School of Computer Science is facing a large number of increase in student enrolment. Mr Zhicheng She from Ningbo Education Bureau, Professor Tao Wu, the Dean of Faculty of Science and Engineering, Professor Alain Chong, the Dean of Graduate School, Professor Jon Garibaldi, Head of School of Computer Science, UNUK, local industrial partners, and representatives from all sectors of societies presented the ceremony.

This Artificial Intelligence Lab aims to have adequate AI facilities to support current and coming new programmes in the school, who is focused to provide fast and latest technologies not only for the module teaching, but also to support interdisciplinary student-led projects, student internships and student society modules.

It is equipped with 10 Dell Precision 7920 workstations each carried with 2 Intel Xeon Silver 4108 and 2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080Ti. Moreover, cooperating with UNNC IT services, 6* HUAWEI 2288H_v5 rack server in UNNC HPC platform has been implemented, each carried with 2 Intel Xeon Gold 5120 and 4 NVIDIA Tesla v100 32GB.

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans. If we say a machine has the artificial intelligence, we usually think the machine or computer has capability to mimic “cognitive” functions that humans associate with the human mind, such as “learning” and “problem solving”.

AI has many applications in today's society, to be more specific, it is Weak AI, the form of AI where programs are developed to perform specific tasks, that is being utilised for a wide range of activities including medical diagnosis, electronic trading platforms, robot control, and remote sensing. AI has been used to develop and advance numerous fields and industries, including finance, healthcare, education, transportation, and more.

The Artificial Intelligence and Optimisation Research Group has three main themes: Computational intelligence and data mining, Computer vision and image processing, Transportation analysis and optimisation. The intelligent truck dispatch system developed by AIOP research group for the Port of Ningbo showed a great success in achieving the higher efficiency and greener operations.