On August 21st, UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean Jayathi Y. Murthy and the school’s Senior Executive Director of Development Melanie Masters Burzynski visited ShanghaiTech. President Jiang extended a warm welcome to the delegation and held a meeting with School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) Vice Dean Yu Jingyi. SIST Assistant Professors Kou Xufeng, Wutao and Tu Kewei were in attendance.
President Jiang introduced the development of ShanghaiTech and attributed its progress to its international outlook. He affirmed that ShanghaiTech will continue collaborating with excellent universities and institutions at home and abroad on the basis of equality and mutual benefit, and will further expand student and faculty exchanges. Dean Murthy made a brief introduction about UCLA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and said he hoped ShanghaiTech and UCLA would carry out more projects and exchanges in the future.
SIST Vice Dean Yu Jingyi introduced the school and the partnerships established between ShanghaiTech and UC Berkeley, MIT, Yale University and UPenn in student semester-long study programs, summer research projects and faculty training. Ms. Burzynski expressed that School of Engineering and Applied Science is actively promoting international cooperation and exchange. She said that ShanghaiTech and shares a similar vision and educational system with well-known universities overseas and has advantages in global outlook as a young and promising university. Moreover, she said UCLA has a large alumni population in China, which may help to strengthen the schools’ bilateral relationship.
Afterwards, Dean Murthy visited ShanghaiTech’s VR Lab, MARS (Multi-disciplinary Artificial Reality Studio) and the ShanghaiTech Nano Lab.
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, offers 28 academic and professional degree programs and has an enrollment of more than 5,000 students.
