2026 'Scientific Exploration Award' Announced: Huang Gao, Liu Xuanzhe Among 5 Winners in Information Electronics

机器之心 · wechat · 2026-08-24

The 2026 'Scientific Exploration Award' winners were announced, featuring 50 young scientists across 10 fields. Five winners in the 'Information Electronics' category are closely tied to AI computing, architecture, and hardware:

Huang Gao (Tsinghua): Co-creator of DenseNet (CVPR 2017 Best Paper). Recent work focuses on diffusion language models and efficient inference, winning an ICML Outstanding Paper Award.
Liu Xuanzhe (Peking Univ.): Director of the Peking Univ.-ByteDance 'Doubao Large Model System Software Joint Lab'. His team's DistServe system (OSDI 2024) is deployed in production at ByteDance and DeepSeek.
Qian Xuehai (Tsinghua): Focuses on data movement optimization, domain-specific acceleration, and in-memory computing to address AI memory and communication bottlenecks.
Xiao Shumin (HIT): Expert in micro-nano optics and metasurfaces. Her laser system research was published in Nature, linking to AI optical interconnects and computing.
Yang Xigui (Zhengzhou Univ.): Diamond semiconductor expert. His team successfully synthesized pure-phase hexagonal diamond (Nature), offering new materials for high-power chip cooling.

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2026 'Scientific Exploration Award' Announced: Huang Gao, Liu Xuanzhe Among 5 Winners in Information Electronics

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