International Young Scientist Awards

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries, driving efficiencies, and unlocking unprecedented opportunities. To maximize its potential, integrating AI development with Concurrent Design Engineering (CDE) offers a transformative approach. CDE emphasizes parallel processes and cross-disciplinary collaboration, enabling faster, more innovative solutions that align with complex, dynamic requirements. By embedding AI in the CDE framework, organizations can streamline product design and innovation processes. AI algorithms can analyze vast datasets, predict design outcomes, and optimize decision-making , reducing the iterative cycles traditionally required in design engineering. Machine learning models integrated into CDE platforms empower engineers to simulate, test, and refine concepts in real-time, fostering a seamless interplay between ideation and execution. Moreover, the synergy of AI and CDE accelerates time-to-market while maintaining high-quality standards . AI-driven...

China’s surging electric vehicle (EV) output has ignited demand for automotive chips, but domestic firms remain reliant on foreign suppliers for more than 90 per cent of their needs, according to analysts and industry insiders. Officials from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the Development Research Centre of the State Council have repeatedly underscored China’s low self-sufficiency in automotive semiconductors. “Currently, the self-sufficiency rate of automotive chips in China is less than 10 per cent,” according to Luo Daojun, deputy director of the Institute of Components and Materials at MIIT, who was a keynote speaker at several industry conferences this year. Wang Qing, deputy director at the Development Research Centre, told another conference last year that China’s dependency on foreign auto chip suppliers was as high as 95 per cent. “For computing and control chips, the self-sufficiency rate is less than 1 per cent, while for power and memory c...