The College of Information Technology was established in 1996. Leveraging the University’s disciplinary strengths in marine and fisheries fields, it has developed distinctive disciplinary directions in smart ocean, smart fisheries, navigation, remote sensing, and surveying and mapping.
The College currently boasts over 2,100 students and more than 120 teaching and research faculty members. It offers one secondary-discipline doctoral program in Marine Engineering and Information, as well as 4 master’s programs in Computer Science and Technology, Low-Altitude Technology and Engineering, Electronic Information, and Artificial Intelligence. It also runs four undergraduate majors: Computer Sciences and Technology, Spatial Information and Digital Technology, Data Sciences and Big Data Technology, and Artificial Intelligence. Notably, Spatial Information and Digital Technology has been approved as a National First-class Undergraduate Program. In addition, both Computer Sciences and Technology and Spatial Information and Digital Technology have obtained China Engineering Education Accreditation.
The College hosts provincial- and ministerial-level platforms such as the Key Laboratory of Fishery Information of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Marine Intelligent Information and Navigation Remote Sensing, and the Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Digital Agriculture. It has also jointly established the Digital Ocean Research Institute with the East China Sea Branch of the State Oceanic Administration. The College has 10 national, provincial, and ministerial level talents. In recent years, its faculty members have led more than 50 national, provincial, and ministerial level teaching and research projects, and have received more than 10 teaching and research achievement awards at or above the provincial, ministerial, and major learned-society levels.
The College of Information Technology will continue to deepen its work in frontier areas such as marine informatization, marine artificial intelligence, smart fisheries, navigation, remote sensing, surveying and mapping, and digital economy of Lin-gang Special Area. Adhering to the combined approach of talent introduction and training and to industry-led development, it strives to build a new highland of marine-related information disciplines with distinctive features, regional leading status and industrial benchmark influence, and to create a cradle for talent and a platform for technological innovation that serves the building of a strong maritime nation and empowers the high-quality development of the marine digital economy.
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