The School of Information and Communication Engineering, former known as the School of Information Science and Technology of Hainan University established in 1998, can be dated back to the earliest Department of Engineering of Hainan University established in 1983. The School now has established the Department of Electronic Information Engineering, Department of Communication Engineering, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Undergraduate Experimental Teaching Center.
There are 80 full-time faculty members in the School, including 69 full-time teachers and 46 teachers with senior titles. There are 2 national talents titled distinguished young scholar and CJ scholar chair professors, 2 experts with special allowance from the State Council, 1 recipient of the Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by the China Association for Science and Technology, 2 teachers awarded Baogang Excellent Teacher's Prize, 1 provincial outstanding teacher, and over 10 provincial and ministerial high-level talents. In addition, the School adopts the method of combining flexible introduction to introduce 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2 foreign academicians, and 7 national talents. The School currently enrolls over 2324 full-time students, including 1539 undergraduate students, 499 postgraduate students, 286 doctoral students and 10 international students.
The School carries out the construction of discipline and specialty closely focusing on the integration of "Bachelor's Degree-Master's Degree-Doctoral Degree". The School was approved to establish the first-level discipline authorized to offer doctoral (master's) degree program in Information and Communication Engineering, doctoral (master's) degree in Electronic Information and a post-doctoral mobile station for Information and Communication Engineering; it set up 4 undergraduate majors including Electronic Information Engineering, Communication Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Intelligence Science and Technology (Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run major), of which Electronic Information Engineering and Communication Engineering majors have been approved as the national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, Artificial Intelligence major has been approved as the first-class undergraduate major construction site in Hainan Province, and the application of the professional engineering education certification for Communication Engineering major has been accepted.
The Information and Communication Engineering major, as the first-class discipline, is the leading discipline of the discipline group of "Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea" at Hainan University, and the characteristic key discipline (Class A) of Hainan Province. The School has established the State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education for Marine Intelligence Systems, Provincial and Ministerial Co-founded Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Smart Island, Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Big Data and Smart Service, Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Internet Information Retrieval, Hainan Provincial Marine Communication and Network Engineering Technology Center, Hainan Provincial Embedded Intelligent System Engineering Research Center, Hainan Provincial Academician Workstation (Academicians Jamal Deen and Zhang Jianwei), Hainan Provincial Electronic Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center and other teaching and scientific research platforms.
Oriented to national strategy and economic and social development demands of the service zone, the School has strengthened the construction of innovative platforms and teams, with annual scientific research funds continuing to rapidly grow, and high-level papers and invention patents steadily increasing. In the past five years, the School has undertaken and participated in more than 130 national and provincial major scientific research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China, National Key Technologies R & D Program of China, Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, JK Program, and Major Science and Technology Project of Hainan Province; and has won 1 special prize, 3 first prizes, and 5 second prizes of Provincial and Ministerial-level Scientific Research Achievement Award.
The School focuses on cultivating and practicing students' comprehensive quality, and pays efforts to cultivating students' sense of innovation and practical ability. Our students participated and made repeated success in the National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest, China Electronic Design Competition for Graduate Students, Internet+ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and other discipline competitions and innovation and entrepreneurship competitions. In the past three years, our students have won 3 international awards, more than 20 national awards and more than 100 provincial and ministerial awards. The quality of talent training has won extensive recognition and praise from the society and employing units.
To earnestly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest advice "support Hainan University to create world-class discipline", the School keeps in mind the mission and responsibility "construct Hainan Free Trade Port as a participant, think tank, incubator and reserve team", and strive to promote the construction of first-class disciplines and first-class majors by continuously deepening the reform, with an aim to make positive contributions in developing Hainan University into a domestic first-class and internationally renowned comprehensive research university with distinctive features. (As of October 2023)
