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Research

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Research and Development Center for Academic Networks Research Center for Knowledge Media and Content Science Research Center for Community Knowledge Center for Cloud Research and Development Center for Dataset Sharing and Collaborative Research Center for Strategic Cyber Resilience Research and Development Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform Center for Research Data Ecosystem Development Center for Trust & Digital Identity Research and Development Global Research Center for Quantum Information Science Global Research Center for Big Data Mathematics Research Center for Mathematical Trust in Software and Systems Research Center for Medical Bigdata Global Research Center for Synthetic Media Research and Development Center for Large Language Models Center for Advanced Mobile Driven Research

Faculty
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Major Project Involvement Kakenhi Human Resource Development
Top SE Experts in Information Science Quantum Technology Education:A New Approach
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Network
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Authentication Infrastructure
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Cloud
GakuNin Cloud GakuNin Cloud Adoption Support Service GakuNin Cloud Gateway Service GakuNin Cloud On-Demand Configuration Service SINETStream
Information Security
NII Security Operation Collaboration Services (NII-SOCS) Princess Rinrin's information security column
Scholarly Communication
NACSIS-CAT/ILL E-resources Data Sharing Services KAKEN NII-REO

Collaboration
Collaboration with University Libraries Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources Future Scholarly Information Systems Committee Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository SPARC Japan Research Data Ecosystem Development Project to Promote the Use of AI HPCI mdx Academic Information Infrastructure Open Forum
Human Resource Development
GakuNin LMS Education and Training Services NII JMOOC | gacco Experts in Information Science Computer Science Park
Graduate Program

News

Award Ficical 2025

2026/03/10	New Insect-Inspired Robot Tracks Odors Even with Only One Working "Antenna" Promising for disaster relief and emergency.
2026/02/13	Strengthening Europe - Japan Digital Gateway with Polar Connect
2026/01/22	Prof. KAWARABAYASHI Ken-ichi Selected as a 2025 ACM Fellow
2026/01/15	A paper by Kazuki Watanabe (at NII & SOKENDAI) and one other was awarded as Best Student Paper Award of 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)
2025/12/15	Director General Sadao Kurohashi Selected as an ACL Fellow 2025
2025/11/14	A paper by Asst. Prof. KUROIWA Ryo was awarded as Outstanding Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention) at ICAPS 2025
2025/10/27	A paper by Takanori Jin , Assistant Professor Taisuke Kobayashi and his team was awarded as the Advanced Robotics Excellent Paper Award at the 13th Advanced Robotics Paper Awards
2025/08/13	A paper by Asst. Prof. KUROIWA Ryo and his team was awarded as Best Technical Paper Award at CP 2025
2025/07/07	A paper by Takashi Ikegami and Professor Ichiro Satoh was awarded as Best Paper Award of ISAmI 2025
2025/06/12	A paper by Professor Shin'ichi Satoh and his team was awarded as Best Paper Award of Workshop on CVsports at CVPR 2025
2025/04/08	Prof. ECHIZEN Isao and YAMAGISHI Junichi of NII and Prof. BABAGUCHI Noboru of FUT win the Award for Science and Technology (Research Category) - The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of MEXT 2025-
2025/04/03	A paper by Hanh Le (NII Internship student), Project Researcher Padipat Sitkrongwong, Visiting Lecturer Panagiotis Andriotis, Prof. TAKASU Atsuhiro and others was awarded as Best Paper Award of SAC2025

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