The IEEE 16th International Conference on Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT 2024), jointly sponsored by the IEEE China Council and IEEE Photonics Society and hosted by SCMU, was successfully held in Enshi, Hubei from August 16 to 19.
Nearly 200 experts and scholars from prestigious institutions including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan University, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences attended the conference in person. The event also utilized a combination of online and offline methods to jointly discuss the latest research findings and future trends in the field of advanced information and communication technology.Notable attendees included Professor Yao Jianquan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from Tianjin University, and Professor Shen Ping, IEEE Fellow and Global Chair of the IEEE Photonics Society from Southern University of Science and Technology.
The opening ceremony on August 17 was attended by Song Fajun, Deputy Party Secretary and Vice President of SCMU. Yang Chunyong, Dean of the School of Electronic Information Engineering at SCMU and co-chair of the conference, presided over the ceremony. Song Fajun welcomed the participants and highlighted SCMU’s commitment to socialist educational principles and its focus on fostering a sense of community for the Chinese nation.
Opening ceremony scene.
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Song Fajun, on behalf of the university, extended a warm welcome to the experts and scholars who had traveled from afar. He stated that SCMZ consistently adheres to the socialist direction in education and implements the Party’s educational policies and guidelines. With the main focus on strengthening the sense of community for the Chinese nation, the university supports various disciplines in actively integrating into the mainstream of industry development and encourages faculty and students to participate in domestic and international academic discussions. He expressed hope that through this conference, the faculty and students of the university’s information science disciplines would further broaden their horizons, strengthen intellectual exchanges with experts and scholars, deepen friendships, jointly explore academic frontiers, and achieve common development. Professor Shen Ping, as the conference chair, introduced the history of ICAIT and thanked SCMU and Hubei Minzu University for their support.
Keynote speeches. Photo provided by the School of Electronic Information Engineering
Keynote speeches were delivered by Academician Yao Jianquan, Professor Shao Xiaopeng from the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, CAS, and IEEE Fellow Professor Xu Shugong from Shanghai University.
The conference covered 12 hot areas including optical fiber communication and networks, optical fiber and sensing technology, optical wireless communication and networks, microwave photonics, optical fiber laser technology and applications, micro-nano optical devices and sensing, semiconductor optoelectronic devices, communication signal, information and data processing, optical imaging technology and applications, visual analysis and machine learning, space communication, navigation and tracking, and information security. This provided participants with a valuable platform to showcase themselves, exchange ideas, and spark intellectual discussions.
A unique roundtable discussion on Advanced Infocomm Technology Supporting the Development of Ethnic Regions was held, featuring experts like Academician Yao Jianquan and representatives from Hubei Minzu University and SCMU.
Research achievements report.
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During the discussion, Professor Sun Xianbo, Party Secretary of the School of Intelligent Science and Engineering at Hubei Minzu University, reported on the school’s construction and development from multiple aspects, including the current state of education development, university-enterprise cooperation models, and open-source educational approaches based on win-win cooperation. Professor Qian Kai, Vice Dean of the School of Intelligent Science and Engineering at Hubei Minzu University, reported on the school’s talent cultivation, the construction of the JPT Laboratory, and research achievements.
Associate Professor Ni Wenjun, a young faculty member from the School of Electronic Information Engineering, SCMU, represented his team in reporting on the implementation of Hubei Province’s Innovation Group Project, and detailed the research ideas and recent progress in cross-medium (air-sea) optoacoustic communication technology. Dr. Bai Di, reported on behalf of his team on the progress of research into precise perception and control systems for small low-altitude urban drones.
After learning about how the information disciplines at these two ethnic universities serve regional economic and social development, Academician Yao Jianquan introduced his recent research work and discussed research topic selection. He addressed the research concerns of young scholars, encouraging them to take on the important mission of promoting technological progress and industrial development. Based on his observations and insights, he also offered suggestions to ethnic universities regarding talent cultivation and discipline construction, as well as to regional social and economic management departments.
During the conference, the School of Intelligent Science and Engineering at Hubei Minzu University and the School of Electronic Information Engineering at SCMU signed a cooperation agreement to jointly establish the Enshi Intelligent Technology Industry Joint Research Institute. Academician Yao Jianquan presented the plaque to representatives of both schools.
Academician Yao Jianquan presenting the plaque.
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ICAIT, initiated in 2008 at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, has now held 16 sessions. ICAIT 2024 received strong support from renowned universities both in China and abroad, including Hefei University of Technology, Guangxi University, Chongqing University, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.
