A 1977 college entrance examination champion decided to go to Shenzhen to recreate the miracle of “bioinformatics”

From the concept of teaching and educating people, what I want to do is ‘give charcoal in the snow’, not ‘icing on the cake’. As long as you work hard and stick to one direction, you will be successful. This is also the future, what I want to do at Deep Tech. “

“Just follow my heart. I no longer need a title at this age, and I need real psychological comfort.”

Pan Yi explained that he gave up teaching abroad for decades and decided to return to China.

At the end of 2020, the School of Computer Science and Control Engineering, Shenzhen University of Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (in preparation) (hereinafter referred to as “Shenzhen Science and Technology”) welcomed a new dean, namely Pan Yi, who returned from the United States.

This is the first time that Pan Yi, 60 years old, has taught full-time in China.

In the past ten years, Pan Yi has successively served as the dean of the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Biology, and the deputy dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA. In the 10 years from 2011 to 2021, the computer department of the school has grown from a relatively unpopular major to the 22nd in the world in the field of bioinformatics, even surpassing some top universities in China.

This achievement also earned Pan Yi the honors of Georgia State University tenured professor, university outstanding professor, state trustee professor, and AIMBE academician.

Ershun’s years of success and fame, but Pan Yi is not satisfied with this.

In May 2020, Fan Jianping, Dean of Shenzhen Advanced Institute, extended an olive branch to Pan Yi and asked him to serve as the Dean of the School of Computer Science and Control Engineering of Shenzhen University of Science and Technology to build a new school from scratch.

Just as he took over the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University, Pan Yi was eager to take on this challenge and decided to resign and return to China as a full-time professor.

At another crossroads in his life, he has always had the determination and courage to face difficulties. Just like 45 years ago, when he packed his bags alone and went north to Tsinghua University to study.

The champion of the college entrance examination from a small town in the south of the Yangtze River

On October 21, 1977, when the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination was printed in the People’s Daily and spread to Wujiang, Pan Yi had just graduated from high school.

This news disrupted the plans of many people, and Pan Yi was one of them.

At that time, China’s college entrance examination system had been interrupted for more than ten years, and only a few workers, peasants, and soldiers were able to enter universities through the recommendation system and gain the opportunity to receive higher education. The vast majority of high school graduates can only go to work after leaving the campus and cannot continue their studies.

After the announcement of the resumption of the college entrance examination, there were only less than two months before the exam date of that year. Under the pressure of the exam, candidates who had put down their books for many years had to get up early in the morning and stay in the dark, and seize all the time to review in their spare time.

Many future business leaders also changed their life trajectories after this news: Xu Xiaoping, a violinist from the Cultural and Art Troupe, decided to apply for the Central Conservatory of Music; Weeks off, crazy tutoring.

Judging from the final results, only 270,000 of the 5.7 million college candidates were admitted, and on average only one of every 29 candidates could enter the university.

In that year, Jiangsu divided the college entrance examination into two rounds because of the large number of applicants. In the preliminary exam in November, more than 200,000 of the more than 300,000 registered candidates were eliminated; the remaining 100,000 had to pass the official exam in December before they could get the chance to go to university. Such competition can be described as “tragic”.

After the college entrance examination was released, Pan Yi became the champion of science in Jiangsu Province. That year, he was only 17 years old.

Pan Yi is from Lili Town, Wujiang, Suzhou, which is also the hometown of Liu Yazi, a famous patriotic democrat and poet during the Republic of China.

Pan Yi’s father graduated from technical secondary school and was the director of the town tax office, and his mother was the director of the Women’s Federation in a factory. Pan Yi said frankly: “My parents are not very educated, but they attach great importance to my studies. Even if the chances of entering a university after high school are very slim, they still encourage me to focus on my studies and prepare for further studies.”

Pan Yi’s interest in science and engineering originated from his mother.

