From January 17th, 2023, the 2023 Global Youth Scientist Summit (GYSS 2023) hosted by the National Research Foundation and the Ministry of Education was successfully held in Singapore. The 11th Summit aims to "Excite, Engage, Enable". This year, the Summit brought together a total of more than 350 bright young scientists from all over the world and the summit organizing committee invited 21 top scientific minds with major scientific and technological honors (the Nobel Prize, Turing Award, Phils Award, Millennium Technology Award) to share their own research to young scientists, conducted group academic discussions on-site and offered feedback at the Poster Session.

Being recommended by Tianjin University, and selected by the National Research Foundation and the Youth Scientist Summit organizing committee, and the 2019 doctoral student Qu Guanhua from Professor Liu Gang’s Research Team at the School of Architecture of Tianjin University was invited. It was also the first time that Tianjin University representatives attended this high-level summit on-site; 2021 doctoral graduate Ren Lei, also from Professor Liu Gang's team and nine other students from Tianjin University were invited to participate online.

During the summit, Qu Guanhua presented his research achievements in the group academic exchange with Professor Thomas Sudhof, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine. His research with the topic of “The effects of group visual field defect for students on visual perception behavior” in the Poster Session had received positive reviews from Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt in Physiology/Medicine and Millennium Technology Prize winner David Klenerman.

Ren Lei had the opportunity to discusse the research issues of her doctoral project through online group academic meeting with John Mather, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics and also won positive feedback.