On the afternoon of April 23, Yu Jianqi, Chief Architect of the National Innovation Center for High-End Smart Home Appliances (hereinafter referred to as the “National Innovation Center”), and Wu Dan, Human Resources Manager, visited the SJTU Paris Elite Institute of Technology (SPEIT). Chen Cailian, Chinese Dean of the Institute, Wang Shaobo, Assistant to the Dean, Wei Guanghua, Director of the Student Innovation Center, and Cheng Junfang, tenure-track associate professor, attended the meeting. Both sides engaged in in-depth discussions and reached a preliminary cooperation intention, laying a solid foundation for future collaboration.
During the symposium, both parties focused on the overall framework for the joint establishment of a collaborative laboratory and conducted pragmatic exchanges on talent cultivation models. They expressed the hope of implementing a dual-mentor system jointly guided by academia and industry, enabling students to gain hands-on experience in industrial projects and develop their capabilities through solving real engineering problems, thereby effectively aligning enterprise talent demands with university training objectives.
The core of this cooperation lies in the precise alignment and complementary advantages of resources from both sides. The institute will leverage its strengths in scientific research and talent cultivation from a world-class university to inject continuous innovation momentum into the National Innovation Center. The National Innovation Center, in turn, will open up industrial manufacturing scenarios and platform resources, providing validation environments for research outcomes and offering students full-cycle project experience. Together, both parties aim to build a deep and sustainable collaborative partnership.
Prior to the meeting, Dr. Yu Jianqi and Director Wu Dan were invited to deliver a thematic lecture for SPEIT students. They provided an in-depth analysis of the application scenarios of generative AI technologies across the entire home appliance industry chain, including design, production, quality inspection, and marketing. At the same time, they conducted a recruitment session for internship positions, inviting outstanding students to participate in innovative practices empowered by AI in the real industrial sector.
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Looking ahead, SPEIT and the National Innovation Center will work together to deepen university-industry collaboration, fully leverage their respective strengths in engineering education and technological innovation, and steadily advance the implementation of cooperative projects. Together, they aim to cultivate interdisciplinary engineering talents who can meet the demands of intelligent industrial upgrading.