Introduction
The Department of Computer Science and Technology is young in Xian Jiaotong University, which has a long history over 120 years and a high reputation in China, and a good reputation even globally. It was founded in 1958 (as computer specialty), and was one of the first founded Computer departments in China. The department offers the degrees Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy. With an aim to cultivate innovative talents with international vision and competitiveness who are geared to the needs of national modernization. It has cultivated many excellent scientists and technicians in computer field of China, including outstanding scientists as Academician Chen Guoliang and Academician Chen Guilin, as well as a number of outstanding entrepreneurs such as Zhou Hongyi,Zhang Xin and Ronghai.
Collaboration
The department is continuing seeking wide and far international cooperation, It has set up joint laboratories with industries, as IBM, Microsoft and Intel, and established cooperative relations with Harvard University, MIT, TAMU, Arizona, McGill University of Canada, Keio University of Japan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Singapore University of Technology, etc. to conduct joint research and personnel exchange and training cooperation.
Education
The department focuses on education and teaching, and it undertakes 11 national teaching reform research projects, 28 provincial and ministerial teaching reform projects, and compiles 55 textbooks, including 16 national "tenth five-year" and "eleventh five-year" planning textbooks and 2 national excellent textbooks. Professor Feng Boqin was awarded the National Teaching Masters. It has two national awarded innovation teaching teams, i.e. the Computer Base Teaching and The Computer Networks and System Structure, and its computer teaching experiment center was awarded the national computer experimental teaching demonstration center. It has won 4 first-class awards, 4 second-class awards, 3 provincial-level special awards, 5 first-class awards and 4 national excellent courses.
Faculty
The Department currently has 61 teachers, including 16 professors, 1 Research Fellow, 17 associate professors, 4 Senior Engineers, 14 lecturers, 8 engineers, and 40 doctoral teachers. Among the teachers, there are 1 academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (part-time), 1 National Teaching Masters, 3 Yangtze-River-scholar Professors, 2 winners of National Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars, 1 Young and middle-aged leading scientists, engineers and innovators, 1 candidate of the National Baiqianwan (Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand) Talent Project for the New Century, and 7 outstanding talents of the Ministry of Education in the new century. The Computer Department recruits over 140 undergraduates, 120 graduate students and 30 doctoral students each year.