https://www.scmp.com/rss/523450/feed The latest news and top stories on Westlake University. A prominent Hangzhou, China-based, non-profit research university, Westlake University is dedicated to cultivating innovative talents and advancing human development through science and technology. Established in 2018, it is recognised as a pioneering ’new type of university’ in modern China, focusing on interdisciplinary research across natural sciences, life sciences, engineering and medicine. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Victoria Bela Victoria Bela A Chinese artificial intelligence framework has autonomously resolved an open problem proposed more than a decade ago by a US mathematician, according to the Peking University-led team that developed it. The dual-agent framework solved the problem posed in 2014 by former University of Iowa professor Dan Anderson – who died in 2022 at the age of 73 – the researchers said in a preprint paper published on April 4. By synthesising decades of mathematical literature, the Chinese team’s AI framework... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3349797/chinese-ai-solves-decade-old-maths-problem-hours-no-human-intervention?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3349797/chinese-ai-solves-decade-old-maths-problem-hours-no-human-intervention?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:00:10 +0000 Dannie Peng Dannie Peng In the world of tick-borne illnesses, Lyme disease gets the headlines. For example, Greg Yang, one of the 12 original co-founders of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI, said in late January that he was stepping back from the company after being diagnosed with the disease. Accidentally eating the wrong food would leave him “extremely tired”, requiring days to recover, he said. But there is a more dangerous condition transmitted by the ticks that a team at a Chinese university might... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3342803/can-super-antibody-overpower-sfts-deadly-tick-borne-disease?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3342803/can-super-antibody-overpower-sfts-deadly-tick-borne-disease?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:00:25 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang Structural biologist Alexey Amunts – an expert in mitochondrial biochemistry – has joined the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART). Amunts, who holds research position in Germany, confirmed he joined SMART in January this year as a full-time senior investigator and would “contribute to its international relations agenda”. He is internationally recognised for high-resolution structural studies of the molecular machines that underpin cellular energy conversion and protein... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3339717/resolution-revolution-pioneer-alexey-amunts-leaves-max-planck-join-chinas-smart?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3339717/resolution-revolution-pioneer-alexey-amunts-leaves-max-planck-join-chinas-smart?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:00:27 +0000 SCMP SCMP We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. ‘Stop subverting Venezuelan regime’: China urges US to release Maduro China has expressed “serious concern” over the US capture and forcible removal of the Venezuelan leader, calling on Washington to ensure the personal safety of Nicolas Maduro and his wife and “release them immediately”. 2. Why... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3338713/ai-scientist-leaves-us-china-domestic-helpers-asia-5-weekend-reads-you-missed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3338713/ai-scientist-leaves-us-china-domestic-helpers-asia-5-weekend-reads-you-missed?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:06:59 +0000 Dannie Peng Dannie Peng AI scientist Ling Haibin, the acclaimed computer scientist behind the world’s first mobile plant identification app, has left his position in the United States to take up a full-time role at Westlake University in Hangzhou, eastern China. One of Ling’s PhD research projects, which involved using computers to recognise leaves of different shapes, led to the creation of the identification app LeafSnap. The app teaches users about plant diversity, how to care for houseplants, diagnose disease and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3338607/ai-scientist-ling-haibin-father-worlds-first-plant-id-app-leaves-us-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3338607/ai-scientist-ling-haibin-father-worlds-first-plant-id-app-leaves-us-china?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:00:11 +0000 Dannie Peng Dannie Peng A renowned mathematician who is also part of China’s Qian clan – a surname linked in the annals of Chinese scientific history to national pioneers in science and engineering – has become the latest US-based scientist to return to China. After more than 40 years in the United States, Qian Hong has left his endowed professorship at the University of Washington to join the prestigious and private Westlake University in eastern China. Qian’s appointment last month as a full-time chair professor with... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3333087/mathematician-qian-hong-son-chinas-leading-scientific-clan-reverses-us-brain-drain?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3333087/mathematician-qian-hong-son-chinas-leading-scientific-clan-reverses-us-brain-drain?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:00:12 +0000 SCMP SCMP Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. US-China rivalry will adapt, spread into other areas: Pascal Lamy “Bumpy” US-China relations will persist for decades as the rivalry shifts from trade to the weaponisation of strategic sectors and supply chains, according to a former head of the World Trade Organization. 2. Silkpunk creator Ken Liu takes on AI, modernity and what it means to be American The... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3332213/us-china-rivalry-last-decades-silkpunk-creator-ken-liu-ai-scmp-daily-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3332213/us-china-rivalry-last-decades-silkpunk-creator-ken-liu-ai-scmp-daily-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:15:07 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang Lin Wenbin, one of the founders and leading lights in the cutting edge field of metal-organic frameworks (MOF) – an area of chemistry recognised this year with a Nobel Prize – has left the United States for China. The internationally renowned molecular materials chemist and chemical biologist confirmed on Friday that he had retired early from the University of Chicago and joined Westlake University in Hangzhou, eastern China. Westlake University said earlier that Lin was now a full-time chair... