Westlake University added to its 2024 undergraduate admissions catalog Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, and Artificial Intelligence as new undergraduate majors. Students can now choose from a total of seven undergraduate majors, including the original five offerings of Biological Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Electronic Information Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering.
(1) Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
As a research-oriented university, Westlake University regards mathematics as one of the indispensable foundational disciplines.
Mathematics studies abstract structures and patterns of things. Widely used in the sciences, it provides abstract thinking methodology, quantitative and spatial models, deductive reasoning language, and core tools for science. With the rise of interdisciplinary research, as knowledge is generated at an ever-faster pace, foundational and flexible mathematics has attracted greater interest from many disciplines. Training top mathematics talent remains a cornerstone of national modernization and a priority in the strategy to rejuvenate the nation through science and education.
The Mathematics and Applied Mathematics major at Westlake University will focus on fostering an interest in frontier issues in mathematics, guiding students into mathematical research and exploring the intersection of mathematics with other disciplines. It is committed to training top mathematics talent with solid knowledge, broad academic vision, innovative thinking, and profound scientific literacy.
(2) Artificial Intelligence
As a new engine for economic development in the information age, artificial intelligence has become a decisive force in driving a new wave of technological innovation and industrial revolution, enhancing national technological competitiveness and influence, and leading mankind into the intelligence era. Training top innovators in AI is crucial to keep pace with the world's technological frontiers and AI development, and to build a foundation for developing major national strategies, amending talent gaps, and overcoming technological barriers. Developing AI and educating top AI talent are vital for our nation to seize major strategic opportunities, build our leading advantage in the development of artificial intelligence, and accelerate the development of an innovative country that is a science and technology world power.
Education Approach
Westlake University takes a student-centered approach as it draws on the experience of high-level universities at home and abroad, putting student interests first, teaching in accordance with aptitude, emphasizing interdisciplinary research, and educating through research. We adhere to smaller class sizes, independent selection of majors, scientific research training, study abroad for all students, and customized training for each student.
(1) Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
The integrated teaching of Mathematical Analysis and Advanced Algebra enables students to understand the connection between analysis and algebra, and use knowledge comprehensively. The training focuses on the development of holistic mathematical thinking and consolidating the foundation of mathematics.
The curriculum of the major puts equal weight on analysis, algebra, and geometry, guiding students to understand mathematics from a modern perspective.
In order to prepare students for graduate study, the advanced stage of this major provides targeted training in two directions, basic mathematics and applied mathematics.
(2) Artificial Intelligence
Focus on academic frontiers. The teaching highlights cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology and scenarios to empower application while sharpening students' innovative spirit, critical thinking, and scientific research literacy.
Training of scientific research talent. Sufficient teaching resources and a practical training system are provided to give specialized education and research training, establishing a platform for students to integrate knowledge and practice.
A follow-through project-based teaching model. Theory and practice are integrated. By top-level design of artificial intelligence experimental courses, we allow students to participate in and independently carry out scientific research projects, while comprehensively strengthening students' innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurial abilities.
First-class teaching resources
Currently, Westlake has gathered a team of professionals with top international academic standards in these two undergraduate majors. These exceptional scientists will personally instruct undergraduate students.
(1) Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
The Mathematics and Applied Mathematics major currently has 17 tenured or tenure-track professors, all from premier international mathematics research institutions.
Westlake University Chair Professor Huayi Chen, formerly a professor of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Paris-Cité, is committed to research in the field of arithmetic geometry. His work has had a profound influence on the development of projective arithmetic varieties and line bundle arithmetic invariants. Moreover, Chen and Prof. Atsushi Moriwaki jointly founded the theory of adelic curves, making important contributions to the expansion of Arakelov geometry on general countable fields.
Westlake University Chair Professor Thierry De Pauw, previously a professor of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Paris-Cité., won the Jacques Deruyts Prize of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences. In his career, he has focused on mathematical analysis research, with a particular interest in geometric measure theory. He has worked on the calculus of variations, elliptic partial differential equation, real analysis and abstract functional analysis, measure and probability theory, metric cohomology and mathematical logic. In terms of geometric measure theory, he proved that the min flow on a minimal surface in three-dimensional space exists and is equal to its Hausdorff measure. He also proved the partial regularity of the corrigible discrete group coefficient chain with almost minimum mass in separable Hilbert space. He has made important contributions to the field of geometric measure theory.
Westlake University Chair Professor Alexey Cheskidov was a full professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has long been committed to studying basic issues in the field of mathematical fluid dynamics and turbulence, including regularity of solutions to Navier-Stokes, Euler, and related equations, dissipative anomaly, Onsager conjecture, non-uniqueness of convex integrals, global attractors, and the role of intermittency in turbulence.
Prior to joining Westlake, Prof. Ivan B. Fesenko was a professor at the University of Nottingham in the UK, and won the Petersburg Mathematical Society Award. He has contributed to the pioneering development of many modern number theory fields including explicit reciprocity formulas, explicit class field theory and advanced class field theory, advanced adelic structures, advanced zeta integrals, and expansion of IUT theory and applications. In his nearly 40 years of teaching, he has had about 60 doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers graduate from his research group, including one Fields Medal winner.
For more information, seehttps://science.westlake.edu.cn/Our_Faculty/Our_Faculty/
(2) Artificial Intelligence
The artificial intelligence major is led by the distinguished faculty of Prof. Stan Z. Li, Prof. Yaochu Jin, and Prof. Yue Zhang.
Westlake University Chair Professor Stan Z. Li, worked as a lead researcher at Microsoft Research Asia and a senior researcher at the Center for Biometrics and Security Research (CBSR), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has led the development and application of the world's first real-time face recognition system and multiple national-level face recognition systems. After joining Westlake University, he has led two major New Generation Artificial Intelligence projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and one regional key project sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation (AI + Life Sciences).
Westlake University Chair Professor Yaochu Jin is an academician of the European Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Fellow), and a former Finland Distinguished Professor of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He was also an Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence endowed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bielefeld University, Germany. He has focused his research on the theory, algorithms, and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and computational intelligence, and his work has been successfully applied to the optimization of actual complex engineering systems.
Prof. Yue Zhang was an assistant professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design prior to coming to Westlake University. His main research fields are natural language processing, text mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Achievements of his research include structure prediction algorithms for processing text from left to right, a model for multi-task learning, research on natural language processing and human common sense, and financial market applications.
For more information, seehttps://engineering.westlake.edu.cn/Research/Programs/
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