American computer science and statistician Michael I. Jordan received the "Intelligence Science or Mathematics Award" for "fundamental contributions to the theoretical foundations of machine learning and its applications"; German biochemist Dirk Görlich was awarded the "Life Science or Medicine Prize" for his "key discoveries on the mechanism and selectivity of protein transport between the cytoplasm and nucleus".

On September 29, the 2022 first World Association of Top Scientists Award (hereinafter referred to as the "Top Science Association Award", WLA Prize) was announced in Shanghai.

American computer science and statistician Michael I. Jordan won the "Intelligence Science or Mathematics Award" for "fundamental contributions to the theoretical foundations of machine learning and its applications"; German biochemist Die Dirk Görlich was awarded the "Life Science or Medicine Prize" for his "key discoveries on the mechanism and selectivity of protein transport between the cytoplasm and nucleus".

The Top Science and Technology Award is one of the highest scientific awards in the world, with two individual awards of RMB 10 million each. The two winners will come to Shanghai for the award ceremony in early November this year.

Michael I. Jordan Distinguished Title Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, USA

machine learning pioneer

Michael I. Jordan, born in 1956, is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. The main research directions are artificial intelligence, biological systems and computational biology, control, intelligent systems and robots, signal processing, and machine learning.

Professor John Hennessy (2017 Turing Award winner), chairman of the selection committee of the "Intelligent Science or Mathematics Award" of the Top Association for Science and Technology Award, introduced: "Professor Michael Jordan is a pioneer in the field of machine learning. The connection between the four, statistics and graph models, lays a mathematical and computational foundation for machine learning. The interconnectedness of these fields not only helps to promote the research and development of the field of machine learning, but also improves the research work in related fields quality and quantity.”

Machine learning is the cornerstone of artificial intelligence. Professor Jordan has been working in the field of machine learning for nearly 30 years and is one of the pioneers who really used machine learning for specific topic models, such as text analysis and image analysis. In the past decade, the application of machine learning in many fields has exploded, such as self-driving cars, X-ray film analysis, protein folding prediction, etc., all of which are inseparable from the theoretical framework shaped by Professor Jordan's research.

At the same time, Professor Jordan is also an outstanding educator, he has cultivated a large number of backbones and innovative talents for his research field, such as the 2018 Turing Award winner, Professor Yoshua Bengio of the University of Montreal, Zoubin Ghahramani, authoritative in the field of Yeas, professor at Cambridge University, authoritative in the field of LDA, David M. Blei, professor at Columbia University, Andrew Ng, professor at Stanford University, etc. .

Dirk Gerlich, Scientific Member and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Science, Germany

Pioneer of protein nucleocytoplasmic transport mechanism

Dirk Gerlich, born in 1966, is currently a scientific member and director of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Germany. His main research interests are intracellular transport and nuclear pore complexes. , import and export proteins, intrinsically disordered proteins and phase separation, recombinant antibodies.

Protein is the material basis of life and contains the mystery of life activities. "Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Chromosomes are the genetic map of the cell nucleus and are responsible for encoding all the information of the proteins that catalyze life activities. In order to produce these protein molecules, there must be a certain amount of communication inside and outside the cell nucleus." Top Science and Technology Award "Life Science" Professor Randy Schekman, chairman of the selection committee of the "Or Medicine Prize" and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, introduced when interpreting Professor Gerlich's results: The academic community has previously recognized that the relationship between the plasma membrane and the nucleus is There is selectivity in protein transport, but the mechanism of its selection and passage remains unclear. Professor Gerlich was the first to discover the importin responsible for recognizing nucleoprotein signals and generating interactions, and after starting independent research, he went on to obtain a number of fundamental discoveries that revolutionized research in this field.

The result that highlights his originality and significance is his discovery of the colloidal phase of the nuclear pore complex that can form a gel. Selective transport and passage (nuclear pores). Nowadays, the research on the transport mechanism of proteins in the colloidal structure has profoundly influenced relevant basic research and extended to clinical applications, such as "understanding and controlling the molecular delivery mechanism and the interaction with the nucleus production in the process of diagnosis and treatment, and clinical evaluation of disease treatment. is very important," Schekman said.

In the past 8 years, Professor Gerlich's papers have been continuously highly cited by the majority of scientists, and have shown an upward trend year by year, which proves that the importance of his research field and the influence of his research results are constantly increasing.

About Top Science and Technology Award

The Top Science Association Award is an international science award initiated by the World Top Scientists Association, undertaken by the World Top Scientists Development Foundation, and exclusively donated by Sequoia China. It was officially announced on November 1, 2021 at the 4th World Top Scientists Forum. .

The Top Association for Science and Technology Award is awarded once a year. Currently, there are two individual awards, "Intelligent Science or Mathematics Award" and "Life Science or Medicine Award". The same award can be shared by up to 4 winners.

The Top Science and Technology Association Award aims to recognize researchers and technology pioneers who have made pioneering work, promoted the development of theories in their disciplines, opened up new major research fields, or promoted the transformation of science and technology and improved human life, with a view to supporting global scientific and technological progress, and more To properly respond to the common challenges faced by all mankind, and promote the long-term progress of human society.

According to official information, the Top Science and Technology Association Award adopts a nomination system. The review body is divided into a selection committee and a review committee, both of which are composed of outstanding scientists from relevant disciplines in the international scientific community. The selection committee will review all the nomination applications that meet the requirements, and generate a list of candidates for each individual award; after the review committee's deliberation, a list of winners will be generated; then the Top Association for Science and Technology Award Management Committee will review and confirm the final winners.

Roger Kornberg, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, serves as the chairman of the Top Science and Technology Association and the chairman of the Top Science and Technology Association Award Management Committee; 2017 Turing Award winner John Hennessy serves as the top science and technology Association Award for intelligence Chair of the Selection Committee for the Science or Mathematics Prize; Randy Schekman, the 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, chairs the Selection Committee for the Top Association for Science and Technology Prize in Life Science or Medicine.