We warmly welcome international students to apply to this challenging program and have a new start of your academic life with us. The program’s main research areas include: imaging and information processing, wireless communication, GNSS signal processing, underwater acoustic communication, marine information processing, fiber optic communication and sensing, intelligent data processing.
Our school has a team of highly qualified professors, many of whom hold doctorates from overseas universities. They are able to instruct international students in English.
School Programme Supervisor Supervisor's email address
School of Information Science and Technology 1. Communication and Information System, 2. Signal and Information Processing
程恩 CHENG En chengen@xmu.edu.cn
王琳 WANG Lin wanglin@xmu.edu.cn
石江宏 SHI Jianghong shijh@xmu.edu.cn
欧钢 OU Gang ougang@xmu.edu.cn
丁兴号 DING Xinghao dxh@xmu.edu.cn
肖亮 XIAO Liang lxiao@xmu.edu.cn
唐余亮 TANG Yuliang tyl@xmu.edu.cn
黄联芬 HUANG Lianfen lfhuang@xmu.edu.cn
孙海信 SUN Haixin hxsun@xmu.edu.cn
邓振淼 DENG Zhenmiao dzm_ddb@xmu.edu.cn
★ XMU Admissions Office (the enrollment of international students on degree programs)
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Address: Admissions Office, Xiamen University, Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian Province 361005, P. R. China
Program Coordinator
魏昊 WEI Hao Email: weihao@xmu.edu.cn
朱晋英 ZHU Jinying Email: jinyingzhu@xmu.edu.cn
Discipline Introduction- Information and Communication Engineering
1. Mission and aims
The overall mission of the information and communications engineering (ICE) discipline at Xiamen University (XMU) is to serve the needs of national strategy and to empower sustainable innovation of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in Southeast China. This mission is underpinned by a wide-range of activities including post-graduate education, research and development (R&D), and knowledge transfer. Based on traditional strengths in underwater acoustic communications and marine information technologies, the discipline focuses its main R&D efforts on converged terrestrial, marine, and aerospace communication and monitoring systems, while expanding for further growths by encouraging multidisciplinary researches. The aims are to become a domestically-leading and internationally-influential discipline in academy and to empower regional developments with first-class innovation and high-quality talent supply.
2. Strengths and features
The ICE discipline at XMU has a long-standing history that can be traced back to the Radio Physics major in 1940s. Although the entire engineering faculty in XMU was relocated to other universities (e.g., Tsinghua, Zhejiang, Southeast universities) in the 1950s, the engineering faculty was restored at XMU in early 1980s. In 1994, the Communications Engineering major was formally established at XMU. The ICE discipline at XMU has since then achieved a rapid growth by enrolling MSc and PhD students from established disciplines of Radio Physics and Physical Oceanography. The ICE discipline was certified to enroll MSc and PhD students majored in Communication and Information Systems in 2001 and 2003, respectively, to enroll MSc students majored in Signal and Information Processing in 2003, and to enroll MSc, PhD, and post-doc majored in the entire ICE discipline in 2006, 2010, and 2012, respectively. In 2012, the Communications Engineering department became one of the most popular departments in XMU and had a postgraduate enrollment rate of about 10%. To date, nearly 100 PhD and 600 MSc students have graduated from the ICE discipline at XMU, most of them have become active academics or technical backbones in universities, enterprises, and institutions in China and abroad.
The ICE discipline at XMU adopts a tri-polar structure to organize R&D, education, and knowledge transfer activities by three institutes. The first institute is the "Key Laboratory of Underwater Acoustic Communication and Marine Information Technology, Ministry of Education”, which focuses on basic R&D; The second institute is the "National Center of Excellence for Experimental Education in Electronic Information Engineering", which focuses on education; The third institute is the "West Straits Communication Engineering Center", which focuses on knowledge transfer. Such a tri-polar structure exploits the synergy among R&D, education, and knowledge transfer, and has become a powerful driving force for development and innovation of the ICE discipline at XMU.
