USMP University Collaborates with Huawei to Promote AI-Driven Digital Training
Universidad de San Martin de Porres (USMP) was founded in 1962 and is located in Lima, the capital of Peru. It is one of the largest and most influential private higher education institutions in Peru. The university is dedicated in serving the country's modernization and globalization efforts and holds a significant academic and social status within Peru's higher education system.
USMP comprises several core schools, including the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Engineering, School of Law and Political Science, School of Management and Accounting, School of Humanities and Communication, School of Dentistry, and School of Psychology. Its strengths lie in disciplines such as medicine, law, business management, communication studies, dentistry, and interdisciplinary applied research.
Currently, USMP has approximately 40,000 students and over 3,000 faculty and staff members. It operates a main campus in Lima and several regional campuses in Chiclayo, Arequipa, Cusco, and other areas, along with affiliated teaching hospitals, legal clinics, media research centers, and other practical and research platforms.
In terms of academic influence, USMP has received official accreditation from SUNEDU (the National Higher Education Supervision Agency), Peru's higher education regulatory body. It ranks among the top private universities in Peru in the Webometrics and QS Latin America University Rankings, particularly excelling in professional education, industry-academia collaboration, and social services.
As digital technologies become deeply integrated into economic and social development, the demand for higher education in emerging fields such as cybersecurity, big data, and artificial intelligence has grown rapidly. This has driven a shift toward digital and blended teaching models, presenting USMP with multiple challenges related to information technology:
Insufficient infrastructure and platform support
• Computing power and data resources are limited: High-performance computing resources are expensive and scarce, making it difficult to meet the large-scale experimental and research needs of all students. Data on campus is fragmented and isolated, with a lack of high-quality, labeled datasets suitable for teaching and research.
• Challenges in network and security environments: Experimental environments require isolation and flexible configuration, posing high demands on campus network architecture and security management. Teaching cybersecurity itself involves ethical and risk control challenges.
• Low platform integration: Teaching platforms, experimental platforms, computing platforms, and data platforms are often built independently, lacking unified access points and data interoperability, leading to complex management and fragmented user experiences.
Teaching design is constrained by infrastructure limitations and needs innovation
• Lack of high-quality practice platforms and cases: It is difficult to obtain and build real industry-level datasets, security attack and defense scenarios, and AI project cases, leading to a disconnect between practical teaching and industry needs.
• Insufficient depth of integration between education and industry: Most collaborations between schools and enterprises remain at the internship level, with a lack of stable and in-depth cooperation mechanisms in areas such as curriculum co-creation, shared teaching resources, and joint research and development.
USMP clearly outlines the goals for ICT talent training and teaching facilities:
• To build an integrated practice teaching platform that combines industry, academia, research, and application, integrating computing power, data, tools, and security environments.
To meet USMP's teaching needs in artificial intelligence, big data, and cybersecurity, Huawei provides an out-of-the-box IA Lab solution.
Huawei and USMP jointly built the IA Lab, which is equipped with advanced network equipment, cloud platforms, and training systems for:
• Network engineering practical teaching
• Cloud computing and data center technology training
• Cybersecurity drills
• Huawei Certification Course Training
This laboratory also serves as a regional ICT talent development center, providing professional technical training for surrounding universities and industries.
Through the implementation of Huawei's solutions, USMP has achieved significant improvements across multiple dimensions:
Achieving a "one-click" industry-education integration practice platform
• Ready-to-use professional experimental environment
• Seamless integration with advanced cloud services, access to real industry tools
• Ensuring experimental safety and fair resource allocation
Achieving "refined" and "efficient" operations
• Revolutionary simplification of new employee onboarding and permission management
• Achieving fine-grained role-based permission control
• Unified operations and cost optimization
ICT talent development
• Leveraging the ICT teaching and research laboratory, USMP has significantly enhanced its ICT talent development capabilities.
• It has established a new training model combining "teaching + practical training + certification," setting a benchmark for talent cultivation.
• USMP utilizes Huawei's IA Lab to cultivate outstanding talents in three new professional fields: cybersecurity, big data, and artificial intelligence.
USMP plans to continue advancing the development of smart campuses:
• Expanding smart classrooms and digital laboratories
• Upgrading ICT teaching and research laboratories into regional technology innovation centers
• Building a digital ecosystem that deeply integrates education, research, and industry
Vision and Goals:
Based on intelligent connectivity and powered by digitalization, U SMP and Huawei jointly aim to create a model for smart education in Latin America.
