Cultivate fertile soil for the growth of top-notch innovative talents


-- Beijing Institute of Technology Training science and technology entrepreneurial talents for National needs

[Editor's note] When the youth is strong, the country is strong。The young people of contemporary China are born at the right time. The stage for displaying their talents is very broad, and the prospect for realizing their dreams is very bright。On the occasion of the 13th "Challenge Cup" Chinese college Student Entrepreneurship Plan competition,3月17日,"China Education News" front page headline with "Planting University Top innovative talent Cultivation Fertile soil - Beijing Institute of Technology to meet the needs of the country to cultivate science and technology entrepreneurial talent" as the title of the report,It vividly shows the good style of the majority of young people, represented by the students of Beijing Institute of Technology, who devote themselves to innovation and entrepreneurship。

Beijing is full of life in March。The national final of the 13th "Challenge Cup" Chinese College Student Entrepreneurship Plan Competition will be held at the Beijing Institute of Technology。This year, the Beijing Institute of Technology had 1,114 entries, four times the number of entries last year, and eight student teams made it to the national finals。What is the force that promotes and realizes the "blowout" of the young people's innovation and entrepreneurship in this university??What is the fertile soil for top innovative talents to thrive?A few days ago, the reporter walked into the North Institute of Technology and approached the "double innovation" youth of the North Institute of Technology。

Transform the advantages of scientific research into the success of independent talent training

"That's right, 814!Once again confirmed the house number, Liang Yingping raised his hand to knock on the door。A quiet voice said, "Eihei?Come in and sit down。”

Until today, seven years later, Liang Yingping still remembers many details of her first meeting with her mentor, Professor Fu Ying。It was a hot July afternoon。He had his hair cut in advance and changed into a white T-shirt to take the subway from the Liangxiang campus of the Beijing Institute of Technology to the Zhongguancun campus。

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Liang Yingping and team members discuss the progress of the project

The Teli College of Beijing Institute of Technology carries out the cultivation of master and master, and students can choose their tutors and enter the laboratory to study in the second year of college。That year, Liang Yingping was still in his freshman year, and his interest in artificial intelligence and the ensuing research setbacks made him urgently hope to get the guidance of professional teachers。He tried sending an email to Fu Ying, a professor at the school of Computer Science。Soon, there was an opportunity for this interview。

"At first, I want to do biometrics, which is to make personalized emojis according to the face, and you can enter a big factory in the future.。In this year's "Challenge Cup" Chinese college students entrepreneurship plan competition, Liang Yingping, who has broken into the national final as a project leader, said, "Professor Fu Ying told me that since there is a desire to research, we should do systematic research;To do systematic research, we should aim at the major problems that the country needs。It is the job of graduate students to graduate with a major problem that they have solved by themselves。”

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Professor Fu Ying guided the students in the team to carry out the "Eagle Pupil" project research

In Fu Ying's laboratory, Liang Yingping really came into contact with the progress of domestic research in the fields of artificial intelligence and biometrics, and really felt the urgent need for scientific research in economic and social development。

Liang Yingping established a new research direction。"City security at night, video monitoring under extremely dark light conditions is related to the safety of tens of millions of people。Existing infrared and low-light devices are costly and subject to fill light equipment, and cannot be deployed on a large scale in practice。”

After 4 years, Liang Yingping and the project team have achieved an accurate mathematical description of imaging noise。Through field investigation of user needs in Beijing, Hangzhou and other places,Nearly 100 algorithm improvements and hardware tests have been carried out,The project team proposed a new imaging algorithm based on sensor characteristics,Successfully broke the final barrier of AI-enhanced model scheme from theory to ground deployment,An image enhancement engine with extremely dark light "Eagle Pupil" and its principle prototype are developed。

Compared with existing night vision equipment, the light requirement of "eagle pupil" is reduced by an order of magnitude, and the detection distance is greatly improved。Liang Yingping said that "eagle pupil" is very in line with the current national needs, we have mastered the core technology of algorithm upgrade, and successfully avoided the dilemma of hardware "jam neck"。No need for high-end sensors and processors, traditional security equipment as long as a domestic chip integrated with algorithm software, you can "change night like day, restore the true color"。

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"Eagle Pupil" extremely dark camera products, can allow the surveillance camera in the extremely dark environment at night, take photos as day。

"First-class universities should be committed to transforming the advantages of scientific and technological innovation into the success of talent cultivation, and transforming the academic research ability of teachers into the cultivation ability of students' innovation and entrepreneurship.。In recent years, the Party Committee of Beijing Institute of Technology has put forward the clear requirements of supporting the training of innovative and entrepreneurial talents with a large scientific research platform, which has injected the driving force for the training of top-notch innovative talents。First-class scientists and first-class scientific research environment have become a new scene for students' research-based learning, transforming the scientific research advantages of Beitech into a winning trend in the cultivation of innovative and entrepreneurial talents, creating a "double innovation" Beitech phenomenon in which Beitech students have won successive cups and gold MEDALS in international and domestic innovation and entrepreneurship competitions in recent years。This year, the 1,114 student teams participating in the "Challenge Cup" of the Beijing Institute of Technology all have the support of tutors and experimental platforms from large scientific research platforms。

We will build a new system for training mass innovation and innovation personnel

This year, in the team participating in the "Challenge Cup" Chinese college student Entrepreneurship program competition, there is also a drone team named after the eagle - "Flying Eagle" team。2017年,The "Flying Eagles" team won the Mohammed bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge in ABU Dhabi, United Arab Emirates;2019,Based on self-developed core technology,The "Flying Eagle" team project team established a student startup company;The year 2020,The "Flying Eagles" team is once again at the Mohammed bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge in ABU Dhabi, UAE,The only realizable diameters in the field are 0.The precise arrest of the 2-meter attack target once again defeated more than 100 top teams in Europe and the United States to win the championship。

