Examination Schedule
October 2024 Admission
Type ofExamination

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

RegularExamination

SecondExamination

Examination forAdmission on
Recommendation
for Overseas
Residents

June 17 – 27, 2024

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

Date of Notification ofAdmission Decision

September 5, 2024

(except Sat., Sun., etc.)

Submission deadline for pre-check:May 15, 2024

Interview andApplication period:

Documentary screening

July 26, 2024

May 7 - 31, 2024

April 2025 Admission
Type of
Examination

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

RegularExamination

August 19 - 27, 2024

Date of Notification ofAdmission Decision

September 5, 2024

(except Sat., Sun., etc.)

SecondExamination

Third
Examination

Examination for
Admission on
Recommendation
for Overseas
Residents

June 17 – 27, 2024

Examination Period(The designated one dayof the following period)

October 22

December 9 - 20, 2024

– November 5, 2024

(except Sat., Sun., etc.)

December 4 – 17, 2024

February 3 – 14, 2025

January 24, 2025

February 28, 2025

(except Sat., Sun., etc.)

Submission deadline for pre-check:
November 14, 2024

Interview andApplication period:

Documentary screening

January 24, 2025

November 6 - 28, 2024

October 2025 Admission
Type ofExamination

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

Examination Period(The designated one dayof the following period)

RegularExamination

First
Examination

February 3 – 14, 2025

December 4 – 17, 2024

Date of Notification ofAdmission Decision

February 28, 2025

(except Sat., Sun., etc.)

Note:‫ ە‬Applicants who do not possess a master’s or professional degree may be required to pass through the Judgmentof Eligibility prior to applying. For details, please refer to the instructions for each type of examination.
‫ ە‬The further examination schedule for October 2025 admission will be announced in the Application Guide for2025-2026 academic year.

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Mission and Goals

Mission
JAIST endeavors to foster leaders capable of contributing to the making of a future world by creation of science andtechnology through its most advanced education and research in an ideal academic environment.

Goals
࣭JAIST develops leaders in society or industry who hold credible expertise in the frontier science and technology,
broad perspectives, high level of autonomy and communication ability, through its systematic advanced graduateeducation.
࣭JAIST, to contribute to societies with research outcomes, creates a center of excellence for advancement ofresearches for solving problems of our world and society and develops new fields through a variety of basic
researches.
࣭JAIST fosters active global human resources by promoting faculty and student exchanges with leading institutes
overseas and globalizing its education and research.

Admission Policy

JAIST looks for students who possess a strong will and a clear sense of purpose in pursuing research throughsocial contribution in the fields of advanced science and technology based on Knowledge Science, Information
Science and Materials Science, who are capable of expressing their own ideas logically, and who have an attitude
to make efforts to produce mutual understanding through discussions. JAIST, as a university of postgraduate
education without an undergraduate program, accepts applicants widely from graduate degree holders,international students and working professionals irrespective of undergraduate and graduate majors andbackground. Applicants are expected to have acquired specialized knowledge and ability in Knowledge Science,
Information Science, Materials Science and other relevant fields and to possess a research achievement equivalent
to the one for a master’s degree.
In the light of the image of students stated above, JAIST screens applicants by evaluating their researchachievements so far and their specialized knowledge, ability, and aspiration necessary for carrying out study andresearch at JAIST based on the submitted documents regarding their research outline before admission and theirresearch proposal after the admission and an oral examination (including an oral presentation and Q&A).
In the evaluation, JAIST emphasizes the result of the oral examination and uses submitted documents as reference.
As for the Admission on Recommendation, applicants are exempted from the oral examination and screened basedon submitted documents including the research outline and the research proposal.

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Diploma Policy

The Division of Advanced Science and Technology in the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology
at JAIST sets its educational goal in cultivating innovative talents in advanced science and technology who cantake active roles as leaders in society or industrial world with broad vision required in a sustainable society andcommunication ability in addition to specialization in advanced science and technology.
In the doctoral program, a doctoral degree in Knowledge Science, Information Science or Materials Science basedon student’s main academic fields will be conferred to those who have acquired the abilities listed below in addition
to the abilities to be acquired during the Master’s Program, produced excellent research achievements in the major
field and have passed the Doctoral Dissertation Examination and the Final Examination after having obtained all
the required credits.

