Chapter 93 Once you're in the game, you're not in control of your own destiny.
Chapter 93 Once you're in the game, you're not in control of your own destiny.
Lu Ming and Lin Xiaowei would definitely not allow Zhu Weiping to participate in the new project. The school's guarantee is meaningless and has no legal effect whatsoever.
Zhu Weiping also had plenty of ways to more aggressively ostracize Lin Xiaowei, ultimately seizing control of new research topics and achievements.
This kind of thing happens far too often in the country.
Many young professors have suffered this kind of injustice in silence.
To be on the safe side, Lu Ming and Vice President Dai made a three-point agreement: he would follow Lin Xiaowei away from the Institute of Intelligent Science at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology and rent a place off-campus to establish a new artificial intelligence lightweight laboratory.
Lin Xiaowei was solely responsible for all expenses and profits and losses.
All research projects in the laboratory are reported directly to the school leadership, without needing to be reported to the School of Intelligent Science and Technology departments or research institutes.
This is the only feasible solution.
At least we're not doing research in the same subordinate unit; we're all in equal competition within the university, not in a superior-subordinate relationship.
For Director Zhu Weiping, the embarrassment was less severe.
For Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, this is the only way for now. Even if Zhu Weiping makes a scene, the university will have a clear conscience.
The school is truly giving its full support to Zhu Weiping, but its support for Lin Xiaowei is pitifully small. They don't even allocate any funds. How much favoritism does the school expect?
After agreeing on the terms, Vice Principal Dai became somewhat uneasy and asked Lu Ming, "Lu, won't your advisor be angry with the school because of this?"
If Lin Xiaowei were to actually be elected as an academician, and then immediately leave Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, it would be a huge loss of face!
All the top 985 universities in the country can watch Jiangsu University of Science and Technology make a fool of itself!
"Principal, don't worry. With my support now, Professor Lin won't care about the school's paltry sums. He just needs more support in other areas."
Lu Ming was very confident in these words.
"Xiao Lu, this is great news! If the professors at the school don't care about this little bit of money from the school, that would be wonderful!"
Vice Principal Dai genuinely felt that Lu Ming was too arrogant, but he had the right to be arrogant.
There are too many rich and powerful women on the top of the list!
Others may not know, but Vice Principal Dai is very clear about it. He has been paying close attention to Huaqing Technology Company for the past six months.
With an investment of over 10 billion yuan, nearly all of the best nano-battery industry teams in China have been brought together.
From specialized equipment to production lines, and most importantly, dozens of patented technologies, it has already achieved an absolute industry monopoly.
Once listed on the ChiNext board, the market capitalization will be in the hundreds of billions, or even trillions.
Once the production capacity reaches a certain level, allowing the price of nano-batteries to be on par with lithium phosphate batteries, there will be no competitors in China.
Because nano-cells have no resource limitations and are not restricted by any country, they are definitely the first choice for countries to build power storage facilities.
We must provide full policy support.
Otherwise, even a small, dilapidated country would dare to threaten its own people with its lithium mines, demanding this and that, acting with utter impunity.
Decades of comprehensive aid in diplomacy, infrastructure, agriculture, finance, education, and healthcare, and they still turn out to be ungrateful!
How could the higher-ups not be angry?
Therefore, when it comes to the interests of the nation and the people, no foreign country can be relied upon; Tokyo University can only rely on itself!
Just at this crucial moment, ASRock Technology suddenly emerged, single-handedly and with an investment of tens of billions, quickly mastered the entire industrial chain of nano-batteries within a year.
Cow breaking!
Even Vice Principal Dai, a bigwig in the industry, finds it a bit hard to understand and truly admires these people who are involved in the industry.
Not only are they ruthless, but they're also close to achieving a market value of several hundred billion!
The key point is that several investors in Huaqing Company are basically Lu Daqi's fan club.
Cow breaking!
After reaching an agreement with Vice Principal Dai, Lu Ming didn't linger for long. He continued to report on the prospects and current status of the new research project before leaving the principal's office.
Time flies!
Rui Rui is about to take the college entrance exam!
Leaving the administration building of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology's Jiangbin campus, Lu Ming stood in front of the wide steps and casually chewed a piece of gum.
I silently admired this university.
It's December. Next June, Zheng Jiayi, the daughter of Rui Rui, Gao He, Cheng Yuhang, Yang Yunhao, and Han Huilan, will take the college entrance examination.
