CUHK(SZ)-JD Joint AI Lab Established to Co-Train Doctoral Students

On the afternoon of June 15, CUHK (SZ)-JD Joint AI Lab was officially unveiled. Xu Jianling, Deputy Director of Shenzhen Bureau of Education, Chen Qingyun, Director of Electronic Information Technology Division of Shenzhen Municipal Science and Technology Innovation Commission, Lin Jianzhong, Deputy Director of Longgang District People's Congress Standing Committee, Zhu Yun, Director of Longgang Science and Technology Department, Prof. Tom Z.Q. LUO, Vice President (Academic) of CUHK-Shenzhen, Prof. Tony LI, Associate Vice President, Prof. Shuguang Cui, Chair Professor of CUHK-Shenzhen, Dr. Zhou Bowen, Vice President of JD Group, Dr. Xiaodong He, Deputy Director of the AI Research Institute of JD, Ms. Zhou Beixing, Academic Cooperation Director of the AI Research Institute, and nearly 200 guests and teachers and students attended the unveiling ceremony.On the afternoon of June 15, CUHK (SZ)-JD Joint AI Lab was officially unveiled. Xu Jianling, Deputy Director of Shenzhen Bureau of Education, Chen Qingyun, Director of Electronic Information Technology Division of Shenzhen Municipal Science and Technology Innovation Commission, Lin Jianzhong, Deputy Director of Longgang District People's Congress Standing Committee, Zhu Yun, Director of Longgang Science and Technology Department, Prof. Tom Z.Q. LUO, Vice President (Academic) of CUHK-Shenzhen, Prof. Tony LI, Associate Vice President, Prof. Shuguang Cui, Chair Professor of CUHK-Shenzhen, Dr. Zhou Bowen, Vice President of JD Group, Dr. Xiaodong He, Deputy Director of the AI Research Institute of JD, Ms. Zhou Beixing, Academic Cooperation Director of the AI Research Institute, and nearly 200 guests and teachers and students attended the unveiling ceremony.

The Joint Laboratory will be chaired by Prof. Shuguang Cui of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen ("University"), and Dr. He Xiaodong, Executive Vice President of the AI Research Institute of JD Group. The Joint Laboratory will leverage on the advantages of both sides, and through joint training of doctoral students, joint research, and other forms, it will carry out in-depth cooperation in artificial intelligence fields such as computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning, and build a world-class complete ecosystem integrating production, research and innovation.

CUHK (SZ)-JD Joint AI Lab will rely on the world-class talents and academic research advantages of The University and the advantages of research and development and industrial applications of JD Group's AI platform and research department to jointly train doctoral students and introduce international high-end talents for joint research work. The jointly-trained Ph.D. students will be under the joint guidance of the mentors of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and the JD Group, aiming at academic frontiers to carry out research work. Dr. Zhou Bowen, Dr. He Xiaodong, Dr. Mei Tao, and other scientists of JD Group will serve as joint mentors. The Joint Laboratory will undertake scientific research projects and apply for scientific research funds externally, and solve important problems in the field of artificial intelligence.

The Joint Lab sincerely welcomes excellent students at home and abroad. The application materials are similar to those of American universities, but no GRE score is required. Please refer to The University's Postgraduate Admissions Rules at <a href="http://www.cuhk.edu.cn/graduate-school/phd-mphil/">http://www.cuhk.edu.c... for admission requirements and procedures for doctoral candidates.