ShanghaiTech DataTech

About DataTech

Who We Are

DataTech is a student organization at ShanghaiTech University dedicated to exploring the frontiers of data science and technology. We bring together passionate students who are interested in machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, and other technical fields.

Our Mission

To create a discussion community for AI-related technologies at ShanghaiTech University, enabling students to learn and share knowledge. We support students in participating in data science competitions and AI research work, exploring the frontiers of artificial intelligence together.

Partnership

We are affiliated with Dadao College at ShanghaiTech University and maintain deep and close collaborations with GeekPie Club and ACM Club.

Competition Achievements

4th Place

Gold Medal, $7,000

Kaggle: BirdCLEF+ 2026

Team Members:

starry

Award Time: 2026.06

Second Prize

￥1,000

Liangwen Cup Statistical Modeling and AI Prediction Challenge

Team Members:

杨昊天

Award Time: 2026.05

Third Prize

Award

Liangwen Cup Statistical Modeling and AI Prediction Challenge

Team Members:

李政儒

Award Time: 2026.05

First Prize

￥50,000

Xiaohongshu Hackathon Finals

Team Members:

洪沐天, 贺泽邦

Award Time: 2026.04

Third Prize

Award

The 3rd Peking University High-Performance Computing Comprehensive Ability Competition

Team Members:

杨昊天

Award Time: 2026.04

1st Place

$15,000

Kaggle: Deep Past Challenge

Team Members:

顾国勤, 洪沐天, 李政儒, 王越汀

Award Time: 2026.04

4th Place

Gold Medal, $20,000

Kaggle: Vesuvius Challenge - Surface Detection

Team Members:

starry

Award Time: 2026.02

4th Place

￥10,000

腾讯：游戏算法大赛-赛道三

Team Members:

洪沐天, 王俊烨, 张羽飞

Award Time: 2025.12

211th Place

Bronze Medal

Kaggle Jigsaw - Agile Community Rules Classification

Team Members:

顾国勤, 洪沐天

Award Time: 2025.10

5th Place

$5,000

CrunchDAO: ADIA Lab Structural Break Challenge

Team Members:

洪沐天, 顾国勤

Award Time: 2025.10

2nd Place

￥30,000

天池: 阿里云天池饿了么AI算法大赛

Team Members:

顾国勤

Award Time: 2025.06

8th Place

Gold Medal

Kaggle: BirdCLEF+ 2025

Team Members:

starry

Award Time: 2025.06

50th Place

Silver Medal

Kaggle: March Machine Learning Mania 2025

Team Members:

虞果

Award Time: 2025.04

63th Place

Silver Medal

Kaggle: AI Mathematical Olympiad - Progress Prize 2

Team Members:

赵优

Award Time: 2025.04

56th Place

Silver Medal

Kaggle: UM - Game-Playing Strength of MCTS Variants

Team Members:

starry

Award Time: 2024.12

3rd Place

$10,000

CrunchDAO: ADIA Lab Causal Discovery Challenge

Team Members:

洪沐天, 顾国勤

Award Time: 2024.11

Third Prize

￥1,500

天池: 可图Kolors-LoRA风格故事挑战赛

Team Members:

赵殿燊

Award Time: 2024.09

22nd Place

Silver Medal

Kaggle: Bengali.AI Speech Recognition

Team Members:

洪沐天, 周楚焱

Award Time: 2023.10

30th Place

Silver Medal

Kaggle: BirdCLEF 2023

Team Members:

starry

Award Time: 2023.05

10th Place

Gold Medal

Kaggle: UW-Madison GI Tract Image Segmentation

Team Members:

starry

Award Time: 2022.06

Papers

arXiv:2604.13016 Club Member: Yaxuan Li April 2026

Rethinking On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models: Phenomenology, Mechanism, and Recipe

Yaxuan Li, Yuxin Zuo, Bingxiang He, Jinqian Zhang, Chaojun Xiao, Cheng Qian, Tianyu Yu, Huan-ang Gao, Wenkai Yang, Zhiyuan Liu, Ning Ding

This work studies on-policy distillation for large language models, analyzing its phenomenology and mechanism, and proposing a practical recipe for effective distillation.