Recently, the supercomputing team “HongYan” from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences shined in the finals of iFLYTEK AI Developer Challenge and Intel AI Global Impact Festival, winning several top prizes. AN Hong, the double-appointed professor of School of Computer Science and Technology and School of Data Science of USTC, served as the team’s advisor.


iFLYTEK AI Developer Challenge is a top AI competition platform dedicated to promoting frontier AI scientific research and transformation of innovative achievements. Guided by AN Hong, HongYan Team has a total of eight members including SHI Jun (team leader), WANG Zhaohui, YI Huite, ZHAO Minfan, KAN Hongyu, QIAO Liang, LIU Qiang and ZHU Ziqi. The team competed in eight competition categories including AI industry, smart agriculture, smart health-care and innovative life. After nearly three months of hard work, the team stood out from 22,472 teams, winning five championships, six runners-up and five second runners-up. Also, they won the title of “Top 10 Teams” due to their excellent performance in two of the competition categories.

The team set the record for winning the most awards in iFLYTEK AI Developer Challenge. On Oct 25, the team was awarded “Top 10 Emerging Artificial Intelligence Teams of World Voice Expo 2021” in view of their success in the Challenge.

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The team also made great achievements in Intel AI Global Impact Festival. On October 28, the CTO of Intel Global, Greg Lavender, announced the winners of the first Intel AI Global Impact Festival. HongYan Team’s project “Radioseg: AI Assistant for Radiotherapy” with team members SHI Jun, ZHAO Minfan and ZHU Ziqi won the highest global award of AI Impact Creators(18+) and the champion in China.

The Intel AI Global Impact Festival this year showcases how human life can be enriched through innovations in intelligent computing. The project of HongYan Team constructed an AI assistant system for radiotherapy for cancer. It can be utilized to conduct high-precision automatic outlining of multiple types of tumors and organs. It is designed to help doctors get rid of heavy mechanical work and improve work efficiency, allowing millions of cancer patients to receive faster and more precise radiotherapy and further improving the utilization of medical resources in China.


(Written by DUAN Qingrong, edited by TONG Xinyang, USTC News Center)