Wang Kaiyun, a fellow researcher at Southwest Jiaotong University, won the 2020 XPLORER PRIZE conferred by Tencent Foundation and Executive Committee of the XPLORER PRIZE on September 25, 2020. Each of the 50 winners will receive a total of 3 million yuan from Tencent Foundation in the next five years, and Wang is the second one of the University after Deng Zigang, who won last year’s prize.

The XPLORER PRIZE, being the first science and technology public welfare project launched by Internet enterprises in China, was established by Ma Huateng in collaboration with scientific celebrities such as Chen Ning Yang, Shi Yigong and Pan Jianwei.

This year, more than 1,200 young scientists applied for the Prize. After preliminary screening, preliminary review, second review, final review, the final list of winners was generated and the ratio of applicants to winners is about 25:1. The 2020 “XPLORER PRIZE” award ceremony will be held in Beijing on Nov., 14.

Wang Kaiyun, fellow researcher, Ph. D. supervisor and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, has always been spearheading China’s railway researches. Earning him the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2019, his project “Key Safety Technologies and Engineering Application of the Interaction between Heavy Haul Train and Tracks” aims at the settlement of bottleneck safety problems induced by longitudinal impulse in the operation of heavy haul trains and track structures. He engaged in the researches on the key safety technologies for the interaction between heavy-haul train and track structures, devised the dynamic interaction system analysis method, and developed the technologies to reduce the longitudinal impulse and wheel-rail train dynamic effects. These technologies have been successfully applied in a large scale (in more than a dozen national key projects) in China, leading to substantial social and economic benefits and exerting significant influence on the international community. In addition, as the key member of the project, Wang won the first and second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress.