From world-championship titles to national honors — every milestone in our students' and faculty's shared growth
Major Honors
Breakthrough results in top international competitions built on real industrial problems
The SAM-IPA-1 team — undergraduate, master's, and PhD students Gao Peng, Qi Fanyu, Zhu Yizhang, Zhang Jianyu, and Li Wenfei — took first place worldwide in the flagship competition of the PHM Society Annual Conference
The SAM-IPA-1 team won the PHM North America 2025 Conference Data Challenge, becoming the first Chinese mainland university team ever to win this international competition
Prof. Feng Jianshe was selected for the "Measurement Science and Technology" 2026 Emerging Leaders special issue for his paper on industrial anomaly detection
Faculty Honors
Dual recognition from academia and industry built on a background spanning both worlds
Recognizing core technical contributions to intelligent manufacturing projects within the CITIC Group
National-level recognition of innovative outcomes in industrial application
Awarded jointly with Guangzhou Wentian Information Technology for the "Urban Smart IoT Comprehensive Management Platform" project
Academic recognition of doctoral research by the international Prognostics and Health Management Society
Selected under Shenzhen's flagship program for recruiting overseas high-level talent
Serving January 2025 to December 2027, contributing to the development and review of international intelligent manufacturing standards
Student Awards
From undergraduates to graduate students, spanning mathematical modeling, applied AI, robotics, and innovation training programs
Associate Professor Feng Jianshe led the team; Xie Ying and Li Yiyi represented the lab at the national finals of the 19th contest (Jiangnan University, Wuxi) and won a national Second Prize in the Artificial Intelligence Application (Newland Cup) track
At the national finals of the 28th edition, undergraduate teams from the lab won one national Second Prize and one Excellence Award
Held on 21-22 August 2026 at Shunde Polytechnic University; undergraduate teams from the lab won two Guangdong Second Prizes and one Guangdong Third Prize
Undergraduate team Yin Size, Wu Honghui, and Zheng Hao battled through three days and nights to win first prize in the Guangdong region
Master's student Zhu Yizhang competed during a Xiaomi internship and won first place among more than 1,500 Xiaomi employees, earning a RMB 20,000 prize
First-year undergraduates Li Wenfei, Xie Ying, Lin Yule, and Wang Ziming won as a team, showcasing the potential of incoming students
"High-Dimensional Time Series Multi-Agent Collaborative Perception and Defect Diagnosis for FDM Printing" was recommended for the national finals; "Control-Computing Fusion of Domestic PLCs with Large-Model Edge Inference for Advanced Manufacturing" was one of only two award-winning entries from Sun Yat-sen University in the AI practice category
"Additive Manufacturing Multi-Agent Collaborative Perception and Process Quality Optimization Based on High-Dimensional Time Series Foundation Models" and "Control-Computing Fusion of Domestic PLCs with Large-Model Edge Inference for Advanced Manufacturing" both received national-level approval, sweeping every innovation-training slot allotted to the School of Advanced Manufacturing this year
In the Guangdong regional selection of the 28th edition of the competition, two undergraduate teams each won second prize and were both recommended for the national finals
The SAM-IPA-1 team from AI Cube Lab — led by Prof. Jianshe Feng and composed of undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students Peng Gao, Fanyu Qi, Yizhang Zhu, Jianyu Zhang, and Wenfei Li — leveraged outstanding technical expertise and an innovative algorithmic architecture to outshine international competitors and claim first place at the PHM 2025 Data Challenge.
The AI Cube Laboratory team (SAM-IPA-1) defeated numerous strong teams from around the world to win the PHM North America Data Competition championship, becoming the first Chinese university team to win this competition. Notably, the team's main force is first-year master's student Gao Peng, who just enrolled.
Prof. Jianshe Feng has been selected for the "Emerging Leaders 2026" special issue of the internationally authoritative journal Measurement Science and Technology, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to multimodal spatiotemporal data modeling and industrial AI, demonstrating his growing academic influence as an emerging leader in the field.
Professor Feng Jianshe, in collaboration with Guangzhou Wentian Information Technology Co., Ltd., won the Guangdong Province Industrial Software Science and Technology Invention Award Third Prize for the "Urban Intelligent IoT Comprehensive Management Platform" project, demonstrating the laboratory's technical strength.
The three-member undergraduate team from the AI Cube Laboratory (Yin Size, Wu Honghui, Zheng Hao) fought tirelessly for three days and nights in the 2025 National Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, standing out and ultimately winning the Guangdong Province First Prize!
Zhu Yizhang, a master's student from the Advanced Manufacturing Intelligence Laboratory, participated in the Xiaomi AI Competition as an intern and won the championship, standing out among over 1,500 Xiaomi employees and receiving a 20,000 RMB prize, fully demonstrating the laboratory's training capabilities.
From 16 to 19 August 2026, the national finals of the 19th China Collegiate Computer Design Contest (4C2026) were held at Jiangnan University in Wuxi, Jiangsu. Associate Professor Feng Jianshe led the team. Xie Ying and Li Yiyi represented the Sun Yat-sen University Advanced Manufacturing Intelligence Laboratory (AI Cube Lab) and won a national Second Prize in the Artificial Intelligence Application (Newland Cup) track.
On 15 July 2026, results of the national finals of the 28th China Robot and Artificial Intelligence Competition were announced. Undergraduate teams guided by the Sun Yat-sen University Advanced Manufacturing Intelligence Laboratory (AI Cube Lab) won one national Second Prize and one Excellence Award.
On 21-22 August 2026, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao regional selection of the China Collegiate Mechanical Engineering Innovation and Creativity Contest (MEICC) Embodied Intelligent Precision Assembly track was held at Shunde Polytechnic University. Undergraduate teams guided by the Sun Yat-sen University Advanced Manufacturing Intelligence Laboratory (AI Cube Lab) won two Guangdong Second Prizes and one Guangdong Third Prize.
Two undergraduate teams from AI Cube Lab won Second Prize in the Guangdong regional round of the 2026 China Collegiate Computer Design Contest's Artificial Intelligence Application track. The project 'High-Dimensional Time-Series Multi-Agent Collaborative Perception and Defect Diagnosis for FDM Printing' was recommended for the national finals, while 'Domestic PLC Large Model Edge Inference and Full-Stack Intelligent Control for Advanced Manufacturing' was one of only two award-winning entries from Sun Yat-sen University in the AI Practice competition category.
Two undergraduate innovation projects guided by AI Cube Lab — 'Multi-Agent Collaborative Perception and Machining Quality Optimization for Additive Manufacturing Based on High-Dimensional Time-Series Large Models' and 'Domestic PLC Large Model Edge Inference and Full-Stack Intelligent Control for Advanced Manufacturing' — were both approved as National-Level College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program projects, sweeping all slots allocated to the School of Advanced Manufacturing this year.
Two undergraduate teams from AI Cube Lab both won Second Prize at the Guangdong selection round of the 28th China Robot and Artificial Intelligence Competition, and both were recommended for the national finals.
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