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The sudden question made Ji Mingzhi feel confused for a moment, and then he felt happy, and then nervous again... It only took a few seconds for all the emotions to appear in his mind.

No wonder Ji Mingzhi's emotions were too complicated, this opportunity was too rare for him.

Although he is the best student in the School of Mathematics at Jiangsu University, and Jiangda is also ranked as a double first-class university in China, Ji Mingzhi is very clear that if he wants to study with Ning Wei, the school will probably have to be the worst. At the level of Jiang University. If he had any advantage, it would probably be that Jiangnan University was Ning Wei's alma mater after all, and he was the only one recommended by the school this year.

Therefore, this answer is likely to be directly related to his future, so naturally he cannot remain calm.

"Professor Ning, Dean Kong had an in-depth talk with me. If I have the honor to study as a doctoral student with you, he hopes that after I successfully graduate from the Ph.D., I can return to Jiangnan University to build a number theory system tutorial in the direction of artificial intelligence. It is probably a branch of Hongyi Academy and will carry out relevant research here at Jiangsu University, and I agreed."

"Of course, the number of students that Jiangda will recruit in the future is definitely incomparable with Ningban. However, artificial intelligence is a hot industry in the future, and the thirst for talents must also be at different levels. Dean Kong hopes that Jiangda will take advantage of this The direction is to become a top second-tier university in the country.”

"Yeah." Ning Wei nodded and turned to look at Kong Mingde who was smiling.

He still remembered that Kong Mingde actually mentioned this idea to him when he called him. It seemed that both parties had already discussed it, so he smiled and said: "Dean Kong, I specially compiled two related textbooks for Ning Ban. I will wait for you later. After it is officially printed, I will donate 20,000 copies to Jiangnan University in my personal name."

"That's a good feeling! But the teaching materials are easy to say, and someone still needs to teach them!" Kong Mingde sighed with emotion.

"I think Mr. Ji can indeed be a leader, and I will be strict with him. But Mr. Ji, there is another problem. If you study for my graduate degree, you may have to give up many exchange opportunities abroad. You have to consider this. Okay. I’m not being pretentious. I don’t want you to go out and broaden your horizons. The main reason is that after the second year of postgraduate studies, you will have to participate in some projects that I have taken over, and many of the projects are currently confidential, and the deadline may be It will last for about ten years after graduation, so this shouldn’t affect your future plans, right?”

Ning Wei turned to look at Ji Mingzhi again and asked.

Ji Mingzhi immediately replied: "Huh...it's okay, it's okay, Professor Ning, if you want to study in other directions, I can understand that you need to go abroad to broaden your horizons. But if it's artificial intelligence, I think learning from you is enough." There is really no need to go abroad to communicate with other experts. On the contrary, if other countries in this field really want to promote exchanges at present, they should take the initiative to come to China to attend some conferences to communicate more with you."

How should I put it? Ning Wei doesn’t think this guy in front of him looks like the top student at Hongyi Academy? Whether it's emotional quotient or IQ, they are both very high...

These words simply spoke to his heart.

Ning Wei is still struggling with the fact that three of the world's top computer conferences have not chosen to be held in China this year, which seems to be a bit of a failure. Of course, invitations to these meetings were sent to him without exception, but he refused them all.

Ning Wei smiled and said casually: "Okay, I remember the interview is scheduled for the 13th, right? It doesn't matter whether you go or not. You can consider finishing your undergraduate course as soon as possible, complete your graduation thesis, and report early next year. In addition, I It’s better to read more of the papers sent to you by email, they are all very basic. If you have any questions, just send me an email and I will get back to you after seeing it.”

These words also gave Ji Mingzhi some reassurance.

This interview is not very important. It is a completely new theory and application direction. The undergraduate level basically does not involve the professional knowledge that needs to be learned at the graduate level, so this interview does not consider too much professional knowledge. .

