The 2021 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship has attracted 157 outstanding PhD students from 50 top universities and institutions across Asia to apply. The applicants’ research fields cover in computational science, hardware and software systems, human and machine intelligence, and perception, recognition and interaction. After reviewing, 11 outstanding PhD students from Asia-Pacific are finally awarded Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship in 2021, with another 17 students winning the Nomination Award.
All of the Fellows are committed to solid research, as well as holding ambitious research goals. They are earnestly exploring scientific researches, in the meantime, they also have an enthusiastic willing to benefit society by science and technology (like a child dreaming). Their aspirations are also in line with the original intention for inaugurating Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship which is to empower the next generation of outstanding computer science researchers.
Dr. Lidong Zhou, Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, expressed his congratulation and expectations to the fellows, “Our Fellowship Program aims to discover early-stage PhD students with great ambitions and potentials, so that we can empower them to become the future leaders in computer science. Let’s create our bright future together!”
What are the winners’ feelings after being awarded as 2021 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship? What are their scientific research plans? Let us get to know these 11 outstanding doctoral students.
2021 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship
| Name | University | |
| 1 | Dianyu Chen | Westlake Univeristy |
| 2 | Kaizhang Kang | Zhejiang University |
| 3 | Libo Qin | Harbin Institute of Technology |
| 4 | Qing Wang | Tsinghua Univeristy |
| 5 | Aoyu Wu | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 6 | Qitian Wu | Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeristy |
| 7 | Hiromu Yakura | University of Tsukuba |
| 8 | Da Yu | Sun Yat-sen Univeristy |
| 9 | Wangyou Zhang | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| 10 | Wanjun Zhong | Sun Yat-sen Univeristy |
| 11 | Tiankuang Zhou | Tsinghua University |
Nomination Award of the 2021 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship
| Name | University | |
| 1 | Shun-Po Chuang | National Taiwan University |
| 2 | Mingyu Ding | The University of Hong Kong |
| 3 | Juan L Gonzalez Bello | Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
| 4 | Lan-Zhe Guo | Nanjing University |
| 5 | Xiaoqing Guo | City University of Hong Kong |
| 6 | Tianyuan Jin | National University of Singapore |
| 7 | Jang-Hyun Kim | Seoul National University |
| 8 | Ayana Niwa | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 9 | Keisuke Okumura | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 10 | Sida Peng | Zhejiang University |
| 11 | Ryokan Ri | The University of Tokyo |
| 12 | Cheng Shen | Peking University |
| 13 | Hyein Shin | Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
| 14 | Chengyi Wang | Nankai University |
| 15 | Runzhong Wang | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| 16 | Chongyu Zhang | Tsinghua University |
| 17 | Shuangjia Zheng | Sun Yat-sen University |
About The Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Program
The Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Program identifies the next generation of research leaders through a unique program that offers a combination of mentorship, research, networking, and academic opportunities to promising young candidates. Since its inception in 1999, the program has attracted over one thousand PhD candidates from top universities in the Asia-Pacific region, and 441 outstanding PhD students have been awarded the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship honor. Fellows have gone on to become prominent researchers and influential individuals in academia and industry.
See Global Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Recipients here: Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship – Microsoft Research