On August 5th, Dr. Wai Kin (Victor) Chan, Professor and Co-Deputy Director of the Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI), led a delegation to visit NeuHelium. Dr. Liang Longfei, Executive VP of NeuHelium, gave an introduction of NeuHelium.

Liang Longfei, Executive VP of NeuHelium, introducing NeuHelium

Dr. Liang elaborated on the mission of NeuHelium as an innovation hub of neuromorphic computing and showed its R&D environment including high performance computational center, EDA simulation laboratory, AI High-speed chip verification laboratory, and silicon photonics chip packaging and testing laboratory.

The delegation of TBSI visiting NeuHelium laboratories

Dr. Zou Zhuo, Chief Scientist of NeuHelium, gave an introduction of the R&D progress the innovation hub has made. Dr. Yang Wenchi, Director of NeuHelium's Machine Vision Laboratory, gave a presentation of his on-going research projects.

The two sides having a discussion at the meeting

Professor Chan shared the recent development of TBSI. It currently has three key interdisciplinary projects and three research centers. Each center conducts research from an academician, and each has six laboratories, two of which undertake joint research with Nobel Prize and Turing Award laureates. He also discussed the research value of statistics, operations research, and data-based technologies as well as its potential applications and social value in the fields of big data, emergency management, medicine and health, social networks, optimal scheduling, blockchain, transportation and logistics.

Dr. Chan is Professor and Co-Deputy Director of the Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, Tsinghua University, China. Prior to joining Tsinghua, he served on the faculty of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY.  Dr. Chan has served as the lead editor of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference, co-editor of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference, program chair of the 2013 Industrial and System Engineering Research Conference, editor of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, and associate editor of the IIE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, and Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research. In addition, Dr. Chan has served as program committee for severalother international conferences, referee for a number of journals and conference proceedings, panelist for U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), and Macau Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT).