Passionate youth, never withering, westward migration spirit, across time and space. In the theme publicity activity of "Looking for the Inheritors of the Spirit of Westward Migration", Jiao Licheng, a foreign academician of the European Academy of Sciences, a foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, the director of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Xidian University, and the president of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, was selected as the "Spiritual Inheritor of Westward Migration" in Shaanxi Province.
March toward science and build the Great Northwest
After graduating from Shanghai Jiaotong University with a bachelor's degree, Jiao Licheng entered Xi'an Jiaotong University for further study and obtained a master's degree and a doctorate there, and the years of life were bathed in the "spirit of moving west", the patriotic feelings of "listening to the party's command and following the party", "bearing in mind the overall situation, selfless dedication, carrying forward traditions, and arduous pioneering" were engraved into his blood, and "marching toward science and building the great northwest" became his lifelong ambition.
At Shanghai Jiaotong University, Jiao Licheng learned the story of thousands of Jiaotong masters and students who responded to the call of the state and gave up their lives in Shanghai without hesitation to move west to Xi'an, where conditions were relatively difficult. Peng Kang, Zhong Zhaolin, Chen Daxie, and others of the older generation of "westward migrants" have worked hard where and where the motherland needs them. This spirit of not fearing difficulties, daring to blaze new trails, and being with the party and the country gave him a great shock and also strengthened his determination to take root in the western region and build his hometown in the future. After graduating from university, Jiao Licheng chose to follow the footsteps of his predecessors' "westward migration" and continue his studies at Xi'an Jiaotong University. At Xi'an Jiaotong University, he began to invest in research in the fields of artificial intelligence such as intelligent perception computing, image understanding and target recognition, and in his 40-year scientific research career, Jiao Licheng drew strength from the "westward migration spirit" again and again, "bravely breaking into no man's land".
In the 1990s, artificial intelligence suffered a low point on a global scale, and many scholars at home and abroad adjusted their research directions, but Jiao Licheng decided to continue to do it. He realized from the "spirit of moving west" that "moving west" is a hard work and a passion to burn in a "cold" place, so scientific research should also be done well when it is 'hot', and it can sit still when it is 'cold'". Jiao Licheng has also encouraged his students to do scientific research on different occasions and cannot be easily affected by the "cold and heat" of the external environment.
In 1990, Jiao Licheng's research achievements were recognized by the international academic community. He was invited to give an invited presentation at the first Neural Network Conference and became the youngest member of the China Neural Network Committee at that time. It was also the year that his Neural Network System Theory was published. The book was the first neural network monograph in mainland China, filling the gap in the Chinese literature in the field at that time, and was later selected as a textbook and reference book by more than 300 colleges and universities. In the 1980s, the relevant research in the field of artificial intelligence in the mainland has just started, foreign literature is not easy to obtain, Chinese data is even more rare, Jiao Licheng feels that this situation is extremely unfavorable to the discipline and industrial development of artificial intelligence in the mainland, and the "westward migration spirit" That kind of enthusiasm for the overall situation and pioneering entrepreneurship began to impact in his heart, so he was determined to write China's own artificial intelligence monograph, which is "Neural Network System Theory".
After graduating with a doctorate, Jiao Licheng chose to dedicate his life to the west, dedicate himself to the party and the country, continue the "spirit of moving west", and devote himself to scientific research and higher education. He entered the State Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing at Xidian University, engaged in postdoctoral research under the guidance of Academician Bao Zheng, and has since taught at Xidian.
Think of what the country thinks, adhere to the key core technology research
Xidian not only extends the longest red root system in Chinese universities, but also is an important member of the "westward migration", and it is the fine tradition of Xidian to carry out scientific research closely around the major strategic needs of the party and the state. With the strong support of the school, Jiao Licheng and his team conducted long-term and systematic in-depth research on the theories and methods of intelligent learning and optimization based on natural computing in view of the relatively weak basic theories in the field of intelligent information processing in mainland China, the theoretical system needs to be improved, and the application bottleneck problem needs to be broken, and finally made four breakthrough and innovative progress. First, the regression approximation of high-dimensional and unstructured data requires an efficient and robust neural network model, and the nonlinear dynamic model and connection stability criterion of the neural network are established, and the multi-sub-wave neural network model is proposed; the second is the demand for robust and rapid learning methods for relatively "small samples" and massive large-scale data learning, and the scale kernel and the parent-son wave orthogonal projection nucleus that meet the Mercer conditions are constructed, and the Mercer kernel is generalized to the empirical mapping function. The hidden space support vector machine and the hidden space principal component analysis model are established, and the fast sparse approximation least squares support vector machine is proposed; the third is the urgent need for efficient and robust optimization methods for large-scale, multi-objective NP-Hard optimization, the theoretical framework of immune co-evolutionary computing is constructed, the information interaction model of individual collaboration and competition of agents is established, and the collaborative cognitive immunokinetic computing framework is further established, which provides an efficient method for solving large-scale optimization problems in practical engineering; fourth, The experimental immune coevolution and sub-wave neural computing theory model solves the benchmarking problems such as numerical optimization problems, deception problems, combination optimization problems, and constraint satisfaction problems, which are better than the results reported in domestic and foreign literature. In 2013, this series of academic achievements won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award.
