Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 106 Meeting the Mentor

When eating with Li Mingzhi and the others, Dean Li also told Zhou Ming that since he still needs to complete his postgraduate studies in the Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Science and Technology, the school will not give him a doctorate in biology before he gets his Ph.D. He arranges teaching assignments.

However, although the school will not arrange teaching tasks for Zhou Ming before he gets his Ph. At the very least, he will produce something every few years.

Of course, because Zhou Ming has already published three mathematics papers in the four major universities this year, the school will not ask him to produce any results in the past two years.

Zhou Ming gladly accepted the request from the college. After all, he just sent another paper to the "Mathematics Yearbook" this month.

"Dean Li, don't worry about this. I will not fall behind in neurobiology after the semester starts, but I will definitely not slacken in mathematics. Just a few days before I came to HKUST, I voted for the "Mathematics Yearbook" again. A manuscript." Zhou Ming said to Li Mingzhi, reassuring him that he would not occupy the latrine without shitting.

"So fast? How long has it been?" Hearing that Zhou Ming said that he had submitted another manuscript to the "Mathematics Yearbook" in a few days, the professors present, especially the mathematics professors, all had dull eyes and disbelief. Look at Zhou Ming.

In more than half a year, four papers were submitted to the Big Four. Is this something that humans can do?

"Which aspect of the paper did you submit this time? Or about the Laplace characteristic function?" Among the people who were shocked by Zhou Ming, Li Mingzhi, who had the highest age, position, and prestige, was the first After reacting, he quickly asked Zhou Ming.

"This time the paper is not about the Laplacian eigenfunction, but about decision trees. The title is [Providing clear phase transitions for random clustering and Potts models through decision trees]." Zhou Ming explained, saying The title of the paper he submitted to the "Annals of Mathematics" just a few days ago.

"Phase transition between stochastic clustering model and Potts model? Why did you suddenly study statistical mechanics again?" After Zhou Ming uttered the title of his thesis, Li Mingzhi looked puzzled. Although he didn't specialize in stochastic clustering model and Potts model, but as soon as Zhou Ming said these two names, he knew that both were models of statistical mechanics.

"My thesis is actually for a paper on artificial intelligence that I will write later. There is no way to condense the conclusion in the paper like before. It is necessary to write a paper to elaborate on the content. " Zhou Ming didn't hide anything, but told Li Mingzhi the purpose of writing this paper.

"In order to write a paper on artificial intelligence?" It was not Li Zhizhi who said this sentence in a questioning tone, but Li Wen from the Department of Electronic Engineering and Informatics.

In the communication with Zhou Ming today, Li Wen learned a lot from Zhou Ming. Hearing that Zhou Ming said that he was preparing to write a paper on artificial intelligence, which was also Zhou Ming's second paper on artificial intelligence, this made Li Wen extremely excited about it. big interest.

Also interested in the paper on artificial intelligence that Zhou Ming just mentioned is Chen Yun, who is also from the Department of Electronic Engineering and Informatics.

"Professor Zhou, can you tell me about the general research direction of artificial intelligence in this paper? You only need to say the research direction, and don't say anything that is inconvenient to disclose." Li Yun also asked Zhou Ming curiously.

"Actually, there is nothing inconvenient to disclose. The title I prepared for this paper on artificial intelligence is [Mathematical Research on Artificial Intelligence], and the content is the name of this title. application." Zhou Ming explained.

As soon as Zhou Ming mentioned the title he was going to write for his second paper on artificial intelligence, everyone present knew why he said that the mathematics paper he wrote a few days ago was for writing this paper on artificial intelligence.

Regarding Zhou Ming's paper on artificial intelligence, the two professors from the Department of Electronic Engineering and Informatics couldn't say anything more about this topic.

On the contrary, several professors from the Department of Mathematics chatted with Zhou Ming about the mathematics paper he just mentioned. Anyway, Zhou Ming had already submitted it, so it would not have any effect if Zhou Ming said it now.

……

The communication over this meal brought Zhou Ming and these professors closer, and made them feel Zhou Ming's genius.

In fact, when it comes to geniuses, these professors have not seen geniuses before. After all, the HKUST Junior Class, which was born in 1977, is well-known throughout China. Even now, the HKUST Junior Class is still there. How about recruiting students?

What are college junior classes?It is a special class in universities that enrolls young people who have not yet completed regular secondary education, but have received university education in advance because of their excellent grades.

