Westlake University invites you to their upcoming online info session, Advances in AI & Electronic Science and Technology: PhD Programs in Westlake University’s School of Engineering, on Thursday, March 06, 2025, at 7pm (China time) | 12pm (CET).

Discover how Westlake University in Hangzhou, China is breaking the barriers between STEM related fields. In this online PhD admissions session Dr. Yaochu Jin and Dr. Lan Li from Westlake University’s School of Engineering will provide attendees with an overview of Westlake University’s PhD program in Electronic Science and Technology and opportunities to study AI. Attendees can learn more about Westlake’s goal to provide an interdisciplinary learning and research environment for its scholars and students.

In addition, attendees will learn about the admissions process at Westlake University and the generous Westlake Fellowship available to all international students. Attendees will also have the opportunity to ask Dr. Yaochu Jin and Dr. Lan Li questions about research and academic life at Westlake and learn more about the resources available to PhD students.

You can register here.

Event Details

• Topic: Advances in AI & Electronic Science and Technology: PhD Programs in Westlake University’s School of Engineering
• Organizer: Westlake University
• Date: Thursday, March 06, 2025
• Time: 7PM (China time) | 12PM (CET)
• Language: English
• Location: Online (link will be provided after you register)

Speakers

Dr. Lan Li

Assistant Professor
School of Engineering

Professor Li obtained a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Delaware in 2016. Since then she has been a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Professor Li joined Westlake University in 2019 as an Assistant Professor and is the PI of the Flexible Integrated Photonics Lab (FLIP Lab).

Dr. Li has pioneered a monolithic approach to realize flexible, high-index-contrast glass photonics with significantly improved processing throughput and yield. She also demonstrated flexible photonic devices with record optical performance and extreme mechanical robustness, which can sustain over thousands of bending or stretching cycles by adopting the developed mechanics theory accounting for multiple neutral axes. This theory can accurately predict the strain-optical coupling behavior within the laminated structures. She further proved that the developed technology can also offer a facile fabrication route for heterogeneous integration with active components as well as 3-D photonic devices such as vertically coupled micro-resonators, adiabatic inter-layer waveguide couplers and photonic crystal.

Dr. Yaochu Jin

Chair Professor of Artificial Intelligence
School of Engineering 

Professor Jin obtained his BSc. (1988), MSc. (1991) and PhD degrees (1996) in Automatic Control from the Electrical Engineering Department at Zhejiang University. He is currently Chair Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Engineering at Westlake University. Before joining Westlake University, from 2021 to 2023 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence at Bielefeld University in Germany. From 2010 to 2021 he was the Surrey Distinguished Chair Professor in Computational Intelligence at the University of Surrey in Guildford, U.K. And from 2015 to 2017 Professor Jin was a “Finland Distinguished Professor” at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and a “Changjiang Distinguished Visiting Professor” at the Northeastern University in China. He is a member of Academia Europaea and Fellow of IEEE.

Prof Jin’s research interests include trustworthy artificial intelligence and artificial general intelligence. He has been working in the cross-disciplinary areas of computational intelligence, computational neuroscience and computational systems biology, such as evolutionary optimization and learning, secure and privacy-preserving machine learning and optimization, graph neural network based combinatorial optimization, pretrained generative models for optimization, spiking neural networks and neural plasticity, computational modeling of neural and morphological development, morphogenetic self-organizing swarm robots and reconfigurable modular robots, artificial life, and evolutionary developmental systems. He has published over 500 papers in IEEE Transactions and major conferences such as CVPR, NeurIPS, ICLR, and ACM MM. His research output has been applied to design optimization of many industrial systems, such as turbine engines, high-lift airfoils, vehicles, and aircraft fuselage, reverse engineering of biological gene regulatory networks, vaccine selection, healthcare, fintech and robotics. His research has been funded by EU FP7, UK EPSRC, UK Royal Society, German BMBF, NSF China, and several companies including Honda, Bosch, Airbus, Huawei and Nvidia.

About the School of Engineering at Westlake University

The School of Engineering at Westlake University is devoted to frontier research in applied sciences and innovation of technologies to advance human well-being sustainably. We aim to establish key strengths at the cutting edge in science and technology through interdisciplinary research, training of forward-thinking students, and recruitment of top talents from around the world. We train the next generation of engineers to develop creative ideas and solutions. By applying our strengths, we inspire others to solve global challenges facing our world. 

PhD in Electronic Science & Technology Research Fields

1. Optics, Photonics and Optoelectronics
2. Micro- and Nano-fabrication Technologies
3. Microelectronics and Telecommunications
4. Electronic and Energy Devices
5. Intelligent Equipments and Systems
6. Artificial Intelligence

About Westlake University

Westlake University is a new type of high-quality research university based in the historic city of Hangzhou, China – a stunning region well-known throughout Asia for its long history, rich culture, and beautiful scenery. Westlake was founded by prominent globally respected scientists and scholars. Westlake emphasizes academic freedom, research excellence, interdisciplinary engagement, and international collaboration. They are committed to building a truly international, world-class, research-oriented university.

Westlake has four academic schools: the School of Science, the School of Engineering, the School of Life Sciences, and the School of Medicine. Each school features cutting-edge research facilities and extensive research opportunities. 

There are currently 5 PhD programs open to international applicants:

• PhD in Mathematics
• PhD in Physics
• PhD in Chemistry
• PhD in Electronic Science and Technology
• PhD in Biology

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