Our students have made outstanding achievements in research innovations and industry endeavor. Among the top there are three Academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering (Yunhe Pan, Zuoning Chen, Chun Chen), academician of Chinese Academy of Science Zhaohui Wu, and distinguished researchers like Prof. Hujun Bao, Prof. Yueting Zhuang, and Prof. Kun Zhou. The graduates of the College have made substantial technology breakthroughs in fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Software Systems, and Computer Architecture. The distinction of our graduate students is evident from a list of prestigious awards which recognize their outstanding contributions, including ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, AAAI Outstanding Paper Award, and Microsoft Scholar Award.
Our college is a leading incubator for top talent, seamlessly integrating education and research. Our alumni are driving forces in the digital economy, with the combined market value of their founded companies exceeding RMB 1.5 trillion. Over 200 alumni are founders, co-founders, or controlling shareholders, collectively supplying more than 50% of the CEOs and CTOs to tech companies.Graduates from national key disciplines are exceptionally impactful: they have founded over 35% of Hangzhou's unicorn companies, and nearly 60% of the city's digital economy CTOs are alumni. In total, they have launched 18 listed companies and 8 unicorns, including notable founders like Huang Zheng (Pinduoduo). The College's alumni community also includes more than 20 members who hold prestigious academic and research positions globally. Among them are distinguished academicians such as Chen Zuoning of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Hu Shimin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Foreign Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan. The group is further distinguished by renowned fellows, including Yu Yizhou, an ACM/IEEE Fellow, and Chen Yan, an IEEE Fellow.
