The Big Data Research Center of Tsinghua University was established in September 2018. It is an important measure for Tsinghua University to build a world-class university and encourage interdisciplinary research in the field of big data. It is an important milestone in further promoting the reform of the scientific research system and mechanism. The Big Data Research Center leverages the multidisciplinary advantages of Tsinghua University, faces the urgent needs of the global digital economy transformation, serves the national big data development strategy, focuses on the frontiers of information technology, and promotes data science theory, big data technology, and applications in the field of big data at multiple levels. The in-depth cross and integration development of the international data science and big data technology innovation research platform. Break through the bottleneck of big data system software performance, research leading key technologies that are independent and controllable, form a national big data system software innovation platform for production, education and research, and strive to make contributions to the cultivation of interdisciplinary cutting-edge talents and the advancement of data science and technology.

The Big Data Research Center of Tsinghua University is a school-level virtual interdisciplinary scientific research institution, giving full play to the multi-disciplinary advantages of Tsinghua University, condensing the scientific research forces in related fields of the school, realizing major breakthroughs in the core theories and key technologies in the field of big data, and becoming a leader in big data. A world-class scientific research institution with international influence in the field. 

Department ：school of software

co-build department：department of chemical engineering、department of energy and power engineering、department of electrical engineering、department of computer science and technology、school of vehicle and mobility、school of economics and management、school of social sciences、vanke school of public health、school of environment、school of medicine、Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology