Research

Professor Zheng Chunmiao, Dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering will be in charge of the laboratory. In meeting the technology and industry development needs of water body pollution, Professor Zheng will lead the laboratory to carry out a three-level research of surface water-underground water pollution covering "science-technology-management" with drainage basin as the coefficient: (1) water environment evolution rules of drainage basins, interaction mechanism, coupling mechanism and ecological environmental effect of surface water-underground water and its regulatory mechanism; (2) key technologies of monitoring, investigation and comprehensive control of drainage basin surface water-underground water pollution, and green environmental-protection equipment and advanced materials; (3) risk assessment, health effect evaluation and optimization control technologies of drainage basin surface water-underground water pollution. The construction target of "National Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Control of Environmental Protection Drainage Basin Surface Water-Underground Water Pollution" is to become a world-class R&D platform, a standard testing center and a future national key laboratory, which will specialize in the improvement of technological level of drainage basin surface water-underground water pollution control and treatment, and protection of China's surface water and underground water ecological environment.

Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Data-Driven Fluid Mechanics and Engineering Applications aims at the challenges and major strategic needs that China is facing in the fields of advanced manufacturing, aerospace and health care, and concentrates internationally competitive scientists in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and use their advantages in fluid mechanics and data-driven academic and industrial design software to carry out research in the following three directions: data-driven engineering turbulence models and applications, data-driven flow Solid coupling algorithm and application, data-driven calculation model and application of multiphase flow and porous media flow. It focuses on solving the basic problems, common technologies, engineering applications and other issues that restrict the high-end equipment manufacturing industry in Guangdong Province, and has important realities for breaking through the stuck neck technology in the high-end equipment manufacturing industry, aerospace, health care and other engineering applications. The laboratory is jointly established by Southern University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), University of Macau, Shenzhen Qingfengxi Technology Co., Ltd., and Academician Chen Shiyi of Southern University of Science and Technology serves as the laboratory director.

Relying on "Shenzhen Municipal Key Laboratory of Soil and Underground Water Pollution Control" and "Shenzhen Municipal Key Laboratory of Urban Solid Waste Recycling Technology and Management", Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil and Underground Water Pollution Control and Restoration conducted an interdisciplinary and innovative research of the basic theory and application technologies of soil and underground water pollution control and restoration to meet the major needs of the state for soil and underground water environment protection and ecological safety. The laboratory insists on the international development path and benchmarks its management system against the international standard. In terms of scientific research, it strives to gain an international perspective, and aspires to be a public experiment platform and talent cultivation base with international influence for soil and underground water research.

The Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Science and Material Design aims at integrating computational mathematics, computational physics, computational chemistry, computational biology, and other disciplines. It focuses on discipline development, the theory and method of computer science, computer science software, the new direction, and the subject in computational science of computational physics-computational chemistry-computational biology. The Key Laboratory will fully implement the three cross fusion, by promoting the development of computational science theory method, the software and its applications in high-performance energy conversion and storage materials, advanced electronic materials and high-performance catalytic materials. Their research is critical for applications of new material design industrial development of Guangdong and China.

The Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Turbulence Research and Applications carries out basic and applied research on turbulence models and basic theory, engineering turbulence, drag reduction and noise reduction, wind power, energy environment and thermal convection. It will gather and train outstanding turbulence research talents. The laboratory will actively serve the country and Guangdong Province in aerospace, clean energy, city environment, and other development needs. It will strive to become a turbulence research institution at a high international level.

The Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain-inspired Intelligent Computation is a government-funded key research laboratory established in February 2020 that focuses on cutting edge research, technology innovation, and knowledge transfer in brain-inspired intelligent systems. The Laboratory has three major research themes, including brain-inspired evolutionary intelligence, brain-inspired swarm intelligence, and trustworthy brain-inspired intelligent systems. It covers a broad range of research topics in learning and optimization, including evolving neural networks, autonomous evolutionary systems, multi-objective learning and decision-making, reinforcement learning, and optimization in dynamic and uncertain environments, trustworthy AI systems. The Laboratory is led by three IEEE fellows and composed of 17 full-time professors (PIs) and a large number of postdocs and research students. It aims to tackle some of the grand challenges in brain-inspired computing and its innovative uses in the real-world. The Laboratory will serve as a bridge and translator between basic research, applied research, and technology development. It will work closely with universities and industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and play a key role in driving the knowledge creation and transfer in the region. The Laboratory adopts an open door policy. It has multiple vacancies for full-time researchers and developers at all levels and has set aside dedicated funding to support researchers and innovators from all over the world. It proactively engages with industry to maximize the impact of research output coming from the Laboratory.

