Cheng Siwei barely hesitated when signing up for the 2026 Asia-Pacific Youth Exchange Camp. In 2016, the historic match between Lee Sedol, South Korea’s top 9‑dan Go player, and Google’s AI program AlphaGo captured global attention. Back then, Cheng Siwei was still a high school student, watching the intense game intently on his computer. A Go enthusiast from childhood, he gradually developed an interest in artificial intelligence from that event. Now, Cheng Siwei is a jointly trained PhD stud

Doctoral graduation often marks the start of truly independent exploration in a research career. For the first cohort of jointly-trained PhD graduates at Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, “postdoctoral researcher” has become the common next destination for many of them. Some head for top universities and research institutions at home and abroad, including Rice University, the University of Hong Kong, and Zhejiang University as well as the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Others choose to con

What does PhD graduation mean?For EIT’s first cohort of jointly trained PhD graduates, it marks a transformation from “test‑takers” to “problem‑setters”. Taking on new roles such as associate professors, research fellows and engineers, they step onto the real frontiers of innovation.Their destinations range from national laboratories tackling core technological bottlenecks, leading tech platforms addressing industrial pain points, to university podiums for teaching and mentoring.Today, let us me