Youthful new wave of professors in China's universities

27-year-old Yang Shu, a new professor in China's Zhejiang University, has attracted a great deal of attention on social media.

Yang Shu [Photo: thepaper.cn]

Born in June, 1990, Yang graduated from Fudan University, gaining her Bachelor's Degree at 20 years old. She then graduated from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, achieving her Doctor's Degree at 24 years old.

She's among the first batch of Hong Kong PhD Fellowship winners, and has already published a series of academic papers in distinguished international journals, including Compound Semiconductor and Semiconductor Today.

Her outstanding performance has made her one of the youngest on China's 'young overseas high-level talents introduction plan,' scheme, which aims to build up a talent pool for industries in science and technology, and engineering in China.

Yang Shu is now a professor and doctoral supervisor of the College of Electrical Engineering in Zhejiang University.

Yang is not alone. There is another equally youthful professor, born since the 1990s, in the twelfth batch of China's 'young overseas high-level talents introduction plan.'

Liu Mingzhen [Photo: thepaper.cn]

Liu Mingzhen, was born in May 1990. She graduated from Cambridge University and got her Bachelor's Degree at 22 years old. She graduated from Oxford University and got her Doctor's Degree at 24, becoming a professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China at the age of 25.

The only two professors born in 1990 in the plan, they accounts for 0.35% of the total, which makes them very rare indeed.