Xiaoyang He, a 2023-grade doctoral student in Library Science supervised by Professor Dan Wu at our school, has been selected for the 2024 Young Student Basic Research Project of the National Natural Science Foundation funding list. She becomes the second doctoral student from our School to receive this prestigious research grant.

Xiaoyang He's proposed project, titled Adaptive Research on AIGC-Based Virtual Reality Narrative Systems for Cultural Heritage, takes Dunhuang murals as its research focus. The project introduces and develops an integrated technological framework encompassing deep knowledge representation and fusion, AI-driven dynamic content generation, refined user modeling, and intelligent adaptive regulation. This system aims to create personalized, dynamic, and interactive virtual reality storytelling solutions for cultural heritage, ultimately enhancing the interpretative research and exhibition dissemination efficacy of historical artifacts.

The Young Student Basic Research Project (Doctoral Students), a significant innovation in China's scientific research funding system, was established in 2023 by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) to cultivate innovative talents with independent research capabilities and support doctoral students in conducting self-directed basic research and interdisciplinary exploration. The project employs a dual-selection mechanism combining institutional nomination with NSFC evaluation, involving multiple stages including but not limited to individual applications, university-level selection and recommendation, peer review organized by NSFC, and final panel review meetings.

An academic administrator of our School emphasized the significance of the NSFC Young Student Basic Research Project in advancing high-caliber scientific research among doctoral students. The School remains committed to encouraging and supporting outstanding doctoral researchers in preparing competitive proposals for subsequent annual application cycles of this prestigious grant.