On December 1st 2018, the launch ceremony for HUAWEI-ZJU Joint Artificial Intelligence(AI) Practice Base was held at the 4th Engineer Building, Polytechnic Institute, Zhejiang University. Xiaodong ZHANG, Director of University Cooperation Department, HUAWEI and Jianyi YANG,Executive Vice Dean of ZJU ISEE college announced the establishment of the base.Over 100 postgraduate students attended the symposium.
ZHANG gave a speech at the ceremony. He said ZJU is among the first group of organizations which established strategic partnership with HUAWEI. The company will donate several AItlas200 developing platform sets to the university, and continuously work on AI cooperation in all aspects with ZJU.
YANG promised ZJU will cooperate with HUAWEI to develop AI related courses, carry out AI chip practice training, and enhance cooperation in both teaching and research areas.
Zaijian ZONG, Chief Architect of HUAWEI Hisilicon AI chips, gave a speech on HUAWEI AI NPU. He introduced their practice and understanding of AI from a HUAWEI perspective. He also offered a detailed interpretation on chip architecture and hardware application scenarios for Asend310 chips. Finally, he introduced their full-stack software SDK, one that enables developers to deploy faster and fully scenarized AI applications.