On November 7, 2026,HongQiao, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and Member of the Central Committee of the Jiusan Society, visited the School for exchange and planted a commemorative tree in the Academics' Grove at Nanjing University Suzhou Campus. CaifengShan, Associate Dean of our School, accompanied her during the visit.
CaifengShan guided Academician HongQiao on a tour of the campus and the School, and provided a detailed introduction to the School's development history in terms of disciplinary development, scientific research, and talent cultivation. Academician HongQiao fully affirmed the School's development achievements. She pointed out that the School's many research platforms can leverage Nanjing University's comprehensive strengths in high-level talent, fundamental research, interdisciplinary integration, and technological innovation, integrate the industrial resources of Suzhou's high-tech enterprises, and bridge the gap between original university innovation and industrial needs, thereby continuously contributing research outcomes and cultivating professional talent for the nation's AI development. Around frontier fields such as robot theory and applications and computer vision, faculty members engaged in in-depth exchanges with Academician HongQiao, who also offered valuable opinions and suggestions on the growth and development paths of the School's young talent.
Academician HongQiao is a robot theory and application expert with profound international influence. She has long worked on the front lines of robotics research and has made systematic and creative contributions to biologically inspired robot decision-making, perception, control, and structural design. She discovered and proposed the high-dimensional "environmental attraction domain" method for high-precision robotic manipulation, which was reported by international journals as "Qiao's Concept." She has led her team in establishing multiple robotics industrialization bases, which have been awarded the title of National High-Tech Enterprise. Her research achievements have received the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Award, and the First Prize for Technological Invention from the Chinese Association of Automation, all ranking first.
