On the afternoon of September 14th, a delegation led by Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasiliev, the Rector of ITMO University, visited Beihang Univeristy. Beihang President Xu Huibin friendly received the guests at the VIP Reception Hall of the Conference Center of New Main Building. Vice President Huang Haijun then had an in-depth discussion with the delegation at the 5th Conference Room, accompanied by relevant leaders from the Office of Admission and Career Development, International Division, School of Cyberspace Security, School of Computer Science and Engineering, and School of Instrumentation Science and Opto-electronics Engineering.
President Xu extended his warm welcome to the delegates and hoped that this visit would facilitate further in-depth cooperation between Beihang and ITMO on talent cultivation and scientific research in preponderant disciplines like information and optics. Vice President Huang briefed the current developments of Beihang in related fields. The two sides had an in-depth discussion and fully exchanged opinions on the next steps in carrying out research cooperation seminars, exchange programs for teachers, and joint training programs for students.
Following that, leaders from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Instrumentation Science and Opto-electronics Engineering and School of Cyberspace Security gave an overall introduction to discipline construction, research cooperation and international exchange of their schools respectively.
During the visit, the delegates also toured related laboratories of the School of Instrumentation Science and Opto-electronics Engineering.
Founded in 1900, the ITMO University is one of Russia’s National Research Universities, and one of 15 Russian universities that were selected to participate in Russian Academic Excellence Project 5-100. Like Beihang University, ITMO University is also a member of the Association of Sino-Russian Technical Universities (ASRTU). The university currently has more than 11,000 students (including over 1,800 international students) and more than 1,300 teachers. Its top majors include precision machinery, optics, computer technology, control science and robotics, network security technology, program design, etc. The university has signed a cooperation agreement with Beihang in July this year.
Reported by Chen Cui and Qu Yue
Photographed by Sun He
Edited by Song Chao
Translated by Lyu Xingyun
