About Us

NTU-PKU Joint Research Institute is a collaboration between the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the Peking University in China.  The universities are funded through a donation of RMB 50 million (S$11 million) from the family of the late Mr Ng Teng Fong, with each of the universities receiving RMB 25 million (S$5.5 million).

Events including workshops, summer/winter schools, and other events to facilitate collaboration between the research programmes at NTU and PKU.

Please click here​ for information on Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation 

​The funds will support:

  • Joint research in:
    1. Multi-Modal Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities, through NTU’s Rapid-Rich Object Search (ROSE) Lab, which is also an NTU-PKU collaboration that aims to pioneer next-generation visual and object search technologies, and
    2. Human Centred Technologies for Healthy Living and Life Long Learning, through the Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the Elderly (LILY), which develops digital solutions for the elderly.

    The research will support Singapore’s Smart Nation vision that harnesses technology and data to improve living standards, strengthen communities, and create more business opportunities

  • Exchange Programmes for faculty, research staff, and undergrad & graduate students

  • Events including workshops, summer/winter schools, and other events to facilitate collaboration between the research programmes at NTU and PKU.

 

Structure of NTU-PKU Joint Research Institute (JRI)


ROSE:

Search (ROSE) Lab over the past three years. The ROSE Lab addresses the growing need to expand search beyond text’s limited capability in describing real-world objects. 

Over 60 full-time researchers at the Lab conduct research into visual search technology to support scalable real-time applications. Drawing upon each university’s strength in pattern recognition, computer vision, and machine learning technologies, ROSE is creating an innovation platform for media applications, and developing visual object search tools with industry partners.
 

 

LILY: 

Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU Singapore) Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the Elderly (LILY) is a university level research center established in 2012. LILY’s vision is to conduct innovative research towards a technology-empowered ageless aging society. 

Over 65 researchers from a variety of disciplines are developing cutting-edge technologies that effectively address the physical, social, emotional, cognitive and sustainable socio-economic development issues related to world population aging. The goal is to enable the elderly to enjoy a healthy, happy, dignified and active independent life, while ensuring long-term sustainability.
 


Introduction to PKU​

 
Peking University is a comprehensive and national key university. The campus, known as "Yan Yuan" (the garden of Yan), is situated at Haidian District in the western suburb of Beijing, with a total area of 2,743,532 square metres (or 274 hectares). It stands near to the Yuanmingyuan Garden and the Summer Palace. PKU has effectively combined research on important scientific subjects with the training of personnel with a high level of specialized knowledge and professional skill as dem​anded by the country's socialist modernization. It strives not only for improvements in teaching and research work, but also for the promotion of interaction and mutual promotion among various disciplines.  It has become a center for teaching and research and a university of a new type, embracing diverse branches of learning such as basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, and sciences of medicine, management, and education. Its aim is to rank among the world's best universities in the future.
 
National Engineering Laboratory for Video Technology

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