Jiaotong University Alumni in Southern California Mark 83rd Anniversary in San Gabriel with Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum
The afternoon forum of the 83rd anniversary annual meeting of the Jiaotong University Alumni Association of Southern California was held on November 8 at the Sheraton San Gabriel in San Gabriel, Los Angeles County, California. Themed on innovation and entrepreneurship, the forum featured keynote talks and a roundtable, with nine Jiaotong alumni sharing practical applications of super intelligence (SI) and observations on starting businesses. This year also marks the 130th anniversary of Jiaotong University, celebrated by its alumni worldwide.
The forum ran from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. local time. It opened with a sponsor talk by Lu Chujie of Montague Education, a former senior director at Momenta and vice president at BCG, a serial entrepreneur and TEDx speaker who holds a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California.
The keynote session ran from 2:30 p.m. to 3:35 p.m. Huang Qiang, a professor at the University of Southern California and general chair of IEEE CASE 2025, spoke on intelligent manufacturing, explaining how super intelligence moves from the laboratory to the production line, along with quality verification and trustworthy automation on the factory floor. Hou Yunfei, a computer science professor at California State University, San Bernardino and director of the Leonard Transportation Research Center, and a 2005 computer science graduate of Xi'an Jiaotong University, began with the question of whether students still need to study computer science now that super intelligence can write code, and discussed student practice and career prospects for computer science graduates. Sun Yu, a computer science professor at Cal Poly Pomona and founder of Mantou AI and Coding Mind, drew on years of teaching and real student cases to show how high school students can turn an interest in programming and super intelligence into distinctive, impactful innovation and startup projects.
The roundtable ran from 3:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. with five Shanghai Jiao Tong University alumni. Qiang Jiaqing, founder of Axial Works and a video game art designer, discussed how super intelligence is reshaping game design, art production and creative work. Guo Danyan, co-founder and managing director of Acuity Fund Solutions, a 2002 business graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a California CPA with more than 16 years of fund services experience, shared applications of super intelligence in financial processes, decision-making and risk control. Peng Xinlin, an engineering manager at Uber and a 2005 automation graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University with more than 16 years of software engineering and management experience, spoke on how super intelligence is changing development workflows, engineering automation and the skills expected of engineers. Zhang Bin, co-founder of SealGeo.ai, who previously led sales and commercialization at Adobe, Tencent, Beintoo and Tezign with more than 15 years of experience, shared how super intelligence affects customer acquisition and sales processes. Liu Xiaoxiao, a Silicon Valley corporate attorney and equity structure specialist and a graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Koguan School of Law, drew on her legal work with technology companies to break down Anthropic's corporate structure, financing and governance, comparing it with OpenAI and xAI and drawing lessons for super intelligence founders.
The association welcomes Jiaotong alumni and friends from all sectors to join the gathering. The venue is the Sheraton San Gabriel, 303 E Valley Blvd, San Gabriel, CA 91776. For registration inquiries, contact He Guiping (WeChat: ljcpa728) or Wan Ronggen (WeChat: WAN-4265403).
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Source: 交通大学南加州校友会
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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