From October 29 to 30, the 7th International Forum on Frontier Technologies of Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence was held at SUES. Guided by Shanghai Association for Artificial Intelligence, the forum was hosted by SUES’ School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and co-organized by School of Computer Science and Engineering at Chuzhou University and Chuzhou Artificial Intelligence Association. Attendees included SUES President Lou Yongqi, Vice President Xu Kaiyu, Zhang Hao, Chairman of Shanghai Association for Artificial Intelligence, and representatives from universities, research institutes and enterprises in China and abroad.
Lou Yongqi outlined SUES’ key initiatives and achievements in internationalization. He noted that artificial intelligence is evolving from breakthroughs in individual technologies toward integrated capabilities in real-world applications, with interdisciplinary collaboration and industry-education integration playing essential roles in this transformation. SUES is accelerating its development into a world-class university focused on applied innovation with distinctive industry-oriented strengths. Through its 3-wings interdisciplinary innovation framework integrating Engineering × Management × Design, the university aims to move beyond knowledge transmission toward value creation in talent development. Lou expressed hope that the forum would foster more substantive cooperation with international academic and industry partners in AI research and talent development.
During the forum, SUES signed a university-industry cooperation agreement with Shanghai Sino-Telecom Technology Co., Ltd. to explore new approaches to industry-education integration.
The keynote sessions brought together leading experts from China and abroad, including Professor Peng Shi of the University of Adelaide, Australia, a member of Academia Europaea; Professor Hua Zhou from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Associate Professor Haoyong Yu from the National University of Singapore; Professor Hamido Fujita from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Professor Sungchan Kim from Jeonbuk National University, South Korea; Professor Cheng Zixue from SUES; and Wu Zhiyuan, a senior engineer at Shanghai Sino-Telecom Technology Co., Ltd. They presented their latest research on trustworthy and explainable AI, healthcare big data, wearable robots, digital human modeling and motion generation, AI agents in education, and optical networking for AI computing centers.
The forum featured four parallel sessions. The 3-wings PBL Teaching Reform Forum focused on project-based learning reform and the development of experimental platforms. At the Graduate Student Forum on AI Innovation and Applications, industry experts from companies and organizations including Transwarp Technology and State Grid East China Branch exchanged insights with graduate students on industrial AI applications, large language models for power dispatching, and new power system simulation. Outstanding papers were also selected. The Forum on Frontier AI Technologies featured research project discussions and exchanges among young faculty members, with guidance from professors Fang Zhijun of Fudan University, Wu Zhengguang of Zhejiang University, and He Lianghua of Tongji University. At a special forum on enhancing the future research capabilities of young faculty members, Professor Jiang Tao of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Professor Wang Chao of Tsinghua University engaged in in-depth discussions with young scholars.
A career fair for the Class of 2027, themed Career Opportunities for the Future, Dreams for Youth, was held alongside the forum. Nine enterprises, including Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute, Kete Power Supply, Hongying Intelligent and Sino-Telecom, etc., participated in on-site recruitment.
Looking ahead, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering will align its work closely with SUES’ strategic goals and actively contribute to the 3-wings interdisciplinary innovation framework integrating Engineering × Management × Design. The School will translate the cooperation initiatives discussed at the forum into concrete action, strengthen research, talent development, industry-education integration and international exchanges, and leverage its strengths in artificial intelligence to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and academic excellence, contributing to SUES’ continued development.