The factory where Pan Yi’s mother worked, mainly produced laser directional instruments for coal mine accessories, which were considered high-tech products at the time, and many cumbersome accessories such as diodes, transistors, resistors, motors, and fuses were used in the production.

Pan Yi was very interested in this when he was a child. He often collected parts that were eliminated in the workshop, and made his own semiconductor radio according to the guidance of the children’s book “Youth Electrician”.

This experience planted a seed in Pan Yi’s heart, and curiosity about science was born.

After Pan Yi went to Lili Middle School, he also met many good teachers.

Even in the 1970s when education was in vain, the teaching staff of Lili Middle School was still strong. During his studies, Pan Yi’s English teacher had experience of studying abroad, and his chemistry teacher was a graduate of East China Normal University.

Pan Yi was deeply impressed by what his English teacher said: “China’s university admissions system will eventually be reformed. The recommendation selection system will not be the only way for students to enter universities. The country will inevitably implement an examination system to select college students.”

Even when he went to the countryside to work with his students during the busy farming season, the teacher did not forget to urge the students to study and prepare for the college entrance examination at any time.

Fortunately, when Pan Yi was about to finish his middle school career, he just caught up with the first exam after the resumption of the college entrance examination system.

As a fresh graduate of high school, he did not stay away from books and had no farm work to be busy with. What he has to do is to review for two months according to the usual pace of life, and set foot on the college entrance examination room. With a solid foundation, Pan Yi successfully entered the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University, which is the Department of Computer Engineering and Science before the reorganization.

After the college entrance examination, the local media “Xinhua Daily” in Jiangsu Province conducted an interview with Pan Yi. After the report was published, the experience of the first science champion in Jiangsu Province after the resumption of the college entrance examination attracted many readers, and letters from admirers were sent to Pan Yi from all over the country.

One of the letters came from Yangzhou. A girl who worked on the ship was deeply touched by Pan Yi’s experience and decided to take the college entrance examination the following year, hoping to get his guidance.

After the letter was sent to the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University, classmates and friends around Pan Yi appreciated it, and Pan Yi himself was happy that his experience inspired a person who had put down his books to start learning again. So excited that it was difficult to fall asleep that day.

Until now, Pan Yi still remembers this incident. He said, “Many little things in life will affect a lifetime. My current mentality is to cherish the people and things around me, they are not easy to come by.”

Disappointment and Reinvented Values

After entering the university, Pan Yi also faced new pressure.

When he first arrived in Beijing, Tsinghua’s campus environment and eating habits formed a strong contrast in Pan Yi’s mind. On the one hand, Pan Yi was both shocked and excited by the resplendent, carved campus buildings and advanced and complete equipment and facilities.

On the other hand, in the 1970s, China’s material life was not yet rich, and even the students of Tsinghua University could only pay for meals according to their meal tickets. Northerners love to eat pasta, which makes Pan Yi who grew up in a land of fish and rice and likes to eat small fish and shrimp very unaccustomed.

In addition to the dietary incompatibility, from Wujiang town to the capital’s top universities, Pan Yi’s learning environment is completely different from that of his competitors.

The first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination were all outstanding among the more than 5.7 million people, not to mention top domestic universities such as Tsinghua University.

The class of 1977 is definitely the most peculiar grade in the history of Tsinghua University. As a result of gathering talents in the society for 10 years, the students of each class in the 77th grade are from all walks of life, and the age difference is huge.

Pan Yi’s classmates are full of talented people. There are table tennis players who have won national championships, commune secretaries who have worked for more than ten years and can speak out of writing anytime, anywhere, and there are many “children of senior officials” of the state and ministries.

Pan Yi’s roommate Zhou Di also said, “At that time, the oldest horse in our class was in his early 30s, and the youngest Xiao Ding was under 17. Ke Liang was from Xinjiang, and Du Chaoying was from Heilongjiang.”

