On May 23, TJU unveiled the Joint Artificial Intelligence Laboratory with SeetaTech, an artificial intelligence (AI) company.

As a technology company that provides AI infrastructure services, SeetaTech originated from the Computing Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is committed to serving its customers with a one-stop AI production line.

In cooperation with TJU, SeetaTech will fully commit its practical experience in combination with academic research and production and its research ability as an AI infrastructure platform. In addition, they will also strive to design a training curriculum and establish a platform for AI higher education and student training at TJU. In-depth cooperation will be conducted in intelligent unmanned vehicle design, UAV, AI big data and AI teaching and R&D platforms. By doing so, they hope to strengthen the talent pool of TJU and the leadership strengths of SeetaTech in AI technology innovation.

Professor Li Keqiu, Dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology and the School of Software, Shan Shiguang, Chairman and CTO of SeetaTech and Hu Qinghua, Vice Dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology unveiled the plaque to open the laboratory.

The establishment of the joint laboratory is designed to build an AI teaching and scientific research platform, explore a training model for new engineering talent, forge an unmanned retail platform, and develop intelligent unmanned systems, unmanned basic algorithms and a human-computer coordinated data tagging platform.

The machine learning and data mining team at TJU has a good foundation for cooperation with SeetaTech. There are currently more than a dozen graduate students working or practicing at the company. In addition, the two parties have signed the ‘Key Technology Research Project on UAV Scenario Dataset Construction’ to initiate cooperation on big data platforms. The establishment of the TJU-SeetaTech Joint AI Laboratory will give a boost to AI talent cultivation and contribute to AI development in China.