United States of America
Bilateral
Contact: 
1. Field of Cooperation
"Disaster Resilience Research"
Program Officer : ONO Yuichi, Ph.D., Professor, Practical Research and Collaboration Division, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
"Digital Science"
Program Officer : IWANO Kazuo, Former Specially Appointed Professor, School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology
"Big Data and Disaster Research" (concluded in 2017)
Program Officer : KITSUREGAWA Masaru, Ph.D., Director General, National Institute of Informatics
Program Officer : SHIBAYAMA Etsuya, Ph.D., Professor, Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo
"Metabolomics" (concluded in 2016)
Program Officer : NISHIOKA Takaaki, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
2. Funding Agency of U.S. Side
3. Related Workshops
| Month/Year | Place | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 2023 | Virtual | Digital Science for Post-COVID-19 Society NSF-JST Joint Mid-term Meeting |
| Oct 2022 | Arlington | Digital Science for Post-COVID-19 Society US-side PI meeting |
| Apr 2022 | Virtual | Digital Science for Post-COVID-19 Society NSF-JST Joint Kick-off Meeting |
| Oct 2021 | Virtual | Digital Science for Post-COVID-19 Society Japan-side Kick-off Meeting |
| Dec 2016 | Arlington | NSF-JST Metabolomics for a Low Carbon Society Workshop and Post Projects Review |
| Jun 2015 | California | NSF-JST Metabolomics for a Low Carbon Society Workshop and Symposium |
| Sep 2013 | Nara | Japan-US Joint Workshop "Metabolomics for Low Carbon Society" |
| Feb 2012 | Narita | Kick-off Meeting |
4. Calls for Proposals
| Month/Year | Research Areas | Press Release |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 2023 | Human-Centered Data for Disaster Resilience Research | Detail |
| Jul 2021 | Japan (JST) - US (NSF) Joint Research 2021 ※JST conducted this joint call within the framework of Infrastructure Development for Promoting International S&T Cooperation. |
Detail |
| Nov 2020 | Information on Japan (JST) - US (NSF) Joint Research Commencing in FY2021 Digital Science for Post-COVID-19 Society |
Detail |
| Jun 2019 | Japan (JST) - US (NSF) Joint Research 2019 Smart and Connected Communities, NSF 19-564 ※JST conducted this joint call within the framework of Infrastructure Development for Promoting International S&T Cooperation. |
Detail |
| Jun 2014 | Big Data and Disaster Research | Detail |
| Feb 2011 | Metabolomics for a Low Carbon Society | Detail |
5. Currently in Cooperation
Human-Centered Data for Disaster Resilience Research
Period︓FY 2024 - FY 2026
| Title | Research Leader in Japan Research Leader in the U.S. |
|---|---|
| Advanced Data and Methods to Improve Hazard Resilience for Underrepresented Groups: Labor Shortages and Immigrant Workers in Small and Mid-sized Businesses | KAJITANI Yoshio, Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Kagawa University Alfredo Roa-Henriquez, Assistant Professor, College of Business, North Dakota State University |
| Enabling Human-Centered Digital Twin for Community Resilience | KOSHIMURA Shunichi, Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku UniversityNalini Venkatasubramanian, Professor, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine |
| An Inclusive Human-Centered Risk Management Modeling Framework for Flood Resilience | TANAKA Tomohiro, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University Yi-Chen Yang, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University |
Digital Science for Post-COVID-19 Society
Period：FY 2021 - FY 2024
| Title | Research Leader in Japan Research Leader in the U.S. |
|---|---|
| Multimodal Data Analytics and Integration for Effective COVID-19, Pandemics and Compound Disaster Response and Management | SHIBASAKI Ryosuke, Professor, Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo Shu-Ching Chen, Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University |
| PanCommunity: Leveraging Data and Models for Understanding and Improving Community Response in Pandemics | NISHIURA Hiroshi, Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University Kasim Candan, Professor, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University |
| Active Sensing and Personalized Interventions for Pandemic-Induced Social Isolation | HIGASHINO Teruo, Dean and Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Information and Computer Science, Kyoto Tachibana University Insup Lee, Cecilia Fitler Moore Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania |
| Hyperlocal Risk Monitoring and Pandemic Preparedness through Privacy-Enhanced Mobility and Social Interactions Analysis | YOSHIKAWA Masatoshi, Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Li Xiong, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Emory University |
6. Finished Projects
Big Data and Disaster Research (BDD)
Period：FY2015 - FY2017
| Title | Research Leader in Japan Research Leader in the U.S. |
|---|---|
| Human-Centered Situation Awareness Platform for Disaster Response and Recovery | KITAMOTO Asanobu, Associate Professor, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics Cyrus SHAHABI, Director, Integrated Media Systems Center, University of Southern California |
| Efficient and Scalable Collection, Analytics and Processing of Big Data for Disaster Applications | HARA Takahiro, Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University Sanjay Kumar MADRIA, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology |
| A Big-Data Computational Laboratory for the Optimization of Olfactory Search Algorithms in Turbulent Environments | HASEGAWA Yosuke, Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tamer ZAKI, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University |
| Dynamic Evolution of Smartphone-Based Emergency Communications Network | Junbo WANG, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of Aizu Krishna KANT, Professor, Computer & Information Sciences (CIS) department, Temple University |
| Disaster Preparation and Response via Big Data Analysis and Robust Networking | Yusheng JI, Professor, Information Systems Architecture Research Division, National Institute of Informatics Guoliang XUE, Professor, School of Computing, Informatics, Decision systems engineering, Arizona State University |
| Data-Driven Critical Information Exchange in Disaster Affected Public-Private Networks | Xuan SONG, Project Associate Professor, Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo Tao LI, Professor, School of Computer Science, Florida International University （Shu-Ching CHEN (Professor, School of Computer Science, Florida International University) took over in December 2017.） |
Metabolomics for a Low Carbon Society
Period：FY2011 - FY2016
| Title | Research Leader in Japan Research Leader in the U.S. |
|---|---|
| Development of novel metabolic analysis system for 1-butanol production | FUKUSAKI Eiichiro, Professor, Osaka University James Liao, Professor, University of California, Los Angels |
| METABOLOMICS: Integrating cheminformatic resources for investigating photoautotrophic and mixotrophic metabolism in algae | ARITA Masanori, Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo Oliver Fiehn, Professor, University of California, Davis |
| Metabolomics: Advancing the Scientific Promise to Better Understand Plant Specialized Metabolism for a Low-Carbon Society | SAITO Kazuki, Group Director, RIKEN Plant Science Center Lloyd W. Sumner, Professor, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation |
Period：FY2011 - FY2014
| Title | Research Leader in Japan Research Leader in the U.S. |
|---|---|
| Metabolomics: Identification of inducible bioactive plant metabolites | OKUMOTO Yutaka, Professor, Kyoto University Georg Jander, Associate Scientist, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research |