AZFT IoT Lab established and Prof. CHEN Jiming appointed as the Director

The “AZFT IoT Lab” jointly established by Zhejiang University (ZJU) and Alibaba Group was officially launched at the Alibaba Xixi Park on May 29, 2018. Researchers attending the launching ceremony included Prof. BU Jiajun (Executive Vice President of ZJU College of Software and Deputy Director of Alibaba-ZJU Joint Research Institute of Frontier Technologies), Dr. DING Xianfeng (Aliyun Chief Intelligence Network Scientist), Prof. CHEN Jiming (Deputy Director of ZJU State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology). More than 30 graduate students and professors from ZJU College of Computer Science and Technology, College of Control Science and Engineering, and College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering attended the ceremony.

It is said by Prof. Bu that the establishment of IoT Lab would promote the cooperation between Alibaba and ZJU. Dr. Ding introduced Alibaba’s related research foundation and research assumption. He emphasized the mission of IoT was to build up a physical world which is totally digitalized. Alibaba wishes to be not only a producer of ‘cloud’, but also the builder of the whole digital world infrastructure. Alibaba will make efforts to build the information layer of IoT, the computing bridge connecting the physical world with the digital world, and finally build a cyber-physical system with self-situation awareness and self-regulation.

Since the Alibaba’s announcement of entering the field of IoT on March 28, IoT has become another main business of Alibaba. The establishment of AZFT IoT Lab is significant to Alibaba and the research on IoT technologies.