Tianjin University launches first BCI program

A team of brain-computer interface experts conducts an experiment at Tianjin University. Tianjin University has announced the launch of the nation's first brain-computer interface undergraduate program for its fall semester, marking a critical step forward in this frontier technology globally. "In response to increasing demand in the BCI sector, Tianjin University is leveraging resources from various departments, including the medical school, electrical automation and information engineering, microelectronics, intelligent computing, mathematics, and materials science and engineering," said Xu Minpeng, assistant director of the university's BCI Laboratory and head of the Haihe BCI project. The university intends to cultivate outstanding engineers and scientists capable of designing, manufacturing and researching future bio-intelligent electronic interfaces, thereby leading advancements in BCI technology and industrial development in bio-information integration. In May, the university's Haihe BCI Laboratory announced a group of commercial and industrial projects covering finance, technology and industrial clusters.