Recently, the finals of the 8th “Huawei Cup” China Postgraduate IC Innovation Competition concluded successfully at Nanjing University, Suzhou Campus. Under the dedicated guidance of Professor Wang Jiahao, the “CUG Team 602,” comprised of graduate students Lu Guanyang, Wu Jinjian and Jin Zhenyang, won the second prize in the Huawei Enterprise competition with their project titled “Design and Implementation of a Fast-SSC Encoder/Decoder for Polar Codes.”
The China Postgraduate IC Innovation Competition is one of the series of innovation practice events for China postgraduates, guided by the Department of Degree Management and Postgraduate Education of the Ministry of Education. The competition this year is hosted by the Association of Chinese Graduate Education and the Youth Science and Technology Center of the China Association for Science and Technology, co-hosted by the China Integrated Circuit Innovation Alliance, co-organized by the China Semiconductor Industry Association, the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the Industry-University Integration Development Alliance of Exemplary Microelectronics Colleges, and the Integrated Circuit Professional Committee of the Tsinghua Alumni Association, with Cross-Strait Tsinghua Research Institute as the secretariat and Nanjing University as the organizer. It is supported by the Organization Department of the CPC Suzhou Municipal Committee and the Suzhou High-tech Zone Management Committee, and is presented by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
The competition focuses on fields such as integrated circuit design, semiconductor devices and processes, and manufacturing. It features two tracks, one with self-proposed topics and another with enterprise-proposed topics, with provides postgraduates with a comprehensive platform to showcase their skills from theory to practice. A total of 4,160 graduate students and 1,483 teams from 206 universities signed up to participate in this competition, with a significant increase in scale and coverage compared to the previous competition. After rigorous selection rounds, 188 teams, over 500 students, and more than 200 teachers advanced to the finals.
Our school has always attached great importance to the cultivation of students’ innovation ability, and takes subject competitions as an important strategy to continuously improve students’ scientific research literacy, teamwork spirit and engineering practice ability. This award not only showcases the exploratory achievements of our graduate students in the field of chip design and implementation, but also further highlights the School’s commitment and responsibility in serving national strategies, leading technological innovation, and advancing high-quality talent development.
