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
Hidehiko Tanaka
Professor, Graduate School of Information Security, Institute of information Security
Miwako Doi
Chief Fellow, Corporate Research & Development Center, TOSHIBA Corporation
Mario Tokoro
President & CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.
Shojiro Nishio
Trustee, Vice President, Osaka University
Toyoaki Nishida
Professor, Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Sadaoki Furui
President, Library, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yoichi Muraoka
Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
Yoshifumi Yasuoka
Executive Director, National Institute for Environmental Studies
Yohichi Tohkura
Deputy Director General, NII
Asao Fujiyama
Director, Principles of Informatics Research Division, NII
Shinichi Honiden
Director, Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division, NII
Keizo Oyama
Director, Digital Content and Media sciences Research Division, NII
Noboru Sonehara
Director, Information and Society Research Division, NII
Kenichi Miura
Director, Center for Grid Research and Development, NII
Akihiko Takano
Director, Research and Development Center for Informatics of Association, NII
Shigeki Yamada
Director, Research and Development Center for Academic Networks, NII
Noriko Arai
Director, Research Center for Community Knowledge, NII
Jun Adachi
Director, Department and Operations Department, NII
Ken Satoh
Head, Department of Informatics, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences, 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
Senior Executives, future Value Creation Team, IBM Japan
Hideko Kunii
Chairman of Ricoh Software Co., Ltd.
Keiichi Kubota
Director General, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories
Hiromichi Shinohara
Director and Senior Vice President, Director of Research and Development, NTT Corporation
Makoto Nagao
Librarian of the National Diet Library
Hideyuki Nakashima
President, Future University Hakodate
Shojiro Nishio
Trustee, Vice President, Osaka University
Masafumi Maeda
Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo
Hideo Miyahara
President, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Teruyasu Murakami
Senior Fellow, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
Yoichiro Murakami
President, Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin
Lotfi A. Zadeh
Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Takeo Kanade
Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Gerard van Oortmerssen
Director, ICT Regie
Michel Cosnard
CEO, INRIA
Thomas Coleman
Professor, Waterloo University
Wolfgang Wahlster
Director and CEO, The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and a Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University
Marek Rusinkiewicz
Vice President and General Manager, Telcordia’s Information and Computer Sciences Research
Ramesh Jain
Professor, University of California, Irvine
Bob Williamson
Scientific Director, NICTA (National ICT Australia)’s Canberra research laboratory.
Jeff Kramer
Dean, The Faculty of Engineering & Professor of Distributed Computing Distributed Software Engineering, Imperial College London
Michael A. Keller
Ida M. Green University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, Publisher of HighWire Press, and Publisher of the Stanford University Press
Duk Hook Kwak
President, KERIS (Korea Education and Research Information Service)
Yi Zhang
Director for Office, International Cooperation and Exchange, Tsinghua University
Thaweesak Koanantakool
Vice President, The NSTDA (National Science and Technology Development Agency)
Victor Zue
Director CSIL, MIT
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
Hitoshi Inoue
Former Deputy Director General, NACSIS
Tatsuo Nishida
Former Deputy Director General, NACSIS, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
Professor Emeritus (NII: National Institute of Informatics)
Takamitsu Sawa
Former Deputy Director General, NII, President, Shiga University
Mitsutoshi Hatori
Former Professor, Multimedia Information Research Division, NII, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University
Yasuharu Suematsu
Former Director General, NII, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Eisuke Naito
Fomer Professor, Human and Societal Information Research Division
Kinji Ono
Fomer Professor, Information Foundation Research Division
Takeo Yamamoto
Former Professor, Multimedia Information Research Division, NII, Professor Emeritus, University of Library and Information Science
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