Compared with these classmates with rich social experience, Pan Yi was like a blank sheet of paper when he entered school. He only did study for the first 17 years of his life. The disparate family background among his classmates also had an impact on his psychology. . In such an environment, Pan Yi quickly felt more pressure than academic competition. He said frankly, “In such an environment, ordinary people can easily be overwhelmed.”

The second from the left is Pan Yi, and the fifth from the left is Hou Zifeng.

Pan Yi’s college roommate Hou Zifeng once recalled: “Pan Yi is from Wujiang, Jiangsu. He speaks with a little accent and is recognized as a smart person with Jiangnan characteristics. Pan Yi is very motivated and strives to do well in everything, but he has a little bit of sports. Feels like you can’t get enough energy.”

Pan Yi himself said that he envied others who never exercised and easily ran within 14 seconds. “I’m not good at sports. Tsinghua University requires graduates to pass the sports test, including horizontal bars, parallel bars, and vaulting. For me, the most difficult thing is the 100 meters.”

After a period of time, he suddenly realized that everyone has strengths and shortsightedness: “I don’t have to stay up all night to read books, or even go to the movies when I have time, and I can still get very good grades in exams.”

Undergraduate graduation photo, the second from the right in the fourth row is Pan Yi (the picture is from the 30th anniversary of the graduation of the 77th grade of the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University)

During his four years in college, he learned how to use his strengths to make himself stand out among a group of excellent peers.

At the same time, Pan Yi’s principle of dealing with people has gradually formed: not to be arrogant because of his own expertise, and not to despise others because of his shortcomings.

Pan Yi’s strict self-discipline and friendly treatment of others also benefited him a lot in his later studies and work, and attracted many friends who were willing to get close to and help him.

The guidance of his family in his childhood, the education of middle school in his youth, and the growth and tempering of his college years made Pan Yi more determined. Later, he suffered repeated setbacks in studying and working in a foreign country. This mentality also helped him to get through those difficult times. time.

Drinking ice for nine years, it is difficult to cool the blood

After the decision to restore the college entrance examination system in 1977, the dispatch of international students was put on the agenda by national leaders.

Deng Xiaoping said: “I am in favor of increasing the number of international students, mainly in the natural sciences.” “We need to send thousands of students, not just ten or eight.” Moreover, when sending foreign students, “we must do everything possible to speed up the pace, and the path must be wider and wider.”

This once closed country has once again opened its doors.

In December 1978, one year after the resumption of the college entrance examination, the first batch of students selected by the state to study in the United States boarded the plane to the United States.

In 1984, the state promulgated the “Interim Regulations of the State Council on Studying Abroad at Own Expenses”, which opened up the channels for people to study abroad at their own expense and ushered in a great tide of studying abroad. This year, Pan Yi just finished his master’s degree. After graduating with a master’s degree, Pan Yi got the opportunity to stay in school to continue his Ph.D.

After studying for a doctorate for two years, Pan Yi finally gave up his stay in the school because his supervisor decided to settle abroad. One year later, in 1987, with the permission of Tsinghua University, he went to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh to study for a doctorate.

Just one year before he went abroad, my country included biotechnology in the “Outline of High-Tech Research and Development Plan”, ranking first in high-tech technologies such as aerospace technology, information technology, laser technology, automation technology, new energy technology and new material technology. .

What Pan Yi would not have expected is that one day many years later, he will be associated with this technology, and it will continue for decades.

In 1991, after Pan Yi obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh, a famous institution of higher learning in the United States and one of the first ten universities in the United States, it was time for young people to make a decision: where to find a job?

At that time, the United States was in the quagmire of a new round of cyclical economic crises. The arms race during the Cold War and the Gulf War launched by the United States in the same year almost hollowed out the American economy. Under the economic depression, the industry no longer needs a large number of highly educated talents, and the graduate doctoral students can only flock to teaching positions, which intensifies the competition for employment. At that time, there was no word called “internal volume”.

