On the afternoon of July 5, the Joint SDU-NTU Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (C-FAIR) was established in the central campus of Shandong University.
C-FAIR was jointly founded by Shandong University and Nanyang Technological University. It is an independent and directly affiliated scientific research institution.
Fan Liming, president of SDU, said that internationalization is one of the outstanding features of this research institute. NTU will contribute high-end discipline resources and high-quality teaching resources, while SDU will provide a student pool.
Relying on Shandong's vast market and comprehensive industrial system, the institute undertakes the transformation of technological achievements such as smart service and smart manufacturing, Fan added.
NTU boasts advanced development of AI technology research and applications. It also has strong strengths in scientific research and teaching, gathering a large number of young talents.
Lam Khin Yong, vice president of NTU, said that the research institute will conduct interdisciplinary research in health, environment, energy, and other important social fields, making full use of the resources of universities, enterprises, and public institutions, as well as building itself into a scientific research and discipline support platform and talent training base.
Through the "2+X" mode of operation, C-FAIR absorbs high-level schools and well-known scholars in Singapore, the United States, Canada, Australia, France, etc. It brings together relevant disciplines resources of Shandong University. At the same time, it unites government and enterprise forces to build up the world-famous and domestic leading artificial intelligence highlands of talent gathering, talent cultivation, scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation.
In the "2 + X" mode, "2" represents Nanyang Technological University and Shandong University, "X" represents Dareway company, Zhangqiu District Government of Jinan City, as well as other internationally renowned universities and institutions and their well-known scholars, and enterprises, government institutions joining C-FAIR in the future.
