【Academic Trends】Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Education Research came to Wuhan University for Research

On March 21st, Professor Yuan Zhenguo, Dean of Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Education Research, led a team to Wuhan University to conduct a special research on the construction of the Philosophy and Social Sciences Laboratory of the Ministry of Education. Shen Zhuanghai, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Wuhan University, met with Yuan Zhenguo and his delegation and organized a special meeting.

At the meeting, Shen Zhuanghai welcomed thedelegationand introduced the basic situation of humanities and social sciences research at Wuhan University. Professor Wang Xiaoguang, Director of the Philosophy and Social Sciences Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Intelligent Computing of Cultural Heritage at Wuhan University and Vice Dean of the School of Information Management, gave a special presentation on the construction of the laboratory. He introduced the overall layout of the laboratory in the context of serving the national cultural power and digital China strategy, with a focus on promoting theresearchin five areas, first, construction and application of smart data on cultural heritage; second, semantic understanding and annotation of cultural heritage images; third, intelligent sorting, mining, and reconstruction of ancient books; fourth, 3D modeling and virtual presentation of cultural heritage, and last but not least, geographic information systems for cultural heritage. Professor Peng Zhiyong, a laboratory committee member and professor from the School of Computer Science and Technology, introduced the progress of the laboratory's independent research and development of cultural heritage management databases.

Professor Yuan Zhenguo expressed sincere gratitude for the warm reception of Wuhan University. He stated that Wuhan University is a well-known university with a wide influence in the field of humanities and social sciences; What Wuhan University has done in integrating interdisciplinary advantageous resources to promote the digitization and intelligence of cultural heritage research are admirable. He introduced the construction and overall layout of the intelligent education laboratory at East China Normal University, and elaborated in detail on the laboratory's promotion of deep interdisciplinary and high-end talent cultivation in intelligent education.

At the meeting, both sides also conducted in-depth discussions on the institutional mechanism innovation, collaborative promotion of scientific research projects, talent team development, and school-enterprise cooperation mechanism construction so as to promote the construction of the Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of the Ministry of Education. The meeting was chaired by Tao Jun, Vice Dean of the Institute of Humanities and Social SciencesinWuhan University.

It is reported that the Ministry of Education announced the first batch of philosophy and social science laboratories at the end of 2021. The Wuhan University Cultural Heritage Intelligent Computing Laboratory and the East China Normal University Intelligent Education Laboratory were both selected, making them the only philosophy and social science laboratory of the Ministry of Education in the fields of cultural heritage and education.

During their time at Wuhan University, the delegation also conducted on-site research on the Cultural Heritage Intelligent Computing Laboratory and the Wuhan University Big Data Research Institute. Zhou Aimin, Vice Dean of Shanghai Intelligent Education Research Institute at East China Normal University, Xun Yuan, Executive Vice Director of the Education Department, Pu Geguang, Executive Dean of the School of Software Engineering, Zhang Kai, Vice Dean of Shanghai Intelligent Education Research Institute, Zheng Chanjin, Assistant Dean, and Liu Zhi, Office Director, participated in the research.