In addition, Jiao Licheng and his team proposed the concept and theory of high-dimensional singularity multi-scale detection, established methods and technologies for preprocessing, image analysis and data compression of complex images, and developed major equipment such as deep learning FPGA systems, remote sensing image big data brain interpretation systems, and the first brain-like SAR system in China. He has won a number of provincial and ministerial awards, including Wu Wenjun's Outstanding Contribution Award for Artificial Intelligence, the First Prize for Natural Science of the Ministry of Education, and the First Prize of Science and Technology of Shaanxi Province.
Heart of talent training, more than 30 years of peach and plum garden
Jiao Licheng has always believed that artificial intelligence technology is a science and technology that has a major impact on the development of human society, and China's future cannot lack talents in this regard. At Xidian, he participated in the establishment of the first neural network interdisciplinary research center in mainland China, and began to train graduate students in the field of artificial intelligence, forming a scientific research and teaching team. After years of hard work, Xidian established the first batch of undergraduate majors in intelligent science and technology in mainland China in 2005, and began the training of undergraduate students in the field of artificial intelligence, forming a complete system of undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees in the cultivation of artificial intelligence talents.
In 1958, Xidian abandoned the plan to relocate to Beijing and relocated to Xi'an, and Jiao Licheng also inherited Xidian's spirit of daring to open up, forge ahead, and dare to be the first in the world. The construction of artificial intelligence talent training system and curriculum system lacks precedents at home and abroad, and there is no successful experience to learn from, but Jiao Licheng and his team are not afraid of difficulties and pressure. He believes that the talent training system focuses on quality construction, and under his leadership, teachers of intelligent disciplines have all taken active actions, exchanged and summarized research and teaching experience with each other, and condensed the results of educating people. The undergraduate program of intelligent science and technology was rated as a national-level specialty major in 2008. The integrated training system of "internationalization + Xidian characteristics" has become a model for the construction of artificial intelligence talent training system and curriculum system in many colleges and universities.
In 2017, Xidian established the first artificial intelligence college among the ministry's universities, taking a new step in talent training and discipline construction. Up to now, Xidian is the only university in China where the major of intelligent science and technology and artificial intelligence are selected as a national first-class undergraduate major, and one of the benchmark universities of "artificial intelligence + education" piloted by the Ministry of Education.
Xidian has trained more than 2,500 graduate students, more than 2,500 undergraduates, more than 100 doctors and postdocs in the field of artificial intelligence, and most of them have worked in key national defense industries and western regions. Outstanding talents who have gone out from Xidian and are active in the field of artificial intelligence in the mainland include Professor Zhang Yanning, assistant president of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Major General Luo Erping, second-level professor of Air Force Military Medical University, Bo Liefeng, winner of 100 outstanding doctoral dissertations in China and chief scientist of Jingdong Digital AI Laboratory, Jia Ying, founder and general manager of Changzhou Diret Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., and Ma Kun, co-founder and CTO of SenseTime.
Forge a first-class team, set sail in the same boat to ride the wind and waves
If one person is not in the crowd, it is difficult to become a forest alone. Jiao Licheng understands that the blueprint for the development and industrial development of the mainland artificial intelligence discipline can only be drawn by everyone. Over the years of struggle, this team has gradually developed and grown, won three second prizes of the National Natural Science Award, was approved by the Ministry of Education "Yangtze River Scholar Support Program" intelligent information processing innovation team; established the "Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding" Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education; approved the Ministry of Education "Yangtze River Scholar Support Program" Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding Innovation Team and 2 Shaanxi Province's first batch of key scientific and technological innovation teams; established the International Joint Research Center for Intelligent Perception and Computing, and was approved as the National International Joint Research Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology. Shaanxi 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center, "Information Perception Technology" National 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center, Ministry of Education Intelligent Perception and Computing International Cooperation Joint Laboratory, Image Processing and Secure Transmission Science and Technology Key Area Innovation Team, and Ministry of Education Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding Innovation Team (Rolling Support), etc.