After nearly one decade of developments with the "985 project", the ICE discipline at XMU has established a featured competitiveness in the R&D of converged vertical communication and monitoring systems across the Taiwan Strait. Taking the advantage of XMU being the only "985" university in the West Taiwan Strait, the discipline leads a collaborative innovation center to become a power house for innovation and entrepreneurship in the West Strait area, while expanding its influence to the greater Southeast region. Furthermore, hinging on the geographical and historical connections with Taiwan, academic exchanges and research collaborations with Taiwan universities and enterprises have flourished, which not only accelerates the development of the discipline, but also makes tight bonds across the straits for mutual benefits and peace keeping.
3. Education objectives
The overall goal of XMU is to become a top-tier, research-oriented university with global reputation. To this end, the education objective of the ICE discipline is to cultivate talents with balanced aptitudes on moral, intellectual, physical, and social aspects, and with wide-scope knowledge and in-depth understanding in specialized fields of ICE. Graduates should be creative talents that are competent in R&D activities in the ICT sector and be ready to contribute to the science and technology developments for national and social goods.
4. Research directions
Centering on national strategic needs for converged communication and monitoring systems, the ICE discipline at XMU is organized into four research directions: 1) Underwater acoustic communications and networking, which focuses on underwater multi-media communication networks, underwater target detection, and underwater location tracking, etc; 2) Broadband wireless communications and networking, which focuses on advanced modulation and coding, physical layer security, self-organizing networks, and distributed heterogeneous networks, etc; 3) Satellite navigation and remote sensing, which focuses on robust satellite receivers, multispectral satellite/radar, and remote sensing of water environments, etc; 4) Intelligent data analysis and processing, which applies the fundamental theory of compressive sensing and machine learning to promote multi-disciplinary research across diverse fields of life science, medicine, energy engineering, etc.
5. Impacts
Over the past four years, the ICE discipline at XMU has been granted with over 125 research projects, including major and key research projects at the national and provincial level. Accumulated funding from the central government, provincial/local government, and industry are 25.51, 41.52, and 33.19 millions, respectively. A total of 211 SCI research papers have been published, including 38 papers in top-tier academic journals. 35 patents have been authorized, with 9 of them being successfully commercialized to yield a revenue of 1.18 billion. The outcomes of 3 research projects have been applied in military facilities and appliances, while the outcomes of 6 key projects have been commercialized, promoting the upgrade of national microwave industrial base and the enterprises in national innovative industry clusters. In 2015 alone, the ICE postgraduates won one first prize, three second-prizes, and two third prizes in national contests. One MSc thesis was awarded the “Excellent MSc Theses of Fujian Province” and one faculty member was awarded the “Excellent Contributor” by the Chinese Institute of Electronics. Multiple contests such as the “China-US Young Maker Competition” have been hosted, which yielded fruitful outcomes. For example, during the event of the seventh China-US high-level consultation, one Maker product from the 2015 contest was chosen and presented to the U.S. Secretary of State as the only gift.
The ICE discipline at XMU has several domestically-leading research directions, all of which have generated a broad scope of impacts. Research on underwater acoustic communication and vertical monitoring networks has been widely applied for long-term monitoring of underwater noise levels and the assessment of noise hazards to oceanic creatures. The research outcomes are frequently consulted by the government for the planning of advanced oceanic industries and have attracted multiple interviews broadcasted by China Central Television. The leading research on BeiDou satellite navigation and ubiquitous positioning systems has made XMU become one of a few selective universities that are privileged to contribute to military key national projects in BeiDou systems. Research outcomes on high precision radar ranging have been applied to multiple major radars used in aerospace and defense industries (see Appendices). Moreover, in specialized fields of chaotic modulation and coding, wireless physical lay security, 3D point cloud processing, and fast imagery, the discipline has domestically-leading academic impacts by publishing series of research papers in top academic journals.
In summary, the ICE discipline at XMU takes a leading role in the West Taiwan Strait area in education, R&D, social services, and knowledge transfer. Being an important engine of innovation in the Straits area, the discipline strongly underpins the developments of national defense and regional economy and has significant and diverse impacts in China and abroad.
