On the afternoon of September 11, Ma Yugang, President of East China Normal University (ECNU) and Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led a delegation to visit and conduct research at the School of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence. He was accompanied by Shi Guoyue, Standing Committee Member of the University Party Committee, Vice President of ECNU and Dean of the School of Spatial Artificial Intelligence, as well as heads of functional departments including the University Office, the Office of Science and Technology, and the Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Education.
The day happened to be graduate student registration day. President Ma first went to the check-in desk to learn in detail about the new-student registration process, inquired with care about how registration was going, and warmly chatted with incoming graduate students, listening to their impressions of starting university and encouraging them to treasure their time of study.
During the visit, President Ma and his entourage toured the teaching and research areas of the school on the ground, carefully inspected venue conditions, research facility configuration and laboratory operating environments, and listened on site to a work report from the school's leadership on its disciplinary layout, main research directions, faculty development, talent cultivation model, and phased research achievements. President Ma also walked into faculty offices and graduate laboratories to communicate face-to-face with teachers and students, urging them to delve into frontier fields and bravely shoulder research missions.
President Ma fully affirmed the achievements the School of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence has made since its establishment. Looking ahead, the school will firmly seize development opportunities, draw on the university's comprehensive strengths, solidly push forward all construction tasks, continue to strengthen its distinctive feature of interdisciplinary integration between aerospace and artificial intelligence, focus on key fields to carry out research breakthroughs, promote frontier original discoveries and the application of research innovations, and strive to write a new chapter in disciplinary development.
