Beijing, 27th December 2021 (BISTU)--- BISTU delegation headed by President Wang Yongsheng visits Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) and meets with Executive Deputy President Cao Gang of BAAI. Delegation members of BISTU also include Vice President Chen Xin, directors of related divisions and offices, and vice deans of academic affairs of BISTU schools.  

Wang Yongsheng firstly visits the exhibition hall of BAAI located in Cernet Building of Tuspark. Vice President Cao Gang of Zhipu AI and Zuo Jiaping, a BISTU alumni, respectively offer introductions to Wudao 2.0, an AI modeling, and “Digital Sign Language Speaker”--- both are the latest research achievements of BAAI.  

A meeting then is organized for both parties. Wang Yongsheng extends thanks to warm reception of BAAI and expresses that five areas of academic strength have been formed at BISTU since the 13th Five Year Plan, i.e., intellisense, intelligent control, intelligent equipment, intelligent decision-making, and intelligent computing. BAAI is a leading AI innovation center in China. And BISTU aims at building a high level university with distinctive features in information technology. It is hoped that researcher of BISTU would be able to participate in high level science and technology development and innovation, engineering research, and promotion of academic research achievements via the platform of BAAI. Meanwhile, BISTU would also spare no efforts to making even greater contributions to development of Beijing and of the nation.  

Chen Xin introduces objectives of the visit and an introduction to history, academic research progress, research strengths, commercialization of research achievements at BISTU, and collaboration between BISTU and local governments.  

Following his warm welcome to Wang Yongsheng and BISTU delegation members, Cao Gang introduces BAAI and points out that BAAI is a new R&D institute supported by Ministry of Science and Technology and Beijing Municipality. BAAI lays focus on core technologies and provide sufficient with scientists in exploring frontier technological areas so as to make more record-breaking achievements in the field of artificial intelligence.  

Both institutions have reached consensus on models and framework of future cooperation and agree to explore more details in near future.