GRAND VISION Convergence of Communications and AI · AI-Native
From Connecting Things
to Connecting Intelligence
The Shanghai Academy of Networked Intelligence (SANI) advances cross-disciplinary innovation in information and communications, artificial intelligence, and integrated circuits. We bring together cutting-edge research, startup incubation, and the transfer of research outcomes into industry to advance 6G–AI convergence, from technological breakthroughs and product development to real-world deployment.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Research Areas
AI-Native Air Interface
We develop AI-native technologies spanning wireless channels, physical-layer transmission, and higher-layer wireless functions for the 6G intelligent air interface, improving generalization, reliability, and real-time performance in complex, dynamic environments.
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AI EDGE Systems and New Terminals
We investigate general-purpose heterogeneous computing, hardware–software decoupling, and unified resource scheduling to share computing resources between RAN and AI workloads and build an open AI EDGE computing foundation.
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Agent Communication Networks
We investigate native 6G network capabilities and open mechanisms for AI agents, coordinating connectivity, computing, and intelligence to support interaction and collaboration among agents.
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Task-Driven Paradigm for Intelligent Communications
To address the challenges posed by emerging AI services, new communication entities, and explosive growth in data volumes, we investigate how information acquisition, representation, and transmission contribute to the realization of task value. We explore new communication systems that use computation to reduce bandwidth requirements and semantic processing to improve efficiency, shifting networks from bit-centric transmission toward task-value realization.
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Application Scenarios for Integrated Communications, Sensing, AI, and Computing
We develop collaborative embodied-agent systems that deeply integrate communication, sensing, and intelligence for complex, dynamic scenarios, providing technical support for the deployment of Physical AI at scale.
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Communications and AI
From cutting-edge research to system validation, explore new possibilities at the intersection of communications and artificial intelligence.