As for testing professional knowledge at the undergraduate level, there is no need. After all, the students recommended to Ningwei at this stage are basically top students from double-first-class universities, and their grade point rankings are among the best in their respective majors. In addition, March has continued to communicate with these students, and Ning Wei has been provided with a relatively scientific ranking. The interview mainly focuses on the personality characteristics of the students and whether they can match Ning Wei's eye.

This time Ning Wei came to Jiangda and met Ji Mingzhi once, and roughly understood his thoughts. There was no need for Ji Mingzhi to go to the capital again.

"Xiaoji, why don't you thank Professor Ning quickly? Haha, but Professor Ning, I think it's better for Xiaoji to go over there during the interview to save others from gossiping. Besides, Xiaoji has already earned enough credits, and he only needs I have finished my graduation thesis, and I won’t learn anything if I continue to stay in school. It’s better to wait for the interview and just stay with you at Yanda. If there is anything I need him to do, just ask him. He will wait for his defense next year. Just come back and it will be fine. What do you think? Professor Ning." Kong Mingde suggested.

When Kong Mingde said this to Ning Wei, he felt a lot of emotions in his heart.

Even though I communicate with him via WeChat on the phone on weekdays, I still feel that every time I face Ning Wei, there is always a sense of unreality.

He couldn't help but think that Ning Wei's appearance when he first came into his eyes three years ago was not much different from now, but his status was completely different. Three years ago, Ning Wei was just an ordinary senior undergraduate, but now he is a doctoral supervisor, and he is also the most popular academician candidate of the Academy of Sciences this year. In other words, by the end of the year, Ning Wei will most likely be like him. Became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The 25-year-old academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is no longer an exception. In the past, those who were able to become academicians at the age of forty were already considered outstanding young people, with an unlimited future. Ning Wei moved the age limit downwards by fifteen years without much resistance.

Of course, there are still many different opinions within the Academy of Sciences. For example, Ning Wei is still too young, and the young and energetic should have more experience, but in the end, he was suppressed by louder voices. For many big guys, there is nothing they can do. After all, many academicians in the School of Engineering recommended Ning Wei. This time, it was not given to a double academician, which was already the result of coordination between the two parties.

If something goes wrong here in the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering fails to comment, I think the Academy of Engineering will directly rob people.

What's more important is that the big bosses who have retired for a long time and have rarely expressed public opinions on these issues have all spoken out. They all support the extraordinary promotion of the young man in front of them. The voices of these big bosses are uniform. Enough to shut up all the discordant voices.

In three years, from undergraduate to academician, I can say that I have completed a road that would have taken others more than ten or twenty years to complete. I am still the kind of academician who continues to project one after another. This is unacceptable.

"Um? This seems to be okay, but the dormitory at Yanbei University seems to be very tight now. If there is no formal admission, there will definitely be no way to arrange dormitories on campus..." Ning Wei thought for a while and said.

"It's okay, Professor Ning. I think Dean Kong's arrangement is quite good. Don't worry. If there are no dormitories, I can rent a room off campus." Ji Mingzhi said quickly.

If both sides hold this opinion...

"That's okay. You can do something with Senior Brother Yu when you go. Senior Brother Yu Xingwei is currently working on a project, and he is very pioneering. If you don't understand anything, you can ask Senior Brother Yu for advice. If you want to rent a house, ...Well, let me tell you, our Dean Kong is very generous. If he wants to sign a contract with you to return to school after graduation, if you ask him for a housing subsidy in the capital, he will definitely be willing to give it." Ning Wei suggested with a smile. .

"Uh..." Ji Mingzhi glanced at Kong Mingde.

"Haha, Professor Ning said so. We must not be petty. House prices around Yanbei University are indeed relatively expensive. President Du, why don't you go say hello to the comrades in the Beijing Office and find a way to arrange a hotel near Yanbei University? A room, and we will pay for the expenses." Kong Mingde looked at the accompanying principal and said.

