Introduction
Message from the Dean
Dean of the Graduate School of System Informatics
OHKAWA Takenao
The Graduate School of System Informatics was founded in April 2010. We are responsible for promoting education and research on methodologies for analyzing, designing, and operating large-scale complex systems, on theories and techniques for advanced information processing, and on the fundamentals and applications of large-scale simulations in a high-performance computing environment.
More than 10 years have passed since the establishment of the Graduate School of System Informatics, and the situation surrounding our graduate school has changed dramatically during this period. Research topics closely related to our graduate school, such as artificial intelligence, data science, the Internet of Things, big data, robotics, cyber-physical system, supercomputer simulation, etc., have been gaining a lot of attention, and their progress has been remarkable. It has become extremely important to deepen and integrate these technologies toward the true realization of Society 5.0, the "human-centered and prosperous future society that Japan aspires to," as stated in the Science, Technology and Innovation Basic Plan. In order to respond to these demands, the Graduate School of System Informatics has reorganized the three existing departments of Systems Science, Information Science, and Computational Science into the Department of System Informatics in April 2023.
The renewed department will continue the highly specialized education and research activities that have been conducted in the previous three departments, while building an integrated education and research environment that allows related research fields to stimulate each other. In addition to the conventional education and research system by laboratory, the C3 Unit (Co-Creation and Collaboration Unit) is introduced as a flexible educational platform for the co-creation of different generations and different fields, and a new educational program will be developed under the unit. Through this new educational program, we aim to develop human resources who can contribute to the creation of new value from a broad viewpoint, transcending the boundaries of their specialized fields.
The Graduate School of Systems Informatics will play a more important role in education and research for the realization of Society 5.0. I sincerely hope that many students will gather at the Graduate School of System Informatics and enjoy studying how to create an attractive future society.
About the Graduate School of System Informatics
The Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering is devoted to such themes as the "pursuit of creative process through intelligence" and "creation of the next generation of intellectualized information systems." The department aims at one of the newest academic disciplines by integrating not only the fields of computer science and information technology,but also various scientific and engineering fields including electronics, mechanical engineering, life science, social science, and so on. The multi-disciplinary nature of computer science and systems engineering offers an exciting challenge for students thinking of embarking on a career in almost any scientific and engineering field or information technology field in an advanced and more computerized society.
Principles and Aims
System Informatics is an academic field that strives to contribute to the development, processing, and utilization of “system information,” which is meaningful information that exists within a large-scale, complex system, based on highspeed, large-capacity computing technology. The term “system” used here does not refer to a so-called information system, but rather to a broad “system” covering a variety of areas, from nature and engineering to society, including space, earth, people, living organisms, artificial materials, and the like.
The Graduate School of System Informatics targets such a “system” as well as the “system information” that exists within that system, defining the three academic fields below as the pillars of its education and research. With each of these three fields at its core and through the integration thereof, the Graduate School strongly promotes education and research related to the theories and methodologies of the pursuit of system informatics.
Admission Policy
The Graduate School of System Informatics offers educational research programs through which students are trained not only to develop and expand new disciplines aimed at the creation of knowledge and value, but also to possess high creativity and an international mindset to make a positive contribution towards global society. The core of our new disciplines is System Information (meaningful information that exists within a wide range of systems, through nature, engineering, and society), and their pillars are the three academic fields of each department.
The Graduate School therefore actively accepts not only persons who have studied system technology, information technology, and simulation technology in engineering or information system science in their undergraduate and graduate programs, but also those who have a high interest and desire to apply and to expand the scope of these technologies in the various areas of specialization within science, medical, cultural science, and social science fields.