GRADUATE Program

Greetings

Greetings from Director General

KUROHASHI, Sadao / Director General, National Institute of Informatics

KUROHASHI, Sadao
Cultivating creativity talents with an interdisciplinary perspective.

Informatics plays a crucial role in realizing a smart society, where innovative information technology continuously generates new values and services. As society undergoes rapid digitization, the significance of information technology and the need for real human interactions are being reevaluated. Informatics is a comprehensive academic discipline encompassing traditional information science and engineering, along with AI, data science, and digital humanities and social informatics.

The National Institute of Informatics (NII) conducts extensive research in informatics and maintains cutting-edge infrastructure for academic information dissemination. Collaborative research with domestic and international universities and research institutions contributes to the development of the information society. By linking research and education with business, NII fosters innovative research and education.

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) is an independent graduate university supported by 20 inter-university research institutes. NII is responsible to administrate the Informatics Program at SOKENDAI for nurturing creative individuals with a broad perspective in informatics. Esteemed professors from the NII engage students in solving individual problems and developing high-level insight. The program focuses on project planning, completion, discovering and addressing new challenges, information gathering, and research presentation skills.

We welcome motivated students to join the Informatics Program. Enrolling in the program will enable you to become well-rounded professionals capable of making a variable impact. Let's go on a journey to contribute to the advanced information society.

Greetings from Chair of Program

TAKEDA, Hideaki / Chair, Informatics Program

TAKEDA, Hideaki
Ultimating Informatics.

The Informatics Program consists of six multi-disciplinary research fields: Foundations of Informatics, Information Infrastructure Science, Software Science, Multimedia Information Science, Intelligent Systems Science, and Information Environment Science. These fields cover not only traditional computer science and information engineering including AI, data science and mathematical modeling, but also social science including social modeling, social simulation. Our program is aiming at attacking problems in these domains from basic, applied, and practical points of view, and, at the same time, at educating and fostering not only researchers but also highly-skilled professionals, who will be next leaders in informatics.

Our program has the Five-year doctoral program and the Three-year doctoral program: the former is for students having a bachelor degree where students can sufficiently develop their research objectives, while the latter is for students who earned a master degree where students can concentrate on research themes through enriching their research experiences. Our dual-degree program provides students with opportunities to go abroad to be supervised on their Ph.D. research topics at our partner universities/institutions. Moreover, students can study their research themes as international collaboration, participate in various research projects at NII, and are trained to play important roles as an international researchers. The fact that we have a high percentage of foreign students is also an important advantage of our program. Most lectures are given in English, and seminars and discussions at laboratories are held in English. Students in our program come from a diverse range of countries, and the cross-cultural exchange among students is also a valuable environment for young people who aspire to international careers.

By offering an enriched cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural environment, we aim at having our students trained with global perspectives and visions in having their extensive knowledge and high expertise in informatics.

Greetings from Vice Chairs of Program

GOSHIMA, Masahiro / Vice chair, Informatics Program (In charge of Research and Education)

GOSHIMA, Masahiro
Graduate school for world-class researchers

The Informatics Program is established in the National Institute of Informatics (NII), and NII research staff, i.e., professors and associate professors, supervise SOKENDAI students. NII is an internationally well-known research institute in informatics, and researchers from all over the world come and work there. The students enrolled in the Informatics Program also become members of NII, conduct their academic and research activities under the supervision of the research staff in such an international research environment, present their findings in international conferences and journals, and finally receive their PhD degrees. It is the mission of the Informatics Program to foster world-class researchers by the world-class research staff. Also, NII employs many of the students as research assistants to provide financial support.

BONO, Mayumi / Vice chair, Informatics Program (In charge of International affairs)

BONO, Mayumi
Global Education Environment in the Informatics Program

The Informatics Program is based on the National Institute of Informatics, which has international exchange programs with about 100 universities and institutions around the world, and conducts collaborative research activities in a full spectrum of informatics. In our program, more than half of the students are from foreign countries, and the lectures and research supervision are mostly provided in English. We also have various kinds of scholarship programs as well as support for internships abroad, and the students are encouraged to present their research results at high-level international conferences. We aim to have our students acquire extensive knowledge and high expertise in the field of informatics with global perspectives in our cross-cultural environment.

Informatics Program, Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI

国立大学法人 総合研究大学院大学 大学共同利用機関法人 情報・システム研究機構 国立情報学研究所 / National Institute of Informatics