Welcome to the School of Internet of Things at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
We are living through a profound technological transition. Intelligence is no longer confined to software systems or centralized data centers — it is becoming embedded throughout the physical world. From cities and transportation networks to factories, energy systems, and healthcare infrastructure, intelligent technologies are increasingly shaping how societies operate and how people live and work.
The next stage of this transformation is the evolution from the Internet of Things to what we call the Internet of Intelligence — a world where distributed devices, edge systems, and digital infrastructure collectively support real-time perception, learning, decision-making, and autonomous coordination.
At the School of Internet of Things, our mission is to prepare students and researchers to lead this new era of intelligent systems. Through our AIoT+X pathways, students learn to design AI-native intelligent systems in which sensing, communication, computation, and learning are engineered together as a unified architecture. In such systems, Artificial Intelligence is embedded directly into devices, infrastructure, and services, enabling real-time perception, adaptive decision-making, and autonomous coordination across the physical and digital world.
Our students learn not only how intelligent technologies work, but also how to engineer, deploy, and govern AI-native systems operating in complex real-world environments. This systems-level perspective is essential for building trustworthy, scalable, and impactful intelligent infrastructures.
Education at the School of Internet of Things is deeply hands-on and future-oriented. Through project-based and Syntegrative Education, students engage with real-world challenges from the early stages of their studies, working with industry partners to design and build deployable solutions. Our goal is to cultivate graduates who can bridge theory and practice — capable of advancing both academic research and real-world innovation.
At the same time, we are building a vibrant research ecosystem where faculty, industry partners, and public-sector collaborators work together to push the frontiers of edge intelligence, distributed AI systems, trustworthy computing, and next-generation intelligent infrastructure.
The School of Internet of Things is not only responding to technological change — we aim to help shape what comes next. By connecting education, research, and industry deployment, we seek to contribute to the development of intelligent systems that serve society and create meaningful impact worldwide.
I warmly invite students, faculty, industry partners, and government collaborators to join us in building the intelligent systems of the future.
Welcome to the School of Internet of Things —
Where intelligent infrastructure for the future is designed and built.
Prof. Dijiang Huang
Dean, School of Internet of Things
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Dean’s Message
Welcome to the School of Internet of Things at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
We are living through a profound technological transition. Intelligence is no longer confined to software systems or centralized data centers — it is becoming embedded throughout the physical world. From cities and transportation networks to factories, energy systems, and healthcare infrastructure, intelligent technologies are increasingly shaping how societies operate and how people live and work.
The next stage of this transformation is the evolution from the Internet of Things to what we call the Internet of Intelligence — a world where distributed devices, edge systems, and digital infrastructure collectively support real-time perception, learning, decision-making, and autonomous coordination.
At the School of Internet of Things, our mission is to prepare students and researchers to lead this new era of intelligent systems. Through our AIoT+X pathways, students learn to design AI-native intelligent systems in which sensing, communication, computation, and learning are engineered together as a unified architecture. In such systems, Artificial Intelligence is embedded directly into devices, infrastructure, and services, enabling real-time perception, adaptive decision-making, and autonomous coordination across the physical and digital world.
Our students learn not only how intelligent technologies work, but also how to engineer, deploy, and govern AI-native systems operating in complex real-world environments. This systems-level perspective is essential for building trustworthy, scalable, and impactful intelligent infrastructures.
Education at the School of Internet of Things is deeply hands-on and future-oriented. Through project-based and Syntegrative Education, students engage with real-world challenges from the early stages of their studies, working with industry partners to design and build deployable solutions. Our goal is to cultivate graduates who can bridge theory and practice — capable of advancing both academic research and real-world innovation.
At the same time, we are building a vibrant research ecosystem where faculty, industry partners, and public-sector collaborators work together to push the frontiers of edge intelligence, distributed AI systems, trustworthy computing, and next-generation intelligent infrastructure.
The School of Internet of Things is not only responding to technological change — we aim to help shape what comes next. By connecting education, research, and industry deployment, we seek to contribute to the development of intelligent systems that serve society and create meaningful impact worldwide.
I warmly invite students, faculty, industry partners, and government collaborators to join us in building the intelligent systems of the future.
Welcome to the School of Internet of Things —
Where intelligent infrastructure for the future is designed and built.
Prof. Dijiang Huang
Dean, School of Internet of Things
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University