Located in Zhangqiu District, Jinan City, Shandong Province, Aerospace Information University is a public undergraduate university in Shandong Province under construction, sponsored by the people of Shandong Province, included in the "14th Five-Year Plan" of the Ministry of Education, and is the first institution of higher learning named after "Aerospace Information" in China.
The disciplines and majors of the school are based on the positioning of running the school, actively serve the national strategy and the needs of economic and social development, covering the whole field of aerospace information technology and the whole industrial chain, focusing on the three major directions of aerospace, information technology and earth observation, especially in the cutting-edge and interdisciplinary technology fields such as aerospace communication and deep space exploration, to build a discipline system based on engineering, science and engineering, and coordinated development and cross-integration of science and engineering, economics, management, law and art. In advance, the School of Electronic Information, the School of Electronics and Integrated Circuits, the School of Remote Sensing Science and Technology, the School of Navigation and Internet of Things, the School of Photonics and Optical Engineering, the School of Computer and Artificial Intelligence and other colleges and 11 undergraduate majors in "communication, navigation, remote sensing" and other aspects will be established.
On February 28, 2023, Li Ming, Executive Deputy Secretary of the Education Working Committee of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Provincial Department of Education, met with Wu Yirong, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Dean of the Aerospace Information Innovation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It was mentioned that the preparatory work for the establishment of the Aerospace Information University should be accelerated.
Wu Yirong, born in Beijing on July 14, 1963, native of Hefei, Anhui Province, is a signal and information processing scientist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researcher, doctoral supervisor and director of the Institute of Electronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of the State Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, dean of the School of Electronical, Electrical and Communication Engineering of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of the special class for the connotation construction of the Aerospace Information University (in preparation), and president of the Aerospace Information Innovation Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has won the first and second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the National Innovation Competition Award, the National Defense Science and Technology Industry Outstanding Talent Award, the first prize of the National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Science and Technology Progress Award, the Ho Liang Ho Li Science and Technology Progress Award, the Chen Kah Kee Science Award and other major national, provincial and ministerial awards.
Academician Wu has been engaged in the design and development of microwave imaging technology and large-scale remote sensing ground processing system for a long time, and has been promoting the construction and development of the national aviation remote sensing system in the past ten years. In the field of microwave imaging, he invented multi-dimensional microwave imaging technology and sparse microwave imaging technology, led the research of key technologies, and applied the results to subsequent satellite systems. In terms of the architecture and data processing algorithm of the ground processing and application system of remote sensing satellites, a series of theoretical problems and key technologies have been systematically solved, the technical level of China in this field has been improved, and a number of major national scientific research projects have been completed. As the project leader, he presided over the construction of the national scientific and technological infrastructure - aerial remote sensing system, and as the chief designer, he presided over the construction of the aviation system of the national major special high-resolution earth observation system, and systematically promoted the development of a series of international leading aerial earth observation payloads.
The field of aerospace information is an important development direction of the information technology industry in the future, has always been the focus of international competition, and is the main position and battlefield of national strategic development. Aerospace information technology is a technology that integrates aerospace science and technology with information technology, and relies on aerospace, near space, and aviation platforms to achieve information acquisition, transmission, processing, and application of communication, navigation, and remote sensing. Aerospace information technology is not only widely used in the military field, but also plays an important role in the economic field. At present, information technology is accelerating into the aerospace information age after experiencing the PC era, the Internet era, and the mobile Internet era.
As a bright new star in the field of higher education in China, the Aerospace Information University carries the country's ardent expectations and strategic layout for the development of aerospace information technology. Under the guidance of experts and scholars such as Academician Wu Yirong, the university will be based on the frontier of cutting-edge science and technology, cultivate high-quality talents with global vision, innovative spirit and social responsibility, and serve the national strategic needs and local economic and social development. Promote the progress and breakthrough of China's aerospace information technology, and make positive contributions to the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance, and the construction of a space power.