**Abstract:** On November 17, the 18th China Youth Science and Technology Award was announced, recognizing 99 young scholars for their significant contributions to national economic development, social progress, and scientific innovation. Five young scholars from Tsinghua University were among the recipients: Wenwen Zeng from the School of Basic Medicine, Yingying Zhang from the Department of Chemistry, Liang Ge from the School of Life Sciences, Jun Zhu from the Department of Computer Science, and Pinjia Zhang from the Department of Electrical Engineering. **Wenwen Zeng:** Wenwen Zeng, a professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University's Institute of Immunology and School of Basic Medicine, has been awarded for her research in peripheral nervous system functions and neuroimmunology. Zeng earned her bachelor's degree in biological science and technology from Tsinghua University, completed her doctoral studies at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and conducted postdoctoral research at Genentech and the Rockefeller University under the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is the chief scientist of a key research and development project and has received several prestigious awards, including the Biophysical Society's Lipid Metabolism and Bioenergetics Division Young Scientist Award, the Chinese Society for Cell Biology's Young Female Scientist Career Development Fund Award, and the Qiu Shi Foundation's Outstanding Young Scientist Award. Zeng has published over 40 papers in top journals such as Neuron, Cell Metabolism, PNAS, Protein & Cell, and Cell. She serves as an associate editor for AJP-Endocrinology and Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Molecular Immunology, and is a member of the editorial board for several other journals. Zeng is also actively involved in various academic societies, including the Beijing Immunological Society, the Chinese Society of Physiology's Autonomic Nerve Branch, and the Chinese Society for Cell Biology and the Chinese Society for Neuroscience. **Yingying Zhang:** Yingying Zhang, a professor at Tsinghua University's Department of Chemistry, was honored for her work on the structural regulation and functional composite material design of nanocarbon and silk protein materials. Her research focuses on developing intelligent materials, sensors, and multifunctional wearable systems for health monitoring. Zhang has authored over 180 SCI papers, co-authored three books, and holds more than 20 patents. She serves as an associate editor for ACS Sensors and is a member of the editorial boards of Matter, Device, Acc Mater Res, Science Bulletin, Adv Mater Technol, Cell Rep Phys Sci, and the Chinese Science Bulletin. Zhang is a senior member of the Chinese Chemical Society, a member of the Science Popularization Committee, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Materials Research Society's Nanomaterials and Devices Branch, and a standing director of the Chinese Materials Research Society's Fiber Materials Modification and Composite Technology Branch. She is also a Deputy Director of the China Nonwovens Association's Electrospinning Nonwovens Materials Committee. **Liang Ge:** Liang Ge, an associate professor at Tsinghua University's School of Life Sciences, received the award for his contributions to the study of the intracellular membrane system. Ge obtained his bachelor's degree from Shandong Normal University in 2005 and his Ph.D. from the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2011. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2011 to 2017 before joining Tsinghua University. Ge is currently the Vice President of the Chinese Biophysical Society's Subcellular Structures Division and the Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Society for Cell Biology's Organelles Division. He serves as an associate editor for Traffic and Science Bulletin and a member of the editorial boards of several other journals. Ge has received numerous awards, including the New Horizon Science Exploration Award, the Chen Jiageng Youth Science Award, the CYH Life Medicine Innovation Breakthrough Award, and the Chinese Society for Cell Biology's Young Scientist Award. His research has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Major Research Program on Organelle Interactions and the NIH Pathway to Independence Award. Notable achievements include the discovery of the novel non-classical protein secretion pathway THU (Cell, 2020), its role in gut homeostasis (Cell Research, 2024), the molecular mechanism of THU in the ERGIC (Nature Cell Biology, 2024), and a new organelle interaction, ERGIC-ERES, in autophagy regulation (Cell Research, 2024). **Jun Zhu:** Jun Zhu, a Bosch AI Professor and Deputy Director of Tsinghua University's Institute of Artificial Intelligence, was recognized for his foundational research in machine learning theory and efficient algorithms. Zhu earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees in computer science from Tsinghua University between 2001 and 2009, and completed his postdoctoral and project scientist roles at Carnegie Mellon University. He returned to Tsinghua University in 2011 and served as a part-time professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 2015 to 2018. Zhu's team has developed the first comprehensive video large model Vidu, which rivals Sora, as well as the open-source "Zhusuan" deep probabilistic programming library and the "Tianshou" reinforcement learning library. He has published over 100 papers in leading international journals and conferences, with over 30,000 citations. Zhu serves as an associate editor for IEEE TPAMI and has held over 20 senior positions in international conferences, including ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, IJCAI, and AAAI. He has received several awards, including the China Association for Science and Technology's Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scientist Award, the Science Exploration Award, the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Natural Science First Prize, the CCF Natural Science First Prize, the ICLR Outstanding Paper Award, and the ICME/IEEECoG Best Paper Award. Zhu has been named a Pioneer by MIT TR35 China and is among the "AI's 10 to Watch" selected by IEEE Intelligent Systems. **Pinjia Zhang:** Pinjia Zhang, an associate professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University's Department of Electrical Engineering, was awarded for his research on high-capacity power electronics and the reliability of electrical equipment, with a focus on online monitoring and health management. Zhang graduated from Tsinghua University's Department of Electrical Engineering and obtained his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He worked at the Global Research Center of General Electric before being appointed as a distinguished researcher at Tsinghua University in 2015 and currently serves as the Deputy Chair of the Department. Zhang has led multiple national science and technology projects and has received awards such as the IEEE Industry Applications Society Outstanding Young Achievement Award, the China Electrotechnical Society's Science and Technology Progress First Prize, and the Gold Medal at the Geneva International Invention Exhibition. He has published over 100 academic papers and holds more than 110 patents in China and abroad. **China Youth Science and Technology Award:** The China Youth Science and Technology Award, jointly organized by the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, and the Communist Youth League Central Committee, aims to honor young scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the nation's economic development, social progress, and scientific innovation. The award is given every two years, with a maximum of 100 recipients per cycle, and up to 10 of these recipients are selected for the special award. Since its inception, 1705 young scientists have received this award, and nearly 190 of them have been elected as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The award is designed to inspire young scientists to innovate and to foster a robust and diverse talent pool in science and technology, contributing to the nation's goal of becoming a global leader in scientific and technological innovation. **Source:** Tsinghua University Research Institute **Editor:** Li Huashan **Reviewer:** Guo Ling