Our Women in Science campaign comes to its third issue with the interview with Jian Yiyun. This year International Women’s Day has the theme “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”, and we want to celebrate it and make visible the work the women in the team are doing.
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After graduating from the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China, in 2013, Yiyun Jian majored in instrumentation engineering, Master’s degree. She then worked as a digital hardware engineer at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Since August 2022, working at IHP in Germany as a Ph.D. student, focusing on MAC layer design of the 6G project and digital hardware implementation (FPGA based) of the 6G project. |
Interview
- WHAT IS YOUR MISSION WITHIN THE COREnext PROJECT?
My main task is to contribute to the functionality of digital components of trustworthy communication in the COREnext project.
- WHAT ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES YOU ADDRESSED/FACED IN YOUR CAREER?
My most significant challenges are innovating advanced technologies to achieve high reliability and resilience, precise and low-latency communication and sensing.
- THIS YEAR, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY HAS THE THEME “DIGITALL: INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY FOR GENDER EQUALITY”, AND THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SCIENCE FOCUSED ON “DEVELOPMENT GOAL”. WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT?
Science is significant in sustainable development; we can predict, prevent and protect using the technologies.
- EVEN THOUGH WE SEE MORE WOMEN PURSUING CAREERS IN LIFE SCIENCES, WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO, BASED ON UNESCO STATISTICS. HOW CAN WE INCREASE THE NUMBER OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) DISCIPLINES?
To provide more opportunities and awards for women and families and parenting support.
- WHAT INSPIRES YOU IN YOUR WORK?
The achievements genuinely contribute to the new technologies that may help humanity and all lives.