Research Center for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

It focuses on the studies on basic theories and key technologies, such as big data intelligence-related knowledge representation, intelligent reasoning and decision-making, knowledge computing and services, to achieve efficient extraction from data to patterns, deep refinement from patterns to knowledge, and effective transformation from knowledge to decisions. In response to the major demands of the State and Zhejiang Province, the Research Center has built several flagship platforms such as intelligent interactive analytics of big data, situation analysis and simulation & deduction of economic operation, and future laboratory, which have reached the leading level in China and been successfully applied in social governance, digital economy and other fields. The Research Center is developing a new knowledge computing platform based on multi-task universal knowledge representation and an internationally leading social system simulation and deduction platform based on intelligent heterogeneous computing.

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Research Center for Multi-Modal Intelligence

It focuses on the studies on basic theories and key technologies such as multi-modal unified representation and relevant understanding, visual knowledge representation and visual intelligence, multi-modal knowledge evolution, and multi-modal intelligent analysis, and R&D of flagship platforms for multi-modal content generation, multi-modal sensing, affective computing, digital art, and intelligent design.

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Research Center for Healthcare Data Science

It focuses on active health sensing and computing, health data intelligence, intelligent medical image processing and equipment, and data-driven medicine R&D and regulation technologies, and R&D of intelligent bio-medical big data platforms and intelligent medical imaging equipment.

Research Center for Fintech

The Research Center for Fintech of ZJ Lab is committed to providing intelligent solutions and products for financial institutions and regulators through intelligent computing. It also serves as a channel to materialize the Lab’s basic research results in the financial sector. Since its establishment three years ago, the Center, driven by the actual financial business requirements, has made full use of the Lab's overall advantageous resources and technical reserves through industry-university-research cooperation and achieved remarkable results in financial data security, privacy security computing, AI application in finance, and intelligent financial regulation, etc. In addition, the Center provides an interactive platform for financial technology (Fintech) professionals and has become a force that drives Fintech innovation and leads industrial development. Meanwhile, the Research Center for Fintech has built a smart risk control platform for commercial banks, a smart regulation platform for regulation scenarios, a robo-advisor platform for the capital market, a smart insurance platform against insurance fraud, and a green finance platform for emerging financial scenarios by actively expanding the industrial ecosystem and establishing strategic cooperation with industrial organizations, academic organizations, and industry customers in the field of financial technology. It is committed to becoming the benchmark for intelligent computing in finance.

Research Center for Intelligent Chips and Devices

Focus on driving intelligent computing, the Research Center for Intelligent Chips and Devices of Zhejiang Lab explore and develop key technologies in intelligent computing devices and chips, serving and supporting the Lab's chip-related research. It carries out research on intelligent computing-centered key technologies for new computing chips and devices, explores key device technologies and unit integrating sensing, memory and computing based on new principles and structures, makes breakthroughs in heterogeneous integration technologies such as hybrid integration, wafer integration, and the integration of sensing, memory and computing, and develops architectures and chips for new computing paradigms such as neuromorphic computing and reconfigurable computing to greatly increase computing power and efficiency. It also constructs a general software / hardware support platform for the research and development of intelligent chips and devices, creates general engineering technical support for integrated circuits, develops advanced micro-nano processing equipment and technologies, and builds a full-chain generic technical support capacity including chip manufacturing, design, verification, tape-out, packaging, characterization, etc. to stimulate the Lab's development in chips and hardware related fields.

Research Center for Intelligent Transportation

It seeks to fully integrate advanced technologies including intelligent sensing, intelligent network, intelligent computing and digital twinning, make breakthroughs in core software and hardware of sensor-fusion devices, dedicated computing modules and real-time operating systems, develop autonomous-driving vehicles, intelligent human-vehicle-infrastructure cooperative systems, and big-data platforms for smart transportation, essentially advancing industrial applications and development for future transportation.

Research Center for Intelligent Society and Governance

It focuses on the "two-sided" research on intelligent society and governance, i.e., humanistic research on long-term science and humanism integration, AI governance, AI ethical norms, intelligent social formation and development governance as well as the core research technologies, and R&D of computing sociology platforms.

Research Center for Intelligent Technology Standardization

It researches and explores the integrated development approaches of technology standardization, and builds relevant standardization organizations and platforms, to support and serve the Lab's standardization work of intelligent computing, AI, intelligent sensing, intelligent networking, and intelligent systems, and other research fields in the Lab.

Joint Innovation Research Center for Digital Economy（Research Center for Intelligent Education）

Joint Innovation Research Center for Digital Economy, also known as the Research Center for Intelligent Education, focuses on future education, data digging and intelligent manufacturing based on AI. Aiming to meet the demands of Hangzhou Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd., it studies application innovation in the future emerging education sector.

Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Fine Arts

The Center is affiliated to the Research Institute of Interdisciplinary Innovation. Its mission and vision is to develop cutting-edge technologies of intelligent computing for creative media and film-making industry, explore novel technical approaches and build business ecology by innovative integration of artificial intelligence and fine arts, and re-shape film/video/animation authoring pipeline and services with knowledge-based systems and toolkits at last. Its major research areas focus on cross-modal intelligent computing, novel representations of semantic/acoustic/visual knowledge, construction of large-scale knowledgebase for creative media generation, knowledge-driven performance by digitized actors, and development of AI-based industrial software and equipment to power up the film/TV and animation industry.

ZJ Lab-Enflame Joint Innovation Research Center

ZJ Lab-Enflame Joint Innovation Research Center, affiliated to the Research Institute of Interdisciplinary Innovation of ZJ Lab, is a scientific research platform jointly built by ZJ Lab and Enflame Technology. It aims to combine the advantages of the two sides, develop commercial AI chips and intelligent computing clusters based on industrial needs and real application scenarios, develop and build super-large-scale pre-trained models and an open-source platform for agile chip design, and build and promote the domestic AI hardware and software ecosystem. Orientation: Leverage the strengths of ZJ Lab and Enflame Technology, focus on ZJ Lab's main research fields in "intelligent computing", and solve difficulties through full-stack software-hardware co-design including chips (AI chips), systems (intelligent computing clusters, special-purpose computers, fundamental software, AI framework), model algorithms (machine vision, natural language processing, recommendation algorithms), etc. to build self-owned and self-controlled computing power.

Research Center for Applied Mathematics and Machine Intelligence

This center focuses on the mathematical foundations, scientific computing methods, and practical applications of machine intelligence and data science, the analysis and optimization of complex systems (such as artificial neural networks and human cognitive systems), striving to find deep insights and develop fundamental algorithms, models, and theories. Our vision is to establish leadership in specific areas of artificial intelligence in the next decade.

Research Center for Biological Computation

It focuses on researching the underlying mechanisms of and developing key technologies for mimicking the intelligent behavior of living systems, high-speed and high-capacity storage of data in biomolecules, deep integration of intelligent computing and synthetic biology, and building biological computers for various applications with advantages of such as biocompatibility, high energy efficiency and parallelism.

Research Center for Graph Computing

The Research Center, jointly established by Zhejiang Lab (ZJ Lab) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), carries out scientific theoretical research and sci-tech engineering research centered on fundamental and pioneering key scientific and engineering issues in the field of graph processing systems. It is expected to develop graph processing gradually from theory to system, from prototype to chip, from special-purpose computing to general-purpose computing, and from technology to application, to contribute to industry-university-research collaborative innovation. The center spares no effort to establish a domestically leading and world-class graph processing innovation base, in order to provide support for ZJ Lab to build the national scientific and technological forces.

Research Center for Intelligent Computing Software

It focuses on intelligent computing fundamental software, intelligent software engineering and highly trusted software technologies, and R&D of intelligent computing operation systems, database systems and AI platform software, etc.

Research Center for Intelligent Computing Platforms

It focuses on wide-area collaborative intelligent computing, trusted computing and digital twinning technologies, and R&D of wide-area collaborative intelligent computing systems, block chain and trusted computing platforms, digital twinning and simulation platforms, and intelligent computing data reactor-related application platforms.

Research Center for Intelligent Supercomputing

Founded on April 9, 2021, the Center aims to build an intelligent supercomputing technical system to allow independent controllable full technical chains and equipment chains in this field and promote the development of a world-leading intelligent supercomputing platform as a powerful support for scientific research, social governance, and digital economy. CHEN Zuoning, Vice President and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering serves as the Chief Scientist, and YANG Guangwen, a winner of Wang Xuan Award by the China Computer Federation and Professor of Tsinghua University, serves as the Director. So far, the Center has a scientific research team of more than 40 high-level researchers. It has won such honors as the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2021 and reference in Top 10 China Technological Progress News in 2021, and China Youth May Fourth Medal in 2022. Based on China's world-leading Sunway supercomputer series, the Center is involved in building intelligent supercomputing systems, supercomputing Internet, and intelligent supercomputing applications, aiming to serve Zhejiang Province's digital reform.

Research Center for Advanced Computing Systems

It focuses on advanced computing architecture, new chip structure, software and hardware collaborative optimization and other technical research, and R&D of specialized intelligent computing chips, and specialized computers applied to planes, vehicles, and other areas.

Research Center for Intelligent Optoelectronic Computing

It focuses on technical studies on optoelectronic integration computing theories, materials, and techniques, new architectures, evolvable software, and hardware, R&D of optical computing devices and chips, intelligent optoelectronic computing system software and flagship applications.