At that time, Pan Yi went abroad for only four years. As a Chinese, his living habits, cultural background and even way of thinking were all out of tune with the mainstream American culture.

He speaks unfamiliar English, and for the first time in his life, he donned a suit and entered the army of job seekers during the gloomy doctoral graduation season.

Pan Yi was lucky. After interviewing for four or five positions in the fierce competition, he got an offer from the University of Dayton in the United States, avoiding the dilemma of “graduation is unemployment”.

The University of Dayton is a private Catholic university located in Ohio, which is known in the United States as the “flyover states”—that is, remote areas that people only see through airplane windows when traveling between the east and west coasts. the place.

As a teaching-oriented school, the University of Dayton pays more attention to student education and conducts teaching in a small class model.

After joining the job, Pan Yi has almost no chance to conduct scientific research. The University of Dayton does not have a doctoral program, and the number of master’s students enrolled every year is very small. All scientific research work must be carried out and promoted by himself. Yi Pan worked at the University of Dayton for 9 years. Compared with the smooth sailing when studying in China, Pan Yi has endured numerous setbacks and obstacles in scientific research in the past 9 years, and he also feels lonely.

Years later, when he was invited back to the University of Pittsburgh to give a report as a distinguished alumnus, Pan Yi talked about his experience in job hunting and work, and many students from China and India were deeply touched by it. The difficulties they are going through, and Pan Yi’s current achievements are their future goals.

In 2000, Pan Yi entered Georgia State University to work, and in 2005, he served as the head of the Department of Computer Science. At this time, he was 45 years old. However, Georgia State University’s Department of Computer Science was established at the beginning and had no foundation. There were only fifteen or six professors in the department, and both funds and manpower were very short. He began to think, how to allocate these few manpower and funds to make this young department stand out?

Pan Yi believes that it is not only necessary to “concentrate efforts to do big things” and bring professors together, but also to find new ways to open up new fields.

In those years, biology was more and more appearing in people’s field of vision with the birth of cloned sheep Dolly and the launch of the Human Genome Project. Pan Yi found that for the Department of Computer Science of Georgia State University, bioinformatics is a very good tool. breaking point.

At the beginning of the 21st century, bioinformatics was still a new discipline. Whether it was an old famous American school or the computer department of Georgia State University, which was just established, there was no historical accumulation and stood on the same starting line. Only in this way can there be a chance of “overtaking on a curve”.

As a fusion of biology and computer science, bioinformatics uses computer technology to solve biological problems, which requires practitioners to have knowledge backgrounds in both disciplines.

At the time, it was not a good “business”. Scholars, whether in computer science or biology, are reluctant to jump into another completely unfamiliar field. However, Pan Yi felt that he would do what others didn’t want to do, and he would definitely be able to do it well. He wants to be the first batch of people who “eat crabs”.

Pan Yi applied for a research fund of more than one million yuan. He allocated the fund to other professors and asked them to cooperate with professors in the Department of Biology, combine biological knowledge on the basis of their own research direction, and produce output within a certain period of time. A batch of new scientific research results. For example, artificial intelligence is used for biological data analysis, computer visualization is used for protein and molecular visualization, and technologies such as algorithms and databases are all integrated into the field of biology.

This approach ignited everyone’s enthusiasm for scientific research and innovation, and the team grew rapidly. After achieving certain results, Pan Yi led the team to organize conferences in the field of bioinformatics, founded academic journals, and published a series of books. In 2007, the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering awarded Pan Yi the Outstanding Achievement Award.

According to the ranking of related websites, from 2011 to 2021, Georgia State University’s Department of Computer Science ranked 22nd in the world in the field of bioinformatics.

Pan Yi has won this scientific research battle where less wins more.

But behind the glory, there are often countless unknown ups and downs. As a Chinese outsider, it is not easy to integrate into the local circle in the United States. Even if you get the same jobs as white people, it is difficult to get the same respect and attention.

