Examination Schedule
April 2025 Admission
Type ofExamination

RegularExamination

Examination forAdmission on
Recommendation
for Overseas
Residents

Application Period(The application must be postmarked withinthe period)

Examination Period(The designated one dayof the following period)

Date of Notificationof Admission
DecisionFirst
Examination

May 29 – June 11, 2024

July 6 - 7, 2024

July 19, 2024

SecondExamination

September 2 – 13, 2024

October 12 - 13, 2024

October 25, 2024

Submission deadline for pre-check:
November 14, 2024

Interview andApplication period:

Documentary screening

January 24, 2025

November 6 - 28, 2024

Note: Applicants who will graduate (or graduated) early from their university, and those who will complete (orcompleted) their bachelor’s degree in a foreign country may be required to pass through the Judgment of Eligibility
prior to applying. For details, please refer to the instructions for each type of examination.

-1-Important notices for applicants to theDivision of Transdisciplinary Sciences
The Division of Transdisciplinary Sciences is offered jointly with Kanazawa University. Theapplicants should be aware of the following:zStudents will enroll in the university to which their supervisor (the dedicated supervisor whoprimarily provides research instructions) belongs. They will receive instructions from thesupervisor of the university to which they belong, and from other instructors, including thevice supervisor at the other university. Students belonging to Japan Advanced Institute ofScience and Technology (hereafter JAIST) will have as the supervisor one of the instructors
listed on p.4 “Supervisor”.

zThose who have completed the required curriculum at JAIST will be awarded a masterdegree (in transdisciplinary sciences) jointly by JAIST and Kanazawa University. As arequirement for the program, students must participate in a lab rotation project at Kanazawa
University. Students enrolled in Master’s Program must earn at least 10 credit units atKanazawa University.

z

For classes offered by Kanazawa University, students, in principle, must attend theKanazawa University campus. However, we have adopted a mechanism to help reduce
commuting by using a distance-learning media platform to deliver lectures and by holding
intensive lectures.

zStudents belonging to JAIST may use Kanazawa University facilities, such as a library.
However, there may be certain restrictions placed on the use of some facilities.

zAs for an application and examination, applicants must send an application to the University
where the supervisor under whom they wish to study belongs. They will take an entrance
examination of that university and enroll in that university. If they apply to JAIST, take anexamination, and enroll, the tuition must be paid to JAIST. Other procedures, such as
scholarship applications, must also go through the University, to which the students belong.

zThe Division of Transdisciplinary Sciences is a single program operated by two constituent
universities. For this reason, if applicants have completed the admission procedure of oneof the universities, they cannot enroll in the other university even if they pass an entrance
examination of the other university.

z

Division of Transdisciplinary Sciences Scholarship (Benefit type, no repayment required)
Division of Transdisciplinary Sciences Scholarship is for applicants who pass theExamination with a high achievement.
Benefit: 50,000 yen per month for 2 years*The result for this scholarship will be announced with the result of admission decision at
the same time.

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Doctoral human resources that are capable of creating a foundation of innovative science and technology based on
unique ideas and outstanding research ability and applying it to the society according to the needs and trends of theglobal society.

Admission Policy
The master’s program accepts applicants who have a strong desire to actively create new values for the developmentof society. In addition to utilizing the basic specialized knowledge acquired in the bachelor’s program, they are expected
to draw on their multifaceted reasoning skills to engage in concerted activities with others. They will be called upon toidentify and solve various complex problems through transdisciplinary sciences. We offer two-year Master’s Program
and three-year Doctoral Program separately but we willingly offer the five-year systematic program if students wish totake.

Diploma Policy
In the master's course, students are required to acquire the five abilities and competencies listed in the "academicachievement" below through the pursuit and practice of a "Methodology for Transdisciplinary Science" based on thefour forces listed as the educational philosophy. The degree of "Master of Philosophy" is conferred on students whohave mastered these competencies, enrolled in the program for a specified period of time, earned the specified numberof credits, and then have passed either the Master Thesis Examination and the Final Examination or the Ph.D.
Qualifying Examination.
1. Ability to contribute to solve social problems related to science, technology and innovation.
2. Knowledge and practical skills related to your discipline.
3. Motivation and ability to be actively involved in the other discipline than your discipline.
4. Ability to understand academic papers and give brief presentation about your research in foreign language.
5. Research ethics of science, technology and life.

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࣭AOKI Toshiaki /Professor

㹙Research areas㹛Software engineering, Software science㹙Keywords㹛Formal methods, Formal verification, Testing, Model checking, Theorem proving,
Automotive systems, Safety critical systems

࣭IKEDA Kokolo /Professor

㹙Research areas㹛Game Informatics, Machine Learning㹙Keywords㹛Computer Game Player, Entertainment, Education, Procedural Content Generation,
Reinforcement Learning, Genetic Algorithm, Monte-Carlo Tree Search࣭KOYANO Mikio /Professor

㹙Research areas㹛Develop next-generation energy conversion using thermoelectric technology,
Condensed matter physics
㹙Keywords㹛Thermoelectrics, DFT calculation, Waste-heat recovery, Energy harvesting,Low-dimensional materials

࣭HAYASHI Yukio /Professor

㹙Research areas㹛Complex Network Science㹙Keywords㹛Network Science, Wireless Communication, Fractal Statistical Physics, Algorithm,Optimization, Biological Mechanism, SNS, Influencer

࣭MATSUMI Noriyoshi /Professor

㹙Research areas㹛Creation of Energy Related Materials
㹙Keywords㹛Lithium ion secondary batteries, Metal-air batteries, Electrocatalysis (oxygen reduction,
photo-electrochemical water splitting), Solid polymer electrolytes, Ionic liquids,
Organoboron compounds/materials࣭YUIZONO Takaya /Professor

㹙Research areas㹛Collaboration Technology, CSCW, Creativity, Knowledge Science㹙Keywords㹛Creativity Support, Community Support, Intercultural Collaboration, Interaction Design,Content Co-creation, Social Media࣭SHIRAI Kiyoaki /Associate Professor

㹙Research areas㹛Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence㹙Keywords㹛Statistical Natural Language Processing, Support for Web Access, NLP Application

࣭TSUTSUI Hidekazu /Associate Professor

㹙Research areas㹛biophysics, neurophysiology, molecular & cell biology, bioengineering
㹙Keywords㹛neuron, synapse, molecular sensor, next generation electrophysiology, bio-imaging

࣭NISHIMURA Shun /Associate Professor

㹙Research areas㹛Catalyst chemistry, Solid catalyst, Alloy catalyst, Biomass transformation
㹙Keywords㹛New energy sources, Metal nanoparticle, Solid acid/base catalyst, Catalyst design,Mechanistic study

࣭HO, Anh Van /Associate Professor

㹙Research areas㹛Intelligent robotics
㹙Keywords㹛Soft robotics, Soft robotic hands, Soft sensor, Morphological computation,
Bio-inspired robots

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