Rui Rui and Zheng Jiayi are definitely going to be admitted to the law department of Jiangnan University. The two girls' grades are only passable. If they really rely on their own abilities to get into university, they can only get to the level of Jiangnan Normal University at best.
Gao He has a chance to get into Tsinghua and Peking University's Strong Foundation Program, and if Cheng Yuhang can get first place in the provincial mathematics Olympiad, he should also be able to apply for the Strong Foundation Program at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology.
Yang Yunhao is in a bit of trouble; he needs to make a final push in the last six months.
As for myself.
Lu Ming felt he had done his best, and both his mentor's new project and his own project were progressing.
Because the two topics are highly related, both falling within the field of applied mathematics in computer science, they are quite convenient to learn.
Actually, he progressed faster on his own NPC project, and his mentor, Lin Xiaowei, also gave him a lot of guidance.
If there's anything I regret, it's that I've been too busy.
I only won a second prize in this year's National Undergraduate Modeling Contest and failed to complete the main quest (8).
Ultimately, it's because I played too much ball.
Each match is one against two or three opponents, lasting at least two or three hours. Although with his current physique and resilience, such high-intensity confrontations are no problem for him, it's really a waste of time.
What should we do?
We're all friends, none of us have a fixed playing partner. We all genuinely enjoy playing with him and truly appreciate it.
After all, who wouldn't enjoy playing basketball with a muscular, exceptionally talented guy like him?
Their physical strength and skills are also perfect, and their basketball IQ and sportsmanship are excellent. As long as they follow various tactical arrangements, everyone has the opportunity to shoot inside and dunk.
Hey!
Once you're in the world of sports, you're not in control of your own destiny!
Lu Ming sighed and finally took out his phone to send a message to his mentor, Lin Xiaowei: "Everything has been settled. The university supports you in establishing a new Artificial Intelligence Lightweighting Research Center, with one tenured full professorship and three specially appointed associate professorships."
"The conditions are that good?"
Lin Xiaowei was quite surprised; she had originally expected that securing a laboratory would be a great achievement.
"The school requires a minimum of 30 million yuan in research funding each year. Of the three specially appointed associate professors, two are designated by the school: Xie Fengling from our institute and Cheng Qingmei from the Institute of Automation."
Lu Ming guessed that his supervisor would have a hard time accepting these two associate professors, both of whom were notorious academic femme fatales at the university.
Old Dai is really shrewd; he took the opportunity to get rid of those two troublemakers.
"Don't they both have someone protecting them?" Lin Xiaowei definitely couldn't accept that. Did they think her research center was a garbage incinerator?
People might even think she's cut from the same cloth as Xie Fengling and Cheng Qingmei!
"I've talked to Lao Dai. The university assesses our research center based on the total amount of work done, not on individual professors, associate professors, and teaching assistants. So, these two women don't have any performance targets in our center; they can just coast along."
Lu Ming explained it to his mentor, Lin Xiaowei, in detail.
As long as they can secure enough projects, Xie Fengling and Cheng Qingmei can just help out occasionally and get third or fourth-tier assignments.
The school definitely wants these two women to get out of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, but it can't find a suitable reason.
Every top university has its academic femme fatales, both domestically and internationally.
Just like in the entertainment industry, it's all about fame, fortune, and vanity.
These academic femme fatales only target academic bigwigs, so schools are bound to be hesitant to act without concrete evidence and can only pretend to know nothing.
At Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Xie Fengling and Cheng Qingmei were basically playing their cards openly; everyone from teachers to students knew what they were doing.
All the students they taught were from other schools who came through the entrance exams. They chose them because they didn't know the inside story and thought the students were really capable.
Vice Principal Dai insisted on assigning these two associate professors to Lin Xiaowei's research center, precisely because Lin Xiaowei is also a female professor!
Come on, come on!
The school wants to see how these two academic prodigies will manage to produce papers and research results in the future!
If they can't make it, they should leave early and find a tenured full professorship at a third- or fourth-rate local university. That would be good for both them and the university.
Lin Xiaowei was clearly unhappy about this and warned Lu Ming, "Be careful, they'll definitely be watching you!"
"I'm fine with it. At most, I'll help them get a few projects. If they can't handle them, they'll still have to leave!"
Lu Ming wasn't too worried.
On the surface, Xie Fengling and Cheng Qingmei seem like female scientific research geniuses, graduating directly with doctorates and becoming associate professors by the age of thirty-three or thirty-four.
Not only is she very beautiful, but her academic achievements are also remarkable.
In fact, everyone in the industry knows the truth.
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