This laboratory will concentrate on the emerging quantum dot display and lighting technology to carry out R&D and testing of key technologies. The research emphasis will be core technologies such as high-photosynthetic-efficiency and low-cost red, green and blue quantum dot materials and devices, carrier injection transport materials with high mobility and compatibility with quantum dot's energy levels, quantum dot INK suitable for printing process and high efficiency and highly stable exciton injection OLED devices. The lab also aims to develop high-performance quantum dot display and lighting module and select internationally advanced research topics. Meanwhile, the laboratory will work closely with display and lighting enterprises in Guangdong on industrial transformation of the high-end research and experiments and tests. It focuses on the R&D of next-generation quantum dot advanced display and lighting technologies, establishment of a R&D platform for OLED materials, devices and processes, and will be dedicated to the resolution of core technological difficulties of OLED, and develop quantum dot display and lighting technologies with independent intellectual property right.

The laboratory focuses on the prospective fundamental research in the field of AI. It mainly engages in the research of evolutionary intelligence system, and aims to make breakthrough of the current AI technology which is incapable of self-learning, self-adaption and self-evolution. The main research directions of the laboratory include the following three: the self-adaption and self-evolution theories and methods of the intelligent systems, the reliability theory and method of the evolutionary intelligence system, and key technology of the green evolutionary intelligence system. The construction of this laboratory is expected to promote the development of AI discipline.

The Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Wireless Communication Technology is a provincial-level key platform of science and technology. Our research work focuses on next-generation mobile communication, smart wireless communication, wireless channels, and microwave devices & antennas. Our research team consists of a group of famous professors and talented young researchers. By 2020, we will have 38 team members.

This Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory, supported by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, is a provincial-level key platform of science and technology. The research directions of the laboratory are human augmentation robot and rehabilitation robot, serving for the elders, disabled people, stroke patients, etc. The research fields in this laboratory include Human Movement Science, Robotics, Rehabilitation Engineering, Advanced Driving Technology, Intelligent Perception Technology, Human-Machine Interaction, etc. The laboratory has developed deep partnerships with worldwide famous universities and research institutes. The laboratory wishes to promote technology innovations and industrial transformation, enable the Great Bay Area to become the international leader in some related technology areas, and help China become the technology innovation center.

The Ministry of Education (MOE) Engineering Research Center for Future Communication Integrated Circuits is mainly based on the School of Microelectronics and Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (AAIS) at SUSTech. It focuses on the research and development of integrated circuits (ICs) for next-generation communications (5G, 6G, etc.). The research of this MOE engineering center will aim at "independent innovation and realization of leadership" of core technology such as IC designs for communications. It will carry out future communications integrated circuits designs including not only intelligent edge communication and computing systems, but also wide-band-gap devices and sensors. The center is built to achieve technological breakthroughs with commercialization transfer to the leading industries at Shenzhen, such as Huawei and ZTE. It will also train future engineering leaders and talents in the IC fields with a focus on next-generation communication circuits and systems. Moreover, this center will also strengthen the in-depth cooperation and resource sharing among the different departments of SUSTech, promote interdisciplinary research, and promote the construction and joint platform development. It also provides a collaboration platform for all top universities (HKUST, HKU, Univ. of Macao) in the Greater Bay area. In summary, the objective of this center is to build a dual-core-drive engine, technical innovation, and talent training, for the next-generation communications systems. It is providing and will sustainably provide support for the rapid development of China's future communication systems.

The Engineering Center will engage in the R&D of the third generation semiconductors, with a goal of constructing a platform for high-end R&D, experimental testing and industrial transformation of the third generation semiconductors for semiconductor device packaging, manufacturing and testing industries in Guangdong. The Engineering Center will tackle the major theoretical and industrialization problems, and build a brand new "Industry-University-Research Cooperation" integration R&D mode by recombination and optimized configuration of R&D resources to cultivate new talents and improve the R&D capability with major projects.

In response to the development needs in the field of underground water of Guangdong Province and the state, and relying on South University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen Nanke Environmental Company, "Shenzhen Municipal Key Laboratory of Soil and Underground Water Pollution Control" (application for a provincial-level key laboratory is underway) and "Shenzhen Municipal Key Laboratory of Urban Solid Waste Recycling and Management", the Engineering Center actively engages in the industrialization of relevant achievements of underground water pollution control and restoration. The Research Center adopts a four-in-one construction mode of indoor testing and analysis platform, field investigation base, international cooperation platform and industrialization platform, and employs the Industry - University - Research Cooperation to link the platforms, comprehensively improve the Industry - University - Research Cooperation of the Engineering Center.

Shenzhen subdivision is a branch of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) (abbr. Guangzhou Ocean Laboratory). It was established by SUSTech in cooperation with multiple universities and research institutions of Shenzhen, aiming to build Shenzhen as Global Ocean Center City and also to promote the strategic status of the South China Sea and the Greater Bay Area.

During the first phase in 2019-2021, six specialized laboratories and four dedicated research teams were established. The four research topics were smart deep-sea submarine equipment development and application; deep structure, evolutionary basin process and the sedimentary response of the South China Sea; physical marine processes and biogeochemical processes in the offshore environment of the Pearl River estuary and Greater Bay Area; and ocean energy exploration and exploitation. The ultimate goal is to understand and exploit the South China Sea and extend the research into the Indian Ocean.