Ministry of Education organizes a panel of experts to evaluate JIRLOTS.
On January 29, the Chinese Ministry of Education organized a panel of experts to evaluate the Joint International Research Laboratory of Trustworthy Software (JIRLOTS) at ECNU's Zhongbei campus.
President Chen Qun expresses his welcome to participants of the meeting.
Li Nan, director of the General Affairs Office of the Division of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, presided the meeting. The expert panel, headed by Sun Youxian, an academician from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, included Duan Baoyan, an academician from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Zhou Chaochen and Chu Junhao, academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jia Weijia and Hu Bing, specially-appointed professors, and Professor Jin Zhi, winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. The meeting was also attended by Li Hongliang, vice director of the Science and Technology Division of Shanghai Education Commission, Chen Qun, President of ECNU, Wang Rongming, Vice President of ECNU, leaders from the relevant departments, and representatives from the Joint International Research Laboratory.
Prof. Patrice Quinton introduces the construction of the laboratory by video link.
Vania Joloboff reports the cooperation between Inria and the laboratory.
Academician He Jifeng, head of the laboratory on the Chinese side, reported the construction of the laboratory to the experts from several aspects, i.e. its organizational structure, international cooperation, landmark achievements, discipline construction, and talent cultivation, and introduced the integrative capability of the laboratory and its development plan in the future 3 years based on the research orientations of its members. Prof. Patrice Quinton, President of ENS Rennes and head of the laboratory on the French side, introduced the cooperation of both sides in the construction of the laboratory by video link. Vania Joloboff, a researcher from Inria and the French representative of the laboratory, reported the cooperation between Inria and the laboratory.
Experts express their views at the meeting.
After listening to the reports, the expert panel meticulously examined the research conditions, landmark achievements, working conditions, instruments and tools of the laboratory on the spot, inquired about and discussed the reports based on the evaluation indicator system, and unanimously agreed that the project had passed the evaluation.
The expert panel meticulously examine the research conditions of the laboratory on the spot.
The joint international research laboratory plan is an important measure the Ministry of Education has taken to promote comprehensive reform and achieve a leading position in internationalization. It is important in boosting international cooperation, enhancing international basic and frontier research, cultivating first-class talents with international visions, and building first-rate universities in the world. The Joint International Research Laboratory of Trustworthy Software, the first joint research laboratory ECNU applied to set up, was established in 2012. Up to now, the laboratory has conducted over 10 projects of joint international cooperation. Centering on the country's strategic demand for trustworthy software and focusing on trustworthy software theories, trustworthy embedded systems, trustworthy data processing, and information security, it has undertaken a batch of key research tasks and have reaped some landmark achievements.
