Relying on the faculty of the department, the Computer Software Research Institute of Nanjing University, the State Key Laboratory of New Computer Software Technology (Nanjing University), the Computer Application Research Institute of Nanjing University, the Multimedia Computing Technology Research Institute of Nanjing University, and the Software Engineering Center of Nanjing University (Jiangsu

Provincial Software Engineering Research Center), Nanjing University Information Security Research Institute and other scientific research institutions.

The main scientific research directions include: software automation and formalization, distributed and parallel computing and new networks, new programming and software methodology, multimedia and information processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, system software and information security, etc.

Since its establishment 30 years ago, *** has undertaken major scientific and technological planning projects such as the National 973 Plan, the National 863 Plan, the National Climbing Plan, the National Natural Science Foundation, and the National Science and Technology Research Project, as well as scientific research projects of the province, ministry, and commission, as well as projects entrusted by enterprises and institutions or international cooperation.

There are more than 300 research and development projects, and scientific research achievements have won more than 80 awards of various kinds, including 1 first prize, 4 second prizes, and 2 third prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and special prizes of the Provincial Ministries and Commissions Natural Science Award and the Science and Technology Progress Award.

2 projects, 8 first prizes and 37 second prizes.

He has published more than 3,000 papers, more than 50 monographs and textbooks, and applied for 33 national invention patents.

Some of the results have been transformed into products, generating greater social and economic benefits.