Discipline characteristics:

.Strengthen the application of basic research

  This discipline aims at the international forefront, conducting basic research on computer science and technology theory and applications. It conducts research in data science and artificial intelligence, big data and high-performance computing, multimedia technology and graphics and image processing, machine learning and data mining, computational intelligence, audio-visual and service computing, cyberspace security, advanced computing architecture, mobile software development environment, intelligent technology and robotics, and has published a number of high-level scientific research papers in international authoritative journals and top academic conferences.

.Emphasize the cooperation of industry university research application

  This discipline has long conducted in-depth industry university research application cooperation with well-known IT enterprises and institutions in southern China, especially in the fields of big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, embedded systems, information security, software testing, etc. It has advantages and has won multiple national and provincial scientific research awards.

.Emphasizing both disciplinary construction and talent cultivation

  The organic combination of disciplinary construction and talent cultivation has cultivated and delivered a large number of high-end technology and engineering management talents in the field of computer science and engineering to society and enterprises. It has become the core base for scientific research and talent cultivation in the field of computer science and engineering in South China, and the cradle of high-end engineering technology and engineering management talents in the field of IT engineering in South China.

Main research platforms:

  At present, this discipline has the following provincial and ministerial level platforms and has participated in the construction of a Guangdong Province Collaborative Innovation Center:

1.Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computer Networks (2002)

2.Guangdong Big Data Analysis and Processing Engineering Technology Research Center (2013)

3.Intelligent Information Processing and Security Engineering Technology Research Center for Massive   Big Data in Guangdong Universities (2013)

4.Guangdong Province Big Data Collaborative Innovation Center (jointly established by Shenzhen     University, Sun Yat sen University, South China University of Technology, and other units in 2014)

5.Guangdong Information Access and Transmission Security Engineering Technology Research Center (2015)

6.Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Cyberspace Information (2017)

7.Guangdong Artificial Intelligence Traditional Chinese Medicine Engineering Center (2017)

8.Big Data and Computational Intelligence Guangdong Hong Kong Joint Innovation Platform (2018)