Abilities to be acquired during the Doctoral Program࣭Ability to extensively understand theories and systems of advanced science and technology in the major field
࣭Ability to design new and original research and produce world-class research achievements
࣭Ability to hold a comprehensive view and take leadership in the field of advanced science and technology

Main Academic Fields
Knowledge Science: An academic field that integrates knowledge of design methodology, business management,
system science and others related to issues of human, organizations or society, proposes attractive solutions to theissues, and contemplate how to materialize the solutions

Information Science: An academic field that aims to solve problems for humanity and society, pioneer unexplored fields,
and produce new innovative basic theories, basic technologies and applications about information processing andcommunication that supports the information society

Materials Science: An academic field that produces new and innovative materials by aiming at solving for humanity
and society and pioneering unexplored fields based on physics, chemistry, biology and their relevant science andtechnology

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Research AreasOutlines

Keywords

Creative Society DesignDesigning a creative society, whereeveryone's ability brilliantly shines. An
intellectual odyssey towards
achieving rich quality of life byintegrating and transcending science,technology and art.

Creativity Support, Social Network, Design Thinking, Human Computer
Interaction, Media Interaction, Visual Computing, Disaster Science,
Resilience Engineering, Urban Design & Health, Network Science,
Collaboration, Intercultural Communication, Pervasive Technology,
Embodied Cognition, STEAM Education, Data Science/AI Applications

Transformative Knowledge
Management

Our mission is to develop
Next-generation knowledge
management theories to promotesocial transformation and apply forpractical problem-solving to build awellbeing society.

Wellbeing, Knowledge Creation, Organizational Transformation, Green
Service Innovation, Sustainability, Value Design, IoT Design, Ethnography
in a Medical Setting, Business Ethnography, Next Generation Tourism,
Service Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence

Co-creative Intelligence

Our mission is to explore newintelligence that sustainably promotes
the development and evolution of theadvanced knowledge society throughresearch on the human – technology
co-creation of knowledge.

Knowledge Science, Knowledge Creation, Cognitive Science, DataScience, Artificial Intelligence, Language and Communication, Philosophyof Language, Decision Theory, Meta-Cognition, Educational Engineering,Complex Systems, Emergence-Evolution-Institution, Machine Learning,
Computational Science, Materials Informatics, Social Linguistics, Language
Policy, Creation Process, Idea Creation, Experiential Learning,
Collaborative Learning, Learning Process DesignComputing Science

Study computation, know the limits ofcomputation, and unveil methods ofthe right conclusion from an ocean ofdata.

Information Science, Information Security, Mathematical Logic, Artificial
Intelligence, Automated Theorem Proving, Formal Methods, TheoreticalComputer Science, Data Science, Distributed System, Algorithms,Information Theory

Next-generation Digital
Infrastructure

Next-generation Digital Infrastructure
Research Area performs researchand graduate education on thefundamentals of ICT systems, torealize and extend comfortable,dependable, secure E-Society.

Smart City, Cyber Security, IoT, Internet, Information Systems, Embedded
Systems, Software Engineering, Formal Methods, Next-generation
Wireless and Sensor Communications, VSLI Design, AI Platform

Human Information Science

Investigating mechanisms of human
information processing and applying
them to the advanced information
processing systems

Perceptual and Intelligent Information Processing, Social Signal
Processing, Multimodality, Communication, Education/learning Technology,
Game Informatics, Natural Language Processing, Audio/speech Signal
Processing, Image/video Signal Processing, Human Interface, Intelligent
Robotics

Sustainable Innovation

To produce INNOVATION in building
sustainable systems of environment,
energy, economy, and society

Sustainable Energy, Thermoelectrics, Solar Cells, Artificial
Photosyntheses, Natural Molecules, Silent Voice Sensing, Materials
Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Simulation, Eco-friendly
ProcessMaterials Chemistry Frontiers

Explore frontier of materials chemistry
through molecular/atomic level designof new materials utilizing advanced
knowledge in the field of chemistry

Nanomaterials Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Green Chemistry, CatalyticChemistry, Energy Related Materials, Eco-friendly Materials, Biomaterials,Materials Informatics, Nano Machine, High-speed AFM Imaging, Rheology,
Optically Functionalized Materials, Operando Analysis

Nanomaterials and Devices

Our mission is to study cutting-edge
science and technology ofnanomaterials and devices for therealization of sustainable super-smart
society.

Nanoparticles, Nanowires, Two-dimensional Materials, Emerging
Nanomaterials, Nanofabrication, Nanoimaging, Nanometrology,
Nanospectroscopy, Quantum Technology, Sensing, Electronics,Spintronics, Nanopaper Devices, Organic Devices, Digital Transformation,
Data-driven Materials Science, Soft Robotics, Tactile Sensing

Bioscience, Biotechnology,
and Biomedical Engineering

We will investigate cutting-edge
technologies based on understandingof biological functions, and develop
their applications in biomedical fields.

Biotechnology, Biomedical, Protein, DNA/RNA, Biomembrane, Sugar
Chain, Biomolecular Analysis, Artificial Biomolecule Creation, Biodevice,
Gene Editing, Molecular Robotics

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