SCUT and AWS Push Fin-tech Advance

Posted by:黄小婷Release Date:2019-05-15Views:146


On May 6th, 2019, Sun Zhanpeng, head of the Cooperation Department of AWS University, and other stuff visited to SEC, they agreed to cooperate on “Fin-tech Innovative Entrepreneurship Lab”.

The two sides first focused on financial majors, especially on teaching and practices of SCUT-HSBC Fin-tech Talent Program. They discussed about application requirements of main technologies in fin-tech, including AI, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Big Data (ABCD).

Professor Deng Kebin, the director of the Supply Chain Financial Engineering Technology Research Center and doctoral tutor, pointed out that fin-tech would be the trend of Finance, and Cloud Platform would be a strong support for many Finance courses, including financial engineering, financial computing, security investment and behavioral finance. He also suggested that advantages of innovative entrepreneurship should be fully exploited, integrating entrepreneurship into course reform. Other teachers in SCUT-HSBC Fin-tech Talent Program expressed their unique insights, suggesting that they should embed fin-tech into SEC courses with problem orientation and financial business background into full consideration.

Director Sun applauded for SCUT-HSBC Fin-tech Talent Program. It pointed out that AWS, providing with overall support for fin-tech as the leader of global cloud computing, equipping with mature course systems and certification in cloud computing fundamental platforms, big data, machine learning and cloud security, officially offering blockchain at the end of last year. HSBC and AWS have been in-depth cooperation in business, both being confident in fin-tech course development in SCUT.

Then, Secretary Huang Guoqing, on behalf of SEC, met with visitors at 315 South Building and extended warm welcome and sincere thanks. Secretary Huang highlighted the importance of financial and technological innovation in the context of Guangdong-HK-Macao Greater Bay Area. As a Double First-rate university of science and technology, SEC equips with a complete doctoral program of applied economics, management science and engineering, as well as modern service system of fin-tach and digital economy. There is great room for both sides for cooperation. It is hoped that we can make depth cooperation in the areas of talent training, scientific research, industrial innovation and social services. We hope to collaborate in entrepreneurship education, to build research centers and labs together, achieving win-win cooperation. National Internet + Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition will be held in SCUT in 2020. We hope that AWS will actively participate in and jointly promote students' innovation and entrepreneurship activities.

Director Sun pointed out that AWS signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Ministry of Education in 2016. It has been committed to the cultivation of applied talents in universities, actively providing cloud service resources and training for start-ups, and providing comprehensive support for entrepreneurial innovation competition in colleges. Amazon has unique innovative culture. AWS will send innovation architects to teach and communicate in SCUT, and hope faculties in SCUT will visit AWS as well. With the Greater Bay Ares, AWS hopes to build fin-tech innovative entrepreneurship lab as a featured sample project of university-industry collaboration, and AWS (Guangzhou) Joint Innovation Center will actively participate in new practice bases of engineering and new liberal arts.