From the birth of the HKUST Junior Class to December 2014, a total of 12 students have been enrolled in the HKUST Junior Class over the past few decades, and 2412 students have graduated.

Isn't it a genius to be one in a hundred thousand or even one in a million?

However, in the eyes of the professors who have been in contact with Zhou Ming, no matter how talented these geniuses are, they are not as good as the geniuses of last week and tomorrow. No matter in terms of the depth of their understanding of the major they are studying or the breadth of knowledge they have learned, no young genius can At Zhou Ming's age, he surpassed Zhou Ming.

Moreover, judging from Zhou Ming's communication with them today, it is only in the knowledge of mathematics and artificial intelligence, as well as his unique vision of their professional development prospects.

Zhou Ming's own biology major has not yet been shown. This is also because the professors present are only from the School of Mathematical Sciences and the School of Information Technology Sciences, not from the School of Life Sciences. Zhou Ming didn't show his performance even if he wanted to.

After all, Zhou Ming's other identity is a graduate student of the School of Life Sciences. If the professors of the School of Life Sciences came to call Zhou Ming brothers and sisters, it would be unreasonable, and they would not be able to hold back this face.

After the meal, Zhou Ming got into their car and prepared to go back to school. After getting in the car, Zhou Ming said to Chen Wen and Chen Yun, two professors from the Department of Electronic Engineering and Informatics: "Professors, our company has a project recently. Interesting artificial intelligence project, I wonder if you are interested in participating?"

After hearing what Zhou Ming said, everyone present became interested again. Both Chen Wen and Chen Yun were more interested in the artificial intelligence project that Zhou Ming said, while others were interested in different things.

"Your company? Are you a shareholder or an employee of the company?" Wang Wen heard something from Zhou Ming's words, and asked curiously, but his point of view was that Zhou Ming was an employee of the company, and even a shareholder must be a minority shareholders.

"You don't know yet? Don't think he's young, he's the boss of the company now." Seeing that Wang Wen didn't even know about Zhou Ming's company, Zhou Wang explained to Zhou Ming in advance without waiting for Zhou Ming to open his mouth. .

Seeing that Wang Wen was still puzzled, Zhou Wang said to him in more detail: "When the matter of Professor Zhou was heated up on the Internet before, didn't someone talk about it? He and Jinling A professor from a technical university and another boss who also runs a biological company jointly started a company called [Future Technology].”

Hearing what King Zhou said, Wang Wen nodded, with the same expression on his face.

After King Zhou resolved Wang Wen's doubts, Chen Wen also raised his doubts to Zhou Ming.

"What kind of artificial intelligence project are you talking about?" Chen Wen asked Zhou Ming.

"The name of this project is [Artificial Intelligence Accurate Prediction of Protein Structure]." Zhou Ming said the name of this project. It was the project he and Yi Huaqing had mentioned before, but the other two projects had already started. I have been writing papers for the past few days, and Zhou Ming hasn't even started writing the materials yet.

When Zhou Ming mentioned the name of this project, everyone present was surprised. After all, they all knew something about the difficulty of predicting protein structure.

Since the first Journal of Molecular Biology paper used comparative modeling methods to predict protein structures in 1969, there have been no real breakthroughs in predicting protein structures in the past few decades.

Although some large foreign companies have introduced deep learning and have continuously improved their algorithms, they have made some progress in this area, but there is still a big gap between the accurate prediction of protein structure and what Zhou Ming said.

What Zhou Ming said, once successful, will be a breakthrough that will affect the biology of the world.

At this time, everyone present felt that Zhou Ming was a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, and they thought about this matter too simply.

"I didn't expect your company to actually plan to study artificial intelligence to predict protein structures? Although your company has only been established for a few months, I remember the few research results your company has published in the past few months since its establishment. Is it using biotechnology to control water pollution?" It was Chen Yun who asked Zhou Ming.

"I also remember that what Chen Yun said is correct. Your company seems to have two research results so far. One research result is a new type of biofilm method for sewage treatment system, and the other is about the synthesis of microorganisms from blooming cyanobacteria. Although these two This project is a high-value research achievement in the field of water pollution treatment, but it has nothing to do with artificial intelligence, right?" Chen Wen also said.

"Moreover, this is not a small project. It may not be enough to rely on your company's income in recent months and us alone, and it will require a lot of resources." Chen Yun continued to look solemnly at the project. Zhou Ming said.

In Chen Yun's view, it is not impossible for Zhou Ming to use artificial intelligence to accurately predict the protein structure, but it is indeed impossible for them to rely on them. There are not enough resources to support them to do this project.

