The Institute of Sports Data Analytics was established in January 2017. It focuses on the application of big data mining and visual analysis methods to conduct research on technical and tactical data and professional league data of football, basketball and table tennis. The researchers have won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of the National Sports General Administration Olympic Research and Science and Technology Service Project, the second prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, the second prize of Science and Technology of China Sports Science Society, and the “Advanced Individual of Science and Technology Olympics” of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The director of the Institute is Prof. ZHANG Hui.