Examination Schedule
April 2025 Admission
Type ofExamination

RegularExamination

Examination forAdmission on
Recommendation
for Overseas
Residents

Application Period(The application must be postmarked within
the period)
First
Examination
SecondExamination

June 17 – 27, 2024

Examination Period(The designated one dayof the following period)
August 19 - 27, 2024

Date of Notificationof Admission
Decision
September 5, 2024

(except Sat., Sun., etc.)

October 22

December 9 - 20, 2024

– November 5, 2024

(except Sat., Sun., etc.)

January 24, 2025

Submission deadline for pre-check:
November 14, 2024

Interview andApplication period:

Documentary screening

January 24, 2025

November 6 - 28, 2024

Note: Applicants who do not possess a master’s or professional degree may be required to pass through theJudgment 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. The
applicants should be aware of the following:z

Students will enroll in the university to which their supervisor (the dedicated supervisor who
primarily 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 “Doctor ofPhilosophy”, “Doctor of Philosophy in Science” or “Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering”
jointly by JAIST and Kanazawa University. As a requirement for the program, students must
participate in a lab rotation project at Kanazawa University. Students enrolled in Doctoral
Program must earn at least 10 credit units at Kanazawa 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.

z

As 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 an
examination, 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 constituentuniversities. 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: 100,000 yen per month for 3 years*The result for this scholarship will be announced with the result of admission decision atthe 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 doctoral program accepts applicants who have a strong desire to actively create new and advanced values for thedevelopment of society. In addition to utilizing the specialized knowledge acquired in the master’s program, they areexpected to draw on their multifaceted reasoning skills to engage in concerted activities with others to play an activerole in a global society. They will be called upon to identify and solve various complex problems throughtransdisciplinary sciences.

Diploma Policy
In the doctoral course, students are required to acquire the 1-5 and 6 or 1-5 and 7 abilities and competences listed in
the “academic achievement” below through the pursuit and practice of a “Methodology for Transdisciplinary Science”
based on the four forces listed as the educational philosophy. The doctoral degree is conferred on students who havemastered these competencies, enrolled in the program for a specified period of time, earned the specified number ofcredits, and then have passed the Doctoral Dissertation Examination. Among the students mentioned above, those
who have acquired the 1-5 and 6 are conferred a doctoral degree “Doctor of Philosophy” and those who have acquired
1-5 and 7 are conferred doctoral degree “Doctor of Philosophy in Science” or “Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering”.
1. Ability to identify, structure and solve the social problems related to science, technology and innovation.
2. Cutting-edge knowledge and practical skills related to your discipline.
3. Ability to utilize knowledge and technology of other disciplines for your discipline.
4. Ability to present and discuss your research in foreign language in an international conference or a joint research inoverseas.
5. Practical research ethics of science, technology and life.
6. Ability to integrate your discipline with other disciplines and create new knowledge.
7. Ability to create new knowledge based on your discipline.

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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 Search

࣭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/materials

࣭YUIZONO 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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