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2012到2021，近十年，这一对夫妇的职业生涯伴随着温肯的高速发展，也不知道是他们促进了温肯的成长，还是温肯反推他们的茁壮，但是都不重要了，近十年的光阴早把他们融为一体，你中有我，我中有你，就好像他们之间的爱情一样……
故事的主角是温肯理工学院的教授Tiffany和Pinata，一动一静，一唱一和，看向彼此的眼睛有光、有欣赏、有尊重……从中国大陆到加拿大，之后辗转到香港、最后重返大陆，这是他们“妇唱夫随”彼此牵绊的23年，今年亦是他们伴随温肯共同成长的近十年。
故事的主角是温肯理工学院的教授Tiffany和Pinata，一动一静，一唱一和，看向彼此的眼睛有光、有欣赏、有尊重……从中国大陆到加拿大，之后辗转到香港、最后重返大陆，这是他们“妇唱夫随”彼此牵绊的23年，今年亦是他们伴随温肯共同成长的近十年。
2017年与王书记和其他校领导代表学校
参加温州科技局展览
选择温肯，缘分使然
Tiffany和Pinata来自印度尼西亚，1993年两人相遇在暨南大学，彼时他们还不相识，谁也不知道两个性格迥异的人将在这里擦出爱情的火花，开启他们爱情长跑，随后他们在加拿大师从一个导师，完成了计算机科学的博士学位。2012年Tiffany率先进入刚刚成立的温肯，彼时的温肯刚刚起步、筚路蓝缕，但是正因为一切都是新的也意味着全新的挑战和无限的可能，Tiffany将选择温肯的原因归结为两个字--“缘分”。中国本硕的学术基础加上国际化的背景，让她对中外合作大学充满兴趣，而全新的温肯与急需全新赛道的她不谋而合。紧接着，2013年Pinata紧随Tiffany步伐进入温肯，这一年，他们共同创立了温肯计算机科学学科。
2014年在微软北京总部
带学生参加骇客马拉松
“这十年，温肯的校园面积扩大了，基础设施大大改善，各种资源丰富了许多，最重要的是办公效率大幅度提高了。”
“在温肯的工作有趣、有挑战、资源丰富。”Tiffany总结道。Pinata笑着说，“为什么你想到的三个词和我一模一样。”这只不过是他们生活中的又一个“共识”。
虽然温肯急剧发展，学生人数大幅提升，加剧了沟通成本，但他们一直试图加强与学生的连接。比如创立校友与本科学生互助群、定期开各种会议，倾听学生的声音。
永远不要被困难击倒
“在温肯的学习是充满挑战的。比如教学上我们受到美方的监督和规范限制。这一定程度上保证了教学质量，确保教学水平与国际标准接轨，另外一方面也存在本土化程度不够等问题，生活中也是这样，没有什么会是十全十美的，挑战永远会是生活的另一面。与其把它当作限制，回避它，不如把它当成动力，催促你的成长。不要被挑战击倒，不要低估你自己，我常常这样鼓励学生。” Tiffany说道。
2017年与学生在斯坦福大学
参加学术会议
很幸运，他们的学生似乎完美“继承”了这种不服输，勇于冒险的精神，过去的几年，他们目睹了百余名学生的完美蜕变。那是他们留在温肯持续不断的原动力。
“前几周，我们2019级的学生还告诉我们，他在字节跳动获得了晋升机会。这位学生本科毕业就直接进入字节跳动，并从事推荐系统构建工作。”对此Tiffany非常骄傲，要知道字节跳动的推荐系统运用的是全球顶尖的计算机技术，他能够拿到这样的机会，是对温肯教学的充分肯定。
回望这十年光阴，在温肯的工作并不是一帆风顺的。6年前，夫妻俩开始做一项公益研究，利用IT技术为公益赋能。自闭症孩子来自不同家庭环境，不同外界刺激让他们紧闭心门，同为自闭症也有着不同的表现形式，他们不可能用传统群体教学方式。“我们通过编程技术，创立更具有针对性个性化的学习模型，帮助这些孩子实现教学的目的。”最初，“我们一没资金，二没资源，连进入自闭症中心的资格都没有，是学校出面解决了问题。那时候的温肯自身还非常困难，但是学校第一时间给与我们帮助，特别是王书记，他帮了很大的忙。”说到这里，Tiffany已不自觉地红了眼眶。
技术赋能工作和生活
未来的社会是技术驱动的。技术走进了人们的日常生活。虽然我们无法感知它，但是每个人都在运用它并受它影响。技术应用领域发展日新月异，随之而来的将是人作为主体与机器客体之间的界限问题，如信息保护、信任、公平公正、隐私问题等将成为技术问题的延伸课题。他们寄语学习计算机科学的学生，不要拘泥于课堂知识；保持对外界世界的关注，跟进领域内最新技术；利用课余时间帮助他人，用技术赋能社会。
2017年微软团队
科幻文学的创派宗师威廉·吉布森曾说，“未来已来，只是不均衡地分布在当下。” 师者，需要有更深刻的洞察能力以窥探现实中未来的碎片，为学生勾勒未来可能的模样。
他们也会一直扎根中国实际，前瞻行业未来，与温肯一道一同探索下一个十年。
预祝下一个十年里，温肯一如既往，一往无前。
Empower Students with Technology
Over the past decade, their career accomplishment has been a part of WKU’s past 10-years legacy. Whether they pushed forward WKU’s advancement or WKU accelerated their personal growth? It is no longer a significant issue since they have integrated as a whole during the process, just like the enduring love between them…
The protagonists of this story are Prof. Tiffany and Prof. Pinata from the College of Science and Technology at WKU. With firm beliefs, respect, and supports along the way, together, they have traveled from mainland China to Canada, Hong Kong, and finally back to the mainland. 2021 is the 23rd year they have been together as a couple, and the 10th year they have been teaching at WKU.
