G9-11 | AI Lab Semester Summary 人工智能实验室学期总结

G9-11 |AI Lab Semester Summary

At the end of last semester, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and Shanghai High School International Division (SHSID) jointly funded an Artificial Intelligence (AI) lab on Computer Vision and Machine Learning (CVML). Fifteen grade 9 to grade 11 students participated in this program.During the following winter break, the students were assigned with tons of reading materials as well as coding practice as a jump start. Since the beginning of this semester, AI lab program has been rolled out with full speed. Professor Ni Bingbing and his team from SJTU traveled to the SHSID campus every Friday afternoon to provide lectures on a series of AI topics with lab work supervision, as well as homework assignments. The first few lectures were not easy, yet with Professor Ni and his team’s vivid teaching style, the Friday after-school AI lab studies soon became the most expected one for many of the students. Throughout the semester, the students not only learned many topics in AI, but also utilized numerous libraries of Python, and then experimented how parameters in the codes producing different results. The semester ended up with small group projects on three topics: generative adversarial network (GAN), recommender system, and semantic segmentation and object detection.

On the afternoon of June 14th, the students visited the AI Research Institute of SJTU as the last session for this semester. The conclusion meeting opened up with a speech from Mr. He, the AI Research Institute leader at SJTU. He welcomed SHSID students for joining this program and talked about his vision on AI researches. Then, Professor Ni, the main instructor for the program, summarized the topics conducted during this semester and laid out his future plans. He suggested the learning of more practical subjects such as human face detection, image search recommendation and the design of unmanned ground vehicles, a few hot areas that could engage the students even better in the near future. Professor Ni also mentioned the wishes of many students—doing more challenging research projects, which can further enhance the students’ abilities in more dimensions.

After the opening speeches, the students went up by groups and each presented their reflection for the program, learnings from the final project, as well as the suggestions to make this program more productive. Every student reflected that they have benefited a lot through the AI course, and even extend some of the learnings in competitions outside of the school, as well as applying their AI knowledge into other activities. Then, Mr. Liao from SHSID wrapped up the meeting and hoped that the students can be motivated to achieve more in breadth and in depth under the guidance of Professor Ni and his team. The trip to SJTU successfully ended with a visit to the AI laboratory, where students got to witness the various fields that AI can be applied to and the astonishing results created by AI research.

Group Presentation SessionsThe research and application of AI would make a significant impact on every aspect of the students’ lives now and in the near future. The AI lab program was such an eye-opening to SHSID students that they look forward to more exciting learnings in the next school year!

人工智能实验室学期总结

上学期末，上海交通大学与上海中学联手创办了一个为高中生学习计算机视觉与机器学习的人工智能实验室。来自上中国际的15位同学参加了该项目。

在接下来的寒假里，学生们领回大量的阅读材料和编码练习作业作为项目的准备阶段。从本学期开始，人工智能实验室的学习全面展开。来自上海交通大学的倪冰冰教授和他的团队不辞辛苦，每周五下午来到上海中学校园，带给同学们一系列人工智能的专题讲座，并辅以实验室学习指导以及作业讨论。最初的几次讲座有一定难度，倪教授和他的团队的教学风格生动活泼，同学们非常喜爱，赞不绝口。整个学期下来，学生们不仅掌握了很多人工智能领域的知识，还学习了如何用不同的 python 库，并对代码中的参数进行了调试得出不同的结果。本学期以三个主题的小组项目结束：生成式对抗网络、推荐系统和检测分割。

6月14日下午，学生们在廖老师与何老师的带领下，参观了上海交通大学人工智能研究院，作为本学期的最后一次活动。汇报会在上海交通大学人工智能研究所所长何老师的致辞中拉开序幕。他欢迎上中国际的学生加入这个项目，并谈到了他对人工智能研究的展望。随后，课程的主讲老师倪教授总结了本学期学习的主要内容，并介绍了后面几个学期的教学规划。他提到让同学们学习更具实际性的领域，如人脸检测、图像搜索推荐、和无人车的设计。这些有趣又实用的课题激发了学生们对人工智能研究的兴趣。除此之外，倪教授还提到了未来能做一些更具挑战性的研究项目，希望提高学生们更多方面的能力。

接下来学生们以小组形式——展示了他们在过去的一学期中所学到的宝贵知识、他们对项目的思考和成果，以及对后续课程的一些建议。学生们提及人工智能课程的学习让他们受益匪浅，有些学生甚至在校外的比赛及其他活动中，很好地应用了课上所学。最后，廖辉老师做了会议结束寄语：他希望同学们在倪教授及其团队的指导下，再接再厉，更广泛、更深入地学习人工智能。此次上海交通大学之旅以参观学院里的人工智能实验室圆满结束，学生们在那里看到了人工智能在不同领域上的应用，以及通过人工智能研究产生的令人炫目的成果。

人工智能的研究和应用将对学生们今后的生活产生深远的影响。人工智能实验室项目让他们大开眼界，他们也期待着在下一学年有更多令人兴奋的收获！

文：唐师禹 9(10)

Written by:Adelynn Tang 9(10)

Pictures by: Liao Hui

Edited by: He Tianzhou