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3332162/world-leading-cancer-drug-scientist-lin-wenbin-joins-chinas-westlake-university?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3332162/world-leading-cancer-drug-scientist-lin-wenbin-joins-chinas-westlake-university?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:00:18 +0000 SCMP SCMP We have put together stories from our coverage on science from the past two weeks to help you stay informed. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. China deploys prototype of missile defence system with planet-wide coverage China has deployed a working prototype of a global defence system similar to the United States’ proposed Golden Dome, while hailing a breakthrough in data processing technology for worldwide threat management, according to scientists... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3328076/chinas-golden-dome-prototype-worlds-highest-bridge-7-science-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3328076/chinas-golden-dome-prototype-worlds-highest-bridge-7-science-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:00:08 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang As China drafts its 15th five-year plan – the next entry in a line of expansive blueprints that have set the tone for the country’s development over more than seven decades – we explore what China will do in the field of science and technology, particularly regarding the introduction of scientific talent. For more stories in this ongoing series, click here. The appointment of Liu Jun, a former tenured Harvard statistician, as a “Xinghua distinguished chair professor” at Tsinghua University in... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3327579/snowball-effect-china-could-double-down-talent-build-strong-headwinds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3327579/snowball-effect-china-could-double-down-talent-build-strong-headwinds?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:15:42 +0000 Ling Xin Ling Xin After more than two decades in the United States, internationally recognised mathematician Yuan Yuan has returned to China as a full-time professor at Westlake University in Hangzhou. He joined Westlake’s Institute for Theoretical Sciences in May, just months after being promoted to full professor at Syracuse University in New York, according to the university’s website. Yuan is one of four mathematicians recruited by Westlake this summer after long careers in the US. The others are mathematical... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3326815/celebrated-mathematician-yuan-yuan-returns-china-after-more-20-years-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3326815/celebrated-mathematician-yuan-yuan-returns-china-after-more-20-years-us?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:00:17 +0000 Ling Xin Ling Xin David Baltimore, the Nobel Prize-winning American biologist who died this month at 87, built a legacy in China through decades of scientific exchange that helped the country rise as a global powerhouse in life sciences. Baltimore revolutionised gene research in his 30s and went on to mentor dozens of Chinese researchers and advise on the creation of top research institutions in the nation. His final paper was published in a Chinese journal. Since his passing, scientists in China and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3325966/how-nobel-winning-biologist-david-baltimore-helped-rise-science-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3325966/how-nobel-winning-biologist-david-baltimore-helped-rise-science-china?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:00:09 +0000 SCMP SCMP We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. China’s aircraft maker Comac wins one of its biggest overseas orders for C909 jets Chinese-made aircraft are set to spread their wings further in Southeast Asia after Air Cambodia announced what could become the largest ever overseas... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3325273/chinas-c909-jet-apple-iphone-air-hong-kongs-global-talent-ranking-scmps-7-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3325273/chinas-c909-jet-apple-iphone-air-hong-kongs-global-talent-ranking-scmps-7-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:46:50 +0000 Ling Xin Ling Xin Pioneering Chinese-American mathematician Zhongwei Shen has left the United States to take up a chair professorship at Westlake University in Hangzhou. He joined Westlake’s School of Science in July to continue decades of research on partial differential equations and harmonic analysis – mathematical fields that form the backbone of modelling the natural world, according to the university website. Shen, who was admitted to Peking University as a maths major at just 14, has spent 40 years in the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3324826/after-40-years-us-pioneering-mathematician-zhongwei-shen-returns-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3324826/after-40-years-us-pioneering-mathematician-zhongwei-shen-returns-china?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:58:56 +0000 Dannie Peng Dannie Peng Award-winning data scientist She Yiyuan has left the United States to take up a full-time position at Westlake University in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. She, who taught at Florida State University for almost two decades, will conduct research at his new institution as a chair professor at the school of science and the Institute for Theoretical Sciences, according to a July 1 social media post by the Chinese university. She has won the Career Award, the most prestigious award from the US... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3317558/award-winning-data-scientist-she-yiyuan-takes-job-china-after-decades-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3317558/award-winning-data-scientist-she-yiyuan-takes-job-china-after-decades-us?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Jul 2025 01:00:15 +0000