Inherit the "spirit of moving west" and undertake the mission in the new era
A generation has a generation of missions, Jiao Licheng led the team to take over the baton of the "westward migration spirit", devote themselves to the development of the western region in the new era, and contribute wisdom and strength to the development of the mainland artificial intelligence cause. With Jiao Licheng's team as the main force, Xidian continues to actively carry out services in the field of artificial intelligence for the strategic planning, policy formulation, industrial development and science and technology of the state, Shaanxi Province and Xi'an City, and has been approved as the "Artificial Intelligence Research Institute" of a new think tank of Shaanxi Universities, providing suggestions and suggestions for the development of artificial intelligence in the field of artificial intelligence in the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education, the Shaanxi Provincial Association for Science and Technology, the Xi'an Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Department, the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology and other departments. In 2020, Xi'an was approved to build a national new generation of artificial intelligence innovation and development pilot zone, and Jiao Licheng's team prepared an implementation plan for xi'an city, established a new generation of artificial intelligence open innovation platform for intelligent perception and image understanding in Xi'an, and explored the problem of innovative talents and top-notch talent training in the intelligent era. Xidian also initiated the establishment of the "Belt and Road" Artificial Intelligence Innovation Alliance, and is also the chairman unit of the Xi'an Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance and the Shaanxi Artificial Intelligence Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance. Recently, Xidian signed a long-term cooperation agreement in the field of remote sensing technology with Xi'an AscendAntar Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., with the purpose of using its accumulated advantages in the field of artificial intelligence and remote sensing technology to deepen industry-university-research cooperation, jointly cultivate artificial intelligence talents suitable for the new era, and promote the development of related industries.
Artificial intelligence is currently one of the focal points of global scientific and technological innovation, and China has become one of the major innovation centers of artificial intelligence technology with world influence, and unprecedented opportunities have also brought new challenges. Jiao Licheng believes that the "spirit of moving west" is a beacon in the process of scientific researchers meeting challenges and riding the wind and waves, and the "spirit of moving west" of "bearing in mind the overall situation, selfless dedication, carrying forward traditions, and arduous pioneering" is the spiritual food that encourages scientific researchers to work hard and improve themselves in science and technology. He often used "bearing the motherland in mind, taking the initiative, having the courage to explore, and undertaking the mission", "investing in the research of the basic frontier and key core technologies", and even more so demanding that he devote himself to the cause of higher education and the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence technology in the mainland.
Jiao Licheng introduction
Jiao Licheng, Foreign Academician of the European Academy of Sciences, Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Director of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Dean of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Director of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of the Ministry of Education, Director of the International Joint Research Center on Intelligent Perception and Computing, Director of the Joint Laboratory for International Cooperation in Intelligent Perception and Computing, Director of the Discipline Innovation And Introduction Base of "Intelligent Information Processing Science and Technology" Colleges and Universities, Member of the Faculty of Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education, He is an expert of the Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Innovation Expert Group of the Ministry of Education, and the vice chairman of the National University Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Innovation Alliance. He once served as a deputy to the Eighth National People's Congress, an expert of the Discipline Review Group of the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council, an expert of the Review Group of the Postdoctoral Management Committee of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and the vice chairman of the Sixth-Seventh Society of Chinese Engineering Intelligence. He has won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, the Wu Wenjun Outstanding Contribution Award for Artificial Intelligence and the first prize of more than ten provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, and has been awarded the National Model Teacher, the Shaanxi Provincial Outstanding Contribution Expert, and the Shaanxi Provincial Teacher Moral Pacesetter. He has been selected as the highly cited scholar list of Elsevier International for seven consecutive years, ranked 5th in the world in the field of international evolutionary computing, and has been elected as the first batch of IET Fellows, IEEE Fellows and Chinese Engineering Intelligence Society, Chinese Automation Society Fellows, Chinese Institute of Electronics, Chinese Computer Society Fellows, and associate editors and editorial board members of IEEE TGRS, IEEE TCYB and other journals. ( Correspondents Wang Dan, Zhang Dan, Huang Sijing, Zhang Ruohuan )