Recently,  The project Personalized and Inclusive Childcare Service Technologies and Platform was selected as the National Key Research and Development Program provided by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of PRC which is led by Professor Wang Hongwei, Vice Dean of ZJUI. The project  has Zhejiang University serving as its lead institution.

The project focuses on three key scientific challenges: ensuring equitable and quality early childhood development, enabling scientifically precise nurturing, and providing safe and reliable childcare.To address these challenges, the project aims to advance personalized and inclusive childcare service technologies. By establishing a smart digital service platform, it will explore integrated healthcare and childcare and digital childcare solutions to deliver comprehensive, accessible early education services. Ultimately, the initiative seeks to pioneer a new childcare model that combines universal accessibility with individualized development.

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Led by Professor Wang Hongwei, the project team brings together nearly 200 researchers from ten prestigious institutions to jointly tackle key challenges. Their mission is to develop childcare service and supervision systems, followed by real-world implementation.

The ZJUI team plays a pivotal role in this collaboration, with members including Associate Professor Zhao Bo, Assistant Professors Wang Gao'ang, Zhang Meng, and Meng Xiangming, along with 16 PhD candidates and 23 master students. In recent years, the team has focused on signal processing, computer vision, and related fields, consistently publishing high-impact research in top-tier conferences and journals across multiple computing-related domains. Their work underscores ZJUI’s robust research capabilities and global influence in these areas.

In recent years, ZJUI has systematically advanced its research initiatives, leveraging its strengths in interdisciplinary collaboration while placing strong emphasis on nurturing young faculty. This has enabled the Institute to progressively build a sustainable educational ecosystem that integrates education, technology, and faculty development.

Professor Wang Hongwei