Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology establishes the country's first Metaverse Engineering Department

According to Chain Catcher news and reported by The Paper, the Department of Information Engineering at the School of Artificial Intelligence (Future Technology School) of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology has been renamed to the Department of Metaverse Engineering. Pan Zhigeng, the dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence (Future Technology School), introduced that the Department of Metaverse Engineering is the first department in domestic universities to be named after the metaverse.

Pan Zhigeng stated that in the future, they will also lead the preparation of the Metaverse Special Committee of the Jiangsu Province Artificial Intelligence Society, planning to jointly cultivate master's, doctoral students, and postdoctoral researchers in the metaverse direction with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. (Source link)