Academics
School of Computer and Electronic Information

https://scei.gxu.edu.cn/

The School of Computer and Electronic Information of Guangxi University offers multiple programsincluding computer science and technology, information security, network engineering, electronic information engineering, communication engineering, and artificial intelligence. The discipline of Computer Science and Technology  was selected as distinctive advantageous key program and the discipline of Software Engineering was selected as the key discipline of Guangxi. It has Guangxi Key Laboratory of Multimedia Communications and Network Technology, Guangxi Research Center of Intelligent Digital Service Technology Engineering, Key Laboratory  of Parallel and Distributed Intelligent Computing of Guangxi Universities, Nanning Branch Center of National High Performance Computing Center (or High Performance Computing Center Guangxi University), Guangxi University Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Guangxi University Computer and Information Technology Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, and Guangxi High School Computer and information Technology Virtual Simulation Experiment Teaching Center, Guangxi Information Security Industry College, Guangxi Characteristic Demonstration Software College, Guangxi Network Security Talent Training Base and other teaching and research platforms.

The school now has formed a multi-level education system including postgraduate education, undergraduate education and adult education. At present, we offer undergraduate programs including Computer Science and Technology, Information Security, Electronic Information Engineering, Communication Engineering, master's academic degree programs including Computer Science and Technology, Information and Communication Engineering, and one master's professional degree program under Electronic Information (including 4 professional fields: computer technology, artificial intelligence, new generation of electronic information technology, and communication engineering). Besides, the school, together with other schools of Guangxi University, jointly develop three independent secondary disciplines, namely Computing Theory and System, Electric Power Equipment and Intelligent Information Technology, and Bioinformatics. The master’s program of Engineering in the field of Computer Technology was awarded as National Characteristic Engineering Field of Postgraduate Education of Engineering. Computer Science and Technology was approved as the undergraduate major of the third batch of National Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program in 2014, the national first-class undergraduate major construction point in 2019, passed the engineering education professional certification and was approved as the Guangxi characteristic demonstration School in 2022. The major of Information Security was approved as the provincial first-class undergraduate major construction point and the School of Information Security Industry in Guangxi in 2021, and the first batch of network security talent training base (pilot) in Guangxi in 2022. In the same year, Electronic Information Engineering will be approved as the national first-class undergraduate major construction site, and Communication Engineering was approved as the national first-class undergraduate major construction site in 2020. At present, the school has over 1800 students, including more than 20 doctoral students, over 300 master students, over 1500 undergraduates and over 10 international students. It is the school with a large number of students in Guangxi University.

The school now has 116 faculty members, among which 26 professors, 12 doctoral supervisors, 31 associate professors, 4 master’s supervisors, 62 of them owning a doctoral degree. Among the teachers, one is a state-level high-level talent, one is selected for the “New Century Excellent Talent Support Program” of the Ministry of Education, three are selected for the second level of the “New Century Ten Hundred Thousand Talents Project” of Guangxi, two as Guangxi High-Level Talents, one as “Bagui Young Scholar”, and one in “Hundred Talents Program” of Guangxi universities. Besides, there are 2 candidates of “Funding Program for 100 Young and Middle-aged Discipline Leadersof Guangxi Universities”, 4 candidates of "Outstanding Talents Funding Program of Guangxi Universities", 1 winner of "Guangxi Outstanding Youth Fund" project and 2 winners of Baogang Excellent Teachers Award.

Centering on the major development strategy of national and Guangxi economic construction and the needs of industrial development, the school drives the work of applied research, technology development and service based on basic research and applied basic research. It focuses on the research and development in the fields of high-performance parallel computing, distributed computing and cloud computing, Internet software, big data and data management, intelligent information processing, intelligent control and intelligent energy, biological information processing and digital agriculture, network and information security, trusted software, database security, computer graphics and visualization, mobile multimedia communication, medical image processing, wireless network and edge computing, Beidou satellite communication and optical fiber communication, forming distinctive technical advantages and research characteristics with a number of research achievements. Over the past five years, it has presided over more than 40 national research projects, more than 40 provincial and ministerial research projects, and more than 170 other projects, getting over 59 million yuan for research. Scholars of our school have published more than 950 papers in journals and academic conferences at home and abroad, including over 300 papers included in SCI, EI and ISTP. More than 20 textbooks and monographs have been published. It has obtained over 100 national invention patents, 4 utility model patents, and more than 1,500 computer software copyrights. Also, it has won 5 science and technology awards at provincial and ministerial level.

The school is committed to the goal of training innovative students, and carrying out teaching research and reform practice in the construction of disciplines, the new mode of training students, the reform of teaching content and curriculum system, the construction of teaching materials, and the improvement of teaching methods. Outstanding achievements have been made and the quality of talent training has been significantly improved. In the past 10 years, the school has undertaken more than 40 higher education reform projects in Guangxi in the new century. In the past five years, it has won more than 10 Guangxi Teaching Achievement Awards and Guangxi Innovation and Entrepreneurship Teaching Education Achievement Awards. The school enjoys a large number of high-quality undergraduate and postgraduate students, with an employment rate of graduates remaining above 90%. The graduates of the school are working at home and abroadhighly praised by employers.

The School of Computer and Electronic Information of Guangxi University is adhering to the concept of “Revitalizing China and developing Guangxi” and the school motto of “Diligence, Honesty, Learning and Innovation”. The school is actively engaged in the construction of “Double First-Class” and strives to cultivate more talents with all-round development, so as to make greater contributions to the building of socialism with Chinese characteristics in a new era in Guangxi and to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

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Party Secretary of the School: Zhong Cheng (Professor, Doctor)

Dean of the School: Wu Xinzhang ( Professor, Doctor)