuyuchen and zhangruixiang from the school of Mathematical Sciences of Peking University . Other 5 The Chinese are from the University of Pennsylvania Yuxin Chen、 University of Maryland at park Lei Chen、 University of Chicago Chao Gao、 From Ohio State University Jingyin Huang、 Rutgers University in New Jersey Li-Cheng Tsai.

below , yes 5 A detailed introduction of an award-winning Chinese scholar in the field of computer science ：

Chen Danqi

Personal home page ：Danqi Chen's Homepage

Before winning the Sloan prize , Chen Danqi, who was born in Yaoban of Tsinghua University, has been deeply concerned in the computer field ,CDQ The divide and conquer algorithm is named after her .

She is currently an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University , It mainly studies natural language processing in the field of artificial intelligence （NLP）、 Machine learning and deep learning . The personal homepage of the school's official website shows , She is 08 Class Yao alumni of Tsinghua University ,18 He received his doctorate in computer science from Stanford University , The graduation thesis also won the best Doctoral Thesis Award . Chendanqi also worked in Microsoft Research Institute and Facebook Research practice of artificial intelligence research department , In the after 19 Became Seattle in Facebook The AI research department visited scientists and visiting researchers at the University of Washington .

Fang Fei

Personal home page ：Fei Fang

Fang Fei yes 07 Bachelor degree, Department of electronic engineering, Tsinghua University ,2016 University of Southern California （USC） A doctorate in computer science , Also won the best Graduation Thesis Award . At present, he holds the post of Carnegie Mellon University （CMU） Assistant Professor, Institute of software, School of computer science , The main research area is artificial intelligence , The research focuses on the integration of computational game theory and learning .

Her research has won many awards , Including the first 35 the AAAI AI Conference （AAAI） Runner up for best paper 、2021 year IJCAI Computer and thought Award 、IFAAMAS-16 Victor Lesser The runner up of the outstanding Thesis Award 、William F. Ballhaus, Jr. Excellent graduate engineering research award, etc . Her research has also been successfully applied to detect illegal mining sites and poachers 、 Patrol to protect ferries and woodlands 、 Protect fishery resources and other fields , It has made contributions to building a more harmonious social environment .

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Personal home page ：Quanquan Gu

All things considered are 03 Bachelor degree in automation, Tsinghua University 、 Master's degree in control science and engineering 、2014 University of Illinois, Urbana - Champagne （UIUC） Doctor's degree in Computer Science . At present, he is working for the University of California, Los Angeles （UCLA） Assistant professor of computer science , His research interests are statistical machine learning , The key point is to develop and analyze the nonconvex optimization algorithm of machine learning , To understand the large scale 、 dynamic 、 Complex and heterogeneous data , And lay a theoretical foundation for deep learning .

  Song shuran

Personal home page ：Shuran Song

Hong Kong University of science and Technology Alumni song shuran , Now he is an assistant professor of computer science at Columbia University , It mainly studies computer vision and robot technology . Won the Amazon Research Award 、TRI Young teacher award and IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best paper and other awards .

  Li Bo

Personal home page ：Bo Li | Computer Science | UIUC

University of Illinois at urbana - Champagne （UIUC） Professor Li Bo , Her research fields are artificial intelligence and security and privacy , My research interest is information theory 、 Game theory and counter machine learning . To obtain the 2019 Fourth quarter of 2007 AWS Machine learning Research Award 、2020 MIT science and technology review 35 position 35 Innovators under the age of 、 Intel 2020 New star Teacher Award, etc .

The field of computer science 20 The full list of the winners is as follows ：

1. Mark Bun, Boston university

2. Danqi, Princeton University

3. David K. Duvenaud, University of Toronto

4. Fei Fang, Carnegie Mellon University

5. Manya Ghobadi, MIT

6. Quanquan Gu, UCLA

7. Josiah Hester, Northwest University

8. Phillip Isola, MIT

9. Alec Jacobson, University of Toronto

10. Pravesh K. Kothari, Carnegie Mellon University

11. Bo Li, University of Illinois at urbana - Champagne

12. Pedro Lopes, University of Chicago

13. Nicolas Papernot, University of Toronto

14. Dorsa Sadigh, Stanford university

15. Shuran Song, Columbia University

16. Deian Stefan, University of California, San Diego

17. Avishay Tal, University of California, Berkeley

18. Yulia Tsvetkov, University of Washington

19. Henry Yuen, Columbia University

20. Matei Zaharia, Stanford university

For a long time , Sloan scholarship has always been one of the most coveted awards for young researchers , Because many former candidates have become the most influential scientists in their field . According to statistics , Among the successive winners of the Sloan Scholarship , Yes 53 The winners have won Nobel prizes in their respective fields ,17 Bits get into the mathematical world “ Nobel prize ” Fields Medal ,69 Won the National Science medal ,22 Bit get John · Bates · Clark prize in economics .

Want to get a Sloan Scholarship , Candidates must meet the following qualification requirements ：

• The candidate must have chemistry 、 Computer science 、 Earth system science 、 economics 、 mathematics 、 neuroscience 、 Doctorate or equivalent in physics or related fields .

• The candidate must be an American or Canadian College 、 Faculty members of universities or other institutions with degree granting authority .

• Candidates from the year of nomination 9 month 15 The date of , Must be a tenured professor , Although it is non term .

• The candidate's teaching position must undertake regular teaching duties .

2022 For the list of winners of the Sloan research award, please see ：2022 Fellows

Reference link ：

• https://sloan.org/fellowships/2022-Fellows