A Chinese professor who holds the post of associate dean of a university in the United States shared his experience with Pan Yi when he was studying at Georgia State University.

As the only Asian among the dozens of deans in the school, although this Chinese vice dean has not been clearly targeted or attacked, invisible discrimination is everywhere. At the school where he works, the rest of the white deans have formed their own small circles, excluding him, and no one even responds to daily conversations, let alone a voice when it comes to school work decisions, which can be described as isolation. helpless.

It is conceivable how Pan Yi, who is also an Asian, is in the United States. It is impossible not to be excluded and ignored. Can Pan Yi, who is Asian, be the head of the department, can it convince the public?

Pan Yi told Leifeng.com that in his decades of foreign experience, he has always adhered to the principles of “standing in the sky”, “standing on the ground” and “being a man”. “When your research level is much higher than others, and at the same time you can make selfless dedication to the team, you will gradually gain recognition from everyone. This may be the collectivist spirit engraved in the bones of the Chinese people.”

For Pan Yi’s superiors, he is a leader who can lead the team to create miracles, and can manage the work in an orderly manner without additional support from the school.

In this way, Pan Yi has been working in the field of bioinformatics for 16 years, and has brought Georgia’s computer science department to the top. But will his life be at the University of Georgia until the curtain call?

In the year of Jiazi, start again

Before May 2020, Pan Yi did not expect that he would become attached to Shenzhen and return to China after decades of overseas teaching.

Shenzhen is a young city. In September 1983, Shenzhen University, the first university in Shenzhen, opened; in 2012, the Ministry of Education officially approved the establishment of Southern University of Science and Technology, 10 years later, in 2022, Southern University of Science and Technology has entered the ranks of “double first-class” universities; November 30, 2018 The Ministry of Education approved the official establishment of Shenzhen University of Technology.

In addition, Shenzhen has also attracted many famous schools at home and abroad to cooperate in running schools. In recent years, Peking University Shenzhen Campus, Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-Sen University (Shenzhen), Jinan University Shenzhen Institute of Tourism, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Shenzhen Beili Moscow University, Shenzhen Melbourne Life Schools such as the School of Health Engineering have been established one after another.

Shenyang Polytechnic is also one of the co-organized universities.

In May 2020, when Pan Yi was invited to Shenzhen Advanced Institute for academic exchanges, Fan Jianping, the dean of Shenzhen Advanced Institute, invited Pan Yi to join Shenzhen Institute of Technology to form a new School of Computer Science.

This is a new college within a new school. Shenzhen University of Technology is a new school jointly built by the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and officially entered the preparatory stage in 2019. In October 2020, on the eve of Pan Yi’s entry into office, the construction of Shenyang Polytechnic has just started.

There are a total of 6 colleges under Shenzhen University of Technology, namely the School of Computer Science and Control Engineering, where Pan Yi is the dean, the School of Biomedical Engineering, the School of Life and Health, the School of Pharmacy, the School of Materials Science and Engineering, and the School of Synthetic Biology.

It is not difficult to see the school’s expectations for the “integration and symbiosis” of the two disciplines of computer and biology. As a professor with deep accumulation in the field of bioinformatics, Pan Yi is exactly the pioneer needed by this new school.

But for Pan Yi, starting a new college within a new university takes a lot of energy. At that time, Pan Yi had been promoted to associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University, and was selected as a tenured professor of the school.

For him, in a few years, he can retire with honor. Taking over the olive branch of Deep Tech means accepting a new environment, a new team, starting from scratch, and all risks and difficulties are unpredictable.

“Just follow my heart. I don’t need this title anymore at this age, I need real psychological comfort.”

For Pan Yi, returning to his home country to continue his research with the support of the motherland, and chatting with old friends in China after work, this is the life he really yearns for.

Since joining Shenyang Polytechnic in December 2020, Pan Yi has mainly focused on three tasks.

