Zang Yubin's Social Evaluation

-Interview with Professor Zang Yubin, Dean and Doctoral Supervisor of School of Software, Fudan University

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You may not believe it. In the School of Software Engineering of Fudan University, the young dean Zang was called "Boss" from top to bottom-a very intimidating but very close name. Speaking of the origin of Dean Zang's "Big Brother", there is a touching story. School of Software is one of the youngest schools in Fudan University, and the preparatory work began on 200 1. During the establishment of the college, all the conditions were very difficult-there was a shortage of teaching staff, teaching, experiment and office space, and funds ... The only gratifying thing is that more than 100 freshmen from the departments of electric light source, chemistry, mathematics, physics, Chinese and national politics are about to transfer to the software college. When a university has students, it has everything. However, they come from many departments and live in various dormitory areas of the school, which brings great inconvenience to the communication between students and the development of college work. After learning about this problem, Dean Zang made a decisive decision and actively strived for it from the school, which solved the problem of students' dormitory concentration as quickly as possible, and personally arranged the transfer procedures for those students to change departments and majors. Because the students' original majors are different, they have a lot of inadaptability to the new study and life after entering the soft institute.

Dean Zang not only gives careful guidance in learning, but also pays close attention to students' thoughts and lives, and often talks with students to help them gradually adapt to the new learning environment. He is like a father, a kind but stern "father", who unreservedly gives every student in the soft institute a mountain of selfless love. Among the students, the "dean" does not exist. There are only such people: "partners" who can have lunch with classmates for a few dollars, "friends" who can give enough support when everyone is in trouble, and "predecessors" who can be persuasive when hesitating. For such people, the name "boss" seems to be very appropriate, so it spread slowly among students, so that when someone asks "who is the dean of the software college", the students will smile, "We only have the boss". "Boss" is an image and a spirit, which has been deeply rooted in the hearts of teachers and students in soft institute. Many people think that college life is different from middle school. Apart from attending classes, students and teachers usually have little contact, let alone be leaders. However, the soft school is very different. There is no hierarchical relationship between teachers and students, and there is only the belief that "unity is strength, and unity is strength". This is the spirit of Fudan Soft Institute.

The core of this spirit comes from this "boss", or dean. In response to the call of the CPC Central Committee to vigorously develop China's software industry, Dean Zang returned to Fudan University from Intel China Software Lab to set up a software college. With the strong support of the school, he completed the establishment of the Software College in a short time, and practiced various affairs, which was unanimously recognized by teachers and students. After more than a year's efforts, the college has more than 400 undergraduates, more than 400 masters in software engineering and more than 30 faculty members, which has begun to take shape. "I didn't do anything, it was everyone's credit." Talking about his work, Dean Zang Yubin, an expert in computer compilation technology and inarticulate, commented on his work like this.

Leave home and start a home.

65438-0983, Zang was admitted to Fudan University with excellent results in Suzhou No.4 Middle School, majoring in computer. Since then, he has been tirelessly pursuing information technology. 1990 has been engaged in teaching and scientific research since graduating from master's degree. 1996 studied parallel compilation technology with Professor Zhu Chuanqi, a well-known domestic parallel computing expert, and 1999 received his doctorate. Subsequently, 200 1 was promoted to professor of Fudan University, and in 2002 he became doctoral supervisor of Fudan University. For more than ten years, he has made outstanding achievements in many fields such as parallel compilation, optimized compilation and dynamic optimized compilation. He developed a parallel compiling system AFT (Automatic Fortran Converter). In cooperation with the University of Minnesota, Agassiz (target language is C, Fortran) was developed. 1996 The scientific research achievements of parallel editing won the second prize of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the second prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award. Obtained American patent in the field of binary dynamic translator research; Published dozens of papers in international and domestic authoritative journals; At the same time, he presided over many scientific research projects, such as "Shanghai Qixing Project", "Intel University Cooperation Program" and "Philips University Cooperation Program". In addition to his achievements in scientific research, Professor Zang is also actively engaged in social work, serving as a director of China * * * Software Alliance and a member of the System Software Committee of China Computer Federation. These rich scientific research and social experiences have laid a solid foundation for his brilliant achievements today.

"Setting up a software institute is both an opportunity and a challenge" is the first sentence of the legendary story of Dean Zang. Before and after the establishment of the Soft Institute, Dean Zang experienced a tortuous process of "leaving home-going home-establishing home". Starting from the reasons for the reform of the college teaching system, Dean Zang described this experience with his concise vocabulary. 65438-0999 participated in the work of the curriculum reform group of the computer department at that time, so he had the opportunity to contact computer courses of many famous universities in the United States, Canada and other countries. He found that there are great differences in teaching ideas, teaching methods and teaching contents between foreign countries and China. First of all, the foreign curriculum system is relatively complete, and the content connection is reasonable. Secondly, the implementation of the credit system is more thorough. In China, it is not uncommon that the curriculum system is incomplete and the teaching content is out of touch. The promotion of the credit system is still in its infancy. These reasons make China's teaching and personnel training level far behind foreign countries, which is also one of the reasons for the slow development of China's software industry to a certain extent. Therefore, in the course reform of computer department from 65438 to 0999, he deliberately introduced some foreign courses and teaching materials, adopted some teaching systems of foreign computer disciplines, and reformed the course system of computer department students of grade 2000. However, this educational reform did not meet the expected requirements of Dean Zang. In his mind, he has been expecting a more free space to realize his teaching philosophy. In addition, the gap in talent training level is also reflected in the gap in scientific research level at home and abroad. Working in colleges and universities for a long time, he realized that the difference of scientific research system was an important reason for this gap, but he didn't have the opportunity to deeply understand what the system of foreign scientific research institutions was like. In August, 2000, an important scientific research project of Intel China Lab urgently needed experts in parallel compilation, so he was invited. After careful consideration, he decided to resign from the computer department to learn about the operation mechanism of foreign scientific research institutions.

So, in 2000, Dean Zang "left home" and went to Intel China Software Lab. At that time, in the team where he worked, he was the only "domestic" structural engineer, and the rest were foreigners, which brought him room to fully display his talents and communicate. During his one-year stay at Intel, he deeply understood the modern management system of foreign scientific research institutions and deeply felt Intel's rich corporate culture. Dean Zang told us that foreign companies attach great importance to each employee's career development planning, including some skills training, in order to give full play to each employee's intelligence, and at the same time try to ensure that each employee can find his own room for survival and development in the enterprise. Employees are part of the corporate culture. What impressed him most was the difference between "Big Three" and "Small Three": in well-known foreign companies such as Intel, the personnel, finance and general affairs of enterprises are called "Small Three", and the purpose of these departments is to serve the technical, production and sales departments. On the contrary, these departments have become the "big three" in many domestic enterprises, with great power, big official airs and great style, and no or little service concept.

One year's working experience in Intel company has strengthened the original reform belief of Dean Zang and made his reform ideas more mature. But at this time, he had not thought of the opportunity to implement the change-the moment he called "dramatic change" with a smile was coming quietly.

In the second half of 200 1, the Ministry of Education and the State Planning Commission issued the Notice of the Ministry of Education and the State Planning Commission on Approving the Pilot Software College in Colleges and Universities, and Fudan University was allowed to pilot the National Model Software College. The new college needs new leaders. Colleagues from the former School of Information recommended Dean Zang to the Dean. At this time, he has made a lot of scientific research achievements in Intel, and the project team he led has successfully completed many tasks, and he also has feelings for the company. However, in the discussion with the school leaders, when the principal talked about the school-running policy, school-running system and the concept of international school-running, Dean Zang resolutely decided to give up the generous treatment at Intel and accept the mission gladly. Knowing that it is difficult to start a business, he "tends to go up the mountain", "leave home" for a year and "go home", which is still in the process of conception. Although the "home" at this time is almost "surrounded by family", he firmly believes that more than ten years of knowledge and experience accumulation and one year of scientific research experience in multinational enterprises can definitely establish the "home". In the interview, Dean Zang said, "No matter how well you do here, you are doing Intel for others." Now the country needs to train talents, and the leaders trust me, so I can work for our own family in the future. "

At 200 1, 1, the establishment of the software institute began, and Dean Zang officially took office.