Since Zhou Ming proposed this project, he naturally considered the issues mentioned by Chen Yun. After chatting with them a few more words, the car had already arrived at the parking lot of the University of Science and Technology campus.

Before they separated, the two professors didn't immediately agree to Zhou Ming's invitation, but they didn't refuse either. The replies they gave were to go back and think about it.

……

After returning to his office in the afternoon, Zhou Ming took a nap, woke up from the nap, and finally started writing his second paper on artificial intelligence.

It took Zhou Ming some time for this paper. It was not until the afternoon of the 29th that Zhou Ming submitted the paper.

The submission journal of the second artificial intelligence paper, like the previous "Alternative Application of Bayesian Formula to Bayesian Algorithm", was submitted to a domestic artificial intelligence journal.

After finishing the thesis, Zhou Ming started to write the materials for the third project of this batch of projects, "Accurate Prediction of Protein Structure by Artificial Intelligence". Zhou Ming didn't finish writing this material until the night of the 31st.

After finishing writing the materials for the project "Artificial Intelligence Accurately Predicting Protein Structure" in his room, Zhou Ming breathed a sigh of relief. He finally finished all these before the 1st day.

If it is not finished today, tomorrow will be September [-]st, and Zhou Ming will go to the school to find his mentor Bi Wanfang as a graduate student of the School of Life Sciences of the University of Science and Technology of China.

Starting from tomorrow, Zhou Ming will be busy fulfilling the promise he made to Bi Wanfang, and will have to do experiments for those two studies in the whole month of September.

In this case, if Zhou Ming hasn't finished his thesis and the data on "Accurate Prediction of Protein Structure by Artificial Intelligence" today, he will have to wait until October to continue.

After turning off the computer, Zhou Ming went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Sleeping until he woke up naturally the next day, Zhou Ming went to school to find his tutor after finishing his unshakable daily exercise.

……

Boom, boom, boom.

Bi Wanfang's office was closed at this time, Zhou Ming knocked on the door of the office.

"Come in." A male voice came from inside the room.

Zhou Ming opened the door of the office, and saw a middle-aged man in a men's shirt sitting on an office chair in front of the desk. He looked up to the opened door of the office, and found that it was Zhou Ming, but there was no one like him. Zhou Ming had a straight face as he imagined, but smiled and stood up from his seat, walked towards Zhou Ming, and said to Zhou Ming: "You came to school a week early, right? You came to school, why didn't you come to me, and you have to wait until the 1st?"

Although Zhou Ming and Bi Wanfang had never seen each other in person before this, they had seen their own photos, so they could recognize each other after seeing their faces.

And Bi Wanfang's attitude towards Zhou Ming made Zhou Ming feel a little strange. After all, what he said before really made Bi Wanfang angry enough. Now that they meet, how can Bi Wanfang act like a normal person?And it's still so cold and warm.

"I'm sorry, teacher, I thought you had to wait until the 1st to start school, so I've been busy writing papers these days, so I didn't contact you in advance." Zhou Ming's tone at this time was polite.

"In another sense, you and I are colleagues now. Although I am indeed your mentor, there is no need to be so reserved and polite. We should communicate as colleagues or friends. What papers are you writing recently? "Bi Wanfang had already walked in front of Zhou Ming, and sat with Zhou Ming on the sofa in his office.

"A paper on artificial intelligence is not about biology." Zhou Ming explained.

"Oh, I won't be able to provide much help here. Tomorrow afternoon, some of my graduate students and I are going to have a dinner together. Come along, so we can meet them and get to know them better." Bi Wanfang looked towards Zhou Ming, "I heard that you are going to Nankai this summer vacation?"

Zhou Ming didn’t know how Bi Wanfang knew that he was going to Nankai during the summer vacation. He might have read about it from a camper who also participated in the summer camp of Nankai School of Life Sciences on the Internet, or it might be a comparison between a certain professor in Nankai and Bi Wanfang. Okay, told him about it.

In short, Zhou Ming didn't care about it now. He told Bi Wanfang the matter truthfully.

"My partner went to the summer camp of Nankai College of Life Sciences in the summer vacation, so I went with her." Zhou Ming explained.

After Zhou Ming finished explaining, Bi Wanfang smiled happily, and asked Zhou Ming, "Are you wondering how I would know about this?"

　Two in one.

　　Thanks to "Beiyue Kongcheng" for the reward of 100 starting coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)