A higher-dimensional incarnation, starting by leveraging the stars.

Chapter 49 Personal Efforts, School Cultivation, the Potential of a Holy Son Has Emerged

Jiangcheng University, School of Biology, Vice Dean's Office

The office of Shen Moxuan, the vice dean of the School of Life Sciences, was very quiet, with only the rustling sound of turning pages.

He had just received the latest issue of the *Chinese Journal of Biotechnology* and, as usual, browsed the table of contents first. His gaze swept across the pages, and an article titled "Research on the Improvement of Multiple Sequence Alignment Algorithm Based on Entropy Weight Optimization Dynamic Programming" caught his attention.

"Entropy weight optimization... dynamic programming?" Shen Moxuan adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, his gaze becoming focused.

He was working on a study on the functional evolution of a specific gene family, a key part of which was handling the alignment of a large number of highly variable homologous sequences. Conventional algorithms were always unsatisfactory and often made mistakes, which was giving him a headache. This paper, however, hit the nail on the head.

He immediately flipped to the corresponding page and began reading quickly. The more he read, the higher his eyebrows rose.

The article has a clear line of thought, well-defined innovations, and a rigorous mathematical model. In particular, the part that introduces information entropy for adaptive weighting is logically sound and quite ingenious. It seems, may, or just happens to solve the alignment bias problem caused by uneven sequence weight distribution encountered in his experiments.

"Interesting... Which school produced this?" Shen Moxuan glanced at the author's section as a habit, then froze.

Author: Hu Biao.

Institution: School of Bioinformatics, Jiangcheng University.

Corresponding author: Hu Biao.

Only one person?

Hu Biao?

Jiangcheng University!

School of Bioinformatics?

Our school? Our department's students?

Where did this come from? I... I don't know anything about it.

Shen Moxuan stared at the name, going through all the outstanding students in the law school in recent years in his mind, but there was no one named Hu Biao!

"But Hu Biao? Why does that name sound familiar?" It felt like he had heard it somewhere before, but he couldn't quite place the face. There were thousands of undergraduate and graduate students in their college, and as the vice dean in charge of scientific research, it was impossible for him to know every student.

He was certain that he did not know the student, but he must have heard the name before, and recently at that.

After thinking for a moment, he rubbed his temples with a wry smile.

Damn it, at this age, thinking about scientific research all day long is already a headache, so stop thinking about it and ask someone else!

He put down the journal, got up and walked out of the office, where he ran into Lin Yi, a young lecturer who had just returned from the lab. Lin Yi was in his early thirties and was one of the few teachers in the department who had both research drive and a willingness to diligently mentor undergraduate students; he was also quite well-informed.

"Teacher Lin, wait a moment." Shen Moxuan called out to him.

"Dean Shen, you wanted to see me?" Lin Yi stopped in his tracks.

"I'd like to ask you about someone from our college, named Hu Biao. Have you heard of him?" Shen Moxuan asked.

Upon hearing the name, Lin Yi was taken aback for a moment, then a smile he couldn't help but chuckle appeared on his face: "Hu Biao? I know him, Dean. He's a celebrity in our college, no, probably the whole school."

"A celebrity?" Shen Moxuan asked, puzzled.

"It's about that incident at the library a while ago, the victor of the Jiangda competition, a refined scoundrel! It's all over the forums." Lin Yi explained briefly with a smile, then summarized, "Anyway, he's a student with quite a personality, but he's very serious about his studies and spends a lot of time in the library."

Shen Moxuan then matched the name with the scattered gossip he had heard before, realizing it was that student.

No wonder he doesn't usually pay much attention to school gossip. It's mainly because Hu Biao's name is a bit special. In this era, at this age, very few people would choose such a name that has a bit of an old-fashioned feel.

"Wait a minute..." Suddenly, as if realizing something, he looked up sharply at Lin Yi and asked, "Are you sure he's a freshman this year?"

"Of course I'm sure, I teach their class." Lin Yi looked at Shen Moxianxuan with confusion and asked, "Dean, what did he do this time?"

Handing over the journal, Shen Moxuan pointed to the article: "He's no ordinary person, take a look at this."

Lin Yi took the paper and was surprised when he saw the title and author: "Chinese Journal of Biotechnology? Hu Biao? This... he's only a freshman, and it's only been published for less than two months!"

With these questions in mind, he quickly skimmed through the abstract and introduction, his expression turning serious. "This approach... is quite novel. The design of the core algorithm is interesting. Dean, did he really complete this independently? It can't be...?"

Shen Moxuan understood his unspoken meaning and shook his head, saying, "The journal *Chinese Journal of Biotechnology* has always been strict in its review process. If it's obvious plagiarism or someone is just listing your name, it's hard to pass. Besides, the mathematical processing style in this article is quite consistent and very innovative. This kind of innovation is unique; I've never seen anything like it before." He pondered for a moment, "Whether he wrote it or not, we can find out by calling him over and asking. Contact their class monitor and have him come to my office now."