Recruit students, recruit talents and educate people

Without students, the college will have no foundation, and the urgent task is to recruit students. According to the spirit of the Ministry of Education, students who change majors can be recruited from the students in school, so Dean Zang immediately organized people to conduct enrollment publicity, from planning and design to making enrollment posters, advertisements and publicity color pages in one go, and released information by all available methods and means: holding lectures, posting posters, distributing leaflets, campus broadcasting, establishing websites, opening BBS special editions, etc. , attracting more than 200 students from all departments in 2000. The selection examination will be arranged after the Spring Festival, and 107 people will be selected according to their grades. On March 18, 2000, the School of Software held the opening ceremony, the first batch of undergraduates started classes, and a national model software college started its courses. Subsequently, in the same year, the college started the enrollment of 200 1 and 2002 undergraduate students, and successfully completed the enrollment plan. In September, as one of the goals of the Institute of Software, international cooperation in running schools was also settled: a joint training plan for software talents was signed with the University of Dublin, Ireland, and the first batch of jointly trained students were recruited. Since then, the undergraduate training system of the college has been basically complete.

An important goal of establishing a software college is to cultivate high-level compound software talents with international competitiveness and innovation ability. Therefore, in addition to undergraduate education, it is necessary to carry out master of engineering and master of engineering education and degree education at home and abroad. Therefore, recruiting software engineering and master of engineering has naturally become a major task of the college. After full preparation and publicity, the enrollment of two engineering masters was completed in 2002. In the words of Dean Zang, 2002 is the year of enrollment, and five students are enrolled in one year, which has never happened before. This year, for the first time, more than 30 freshmen/kloc-0 were admitted from the national high school graduates according to their wishes and college entrance examination results, which marked the normalization of college enrollment.

In order to achieve the goal of running a college, an excellent team of teachers is essential. In view of the characteristics of rapid knowledge updating and high quality requirements in the software field, Dean Zang not only introduced middle-aged and elderly teachers with rich teaching and scientific research experience, but also boldly enabled young teachers to provide them with opportunities for all-round development. The staffing of the college is based on the principle of "no doubt about employing people, no doubt about using people", and under the premise of ensuring the teaching quality, each teacher is given full freedom to play. Talent is always the core issue in the process of the construction of college teachers. In the process of recruiting teachers, there is a story: a doctor who graduated from the Department of Automatic Control in Tsinghua University became the CTO of a company by virtue of the industrial value of his doctoral thesis. When he heard about the Software College of Fudan University, he applied. After understanding and talking, Dean Zang thought he was a rare talent, so he tried his best to invite the doctor to join us. The doctor wants to continue his scientific research, so the college must provide very sufficient conditions, which are determined by Dean Zang. Sincerely, Dr. Shi Kai finally quit his original position and became a member of Fudan Software College. His wife, an outstanding woman who is also engaged in the IT industry, also settled in Fudan with him. No wonder at a recent get-together, doctors and couples expressed their feelings that "both husband and wife are home, and the soft hospital is our home".

Over the past year or so, the college has absorbed talents from many well-known universities and IT enterprises at home and abroad on the principle of relative stability, reasonable flow and combination of full-time and part-time work. Dean Zang is pleased to tell us that at present, a relatively stable teaching staff management model and an effective teacher resource allocation and development system have been initially established, and a teaching team with high academic attainments, good academic structure and rich experience in teaching and software development is gradually taking shape.

Both students and teachers have reached the scale, and the teaching work must be improved accordingly. To this end, Dean Zang has also made great efforts in the teaching system. Focusing on the system-level application and enterprise-level application of software, he proposed that courses should focus on high-end and low-end development on distributed and heterogeneous platforms, strengthen the training of basic theories and skills such as program design, algorithm, data structure, architecture and engineering management, absorb the advantages of paying equal attention to the width and depth of the curriculum system of famous universities in Europe and America, and combine the current market demand for talents and the forward-looking grasp of industrial development to comprehensively improve students' analytical design ability and development practice ability. The design of the whole curriculum system is not limited to the teaching of popular tools, but should pay attention to the absorption of basic theories and the cultivation of thinking mode and learning ability. In addition, for the master of software engineering, we should also pay attention to the teaching of methodology and the improvement of management ideas. We should pay attention to the case study and software development process, so that students can be competent for the positions of system analysis and project management.