First of all, it is necessary to sort out a clear context for the future development direction of the college.

Similar to the situation when it took over the computer department of Georgia State University, the School of Computer Science at Deep Polytechnic is also a new school with no roots. Bioinformatics has both theoretical innovations and practical applications. Therefore, Pan Yi continued the idea of ​​​​that year and used bioinformatics as a breakthrough point again.

The original bioinformatics medical center of Shenzhen Advanced Institute is a great help to Pan Yi. He recruits high-quality talents in the field of bioinformatics at home and abroad, and first forms a team before carrying out follow-up scientific research and teaching work.

Second, continue to do personal research with a lot of energy.

Pan Yi has always believed in “strength is the last word”. As the head of the academy, only with outstanding personal strength, leading by example and focusing on scientific research, and able to achieve good academic results, can other members of the team be convinced and accept him in the school. Decisions and judgments made during the development of the College.

Finally, and the most important task of the college – to cultivate a group of high-quality graduates with computer backgrounds in the intersection of fields.

At present, Shenyang Polytechnic is still in the preparatory stage and cannot recruit students independently. The School of Computer Science has recruited a group of outstanding students from Hebei University, Shenyang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and other schools for joint training. According to Pan Yi’s plan, the college will begin to formally enroll students next year.

With the increasing emphasis on bioinformatics technology in China, many colleges and universities have successively opened related majors. When talking about how to achieve good results in the fierce competition, Pan Yi introduced two differentiated advantages of the School of Computer Science and Technology.

One is the “small but refined” teaching model. The number of students enrolled in the college is limited, so there are enough teachers to carry out refined management education for students.

During the teaching process, the college encourages students to participate in professional-related competitions, requires students to visit professors’ laboratories more often, and encourages fresh graduates to go to high-tech companies such as Huawei for internships.

Pan Yi advocates teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and guiding students to choose different career directions according to their interests. In the future, whether it is to continue their studies or work in colleges or enterprises, Pan Yi hopes that the students who graduate from the School of Computer Science and Technology of Shenzhen University of Science and Technology will be able to stand on their own and grow into pillar talents.

The second is to cultivate interdisciplinary professionals. To achieve this goal, the curriculum setting is particularly important.

When introducing the characteristics of the major, Pan Yi mentioned, “If the other biomedical colleges of Deep Science and Technology use ready-made tools to solve problems, then what the School of Computer Science needs to do is to use biological big data to develop tools.”

Therefore, students need to understand not only computer-related technologies, but also relevant knowledge of biomedicine. The college wants to cultivate interdisciplinary bridge students who understand both biomedicine and computers.

Pan Yi’s Plan: Allow students to freely choose biomedical courses to study according to their interests. When they graduate, they can complete the graduation design independently or in cooperation with other colleges according to their personal elective direction combined with computer basics.

At the same time, students from other colleges have to study one or two courses in the computer science college to understand basic computer technology, so that students from different colleges can collaborate on interdisciplinary projects in the future.

After returning to China, Pan Yi’s work was obviously busy. Compared to Georgia State University, which already has a solid foundation, it takes significantly more energy to promote the creation and development of a new college.

“Hard work but high spirits” – this is Pan Yi’s description of his work status after returning to China. The work of Shenyang Polytechnic University has given him a greater sense of accomplishment, which cannot be given to him by stable work in the United States.

At the age of sixty-two, he once again stood at the intersection of his life.

The following is an excerpt from the dialogue between Leifeng.com and Professor Pan Yi:

Leifeng.com: During your studies in China and when you applied for a doctoral degree in the United States, your main focus was computer. How did you decide to switch to the interdisciplinary direction of biomedical and computer science?

Pan Yi:When I started as a department chair at Georgia State University in 2005, the Department of Computer Science was still a young department with fifteen or six professors and fifteen or six guns. So I was thinking, how can such a young department get ahead?

