Ming Cao appointed Academic Director of School Jantina Tammes School

The Board of the University has appointed Ming Cao, professor in Networks and Robotics, as academic director for the newly established Jantina Tammes School. This interdisciplinary platform focuses on digital innovation, artificial intelligence, and technological progress. Ming Cao is looking forward to stimulating interdisciplinary collaboration. ‘The Jantina Tammes School brings together all of the interested parties in the up-and-coming digital society, allowing them to get the maximum benefits from and make the maximum contribution to digitization, digital technology, and artificial intelligence. We are preparing our students, staff, and partners for a promising, but challenging, future.’

A total of four schools
In addition to the Jantina Tammes School, the UG also has the Wubbo Ockels School, focusing on the energy transition and climate change, the Aletta Jacobs School, which focuses on healthy ageing and public health, and working towards a healthier society, and the Rudolf Agricola School, which concentrates on governance, politics, and sustainable processes. Lorenzo Squintani has been appointed as Academic Director of the Wubbo Ockels School. Jochen Mierau is the Academic Director of the Aletta Jacobs School (until September). Kees van Veen is the Academic Director of the Rudolf Agricola School.

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