Half an hour later, at the office building

Hu Biao knocked on the door of the vice president's office.

His expression remained calm, and he had a general idea of ​​what it was about.

When the paper was approved, he received an email notification that it had been published and was bound to be noticed by the college. As a freshman had written such an innovative paper, the college itself needed to verify its authenticity.

"Please come in."

Hu Biao pushed open the door and saw Vice Dean Shen Moxuan sitting behind his desk, with a young teacher standing next to him looking curious.

"Hello Dean Shen, hello teacher," Hu Biao greeted politely.

"Hu Biao?... Please have a seat." Although he had looked up Hu Biao's profile on the forum beforehand, he was still taken aback when the man actually stood in front of him, and then he suppressed a laugh.

What a degenerate scoundrel!

That little face, that little charm...

You know your own personality, so why do you comb your hair so smoothly?!

Hey, I can't think about it, or I'll start laughing!

Shen Moxuan's lips twitched twice. He pointed to the chair opposite him and said gently, "I called you here mainly to ask about this paper." He pushed the open journal in front of Hu Biao.

Did you write this article?

Hu Biao glanced at it and nodded: "Yes, this is the paper I submitted."

"Completed independently? Without anyone else guiding or participating in the core work?" Shen Moxuan pressed, his tone calm but his question direct.

"Of course it was done independently!" Hu Biao said. "Does an article like this need guidance?!"

"Wow, that's pretty impressive, buddy!"

Lin Yi raised an eyebrow. "You're only a freshman, right? It's only been two months since the semester started. Most of the content in this article isn't covered in your courses, is it?"

"This has nothing to do with the course!" Hu Biao said, looking puzzled. "I saw it in the library."

"Saw it at the library?"

"Yes, there was an article in the sixth issue of the Acta Biologics Sinica last year that introduced multiple sequence alignment algorithms—no, it was more of a critique of current multiple sequence alignment algorithms. I happen to be quite interested in computers, and I thought it was a problem with the mathematical model, so I did some research and wrote this article," Hu Biao replied. "And then I submitted it."

"It's a problem with the mathematical model." Lin Yi clicked his tongue. Everyone knew it was a problem with the mathematical model, but was modeling something simple? It was incredibly troublesome.

Lao Tzu wanted to develop an innovative mathematical model, and he was so busy that he was losing a lot of hair. But when it came to your mouth, it became "just a problem of mathematical modeling".

Shen Moxuan smiled, interrupting Lin Yi's question, and said to Hu Biao, "Alright, let's talk about your paper. I have a few more questions."

"There's nothing wrong with this article. As long as you grasp the mathematical model, you can ignore the text; it's all just fluff."

Shen Moxuan was momentarily speechless at Hu Biao's bluntness. After a pause, he said, "It's a math problem. In your article, you mentioned using an entropy weight model to replace traditional fixed weights or weights based on evolutionary distance. Specifically, when dealing with highly variable regions, how can we avoid the introduced entropy calculation itself being affected by noise, leading to weight distortion?"

"In the preprocessing stage, I added low-frequency noise filtering based on a sliding window, and the entropy weight calculation was not completed in one go, but embedded in an iterative optimization framework. Each comparison result will provide feedback on the confidence interval for adjusting the window parameters and entropy calculation, forming an adaptive loop. The specific formula derivation and threshold setting are explained in detail in Appendix A and Section 3, Subsection 2 of the paper."

"How do you prove the convergence of your adaptive loop, especially when dealing with non-stationary sequence evolution patterns?"

"This borrows some convergence theorem ideas from reinforcement learning, but simplifies them to suit static sequence alignment scenarios. The key is to treat the local analysis of the sequence as an approximation of a Markov decision process, and the update of the alignment score matrix as policy evaluation..." Hu Biao answered the question without hesitation, not only answering the question but also suggesting several possible optimization directions for the algorithm in the future.

As Lin Yi listened, his gaze became somewhat unfocused, while Shen Moxuan's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

What a talent...

No, this is a genius!!

Our school has finally acquired something we can show off!

Shen Moxuan took off his glasses, rubbed the bridge of his nose, and his face was full of smiles and excitement.

"Good, very good!" Shen Moxuan said. "Hu Biao, I've heard that you study very hard, and now it seems that's true. You are indeed very talented in mathematical modeling and algorithm design, and your foundation is very solid. The quality of this paper is excellent, not to mention an undergraduate thesis, it would be excellent even among master's theses. You have a bright future ahead of you!"

Upon hearing this, Hu Biao straightened his chest and smiled modestly, "Not at all, it's all thanks to my own efforts and the school's support!"

puff! ! !

Lin Yi, who was standing next to him, spat out the mouthful of tea he had just drunk.

Damn it!

shameless!

What a refined scoundrel!