National Institute of Informatics

Global Liaison Office

Emmanuel Planas, Deputy Director

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National Institute of Informatics NII - Overview

Introduction

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT) holds:

NII Mission and Figures

  • The National Institute of Informatics is the ranked 2nd in Japan for Computer Science Publications (CS Rankings), after the University of Tokyo

NII activities

NII has three main activities:

  • Research
    • 4 Research Divisions
    • 6 Major Research Centers (LLM, Big Data Mathematics, Medical Big Data, …)
    • 1 Industry-Academia Collaboration Center
  • Graduate Education
    • Affiliation to Sokendai Graduate University
  • Service/Operation for research
    • 10 Service and Operation Centers

Education

  • Sokendai: The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
    • Sokendai is the Graduate School
      • Inter-University Research Institutes (ROIS) association
    • 1103 Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant professors
  • Sokendai Schools
    • School of Multidisciplinary Sciences
      • Department of Informatics (NII):
      • ~65 Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant professors
      • ~90 Ph.D. students
      • ~50% foreign students
      • Some NII GLO Internship foreign students continued on a Ph.D. course at Sokendai
      • Career follow-up: Universities or Research Institutes: 56%, Companies: 34%, Others: 10% (2024)
      • 6 fields of study for the Ph.D. program in Informatics:
        • Foundations of Informatics
        • Information Infrastructure Science
        • Software Science
        • Multimedia Information Science
        • Intelligent Systems Science

Operation: Serving the Scientific Community - Open Science

Operation: Open Science: Examples

G7 Japan meeting - Sendai Science and Technology Ministries Meeting - May 12-14

  • G7 Open Science Working Group (OSWG)
  • NII was asked by the Cabinet Office to showcase how Japan is involved in Open Science

Open Science for public funded structures

  • The Japanese Government is requiring that by 2025, all research data involving public funding should be managed as Open Science data.
  • NII is deeply involved in the design of a general framework for Open Science Data Management
  • On Oct 8th, NII Open Science Framework was officially selected

Research at NII

Research Divisions

  1. Principles of Informatics
    • Mathematical Informatics
    • Intelligent Informatics
    • Quantum Information
    • Mathematical Logic
  1. Information Systems Architecture
    • Information Network
    • Computer Architecture
    • Software infrastructure
    • Software Engineering
  1. Digital Content and Media Sciences
    • Foundation of content management
    • Text and Language Media
    • Pattern media
    • Human and Knowledge media
  1. Information and Society
    • Information use
    • Science Information
    • Information Public Policy

1. Principles of Informatics Research Division

Research to discover new principles, theories and methods in informatics, and extend our goal to pioneering the frontiers to try and achieve a paradigm shift in informatics.

Details on NII website

2. Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division

Research into the architecture and systems behind computers, networks and other forms of hardware and software

Details on NII website

3. Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division

Research into methods of analyzing, generating, storing, using and processing text, images and various other content and media from theories to actual systems

Details on NII website

4. Information and Society Research Division

Interdisciplinary research combining information and systems technology with human and social sciences for a society in which the information world merges with the real world

Details on NII website

Some Awards

Research Centers and Services

  • Service and Operation Centers for Research
  • Shonan Meetings - Overview

    Japanese French Laboratory in Informatics (JFLI)

    Global Liaison Office - International Relations

    International Cooperation Policy

    Examples of collaboration with Germany

    • RWTH Aachen
    • University of Augsburg
    • DFKI
    • University of Freiburg
    • Georg-August University Göttingen
    • University of Potsdam
    • Saarland University
    • University of Konstanz
    • Technical University Berlin
    • Technical University Munich
    • Technical University Braunschweig

    Examples of collaboration with UK

    • The Alan Turing Institute
    • University of Bath
    • University of Bristol
    • University of Cambridge
    • Cardiff University
    • University of Edinburgh
    • Imperial College London
    • University College London
    • Newcastle University
    • Open University
    • University of Oxford

    Collaboration with France

    • Auvergne University: LIMOS, ISIMA
    • Grenoble Alpes
    • Grenoble INP
    • Lens: CRIL
    • Lyon: ENS Lyon
    • Lyon: Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1
    • Lyon: INSA
    • Nice: Côte d’Azur Université
    • Nice: EURECOM
    • Paris: CNRS
    • Paris: INRIA
    • Paris-Sorbonne: LIP6
    • Paris-Saclay: LISN
    • Rennes: IRISA
    • Nantes: LS2N
    • Toulouse: INP ENSEEIHT
    • Toulouse: Université Paul Sabatier: IRIT

    Examples of collaboration with North America

    USA Canada
    • Carnegie Mellon University
    • University of Washington
    • ICSI - University of California Berkeley
    • Viterbi School - University of Southern California - Los Angeles
    • University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
    • Indiana University
    • University of Michigan Dearborn
    • New Jersey Institute of Technology
    • Simon Fraser University
    • University of Alberta
    • McGill University
    • Polytecnique Montreal
    • York University - Lassonde School
    • University of Waterloo

    Examples of collaboration with Southern Asia and Australia

    Australia Southern Asia
    • Monash University
    • University of Melbourne
    • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
    • University of Sydney
    • DATA-61
    • National University of Singapore
    • Hanoi University of Science and Technology - SoICT
    • VNU-University of Engineering (Hanoi)
    • VNU-HoChiMinh - University of Science and University
    • VNU-HoChiMinh - University of Information Technology
    • Chulalongkorn University

    Global Liaison Office - International Cooperation

    NII MOU Grant

    NII MOU Grants - Comments

    NII International Internship Program

    Internship Call- How it works

    Internships Call - Some Hints

    Some Research topics offered by NII researchers

    2025 1st Call topics

    Practical Information

    • Perdiem of ¥5,700 /day (around ¥170,000 month ~ €1100) and will have a basic health insurance
    • The plane ticket is not provided by the NII
    • Accommodation cost in Tokyo ¥60,000 to ¥150,000/month depending location in Tokyo
      • http://www.sakura-house.com/en, (most popular)
      • https://www.azalea-house.info/guid
      • https://www.airbnb.com/tokyo-japan/stays
      • https://www.tokyoroomfinder.com/
      • http://japan.accommodationforstudents.com/searchform.asp
      • http://www.tokyocityapartments.net/
      • http://www.oakhouse.jp/eng/apartment
      • http://www.jafplaza.com
    • Outside restaurant lunch set ~ ¥1,000 ($/€6-7)
    • Outside restaurant dinner ~ ¥2000/2500
    • Cinema ¥2,000
    • Metro Ticket ¥160 minimum and varies with distance
    • The working language is English at NII
    • Many seminars/lectures are offered by visiting researchers and open to Interns

    … ありがとうございます。 Thank You!