If one of these fifteen or six guns were placed in each place, then this system would definitely be buried. So I just wanted to focus people and resources on a new area. Then I found out that bioinformatics is good.

What is biological information? It is the use of computer technology to solve biological problems. Why is it good? Because generally people who are engaged in computers do not understand biology, they are unwilling to change their direction, and those who do not understand computers will not be able to turn around. After I found this opportunity, I felt that if you don’t do it, I can do it, and I will definitely be able to do it well.

This is an emerging discipline. Whether it is an old university or a new university, the starting point is the same. As long as I work hard, I can surpass you. If it’s an old field, and those schools have been building up for decades, it’s unlikely that I’m going to overtake them from scratch.

After that, I went to communicate with the biology professor, and we got a project of more than 1 million US dollars together. I ask these professors to combine biology on the basis of their own research fields. For example, those who study artificial intelligence use artificial intelligence to do biological data analysis, and those who study computer visualization do protein and molecular visualization, and let them use these research funds. Publish papers within a limited time.

In this way, the professors were all interested, and the team moved forward together. Within a few years, we won the Outstanding Achievement Award from the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering. Later, we also established our own conference, hosted magazines, and published textbooks.

In the 10 years from 2011 to 2021, Georgia State University’s computer in the field of bioinformatics reached 22nd in the world. Although it is a small department, it has defeated many top universities including Tsinghua University and Peking University in such a short time since its establishment.

Leifeng.com: In the European and American discourse systems and traditional concepts, the social status of Asians is not ideal. Did you experience any offense or setbacks because of your Asian-American status as a department chair at Georgia State University?

Pan Yi:Surely there will be. But being an Asian will definitely be much less of a chance than a white one. White people have a common language and culture. For example, when they chat, they talk about cartoons and movies they watched as children, but I don’t understand them. Therefore, they will naturally be closer, and they will support and help each other more, so our chances will be relatively less.

A Chinese friend of mine is an associate dean in another university in the United States. He told me his story when he came to Georgia State University for further studies. He is the only Asian among the dozens of deans and associate deans in the school. Excluded from other white deans. For example, when the deans were chatting together at a party, if he participated in the speech, no one would respond, but if a white person spoke up, they would continue to chat. Over time, no one listened to what he said. This is a very covert discrimination.

But my work experience in the United States has always been indomitable. Both my subordinates and leaders are very satisfied with me. This is a rare thing. How did I do it?

For my leader, the department led by Mr. Pan has created miracles and achievements for the school. He won’t ask the leader for help over and over again. Every time he reports to him, it is good news. Compared with troublemaker, he Definitely like me more.

So, it’s still very capable. When your research ability greatly exceeds others, and you can contribute to the team selflessly, everyone will have a stronger sense of identification with you.

Leifeng.com (Public Number: Leifeng.com): In the process of teaching and educating people for many years, what is the concept you have always upheld?

Pan Yi:The thing I have always hoped for, and the most fulfilling thing, is how much higher a student can be. Of course, it’s normal for teachers to like good, bright students. But in my opinion, if he already has a 9, and I take him to a 10, that’s not my goal, and it’s not interesting.

Ten years ago, I had a PhD student graduate. At that time, he was only a college student in China, and he did not get into the undergraduate program, and his major was English. Because Atlanta and Chengdu, where Georgia is located, are sister cities, he came to do the English translation. After the end, he applied to our university to re-read the undergraduate degree in computer science. After graduating from undergraduate, I taught him hand-in-hand, and he was also very hardworking, because it was an inter-professional study, and everything had to start from scratch. After graduating from his Ph.D., he published several good articles and became a full professor in an American university a few years ago.

From his example, I would like to illustrate two points: first, what I want to do is to “give help in the snow”, not “icing on the cake”; secondly, for a student, as long as he works hard and sticks to one direction, he can succeed.

This is also the future, what I want to do at Deep Tech.

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