On December 9, the launching ceremony of ZJU- Angelalign Research & Development Center for Intelligent Healthcare was held in the International Campus of Zhejiang University. The two sides will carry out industry-university-research cooperation in machine learning, intelligent medical treatment and digital oral medicine technology to integrate resources and jointly promote innovation and progressive development.
Professor LI Erping, Director of the Research & Development Center and Vice Dean of the International Campus, said that the R&D center will be based on Zhejiang University-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute (ZJUI), focusing on intelligent medical, enhancing the technical strength of both sides, producing innovative achievements in the dental healthcare and the related fields, creating environments for engineering application and cultivating engineering leaders of tomorrow. He expressed his expectation that the launching of the R&D center will further strengthen the industry-university-research cooperation, break the bottleneck of the development of intelligent dental healthcare treatment, and make positive contributions to impact the digital oral diagnosis and treatment technology all round the world.
Ms.LI Huamin, Founder and CEO of Angelalign Group, remarked that the R&D center will foster new growth drivers under the support of Zhejiang University (ZJU) and become an icon in the field of intelligent dental healthcare at home and even abroad. In addition to making efforts in scientific research together, Angelalign Group will strive to create a first-class research platform and students practice base, while constantly exploring new modes and paths for industry-university-research cooperation.
As the first university-industry joint research center established by ZJUI since its establishment, Professor LI Hanying, Vice Dean of ZJUI, said that the cooperation between the Angelalign Group and ZJUI will jointly create an innovative platform integrating scientific research, technology development and application practice, which will bring a wave of more powerful scientific and technological innovation impetus to the dental healthcare industry. He expects more in-depth exchanges in more dimensions between the two sides to provide a broader platform for scientific research and industrial application for ZJUI students.
After the ceremony, relevant staff members of the R&D Center explored the scientific research environment of the International Campus, ZJU. Guests from the Sci-Tech Academy of ZJU, the International Campus of ZJU, the ZJUI, the College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering of ZJU, Haining Juanhu Lake International Science Park, and the Angelalign Group attended the above activities.
According to the agreement, R&D center will carry out dental healthcare technology development with the latest technology of artificial intelligence and machine learning, in the field of clinical diagnosis and digital manufacturing, to develop a new generation of domestic made oral medical intelligent diagnosis and manufacturing technology and standards, to build a high level digital medical products and services, to promote intelligent healthcare system, make scientific and technological innovations to foster regional industry growth drivers.
R&D Center was inaugurated by WENG Yu, Director of Development and Technology Transfer, Sci-Tech Academy of ZJU and Chen Kai, COO of Angelalign Group
LI Erping and LI Huamin, on behalf of the two sides, signed the agreement on the Joint Planning and First-phase Project Cooperation of ZJU- Angelalign Research & Development Center for Intelligent Healthcare
LIU Zuozhu, executive director of the R&D Center and researcher of ZJUI, shared the preliminary results of the previous cooperation with the technical team of Dr. Feng Yang of Angelalign Group and the team of Mr.Hao Jin from Harvard Medical School
