Zhejiang University gets honoured at 18th Chinese Young Women in Science Awards
On April 22, the 18th edition of the Chinese Young Women in Science Awards unfolded in Beijing. Prof. XU Wenyuan at the College of Electrical Engineering won the Chinese Young Women in Science Award, the team led by Prof. HU Xinyang, vice president of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SAHZU), won the Team Award, and Dr. CHANG Dan, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering (DPSE) , was selected for the 2021 Future Women Scientist Program.
Prof. XU Wenyuan has been engaged in the areas of IoT security. She discovered and demonstrated sensor transductive attacks that can manipulate the correct measurement of sensors by various types of malicious signals, e.g. sounds, light, electricity and the magnetic field, which can lead to devastating consequence of the IoT devices. To enhance the security of IoT, she has proposed effective methods for security analysis, attack detection, and malicious signal mitigation. Her team has developed the first IoT sensor vulnerability detection toolkit, which has been applied to improve the security of electric power terminals, self-driving vehicles, smartphones, etc.. She published over 120 papers and co-authored two books on cybersecurity.
Prof. HU Xinyang is the leading investigator of cardiac function reconstruction program of SAHZU, directing a number of national/provincial level research projects. Her research team has been awarded the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award and the first prize of Zhejiang Province Science and Technology Progress Award. With 19 research papers published as first or corresponding author in numerous world-leading journals, including four in Circulation Research (two of which were cover articles), Prof. Hu has established herself as an accomplished researcher in her field. Her research work earned her the Best Manuscript Award from Circulation Research in 2016. As a member of American Heart Association (AHA), she has been invited to present her research work at scientific meetings held by AHA and American College of Cardiology (ACC).
Dr. CHANG Dan focuses her research on the reversible assembly and application of nano-carbon materials, and has made groundbreaking achievements in this regard. She discovered the precisely reversible fusion and fission properties of graphene oxide macroscopic materials, proposed the mechanism of deformation in the assembly process, and expanded the application scope of reversible assembly in high-performance structural materials and controllable release. She published papers in top international journals such as Science and obtained two invention patents. She is also a key researcher in the National Natural Science Foundation’s Key Project regarding the basic research of graphene fibers.
The Chinese Young Women in Science Awards were jointly established by the All-China Women’s Federation, the China Association for Science and Technology, the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO, and L’Oréal China in 2004. The awards program aims to recognize and reward young female scientists who have made groundbreaking discoveries in sciences and inspire them to continue their scientific careers and achieve even more fruitful results in science and technology. A total of 20 young female scientists and 5 scientific teams won the 18th edition of Chinese Young Women in Science Awards, and another 10 Ph.D. students or postdoctoral fellows were selected for the 2021 Future Women Scientist Program.