The College of AI at Tsinghua University was established in April 2024. The English name is “College of AI, Tsinghua University” and the English abbreviation is “CollegeAI”. Led by Protessor Andrew Chi-Chih YAO, a recipient of the Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the College of AI is committed to cutting-edge innovation research in AI and the cultivation of top talents. The goal is to achieve major innovative breakthroughs in the core foundations, underlying architecture and future computing models of AI, and to build a world-class base for gathering and training top-notch AI talents.
(The following is excerpted and translated from the speech delivered by Dean Andrew Chi-Chih YAO at the College of AI Undergraduate Academic Exchange Day on May 24, 2025.)
Our college was officially established on April 27, 2024. It has been almost a year now. The original intention of setting up the college was to focus on AI and its related fields. Our goal is to build a college of AI that is on par with world-class universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University. Since we started from scratch, at the beginning, we gathered many high-end AI talents from Tsinghua University and appointed them as adjunct professors. From the very beginning, we have created an excellent academic environment for everyone, which is conducive to cultivating outstanding talents and conducting academic exchanges and research.