WKU is a Serendipity
Both Indonesians, Tiffany and Pinata, met at Jinan University in 1993. At that time, no one could predict a beautiful and long-term romance would be sprouted between these two distinguished young students. They then got their doctoral degree in computer science in Canada under the guidance of the same Ph.D. supervisor. In 2012, Tiffany first voted for the newborn WKU,when the universityfaced tremendous setbacks and enormous possibilities. She ascribed her decision to a word-- “destiny”. Because of her previous schooling in China, coupled with international academic background, she fostered a keen sense of interest to work at a Sino-American university.
Meanwhile, the qualifications of the faculty were perfectly aligned with her needs, which seeks new challenges and opportunities. In 2013, one year after Tiffany joined WKU, Pinata also became a member of WKU. In the same year, they initialized Computer Science major at WKU.
“The past ten years saw remarkable progress of WKU ranging from campus layout, facilities, and infrastructures, as well as abundant resources in all aspects. However, the most obvious improvement is the enhancing working efficiency.”
Tiffany concluded her life at WKU with three words-- “Fun, challenging, resourceful.” “Why you pick up the same words turned up in my mind!” Pinata “complained”. This is just another consensus between them.
With the rapid development of WKU, the number of students has dramatically increased, slowing down communication. But they have been trying to strengthen the connection with students through creating a mutual support group between alumni and undergraduate students or holding various meetings to share the opinions and thoughts of students.
Never be Defeated!
“Studying at WKU is full of challenges. For instance, on the one hand, we are under the supervision and regulation of Kean USA, which ensures the educational outcomes are in line with international standards; on the other hand, we are challenged by inadequate localization. ” “That’s life! Nothing is perfect. Challenges will be the flip side of opportunities. Instead of regarding them as a limitation, we’d better embrace them as motivation. Only in this way will we defeat difficulties. Never be defeated, nor underestimate yourself. I always inspire my students in this way.” Tiffany said.
Luckily, their students have perfectly “inherited” these unyielding and adventurous spirits. In the past few years, they have witnessed the fabulous transformations of hundreds of students starting from WKU, which was the constant fuel to keeping them at WKU.
“Several weeks ago, our students from Grade 2019 told us that he got a promotion in ByteDance. After graduating from WKU, He received an offer from ByteDance, engaging himself in building a recommendation system.” Tiffany was so proud of this since ByteDance is a top enterprise that applies the most advanced technology in the recommendation system. Being offered such a golden opportunity can be regarded as approval to WKU’s education quality.
The past ten years have been full of challenges and obstacles. For example, they started non-profit research about six years ago, utilizing IT technology to empower public welfare. Noticing that children with autism are influenced by different factors, including family environments, external stimuli, and show various symptoms, it is impossible to teach autistic children in conventional teaching methods. “Therefore, we created learning models for each individual via programming technology, helping these children to access personalized education. At first, we had neither sufficient funds nor related resources nor even the qualification to access the autism center. It was WKU that offered us generous supports and finally tackled this problem. Mr. Wang Beijiao, in particular, strongly supported us at that time.” Speaking of this, Tiffany couldn’t hold her tears back.
Technology Empowers Work and Life
The future society is driven by technology. Though it cannot be perceived, AI has already stepped into our daily life and affects every individual. With the surging of emerging technologies, the boundary between technology and human beings rises as a significant concern; related problems like information protection, trust, fairness, privacy… are the rising conundrums waiting to handle. They hope students in computer science could look beyond, keep an eye on the world outside of the class, follow the latest technologies, reach out a hand to others when needed, and make the best of technology to empower society.
One of the founders of speculative fiction literature, William Gibson, quotes,“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.”Being a teacher, one should maintain a deeper insight into the life and contrive the future for students. Rooted deeply in the reality of China, maintaining such an acute observation of the industry, together with WKU’s career course, they will continue this significant undertaking.
Keep shooting for the stars~
A bright future awaits us!
文字丨赖秋红（Alisa LAI）
英文 |赖秋红 朱宇涵 王嫣然 林丹敏
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