On Nov 6, the awards ceremony for the 2018 “Award Program for Excellent University Teachers of Computer Science” was held in Peking University. Associate Prof. Deng Qianni of our department won this award. 

The award program was initiated by John Hopcroft (Turing Award winner, winner of Chinese Government Friendship Award, foreign academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Gao Wen (director of China Computer Federation, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering). Sponsored by enterprises and guided by the government, the program makes evaluation on teaching and give awards to excellent teachers. It is intended to promote the universities to attach more importance to undergraduate classroom teaching and improve the relation between teaching and research. The program is supported and instructed by the Ministry of Education and National Natural Science Foundation. 

Gao Wen introduced on the ceremony that during the first half of 2018, the program was carried out in nine universities within China. Basic courses for undergraduate students of computer science were selected for evaluation and awards were given to teachers that demonstrated excellent classroon teaching. As suggested by John Hopcroft, the evaluation is made on five factors including the content of teaching, the interaction between students and teachers, teachers’ attention on students, students’ participation, and overall performace. 26 teachers among 106 were given the awards this year.