The “Wu Wen Jun AI Science & Tech Award” ceremony, which is China’s top honour in AI science and technology, took place in Beijing on May 6.
The “Wu Wen Jun AI Science & Tech Award” ceremony, which is China’s top honour in AI science and technology, took place in Beijing on May 6.
There were 60 projects and people who received awards. Awarded the 2022 “Wu Wen Jun AI Highest Achievement Award,” Zheng Nanning, a former president of Xi’an Jiaotong University and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, also received an honorary medal and monetary compensation.
Huang Tiejun, Director of Beijing Zhiiyuan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, and Guo Yike, Vice President and Provost of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and Professor at the School of Computer Science at Peking University.
The “Wu Wen Jun AI Outstanding Contribution Award” was given to He Xiaodong, Vice President of JD. The first “Wu Wen Jun AI Technology Invention Award” and the “Wu Wen Jun AI Science and Technology Progress Award” were won, respectively, by Professor Tao Jianhua’s team from Tsinghua University and Chief Technology Officer Wang Haifeng’s team from Baidu.
The Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) created and sponsored the “Wu Wen Jun AI Science & Tech Award” with the help of Wu Wenjun, a pioneer and innovator in Chinese intelligent science research, the first recipient of China’s highest national science and technology award, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The “highest award for AI science and technology in China” was formally established on January 6th, 2011.
Founded in 1981, CAAI stands for the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence. In the field of intelligence science and technology, it is currently the only national-level academic association recognised by China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs.
The Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications is the parent institution of the CAAI, a four-star (AAAA) social organisation. It is authorised to recommend academicians to China’s two academies as an official member of the China Association for Science and Technology (the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering).