On September 17, the opening ceremony of "Wavefront Class - Artificial Intelligence Digital Health" phase I and an industry-education integration forum was held in the multifunctional hall of the Campus. Professor OUYANG Hongwei, Dean of International Campus attended and delivered a speech. Other attendees include leaders of the municipal government of Haining: CAO Guoliang, Secretary of CPC Haining Municipal Committee, LV Zhongfei, Standing Committee Member and Organization Minister of CPC Haining Municipal Committee, XU Honghua, Vice Mayor of Haining Municipal People's Government, and industrial representatives: LIAO Jieyuan, Chairman of Micro Medical Group, XU Xiaobo, Chairman of Zhejiang Dekang Medical Devices Co. and SHEN Qinhua, founding partner of Zhejiang Puhua Tianqin Equity Investment Management Co.
In his speech, Dean OUYANG noted that Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health is the first iZJU-developed professional master's program featuring international collaboration and cross-disciplinary structure. The realization of this program integrated the strengths of global partnerships, affiliated hospitals, and partner enterprises. It taps into the advantages of iZJU in the fields of artificial intelligence, life science, and medical science. The program aims at cultivating master's students with academic competency and entrepreneurship, who will not only constitute a significant part of the top talents in the realms of digital science and life science but also use their expertise to boost productivity.
He further expected the students to adopt an outcome-based mindset, which would drive them to conduct the research of the future, tackling the problems that concern the most and matter the longest. According to him, cross-disciplinary competence means picking up tools from all disciplines that are at one’s disposal and adopting multi-disciplinary lenses in problem analyzing and solving. Standing at the crossroad of science, education, and industry, the program would facilitate the integration of market, technology, and capital, which would also manifest in its advantage in developing teamwork skills, both in terms of interpersonal and interdisciplinary. Dean OUYANG asserted that through the efforts of the government, enterprises, schools, and other relevant parties, the program would yield a group of entrepreneurs specialized in artificial intelligence and digital health, whose names are to be associated with those ground-breaking enterprises of tomorrow.
CAO Guoliang, OUYANG Hongwei, LIAO Jieyuan and XU Xiaobo launch the phase I class together.
CAO Guoliang appoints the representative of AI and digital health program consultants.
LV Zhongfei appoints the representatives of the industrial mentors.
XU Honghua appoints the representatives of the outreach life science mentors.
CAI Quan, Executive Executive Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of International Campus, awards the class flag to Wavefront Class - Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health, Phase I.
Professor WANG Yufen, eputy Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of International Campus, gives out souvenirs to the phase I students.
Professor WANG Hongwei, Vice Dean of ZJUI and head of the AI& digital health program, introduces the structure and features of the program.
Led by BAI Aoyang, the League branch secretary, the phase I students read out the class covenant. The student representative, WANG Zichong, delivers a speech.
SHEN Qinhua, WU Jian, Vice Dean of the International Campus, and SU Chong, Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Haining Juhu Lake International Science and Technology City, jointly launched the "First Pot of Gold" initiative for the AI & Digital Health Program.
After the launch ceremony, an industry-education integration forum was held featuring speakers whose engagements can be found in both industrial and educational sectors. The speakers, with whom the students had thought-provoking interactions are, LIAO Jieyuan, Chairman of Micro Medical Group, WANG Jin, President of Manhattan Capital Investment Company at Hangzhou，LI Xiang, CEO of Hangzhou Ruijielong Technology Co., Ltd., and ZHENG Youyi, researcher at the College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University and founder of Hangzhou Chaohou Technology.
The guests and students visit the research-study zone of the Artificial Intelligence & Digital Health program.
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health is a full-time professional master’s program. It is the first master’s program developed independently by iZJU that embeds international collaboration and multi-disciplinary thinking in its program structure. The launching of this program represents a critical step for iZJU’s endeavor to innovate professional master's education. Its uniqueness can be found in its educational objectives and program design, which can guide and illuminate iZJU’s efforts when it develops multidisciplinary master’s programs in the future. The students came away from the event with newly set resolutions focusing on advancing human well-being. With what they will learn at the frontier of digital technology application, they will grow into the ones to define the field of artificial intelligence and digital health.
Heads of relevant departments of Haining City, heads of relevant offices and departments of iZJU, program consultants for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health, program academic advisors, artificial intelligence mentors, health& medical mentors, enterprise mentors, representatives of faculty and staff on campus and the students of phase I, "Wavefront Class - Artificial Intelligence Digital Health" attended the ceremony.