"Okay, no problem, I have to thank Professor Ning!"

…

Overall, this trip to Jiangcheng truly made the guests and hosts enjoy themselves.

For Ning Wei, the reputation of his alma mater is enough, and for the school, the person recommended by him has become the first candidate for Ning Wei's direct PhD student, which can be regarded as further binding the relationship with Ning Wei.

In fact, Jiangsu University originally wanted to take this opportunity to award Ning Wei a certificate of lifelong honorary professor, but Ning Wei firmly declined. On the one hand, the schedule is relatively tight, but mainly because Ning Wei feels that he has not made much contribution to the school after graduation. At this time, he deserves to receive the certificate of tenured honorary professor.

But it's also because Jiang Da didn't insist too much. The consideration at the school level is to wait until the end of the year after Ning Wei is added to the academician list of the Academy of Sciences. It will be more festive to celebrate Ning Wei becoming the youngest academician in China and award the certificate at the same time.

If I have to say I have any regrets about this trip to Jiangnan University, it would probably be that I didn’t get to meet Academician Lu and Liu Cong.

Speaking of which, Ning Wei was the one who started it...

Huawei has decided to set up Ningsi Lab to make desktop-level chips, which requires a high degree of cooperation in the EDA project. As one of the important R\u0026D units of minimalist EDA, Jiangda Software Laboratory naturally has to come up with a plan for this matter. One hundred and twenty percent attention.

Therefore, Lu Changbin, Lao Han, the head of the Jiangda Software Laboratory of the EDA project team, and Liu Cong, the contact person of both parties, were invited to have a series of meetings at the Huawei headquarters in Shenzhen during the National Day to ensure that the two parties could cooperate at all levels and ensure that Design software will not hold back Ningsi Lab...

I have to say that this is very Huawei. It never considers holidays or not when doing things.

Of course, it probably has something to do with the fact that this project is really important.

So after returning to the capital, Ning Wei finally enjoyed a complete vacation and once again began to devote himself wholeheartedly to the design of the three-dimensional instruction set. For a brand new instruction set, it is necessary to abandon the bloated parts of the previous instruction set and make features that are in line with the users of the times, which naturally requires careful design.

It is necessary to consider high frequency and high performance, the preprocessing of each instruction, multi-level cache, branch prediction, fetching, decoding, distribution, reordering, loading, launching, and finally execution, so that the CPU can efficiently complete various instructions. It is never a simple matter. We must consider both the execution speed and the power consumed by the execution process...

Even with March as an assistant, this is still an extremely huge project. A little bit of design, then simulation verification by March, there are almost no shortcuts. But there is no way. The awesomeness has been blown out before, so now I can only dive into this project.

Fortunately, Huawei also quickly set up the Ningsi laboratory. The main leaders of each project also met with Ningwei through remote video. A WeLink account was also opened for Ningwei to facilitate instant communication between the two parties. communicate. Ning Wei was also able to hand over some auxiliary work directly to the connecting technicians, which was equivalent to having a support team of hundreds of people behind him, so that he would not have to work alone.

In this way, a week passed almost in an instant.

When he was about halfway through the work of designing the instruction set, it was time for the direct doctoral student interview that the school had scheduled for him.

Ning Wei still attaches great importance to this interview. If Ning Ban’s previous interview assessment used his decision as the main basis, then in this interview assessment for direct doctoral students, his decision is the final opinion. In theory, Ning Wei even It’s okay not to listen to anyone’s opinion.

After all, you are choosing students for yourself.

And compared to the Ningban interview, this interview is more important to Ning Wei.

As an undergraduate class, Ningban can still adjust after admission. If you cannot keep up with the academic performance after entering the class, or you find that this major is not suitable for you, Yanbei University still has a relatively loose way to change majors.

But it’s different for direct PhD students.

After the tutor is confirmed, whether the tutor wants to change students or the students want to change tutors, it is a very troublesome matter.

