Members advise the Director General regarding plans for NII projects and other important matters related to management and operations.
Setsuo Arikawa (President, Kyushu University)
Haruhisa Ichikawa (Professor, The Department of Human Communication, The University of Electro-Communications)
Masaru Kitsuregawa (Director, Center for Information Fusion, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo)
Shinji Shimojo (Professor, Cybermedia Center, Osaka University)
Hidehiko Tanaka (President, Institute of information Security)
Toyoaki Nishida (Professor, Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
Sadaoki Furui (Professor emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Yoichi Muraoka (Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Waseda University)
Miwako Doi (Senior Fellow, Corporate Research & Development Center, TOSHIBA Corporation)
Mario Tokoro (Chairman & CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.)
Shinichi Honiden (Deputy Director General, NII)
Jun Adachi (Deputy Director General, NII)
Shigeki Yamada (Director, Principles of Informatics Research Division, NII)
Keizo Oyama (Director, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, NII)
Noboru Sonehara (Director, Information and Society Research Division, NII)
Akihiko Takano (Director, Research and Development Center for Informatics of Association, NII)
Shigeo Urushidani (Director, Research and Development Center for Academic Networks, NII)
Akiko Aizawa (Director, Research Center for Knowledge Media and Content Science)
Noriko Arai (Director, Research Center for Community Knowledge)
Yoshihisa Yamamoto (Director, Grobal Research Center for Quantum Information Science)
Atsuhiro Takasu (Head, Department of Informatics, School of MultidisciplinarySciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
Advisory Board
Advisory Council for Research and Management Members provide advice and suggestions to the Director General regarding joint research programs and other important matters related to the operation of NII, in response to requests from the Director General.
Masanori Aoyagi (Director of the National Museum of Western Art)
Setsuo Arikawa (President, Kyushu University)
Kazuo Iwano (Advisor, Business Service Group, Mitsubishi Corporation)
Hideko Kunii (Chairpeson of Ricoh IT Solutions Co., Ltd.)
Keiichi Kubota (Director General, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories)
Hiromichi Shinohara (Director and Senior Vice President, Director of Research and Development Planning Department, NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) Corporation)
Makoto Nagao (Former Librarian of the National Diet Library)
Hideyuki Nakashima (President, Future University Hakodate)
Shojiro Nishio (Professor, Graduate School of Osaka University)
Masafumi Maeda (Managing Director, Executive, Vice President, the University of Tokyo)
Hideo Miyahara (President, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Teruyasu Murakami (Director, Research Institute for Industrial Strategy)
Yoichiro Murakami (President, Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin)
Bob Williamson (Scientific Director, NICTA(National ICT Australia))
Gerard van Oortmerssen (Professor, Tilburg University)
Jeff Kramer (Senior Dean, Imperial College London)
Marek Rusinkiewicz (Vice President and General Manager, Information and Computer Sciences Research Laboratory at Telcordia Technologies)
Michael A. Keller (Director, Ida M. Green University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, Publisher of HighWire Press, and Publisher of the Stanford University Press)
Michel Cosnard (Chairman & CEO, INRIA(Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique))
Nelson Morgan (Deputy Director, ICSI (International Computer Science Institute))
Tamer Öszu (University Research Chair, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo)
Wolfgang Wahlster (Director and CEO, DFKI(German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence))
Yanghee Choi (Director, Multimedia and Mobile Communications Laboratory, School of Computer Science and Engineering Seoul National University)
Yi Zhang (Vice Provost, International Affairs Office of International Cooperation and Exchange, Tsinghua University)
Takeo Kanade (Professor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
Thaweesak Koanantakool (President, NSTDA(National Science and TechnologyDevelopment Agency))
Professor Emeritus (NACSIS: National Center for Science information Systems)
Kimio Ohno (Former Deputy Director General, NACSIS, Professor Emeritus, Hokkaido University)
Atsunobu Ichikawa (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Tatsuo Nishida (Former Deputy Director General, NACSIS, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
Hitoshi Inoue (Former Deputy Director General, NACSIS)
Professor Emeritus (NII: National Institute of Informatics)
Takamitsu Sawa (Former Deputy Director General, NII, President, Shiga University)
Eisuke Naito (Former Professor, Human and Societal Information Research Division, NII)
Mitsutoshi Hatori (Former Professor, Multimedia Information Research Division, NII, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University)
Kinji Ono Former (Professor, Information Foundation Research Division, NII)
Takeo Yamamoto (Former Professor, Multimedia Information Research Division, NII, Professor Emeritus, University of Library and Information Science)
Yasuharu Suematsu (Former Director General, NII, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Haruki Ueno (Former Professor, Principles of Informatics Research Division, NII)
Katsumi Maruyama (Former Professor, Information Systems Architecture Research Division, NII)
Masamitsu Negishi (Former Professor, Information and Society Research Division, NII)
Kenichi Miura (Former Professor, Information Systems Architecture Research Division, NII Director, Center for Grid Research and Development)
Yohichi Tohkura (Former Director General, NII)
Masao Sakauchi (Former Director General, NII)
Shoichiro Asano (Former Professor, Information Systems Architecture Research Division, NII)
