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What is IIS?
The University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), based in Komaba, Meguro-ku,
Tokyo, is a research institute that mainly covers engineering disciplines.
More than 120 faculty members – professors, associate professors and lecturers –each have their own laboratory for pursuing research.
IIS is fostering and supporting young researchers by equally distributing research resources
to these laboratories, including those headed by young researchers.
More than 1,000 researchers from Japan and other countries are carrying out various typesof research – from fundamental research to applications – which opens the door to our future life.
Laboratories belong to one of five research departments. About half of them also belong toresearch centers or research platforms. Some laboratories join and form a research group,
a study group or a research unit with the common purpose of research. Sometimes they develop
into research centers with their own budget and space.
The IIS research field is very crossdisciplinary and covers almost all engineering disciplines,
from micro and nano scales such as the quantum level, to large-scale ones such as
the global level and space. IIS is one of the largest university-attached research institutions in Japan.

Introduction
VideoScopeResearch Areas and Their Scope
Creating new technology is IIS’ fundamental principle, with two driving forces: basic
research aiming at creation of intellectual value and systematization of scientificscholarship on one hand, and applied research aimed at contributing to society andindustry by making use of the latest and most comprehensive approach on the other. Our
mission is to communicate and integrate our intellectual products to the society, industry,and the world. We are actively engaged in various activities, as a hub to develop humanresources that can generate such research. The research pursued by our labs can beroughly divided into the areas described at right.
We aim to attain these goals in scope by fusing the five following research departments.

ResearchFind Labs

Basic research

Research on

micro/nano devices

toward elucidation of thebasic principles of physicalphenomena anddevelopment of new coretechnology

Research forinnovation bymaterial andprocess

and their application forsocial innovation

development

Research Departments
Department of Fundamental Engineering
This department covers a wide range of research, from microscale tomacroscale, to evaluate and establish models for the properties/
mechanical properties of solid and liquid objects, which are
fundamental issues for engineering and science.

Department of Mechanical and Biofunctional Systems

Research into advanced
manufacturing andFrontier research integrating
the world ofvalue creation
designbio and engineering

This department conducts research and development involving
new machines, devices and systems based on knowledge froma wide range of fields, including mechanical engineering, precisionengineering, ocean engineering and bioengineering.

Department of Informatics and Electronics
This department aims to help realize an affluent future society withthe power of informatization by pursuing research in
the energy/regulation, device/properties and information/communication fields.

Department of Materials and Environmental Science
This department conducts extensive research ranging fromfundamental studies on substances/materials, including organic andinorganic compounds and metals, to engineering designing andresearch into advanced applications.

Department of Human and Social Systems
This department is engaged in multifaceted research into urban
areas, regions and global environments, which are dynamic “places”
supporting life forms, including humans, as well as their interactions
with human behaviors and activities.

Research intosmart andstrong cities

Cutting-edge IT
research to support
people and society

Research regarding
contribution toresource andenvironmental

issues and SDGs on the
global scale

to contribute tosustainable societies

Organization

Graduate schools/other universities/
other research institutions

We are collaborating with many University of Tokyo
graduate schools and undergraduate faculties, while
also cooperating in various aspects with otherdomestic and international institutions.

Organization
IIS comprises research departments, guest chairs, corporate sponsoredresearch programs, social cooperation programs, research centers, researchplatforms, common facilities, and administrative offices. All of our laboratories
belong to either of the five research departments, categorized according totheir academic fields and industrial domains. Also, in project research, which isconsidered to be strategically important, researchers in multiple fields join
forces to establish a research center pivoting around results gained in theproject research. The aim of such a research center will be to solve key issues
that must be addressed.

Research Platforms
LEAP
Corporate SponsoredResearch Programs
Design-Led X
Platform
Social Cooperation
Programs
Research CentersIndustry

We have a system of collaborating with theindustrial sector, such as joint research with theprivate sector, etc., and research commissioned by
the sector, thus promoting interactions withresearchers and engineers in the private sector.

AbroadWe are engaged in robust international academicexchange, centering on joint research with foreignresearchers, dispatching researchers abroad, andeducational activities toward international students.

Statistical Information
Personnel and Students / Settlement / Research Activities

Industrial-Academic Collaboration

International Exchange

It is increasingly necessary for universities to conduct joint
research with the industry and government at a time whenscience and technology is becoming more specialized andsophisticated. To ensure seamless collaboration withengineering and industry, we are utilizing various frameworks
such as joint research with the private sector, etc.,
commissioned research, corporate sponsored research
programs (to be established by inviting project professors,etc. from outside the university) and social cooperation
programs.

Example of Collaborative Research with Industries
Nickel, lithium, and cobalt resources - from recycling toapplication in active materials

Industrial Collaboration

How to begin
collaboration with IIS?

Example of Entrusted Research
Localization method of AUVs for swarming

Our researchers are engaged in active exchange with theirinternational counterparts through various frameworks, including
exchanges with research institutions abroad in accordance withresearch cooperation agreements, exchange of academic
information at symposiums held by IIS, systems to dispatch
researchers abroad and invite foreign researchers to our institute,and academic lectures delivered by foreign researchers.
We are also building a global network of collaborative researchhubs with research institutions abroad.

InternationalGraduate School Education

The teaching staff at IIS is grouped into engineering-related,science-related and other departments. They give lecturers tograduate students and instruct students to conduct research forwriting masters or doctoral theses.

Prospective Students

Education not Limited to Graduate Students/Social Contribution

Example of Corporate Sponsored Research Programs
Nikon Optics and Precision Frontiers

Example of Social Cooperation Programs
Big Data Value Co-creation Platform Engineering

IIS is focusing on education to working members of society, mainly
engineers in the private sector, to foster researchers and advancedengineers. It also promotes international education by acceptinginternational students and researchers, and widely disseminates
research results to society through lectures and seminars. IIS also
takes advantage of its characteristics to provide education in
unique ways, such as its research-based science education
provided to young people.

Business Partners

Slogan / Statement‘Institute for a Possible Future’
We are 100.
From nanoscale to cosmic phenomena,
Exploring unknown principles with curiosity as a guideChaos, with 100 laboratories.
We are 1.
A swell of intelligence that happily engulfsThe voices of society, different fields, objections and even coincidences.
A movement that is independent and interconnected.
We are innumerable.
The many possibilities that the world has yet to discoverWe find out earlier than the future
And continuously propose outstanding values.
Institute for a Possible Future.

SEIKEN ANNAI / UTokyo-IIS Guide
Komaba Research Campus (Komaba Ⅱ Campus)
4-6-1 KOMABA MEGURO-KU, TOKYO
153-8505, JAPANE-mail: koho.iis@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Phone: +81-3-5452-6017(Public Relations Office /Public Relations Section)
Fax:+81-3-5452-6071
Komaba Ⅱ Campus
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Kashiwa Campus
5-1-5 KASHIWANOHA KASHIWA-SHI, CHIBA
277-8574, JAPAN (Kashiwa Campus)
6-2-3 KASHIWANOHA KASHIWA-SHI, CHIBA
277-0882, JAPAN (Kashiwa Ⅱ Campus)
E-mail: kashiwa.iis@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Phone: +81-4-7136-6971 (Kashiwa Office)Fax:+81-4-7136-6972
Kashiwa Campus
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