Sixteen scientific research projects carried out by faculties at Tsinghua won accolades in the National Science and Technology Awards for 2014.
The sixteen projects won five State Natural Science Awards (SNSA), three State Technological Invention Awards (STIA), and eight State Scientific and Technological Progress Awards (SSTPA).
The winning projects covered various research areas, including computer science, thermal engineering, physics, medicine, electronic engineering, and automotive engineering.
Professor Zhang Xiaoxue from Department of Computer Science and Technology and his team won the only first prize for State Natural Science Awards for their research on network computing paradigms and their fundamental theories. It brings the total number of national awards for science and technology received by Tsinghua to 487.
[update: 2015-04]
