2010 “Big Ben Award for Ten Outstanding Chinese Young Persons in the USA” (Eagle Award) officially announced its winners days ago at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and our alumni Lei DAI is among the list.

The “Big Ben Award” is an international awarding activity that aims at outstanding Chinese young people, enterprises and brands. Eagle Award is for Ten Outstanding Chinese Young Persons in The USA. It is said that this ten persons are selected from nearly thousand recommendation letters .2010 “Big Ben Award for Ten Outstanding Chinese Young Persons in the USA” (Eagle Award) including Leon CHEN, Lei DAI, Tony HSIEH, Chufang HUANG, Evan LOW, Goodwin Hon LIU, Wendi Deng MURDOCH, Taiyi SUN, Jerry YANG, and YAO Ming. Among them Lei DAI is the youngest winner.

 Lei DAI

Lei DAI, aged 23, is a doctoral candidate in physics at the MIT and the winner of the full Lester Wolfe Fellowship. He entered the Department of Modern Physics, USTC in 2005 for bachelor degree. After graduation he received the admission from many top universities in the United States including MIT, Yale University and University of Chicago on full scholarship. He finally choose to focus on interdisciplinary research of biology and physics such as systems biology and evolutionary dynamics at MIT. In 2010 he participated in the founding of the journal Chineseat Tech ,which is the first journal founded by Chinese students in MIT, and DAI hold the editor of academic part of the journal.