I. Distinctive Features

(1) Strong Faculty Team:

87 faculty members, including 62 full-time teachers: 23 professors, 18 associate professors, 49 PhD holders, and 19 doctoral supervisors, including 2 part-time/academician professors, 2 recipients of national-level major talent programs, 2 Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researchers, 1 Clarivate Highly Cited Scientist, 1 recipient of the national high-level overseas returnee talent grant (among the first 20 nationwide), 1 Ministry of Education New Century Excellent Talent, and 30 provincial-level talents (e.g., Guangxi Bagui Scholars, Guangxi Outstanding Youth).

Hosts 5 innovative research teams, including the Guangxi Talent Hub for Big Data Intelligence and Applications, the Bagui Scholar Team for Intelligent System Security Theory and Technology, and a Guangxi Natural Science Foundation Innovation Team.

(2) Comprehensive Talent Cultivation System:

Offers 1 first-level doctoral program, 2 first-level master’s programs, 1 professional master’s program, and 4 undergraduate programs. Software Engineering is a Guangxi First-Class Discipline and a National First-Class Undergraduate Program; Computer Science and Technology is a Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Program.

2 courses are recognized as National First-Class Undergraduate Courses, and 7 as Autonomous Region-level First-Class Courses.

Software Engineering ranks 22nd nationally (top 15%) in the 2024 Soft Science discipline rankings.

(3) Outcome-Based Education (OBE) Model:

Implements OBE philosophy, integrating outcome orientation, student-centered approaches, and continuous improvement into the talent cultivation process; combines academic forums, innovation bases, research labs, competitions, and professional certifications (e.g., CCF Computer Software Proficiency Certification, Phoenix Education Group 1+X Digital Media Interaction Design Certification, and Blue Bridge Cup National Software Competition) to bridge classroom learning with practical training.

Over the past three years, undergraduates secured 48 National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program projects and won over 300 awards in national competitions.

II. Talent Cultivation & Research Achievements

Graduate Employment: Alumni work in Guangxi, the Pearl River Delta, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou, employed by leading tech companies (e.g., Tencent, Huawei), universities, research institutes, government agencies, and the military. Hundreds of graduates have pursued master’s degrees at top domestic and international institutions, with a 25% postgraduate enrollment rate for master’s students.

Research Output:

Faculty have won 2 National Science and Technology Progress Awards, 1 National Defense Science and Technology Award, and 10 provincial/ministerial-level awards.

Principal investigators of key projects, including the National 863 Program, 973 Program, National Key R&D Program, Australian ARC Projects, and NSFC Joint Fund Key Projects.

Over the past five years: Secured 65 national-level projects with total funding exceeding 52 million RMB. Published 320+ SCI papers in top journals (e.g., TPAMI, TKDE, TNNLS) and 80+ papers at prestigious conferences (e.g., AAAI, CVPR).

Key milestones:

2020: Won the Guangxi Natural Science First Prize for Data Selection Models for Classification.2021: Secured a NSFC Regional Joint Fund Key Project on Precision Secure Computation for Multi-Ethnic Cross-Domain Data Aggregation.

2023: Approved another Joint Fund Key Project on Neural Network Technologies for All-Weather Intelligent Visual Perception in Guangxi’s Complex Environments.

(Updated in February 2025)