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The "Flying Eagle" team won the first prize of the ABU Dhabi Drone Challenge in 2020

"The competition is only a link in the" double innovation "talent training chain of Beijing Institute of Technology。Che Huiquan, director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practice Center of Beijing Institute of Technology, said, "In recent years, Beijing Institute of Technology has determined the top-level design of the high-level innovation and entrepreneurship talent training system。Implement the "SPACE+X" (universal +) plan of talent training reform, adhere to the "trinity" of value shaping, knowledge cultivation and practical ability, and create a "big platform" of innovation and entrepreneurship education and morality, intelligence, physical education, the United States and labor "five education" mutual integration.。”

Beit's integrated innovation and entrepreneurship education system of "whole chain, multi-collaboration, convex characteristics, and large platform",It covers five modules: professional design, curriculum system, platform support, "double innovation" tutor and mechanism guarantee,We have jointly woven a whole chain of "double innovation" talent training from high-quality students, curriculum training, practical exercise, community activities to innovation competition, achievement transformation, industrial transfer and market recognition。

In Beitech, academicians and famous teachers Association serve as students' innovation and entrepreneurship practice mentors, and transform national major achievement innovation points and fruit trees into professional course knowledge points and ability sets。In the past three years, the achievements of 15 National Science and Technology Awards of Beijing Institute of Technology have entered teaching materials and courses。In BeiTECH, the teaching model reform of "MOOCs + discussion-style teaching + project-based defense" is implemented in the professional core courses to promote the development of students' innovative thinking and entrepreneurial ability。The university has built 103 innovative practical general quality courses and compiled 20 excellent teaching materials on innovation and entrepreneurship education。

In 2023, the Eagle is still flying。"Drone warfare in modern warfare has given us new inspiration, and in this Challenge Cup competition, we have brought the new Eagle Guard Dome."。Wang Yijing, head of the project, said, "Compared with the shooting method that is easy to cause secondary damage, the 'Eagle Wei Sky' system uses bionic technology to capture drones like falcon hunting, forming a 'low-slow and small countermeasures complete program of deployment detection in the early warning area, visual proximity, and high-precision netting in the disposal area.'"。”

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Members of the Flying Eagles test drones

In the core team of eight people, Zhang Zhiyuan, who is in charge of target information, is still a senior。For the choice of research direction, he said: "Professor Song Tao said that in all information, location information is always the first information, then I will study the first information.。”

From March 17 to 19, the national final of the "Challenge Cup" China College Student Entrepreneurship Plan Competition was held at the Beijing Institute of Technology。In the face of fierce competition, what is the advantage of the Beijing Institute of Technology team?

"Our study has a larger context。"Zhang Zhiyuan said。

"During the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the 'Yingwei Sky' system was on duty and successfully completed the task。At present, domestic airports, key areas of security and other fields have used our services。Wang Yijing's words are full of confidence。

We will build a highway for the transformation and incubation of scientific and technological achievements

Walking through the "double innovation" space throughout the campus of Beijing Institute of Technology, "quiet" is the most intuitive feeling。However, the keyboard sound and motor sound from time to time, as well as the brows of young faces and the light shining on the glasses, clearly say that here is the "shock wave" of human wisdom to the unknown world.。

At present, the university has built 13 university-level practice education innovation and entrepreneurship bases, 265 university-enterprise joint, international and domestic innovation and entrepreneurship collaborative education bases, and carried out 293 industry-university-research cooperation projects。"From the" National Mass entrepreneurship and Innovation Demonstration Base "to the first batch of selected" University scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer base ", the current innovation and entrepreneurship base of the North Institute of Technology has obtained all domestic certifications, it can be said that "full certificate"。"Che Huiquan said。

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Beijing Institute of Technology national science and technology business incubator

"Innovation and entrepreneurship is a arduous and long-term process。Wang Zhichao, general manager of Beitech Incubator, said, "To this end, Beitech innovation and entrepreneurship base group has built a stepped continuous service system.。”

According to the needs of different stages of the transformation of scientific research achievements, the basic services of the incubator include providing business registration, entrepreneurship counseling, and entrepreneurial space support;Professional services include finance, taxation, legal affairs, intellectual property protection services;Key services include project declaration, qualification planning and market docking。In recent years, a number of scientific research startups have received market financing support ranging from 2 million yuan to 20 million yuan through the introduction of the incubator of Beijing Institute of Technology。

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practice base of Beijing Institute of Technology

According to the different growth stages of startups, from the mass maker space settled by seed projects, to the incubator settled by startups, and then to the science and technology park forming industrial docking, the innovation and entrepreneurship base of BEIT has formed a stepped continuous innovation and entrepreneurship service flow distributed inside and outside the school。In recent years, relying on the State key laboratory and the national science and technology innovation platform, BEIT has incubated nearly 40 specialized and new "little giant" enterprises and "specialized and new" small and medium-sized enterprises。

To complete the technical verification, Liang Yingping, who holds the order, plans to lead the project team to set up a startup company in July this year, the Beijing Institute of Technology has agreed to rent free for two years, the school incubator entrepreneurship guidance and the school technology transfer center scientific and technological achievements transformation service has been launched...For a better tomorrow, Liang Yingping is full of expectations。