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Su Jin’s Visiting Scholar Appointment

Su Jin chooses MIT because she wants to study computers and artificial intelligence rather than rely solely on her wealth. Her stated goal is to participate in technological change instead of watching others bring it about 12 14.

Her check-in reward grants her a special visiting scholar position at CSAIL, access to leading professors as mentors, and a three-month deadline to report. A subsequent reward supplies a formal appointment letter describing her as an honorary visiting scholar and opens an expedited visa-processing channel 13 14.

Independently, MIT alumnus Ji Yunshen arranges a video conference with three professors. Su Jin answers their technical questions, acknowledges gaps in her knowledge, and receives their welcome. After obtaining her visa and traveling to Boston, she registers at the Stata Center and receives a dark-blue identification card bearing the status “visiting scholar” 14 16.

Academic Recognition

Su Jin initially attracts attention for her appearance, but Professor Harris emphasizes that respect at MIT depends on demonstrated ability. She subsequently places first in the entrance assessment for his computer vision course and earns her classmates’ applause after explaining her solution 16.

Her assessment score is nearly twenty points above the runner-up’s. Over the following three weeks, her classroom answers, efficient programming assignments, and assistance with another researcher’s debugging problem establish her academic reputation. Harris selects her as MIT’s computer science representative for the Elite University Championship without objections from the class 17.

Elite University Championship

MIT alternates hosting duties with Stanford for the championship, whose initial format covers mathematics, physics, computer science, and engineering. Harris oversees MIT’s computer science selection in the year depicted 17.

Public Support for Su Jin

After Wang Siyu’s allegations prompt online accusations that Su Jin bought her admission and championship result, Su Jin requests verification of her academic record. MIT’s computer science department publishes a statement featuring Professor Harris, who praises her work, points to her publicly verifiable GitHub code, and declares that MIT is proud of her 27.

Academics & Research

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

• CSAIL appointment: Su Jin’s visiting scholar placement provides access to faculty mentorship in computer science and artificial intelligence 13 14.
• Interview panel: Her introductory conference includes an emeritus professor with thirty years of deep-learning research, an AI ethics laboratory director, and Professor Lin, a computer vision specialist who has worked at MIT for fifteen years 14.
• Open course materials: Before arriving, Su Jin spends three weeks watching MIT’s open course videos and completes more than half the exercises 16.
• Reinforcement learning: Su Jin takes a course taught by Professor Bertsekas and later draws on that training while discussing recommendation algorithms with Netflix engineers 22.

Introduction to Computer Vision

Professor Harris’s course admits only the thirty highest-scoring applicants through a placement assessment 16.

• Format: Eight questions across three pages, with a two-hour limit 16.
• Permitted resources: Books, internet searches, and other tools; discussion between candidates is prohibited 16.
• Documented topics: Linear algebra, Bayesian inference, image deblurring, and 3D reconstruction 16.
• Su Jin’s approach: She uses implicit neural representation for the challenging single-view 3D reconstruction problem 16.

Campus & Facilities

Associated People

• Su Jin — CSAIL visiting scholar, computer vision student, and championship-winning MIT representative 14 16 24.
• Ji Yunshen — MIT graduate who studied artificial intelligence; maintains faculty contacts and helps arrange Su Jin’s introduction and arrival 13 14 16.
• Professor Harris — Computer vision faculty member and course instructor; has received multiple CVPR and ICCV best-paper awards, selects Su Jin for the championship, and publicly defends her academic achievements 16 17 27.
• Professor Bertsekas — Teaches the reinforcement learning course attended by Su Jin 22.
• Xiao Gu — Chinese international student in his third doctoral year in computer science; meets Su Jin at the airport at Ji Yunshen’s request 16.
• Unnamed computer science freshman — First-generation college student from Ohio who creates the million-follower fan account sujin_fans_global after being inspired by Su Jin’s championship performance 21.

Notable Quotes

“People here won't think more highly of you because of who you are. They'll respect you only because of what you can do.”
— Professor Harris at the welcome mixer 16

“Her code is on GitHub, and anyone can verify it. Her achievements are what she earned herself.

MIT is proud of her.”
— Professor Harris in the computer science department’s public statement 27