Recently, “Modern Railway Dynamics and Transport Safety”, a Key Research Project in Fundamental Sciences led by Zhai Wanming, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chief Professor of the University, has been approved by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and granted a funding of 60 million yuan.Based in the University and with academician Zhai Wanming as the leader, the Project ...

Chengdu has recently witnessed the grand opening of the 11th International Bridge and Tunnel Technology Conference (IBTC). The Conference was jointly sponsored by China Railway Society, China Railway & Transportation Society, Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering, Shanghai Society of Civil Engineering and co-hosted by Southwest Jiaotong University, Chongqing Jiaotong University and Tongji ...

With the theme of “Progress of Structural health Monitoring and Non-destructive testing Technology in the era of Industry 4.0", the 4th International Forum on Structural Health Monitoring and Non-Destructive Testing (SHMNDT) was recently co-hosted by Southwest Jiaotong University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Chengdu Lead Science & Technology Co., LTD. The Forum brought ...

Associate Professor Xie Hui from a team led by Professor Zhou Shaobing at the College of Medicine (Institute of Biomedical Engineering) of the University made a breakthrough in the research of smart dynamic soft materials. Their paper on research findings, “Bioinspired thermadapt shape-memory polymer with light-induced reversible fluorescence for rewritable 2D/3D-encoding information carriers”, was ...

2023 3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Society and Intelligent Systems was recently held in Chengdu. It was hosted by Southwest Jiaotong University in collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney, Sichuan University, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and Wuhan University of Technology. More than 150 experts and scholars from over 10 countries and 70 universities ...

Recently, Railway Engineering Science (RES), an international academic journal sponsored by the University and edited by Academician Zhai Wanming, was enlisted among Q1 of “TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING” in the 2023 Report of World Journal Clout Index (WJCI) of Science and Technological Periodicals again.Among the 109 global academic journals of Transportation Engineering included in the 2023 WJCI Report,...

Prof. He Chuan of Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) was elected as Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering according to the results of the 2023 Academician Co-Option of the Chinese Academy of Engineering released on November 22.Prof. He Chuan, Chief Professor of the University, Director of the National Engineering Research Center of Geological Disaster Prevention Technology in Land Transportation ...

The afternoon of July 7 witnessed the signing and opening ceremony for the agreement on the building of the Tianyou Railway Institute in Thailand by Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) in collaboration with Khon Kaen University (KKU).YAO Faming, Vice President of SWJTU, signed a cooperation agreement with Charnchai, President of KKU. Thaneeya Naipinit, Vice  Governor of Khon Kaen Province, YA...

The international journal Railway Engineering Science (RES) sponsored by Southwest Jiaotong University won the first impact factor of JIF=6. 3 on June 28th, according to the 2023 Journal Citation ReportsTM (JCR) officially released by Clarivate Analytics. According to JCI, RES ranks 14th among 67 journals in the disciplinary category of “TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY”, a core collectio...

On the morning of July 12, President YANG Dan and Vice President YAO Faming of Southwest Jiaotong University, met with the delegation of the University of Nairobi (UoN) led by Prof. Stephen Kiama Gitahi, President of the University.Yang extended a warm welcome to the delegation and acquainted them with a brief introduction to SWJTU, including its long history, cutting-edge disciplines, talent t...

Recently, a paper entitled “Integrated Sensing and Communication in an Optical Fibre” from the research team of the Center for Information Photonics and Communications at the School of Information Science and Technology of the University, was featured on the cover of Light: Science & Applications (impact factor: 20.257), a top international periodical in the field of optics and one of the Nat...

The 2023 ICSA China Conference was held at Chengdu, Sichuan from June 30 to July 3.(ICSA) and hosted by the School of Mathematics of SWJTU in collaboration with the Sichuan Association for Applied Statistics. More than 1,000 statistical experts and scholars, teachers and students from universities at home and abroad attended the conference. Over 260 overseas scholars, 50 chief editors and deput...