The software discipline sticks to the academic development idea of "new ideas, new fields and new methods". It takes supporting and leading the discipline development as the guidance, facing the national economic construction and major national strategic needs and strengthens the basic, forward-looking and strategic high-tech research. The software discipline also focuses on the breakthrough of basic theories and key technologies and the development of system solutions, guiding and supporting the convergence from the innovation elements to the technology key bottleneck and deep integration with industry, university and research. In recent years, the discipline of software engineering has concentrated on three research directions: software intelligent technology, software engineering and services, information and big data engineering, aiming to build a first-class innovation platform and research team, and to help the innovation and development of the discipline of software engineering in the fields of data science, artificial intelligence, software services and information security.

The direction of Software Intelligence Technology has along-termteam engaged in artificial intelligence and software practice. It conducts in-depth research in artificial intelligence, medical informatics, intelligent web, image big data analysis and processing, and has the advantages of developing system models and high-quality intelligent software to solve engineering problems.

The direction of Software Engineering and Services has along-termteam engaged in software engineering and service. It conducts in-depth research on intelligent information processing, virtual reality, information security, brain science, quantum computing, etc. And it deeply participates inthe NationalScience andTechnologySupportPlan,State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and System, and other provincial, ministerial and municipal projects.

The direction ofInformation and Big Data Engineering, with the support of software theory and software engineering, has carried out research in the fields of big data calculation and analysis, knowledge graph, remote sensing and GIS spatial big data, recommendation system and so on, and cooperated with enterprises and institutions to solve practical problems.