On June 21, Qian Xuhong, president of East China Normal University (ECNU) met with a delegation led by Li Zijian, president of the Education University of Hong Kong (EduHk).At the meeting, Qian Xuhong and Li Zijian jointly signed the "Artificial Intelligence Education Center Cooperation Agreement" on behalf of the two universities. The two universities will leverage their respective strengths a...

On May 18, the inaugural Global International Student Entrepreneurship Competition·AIGC Special Competition successfully concluded in Shanghai. This international event attracted over 100 international students from 30 countries, including Bangladesh, Rwanda, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Morocco.Six teams made it to the finals and participated in the roadshow, with three of those teams coming from...

ECNU has introduced the "AI+X" series of micro-majors for all undergraduate students in a bid to address the challenges of talent cultivation in the era of artificial intelligence (AI). This initiative aims to empower students from various majors to master AI tools, ultimately driving academic innovation and injecting new vitality and possibilities into research and practice across all domains....

On May 31, Shanghai AI-Finance School (SAIFS) was officially unveiled and established at East China Normal University (ECNU).The SAIFS is the first educational and research institute throughout the world to focus on the cross-industry intersection of AI and finance. The school has two research centers: AI-Fin (AI-Finance) Research Center and AI-PPE (AI-Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Resear...

To deeply understand the concept of new productive forces, promote the digital development of education, and accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of ECNU, a lecture: “Navigated Learning: AI for Personalized Learning” was held on the afternoon of May 29 at the Lecture Hall, Yifu Building on the Putuo Campus.Prof. Hu Xiang’en from Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU) and Dr...

On December 2, the Forum on Molecular Science and Health of the 2023 International Conference on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research and Application (Shanghai) was held at ECNU. During the forum, ECNU held a ChemGPT 1.0 press conference. Sun Zhenrong, Deputy Director of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Shi Guoyue, Vice President of ECNU, Prof. He Xiao, head ...

Recently, the educational large-scale language model EduChat, developed by the research team from the School of Computer Science and Technology and the Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Education at ECNU, was reported in the internationally renowned journal Nature. The title of the article is "ChatGPT Enters the Classroom", which mainly explores the transformation and impact of large-scale lang...

On August 31st, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Cooperation was signed by ECNU, the Education University of Hong Kong (“EUHK”) and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (“HKUST”) to jointly establish the Artificial Intelligence & Future of Education Alliance. Mei Bing, Secretary of CPC ECNU Committee, and Yuan Zhenguo, Honorary Dean of Shanghai Institute of Smart Educati...

What can AI bring to education? At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), the development of education in the future has become a major focal point.The 2023 WAIC Forum on Intelligent Education was convened at the World Expo Center on July 8th with the theme of “Leading the Learning Revolution and Creating the Future of Education”. Over 46,000 people participated in the forum bot...