Vice Rector Zhou Wanlei attends International Conference on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research and Application to discuss data science and AI
The Data Science and Technology session of the 2025 International Conference on The Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research and Application (Shandong) was recently held in Jinan. Vice Rector Zhou Wanlei of City University of Macau (CityU) was invited to attend and delivered an invited report titled “Trends and Applications in Data Science and AI”. Centered on the theme “data empowerment for new generation information technology and intelligent equipment”, the conference brought together nearly 130 experts and scholars from countries and regions including Russia, Canada, Norway, Serbia, and Macao, China, along with numerous academics from member institutions of the Shandong Higher Education Consortium for New Generation Information Technology, to jointly explore the latest trends in data science and its practical industrial applications.
At the opening ceremony, Vice Rector Zhou Wanlei delivered a speech as the guest representative. He emphasized that data science and technology, as the core driving forces of the new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation, are profoundly reshaping production, daily life, and modes of thinking, highlighting the strong support for the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the vast opportunities for the flourishing development of emerging sectors. Through its interdisciplinary curriculum system, Vice Rector Zhou said the Faculty of Data Science at CityU is committed to cultivating talent in data science and big data technology who possess data-driven thinking, innovative spirit, and practical capabilities, thereby fostering technological innovation and collaborative development across industry, academia, research, and application.
During the keynote session, Vice Rector Zhou Wanlei regarded data science and AI as rapidly advancing and highly prominent frontier directions within computer science and across interdisciplinary and industrial fields, highlighting its nature integrating knowledge and technology of multiple disciplines to address complex data and knowledge-related challenges. He stressed that data science and AI possesses interdisciplinary characteristics. Drawing from his own research background, he explored the development trends and several representative application scenarios of these two fields. Using CityU as an example, he shared the University’s practices and experiences in promoting interdisciplinary curriculum development.
This conference was organized by the Shandong Provincial Education Department and jointly hosted by Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) and the Shandong Higher Education Consortium for New Generation Information Technology. It aimed to promote the deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application, promoting regional industrial upgrading and technological innovation.
