In 1978 and 1998, this discipline opened up the research direction and enrolled master's and doctoral students in the major of Computer application technology, obtained the master's authorization in Signal, Circuit and System discipline in 1986, obtained the key discipline of Signal and Information Processing in Anhui Province in 2000, and obtained the doctoral authorization in the second-level discipline of signal and Information Processing in 2003. In 2006, it obtained the master's authorization of the first-level discipline of information and Communication engineering, in 2009, it obtained the postdoctoral research mobile station of information and Communication Engineering, and in 2011, it obtained the doctoral authorization of the first-level discipline of information and Communication engineering. In 2001, he was granted a degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering.

This discipline consists of three sub-disciplines: Communication and Information System (081001), Signal and Information Processing (081002), Intelligent Science and Technology (0810Z1); It is divided into five training directions: (1) intelligent information processing; (2) digital signal processing; (3) spatial information processing; (4) Wireless communication networks and information systems; (5) Microwave and optical communication.