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South Korean girl leads “fabulous” campus life as JI student

South Korean girl leads “fabulous” campus life as JI student

2022/11/02

Editor’s Note: Seungyeon Yang is a South Korean student at University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter), majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is president of the JI International Student Association and takes charge of the financial work at the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (IEEE-TEMS) Student Branch of the JI Center for Entrepreneurship. Seungyeon Yang considers herself an outgoing person; she likes to try new things, and is very interested in management and entrepreneurship.

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JI student team claims CSTFM2022 best paper award

JI student team claims CSTFM2022 best paper award

2022/10/31

A team composed of three University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) undergraduate students has clinched the Best Student Paper award at the 2022 International Conference on Smart Transportation and Future Mobility (CSTFM 2022). Jiajun Gu, Qinhang Wu and Yicheng Hou won the award for their paper “Can yesterday’s mass transportation set the path for today’s sustainable transport? – A sustainability assessment of Shanghai No.71 Trolleybus”.

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Peruvian girl shares her dreamy JI experience in Shanghai

Peruvian girl shares her dreamy JI experience in Shanghai

2022/10/21

Editor’s Note: Daniela Mata from Peru is an undergraduate student majoring in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) at the Minhang campus of SJTU in Shanghai. She was admitted to...

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JI professor proposes new acoustic sensors for superior human-machine interaction

JI professor proposes new acoustic sensors for superior human-machine interaction

2022/10/08

The University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) Associate Professor Lei Shao and his collaborators have published a research article titled “A wave-confining metasphere beamforming acoustic sensor for superior human-machine voice interaction” in Science Advances,  a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary open-access scientific journal run by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The article proposes a new acoustic sensor for human-machine interaction (HMI) to distinguish and track multiple sound sources in a noisy background, with an outstanding signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a superior sensitivity at the same time.

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JI research team wins Best Paper Award at IEEE conference

JI research team wins Best Paper Award at IEEE conference

2022/09/16

The University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) Assistant Professor Xinfei Guo and his collaborators recently won the Best Paper Award at the 2022 IEEE 35th International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC) for their work “RECO-HCON: A High-Throughput Reconfigurable Compact ASCON Processor for Trusted IoT”.

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Multiple JI research projects win support from NSFC

Multiple JI research projects win support from NSFC

2022/09/14

Sixteen research projects of the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) have won financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC),  according to a recent published announcement on the list of NSFC-sponsored research projects for the year of 2022.

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JI international students attend Study Away program in Singapore

JI international students attend Study Away program in Singapore

2022/09/08

Nineteen international students from the University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) have embarked on a one-semester Study Away program in Singapore, thanks to the sponsorship of the SJTU Asia Pacific Graduate Institute (SJTU-APGI) based in the tropical city state.

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