Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Establishes the First Metaverse Engineering Department in China

According to The Paper, the Department of Information Engineering of the School of Artificial Intelligence (School of Future Technology) at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology has been renamed the Department of Metaverse Engineering. Pan Zhigeng, Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence (School of Future Technology), Nanxin University, introduced that the Metaverse Engineering Department of the School of Artificial Intelligence is the first department in a domestic university named after the Metaverse. Pan Zhigeng said that in the future, he will also lead the preparation of the Metaverse Special Committee of the Jiangsu Artificial Intelligence Society, and plans to jointly train masters, doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in the direction of the Metaverse with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.