For tutors, it is actually a troublesome thing to select students who are not satisfied with them, especially for those serious and responsible tutors. If the people they recruit just want to lie down and just hang around, they will not be able to deal with it. Well, the whole team is ruined.

Another issue is the quota. The quota allocated to each tutor by colleges and universities is relatively fixed.

This is due to dual considerations. First, all tutors must be taken care of. Otherwise, students will all apply for some popular tutors, which may lead to a situation where some popular tutors have too many students and other tutors have no one. Second, the tutors’ energy is also limited. , and some tutors themselves have scientific research and undergraduate teaching tasks. They recruit too many graduate students and doctoral students, and they have no energy to take care of them.

Ning Wei happened to be the kind of pursuing Ph.D. supervisor, and there was no shortage of students to sign up. If the students he recruited were not happy with each other, it would simply be causing trouble for himself.

The students recruited this time basically have to get along with each other for five to six years. In addition to the field of strong artificial intelligence number theory, except for Ning Wei, research in other places is still in a very preliminary stage, so the entire academic community is interested in Ning Wei. These first batch of direct Ph.D. students have high hopes. After they complete their studies, these people must be upright and able to stand alone. If they are not accurate, they will be observed with a magnifying glass by everyone, at least not too much.

So no matter how busy he was, Ning Wei put down everything one day in advance and carefully studied the information of all the students participating in the interview. They were all extremely outstanding students.

After all, this had already been screened in March, and 35 people were selected from more than 80 people to participate in this interview. Then pick nine people among them...

It is precisely because these students who hope to study with Ning Wei are so outstanding that the school has adjusted the interview time very early. If Ning Wei is not selected here, it can still give these children enough time. Connect with other mentors you would like.

Just like that, at nine o'clock in the morning on October 13th, the interview was held on time at the Mathematics Research Center. It was expected to be completed in one day. Each student had about ten minutes to express his or her thoughts.

In order not to be disturbed by off-site factors, Ning Wei only asked Lu Dongyi, Yu Xingwei and Lucy to support the scene for this interview.

These three people were also carefully selected by Ning Wei.

Lu Dongyi will not give opinions due to any off-site factors. Yu Xingwei will usually fully comply with Ning Wei's opinions. As for Lucy's opinions, Ning Wei can ignore them at all.

Soon, the first student walked into the interview office. This interview was directly based on the number-calling mode, and March was in charge. The order of the interviews was also the order given by March when he communicated with these students through emails.

"Hello Professor Ning, hello teachers, I am Meng Runze from the Department of Mathematics, School of Mathematics, Yanbei University. I have achieved excellent results during my studies in the Department of Mathematics. My current average grade point is 3.8772, ranking first in my professional grade, and I joined the school when I was a sophomore. Undergraduate research plan, the supervisor is Wang Haize, the research topic is extremal combinations and extremal graph theory. During my undergraduate period, I wrote two papers on the turan problem, one of which was published in the "Journal of Mathematics" under the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences ", another article was published in the mathematics magazine J Math Pure Appl with the help of Director Wang..."

Ning Wei has actually seen these past honors and achievements, but looking at the student who is studying next door and repeating them, it is actually quite good, especially the confidence and vitality revealed in the tone when introducing himself. Still very convincing...

"Well, Mr. Meng, thank you very much for choosing me as your future mentor. However, there is a very real problem in being my direct Ph.D. student. During the scientific research stage, you are likely to be exposed to some confidential research, which will have an impact on going abroad in the future. , it may be a long time before you even need to give up the opportunity to go abroad for exchanges. Are you willing? Don’t rush to answer, you can think about it.”

When facing outstanding students, Ning Wei was extremely direct in asking questions.

"Objection, Ning, why is this? Isn't extensive communication within the industry necessary for academic improvement?" Before Meng Runze could answer the question, Lucy looked at Ning Wei in surprise and asked.

Ning Wei is quite satisfied, this woman is really cooperative...