During his studies at SPEIT, Chen Yiming was always ranked first, and he passed France's most competitive entrance exam, that of the École Polytechnique, obtaining first place in the double degree selection. Abroad, he was able to participate in multidisciplinary and cross-cultural discussions in French, became deeply involved in exchanges and collaborations between Chinese and French universities, shuttled between scientific research and cross-cultural organizations, and was even mistaken by his fellow students for a local student. He declared, “Individual excellence is not the end of the road, I hope to become a lever to encourage collaboration and innovation between Chinese and French science and technology!”

Ever since he was a child, Chen Yiming showed a keen interest in technology and computers. When he used a computer, he didn't just use it, but was curious about the underlying operating system and computer networks, and was willing to explore them. In elementary school, he began exploring the principles of computing; in junior high, he learned C++; in high school, he joined the programming club, entered the NOIP competition, learned about computer networks and Linux, and was tasked with running a server for a charity.

His experience of competitions in high school made him realize that computers are not just click-and-click operations, but rely on a lot of mathematics. This realization coincided with SPEIT's training philosophy. SPEIT emphasizes rigorous mathematical and scientific training, and he gradually adapted to the various academic challenges during in-depth mathematical and scientific courses and weekly colles, experiences that laid a good mathematical and scientific foundation for his studies.

At SPEIT, he is actively involved in a variety of activities serving other students. In his first year, he helped develop the web application for the SPEIT Student Creative Center. He was selected for the “Siyuan” excellent student training program and met many excellent students. In his second year, he became President of the SPEIT Student Union, Director of the Science and Creativity Center, in charge of coordinating work related to student science and creativity, as well as student rights and interests.

In his first year, Chen Yiming took part in the VEX and RoboMaster competitions, which did not produce outstanding results, but awakened his interest in technical research. In his second year, he took part in the Mathematical Contest In Modeling and won the M prize. He also took part in the PRP project in combinatorial optimization. In the summer of his third year, he joined the SJTU John Center and took part in research into interpretable artificial intelligence.

As he discovered his true interests, he began to ask himself, “Do I really love what I do? Can I make sense of it?” In his exploration, he discovered that he enjoyed highly abstract and technical thinking, and that he could immerse himself in programming for long periods of time to maintain his focus and enjoyment. And during his studies at SPEIT, he developed an interest in mathematics. This interest led him to take part in the selection for the double degree and to receive a full scholarship to follow a double degree program in applied mathematics.

In order to participate in research, he took advantage of his French school's spring break to self-take an international course open to post-graduate students, which enabled him to quickly derive and master the mathematical and statistical principles underlying artificial intelligence techniques. He undertook the development of a domain-specific language generation system for modeling large languages as part of X's Enterprise project, where he was responsible for writing the project's central logic module. In his final year, he joined Professor Xie Weidi's team, remotely from abroad, and worked remotely with his fellow students on topics related to multimodal understanding and 3D generation.