Professional Webinars
Our webinar series brings together great minds from a wide range of fields to inspire and educate the next generation. Through engaging conversations and real-world insights, leading experts share their experiences, ideas, and lessons with young people eager to learn and grow. These sessions aim to spark curiosity, broaden perspectives, and empower youth with the knowledge and confidence to shape the future.
Upcoming
TYTX Research
Webinar Series
Tsinghua Youth Connect is pleased to announce the first installment of our academic research webinar series! This webinar series is open to all members of the community interested in research from Masters to high school students. Tune in to learn about research being conducted in various fields, submit your own questions and topics you’d like to hear about, and get connected with upcoming research opportunities!
This academic research webinar series organized by the Tsinghua Youth in Texas team features these four professors. For those who have yet to apply for their first research position, Dr. Han’s Getting into Research talk will have you reaching out to labs like a pro.
Sep 19 | Getting into Research:
An Introduction
Dr. Zhu Han
9/19 @ 12:00PM CST
Dr. Zhu Han is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, an IEEE, AAAS, and ACM Fellow, and a Tsinghua alumnus (BS ’97). He opens our series with a general-audience session on how students from high school through post-grad can get started in real research, drawing on his work in game theory, wireless networking, security, and data analysis.
Sep 26 | Bioinformatics and Machine Learning
Dr. Xiaowei Zhan
9/26 @ 3:00PM CST
Dr. Xiaowei Zhan is an Associate Professor at UT Southwestern’s Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health and a Tsinghua alumnus. After studying automation, he earned his PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Michigan. His session will introduce bioinformatics as a research path, showing how machine learning and AI turn biological data into clinical insights in antibiotic resistance, human genetics, and biomedical imaging.
Oct 03 | Nanophotonics and Electronics
Dr. Weidong Zhou
10/3 @ 2:00PM CST
Dr. Weidong Zhou is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at UT Arlington and an Optica Fellow, recognized for his work on photonic crystal membrane lasers and hybrid nanomembrane optoelectronics. His discussion will be shaped by TYCon attendees and may cover advanced circuit design or nanophotonics, including laser physics and 2D crystal materials.
Oct 10 | Interdisciplinary Research in Public Health
Dr. Kai Zhang
10/10 @ 2:30PM CST
Dr. Kai Zhang is a Professor in Population and Community Health at UNT Health Fort Worth, with a PhD in Environmental Health Science from the University of Michigan and an MS in Environmental Engineering from Tsinghua. His talk explores the intersection of engineering, biology, sociology, and public health, focusing on how modeling and data help us understand disasters, air pollution, green space, and climate change as drivers of human health.