Big Data Technology and Engineering
Program Introduction
Against the backdrop of the accelerating advancement of Digital China and Chinese-style modernization, data, as a new production factor, is becoming a core engine driving the transformation and upgrading of the economy and society. The Master's Program in Big Data Technology and Engineering closely aligns with national strategic needs, focuses on breaking the black box of big data, and builds a systematic knowledge system covering data acquisition, governance, computing, analysis, and typical applications throughout the entire life-cycle of big data. It is committed to cultivating high-level professionals with solid theoretical foundations and excellent practical abilities.
The program focuses on cutting-edge directions such as multi-modal data fusion, privacy computing and data security, complex feature mining, intelligent deduction and prediction in its teaching and research. It serves major national fields such as smart cities, intelligent manufacturing, precision medicine, and scientific research, and fully meets the core needs of the development of new productive forces.
Relying on the strong industrial ecosystem of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, the program has in-depth collaboration with leading industry enterprises such as Huawei. It integrates high-quality enterprise resources throughout the entire process of freshmen enrollment, curriculum teaching, project research, and practical training, creating a four-in-one full-chain and full-scenario joint training system of courses + projects + platforms + faculty. Students can not only deeply participate in real enterprise-level project research but also polish their practical abilities on first-class engineering platforms and produce application results with industrial influence.
The program aims to cultivate big data leading talents with both research depth and engineering proficiency and is committed to building a strong engine leading the development of the future digital era.
Talent Cultivation
Relying on the school-enterprise joint training bases, the program collaborates with a number of leading big data enterprises to carry out project research oriented to real industrial scenarios. It strives to cultivate students' practical ailities and scientific research thinking that deeply integrate theoretical innovation with industrial needs. Students will have the opportunity to participate in enterprise-level project practice, face cutting-edge industry challenges, and enhance their comprehensive ability to solve complex problems.
The program offers a number of university-level excellent courses and the Huawei Smart Base series of core courses, covering big data fundamentals and cutting-edge technologies. It is equipped with the Huawei Kunpeng Teaching Computing Platform to extensively support professional course experiments and innovative training, creating a high-level and practical teaching system. The course content closely follows the new trends in the development of the digital industry, helping students master emerging core technologies such as cloud computing, data intelligence, and privacy computing.
The training team consists of outstanding teachers from multiple disciplines and top industry experts, forming an academic + industry dual-tutor system. Under the guidance of internationally renowned scholars and enterprise technical leaders, students can deeply participate in cutting-edge project research, expand their global perspective, and stimulate their innovative potential. The program fully covers the entire chain of big data technologies, helping students become high-end big data talents with international competitiveness.
Training Achievements
The program has cultivated a group of big data talents with excellent research capabilities and practical literacy. Students have published dozens of high-level papers in top international academic conferences such as NeurIPS, CVPR, IJCAI, and ICLR, as well as in authoritative journals such as IEEE TPAMI, TIP, and TNNLS. Many students have received important honors such as Tsinghua University Excellent Master's Thesis, National Scholarship, and Beijing Outstanding Graduate.
In high-level domestic and international data science and artificial intelligence competitions, students of the program have achieved remarkable results, including: - Global Champion of ACM MM Grand Challenge - Champion of ICCV Video Captioning Track - First Prize and Best Performance Award in the International Autonomous Robot Competition - First Prize in the International Data Science Competition - Double Track Champion of NTIRE Image Quality Assessment.
At the same time, the practical projects participated by students have been highly recognized by well-known enterprises such as Huawei, Tencent, and Kuaishou. They have effectively helped enterprises reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve the level of intelligence in actual scenarios, demonstrating solid engineering capabilities and innovation. Graduates have widely entered leading technology enterprises and key national units such as Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation. They play a backbone role in cutting-edge fields such as big data, artificial intelligence, and intelligent manufacturing, fully reflecting the talent training advantages of being versatile with expertise, and emphasizing both research and actual combat.
Faculty Team
The Master's Program in Big Data is built relying on advantageous disciplines such as automation, computer science, electronics, biology, and logistics. It has a strong faculty and perfect research conditions. Many tutors in the faculty team have won national and provincial-level scientific research awards such as the National Technology Invention Award, National Science and Technology Progress Award, Ministry of Education Natural Science Award, Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award, and Shenzhen Science and Technology Progress Award. Most tutors have study and work experience in well-known overseas universities and preside over a number of high-level national projects, creating good conditions for the cultivation of relevant research capabilities in the program.
Contact Us
Ms Huang
Tel: +86-755-86239174
E-mail: huang.lingyan@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn
