Completion Seminar Celebration: Chongzhi Wang 🎓✨

We’re delighted to celebrate Chongzhi Wang, who recently gave her PhD completion seminar on April 2nd—and what a fantastic session it was!

As part of her joint PhD with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, she spent her final year with us—and we’ve all benefited from her quiet brilliance and generous spirit (not to mention brushing up on a bit of matrix math just by chatting with her!).
Her talk, “Matrix-weighted Networks in Consensus and Synchronization”, was clear, composed, and packed with insight. I really enjoyed it. Chongzhi was calm and confident throughout, handling questions with ease—including some excellent ones from Airlie Chapman that led to great discussion.
Her SJTU supervisors and colleagues tuned in online to support her, though they didn’t get a chance to ask questions this time around. But no worries—Chongzhi has another defense seminar at SJTU later this year, and we’re sure she’ll impress them just as much as she did us.

Congrats again, Chongzhi—it’s been a joy having you with us! We wish you all the best in the final stages of your PhD journey.

Journalist(s): Ying

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