Chengdu Aiplusfirst Science and Technology Co., Ltd is based in the National University Science Park of Sichuan University in Chengdu. The company is an innovative enterprise incubated by Sichuan University, focusing on intelligent medicine. Currently, the company has an R&D team of more than 200 employees. Aiplusfirst aims to address various issues in clinical medicine, develop intelligent medical products for clinical needs, and improve medical practice efficiency.
The company has built the world’s largest breast ultrasound and lung imaging database. All image data are annotated at three levels by experienced doctors from hundreds of hospitals, such as West China Hospital of Sichuan University. The company has built the largest GPU computing platform of deep neural networks in southwest China. With big data, big computing, and big models, the company develops recognition models with high efficiency, accurate recognition, and advanced intelligence.
The company has carried out comprehensive cooperation with numerous institutes across the country. The company has deployed multiple product lines: intelligent breast system, intelligent lung system, intelligent radiotherapy system, intelligent heart system, intelligent nuclear medicine system, intelligent oral system, intelligent gastrointestinal system, intelligent neurosurgery system, and intelligent ophthalmology.
A variety of intelligent medical products developed by the company have been promoted and applied nationwide. The products have been deployed in about 200 hospitals across the country, covering Beijing, Guangdong, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Henan, and other provinces. The system has produced significant social value for reducing medical costs and raising people’s healthy standard of living.
Professor Zhang Yi is the current Director of the Intelligent Interdisciplinary Research Center at Sichuan University. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994.
He was a Senior Visiting Scholar at the University of Sheffield, UK, from 1989 to 1990; a Research Fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1990 to 2001; and a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore from 2001 to 2002. He served as the Dean of the College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, from 2008 to 2017. In 2019, he won the State Natural Science Award.
He has published more than 300 publications, including being the co-author of three books: Convergence Analysis of Recurrent Neural Networks (Kluwer Academic Publisher,2004), Neural Networks: Computational Models and Applications (Springer, 2007), and Subspace Learning of Neural Networks (CRC Press, 2010). He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2009-2012). He was promoted to IEEE Fellow in 2016 for Contributions to Convergence Theory for Neural Networks and Subspace Learning. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2014-present).
He founded the Machine Intelligence Laboratory and Center of Intelligent Medicine at Sichuan University and founded the Chengdu AI plus first Science and Technology Co., Ltd in 2020.
