Huawei and Imperial College London team up to research and develop new big data technologies.

Huawei, a China-based telecoms equipment manufacturing firm, is partnering with Imperial College London (ICL) with a Memorandum of Understanding which will see the two work together on big data research development at ICL’s new London-based White City campus.

Energy, healthcare and life science big data applications are expected to be the focus of the research.

William Xu, chief executive of Huawai’s Enterprise Business Group, said: “Imperial is one of the world’s great universities and I am delighted to begin this…