In terms of teaching, Dean Zang told us that the college emphasizes a large number of informative teaching contents, a large number of extracurricular reading materials and high-intensity after-school practical projects, so as to cultivate students to master solid basic theories and extensive professional knowledge, and to exercise students' ability to analyze and solve problems, thus forming a strong international competitiveness. At the same time, in order to improve the teaching quality, Dean Zang asked teachers to use multimedia for teaching, and established a new teacher's trial lecture system, a student evaluation system and a teaching supervision system. A brand-new teaching management system surfaced.

In addition, the modern scientific research management system and administrative management system were also established under the auspices of Dean Zang, and the work of the whole college was fully rolled out. As a summary of a period of work, in July this year, at the working meeting of all faculty members held in Hangzhou, Dean Zang put forward a three-sentence policy for the future development of the college: "Discipline construction is the foundation, master of engineering is the focus, and system construction is the guarantee".

After work, Dean Zang also mentioned the first batch of students who entered the soft institute, saying that there are many things in the institute now, so we don't have more time to spend with the students, so we have to find a time to make up for it, because this is the tradition in the institute: professional tutors are fully close to the students and provide all-round guidance for their development, so that they can learn some practical skills and establish a sound personality when they graduate from the soft institute. The dean takes the lead in caring for the students, which reflects its value from the students' achievements. This year, the students of the first session of the Institute of Soft Engineering entered many well-known IT companies for internships, such as IBM, Flextronics, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sony, Bi Bo, Baoxin and Fudan Kingstar. Their comprehensive quality and working ability have been recognized by these companies, and they all expressed great satisfaction with Fudan students. This situation leads to a shortage of students. For example, IBM hopes to recruit 40 interns, but the college can only provide more than a dozen, which makes the company dissatisfied. Speaking of which, Dean Zang's face showed a little relief. For a long time, it seems that the burden can be put down a little, and some achievements have been made in the long-term running.

A good wife loves her son.

The edge of the sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter cold. Dean Zang's persistent pursuit for many years has made him gain a bumper harvest in his career, but this is only half the happiness. His "other half's happiness" lies in his warm and harmonious family. Dean Zang's lover is a doctor in the physics department of the school, mainly engaged in scientific research. Their son is 7 years old. Speaking of home, Dean Zang's face can't help showing deep love. He said that in the past, he was able to enjoy family happiness by doing scientific research in parallel institutes, which basically balanced the relationship between work, scientific research and family. Since I worked in the Institute of Software, I have had a lot of work pressure, many affairs and little time at home, which can be described as "work at sunrise and rest at sunset". When two people are busy at work, the children will always be "dirty" if they are left unattended. The couple simply called the child's nickname "Zang Xixi". For his wife's understanding and support, Dean Zang only said one sentence, "She knows I can't live without her"; When I mentioned my son, my father's face was filled with happiness and excitement again. When the child was taken care of as a child, the couple gave the child books to read. The child, like his father, is absorbed in reading and does not like to talk. When talking about balancing the relationship between family and work, Dean Zang still said, "The school of software has the highest priority, followed by scientific research, and finally the family." However, Dean Zang also said that as long as he has time, he will definitely spend it with his family. In my spare time, I will read books with my son.

conclusion

The development level of China's software industry still lags behind that of the United States, India, Ireland and other countries. One of the purposes of establishing software colleges in colleges and universities is to promote the development of China's software industry through talent training, improve the software research and development capacity of the whole country, make information technology better serve economic development, and make the software industry one of the new growth points of the national economy. The School of Software of Fudan University has developed to the present scale through the joint efforts of Qi Xin, which has played a good demonstration role. As one of the founders of the college, Dean Zang also played a leading role.

At the end of the interview, it was getting late, but Dean Zang turned on the computer and said that he had to finish some work before going home. We sincerely wish this "boss" dean a brighter life in the future, and the School of Software of Fudan University will achieve more fruitful results under his leadership.