Editor's note:Recently, the teaching team of the Imaging and Intelligent Technology Laboratory at Tsinghua University was selected as the second batch of national university Huang Danian style teaching teams. The Imaging and Intelligent Technology Laboratory of Tsinghua University adheres to the concept of "integrating scientific thinking with engineering practice, and practicing original innovation in cross fields", and sets the goal of "leading scientific frontiers in basic research, and cultivating first-class talents through technology for the country". It has developed the "two cores and one device" and made significant progress in cross fields such as artificial intelligence, brain and cognition, and optical computing and imaging

On the 15th, the People's Daily Overseas Edition published a report telling the scientific research story of the team's courage to question existing theories and explore new directions. Let's follow this report and enter the Imaging and Intelligent Technology Laboratory of Tsinghua University

Major original innovation achievements often arise from deep basic research and interdisciplinary fields, and universities have natural advantages in these two aspects. We should maintain a continuous investment in basic research, encourage free exploration, dare to question existing theories, and be brave in exploring new directions

Academician Dai Qionghai has lost a lot of weight recently

When the reporter met him at the Imaging and Intelligent Technology Laboratory of Tsinghua University, it was around 9 am and he had been working in the laboratory for over two hours

The doctoral students do not know what time the CAE Member and Dean of the School of Information science and Technology of Tsinghua University go to bed every day. I received Teacher Dai's WeChat messages at 10pm, 12pm, 2am, and 4am, and immediately asked us, 'Are you free?'

The young people in the laboratory are also very hardworking, with "80 hours of work per week", "not coming home during the Spring Festival", and "unwilling to take a vacation" everywhere P> I voluntarily work overtime

During the winter vacation, the corridor of the Imaging and Intelligent Technology Laboratory located in the main building of Tsinghua University occasionally wafts with the aroma of coffee

Three notes were posted in the coffee shop, two on the refrigerator, reading "Snacks available, no winter vacation" and "Has winter vacation arrived? CNS never sleeps". This' CNS' refers to world-renowned scientific journals such as Cell, Nature, and Science.