Basic information of the Research Area

[Innovative Measurement and Analysis]Creating Innovative Measurement and Analysis Systems Aiming to Solve Social Issues

Research Supervisor

Takashi WashioProfessor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Kansai University

Strategic Objective

Innovation in measurement and analysis processes aimed at solving social issues

Overview

As the expression “Measurement is the mother of science” suggests, progress in science and technology begins with “seeing and noticing.” The history of advances in science and technology can also be called the history of advances in measurement technology.
In resolving global social challenges such as the SDGs, beginning with becoming carbon neutral by 2050, it will be essential to develop various new practical materials, including from the standpoints of energy and recycling. At the front lines of leading science and technology research, the subjects of the research are shifting toward grasping and understanding the peculiarities of complex, uneven layered structures and substance changes. Understanding complex substances and phenomena like this is hardly achieved by simply improving conventional measurement technology or similar strategies, and so breakthroughs in measurement and analysis methods are essential.
In this research area, our aim is to bring about sophisticated advances in measurement and analysis methods and generate new measurement and analysis systems that are capable of resolving actual and various difficult challenges in measurement and analysis by combining advances in measurement technology with information technology such as advanced mathematical modeling and machine learning. We also aim at innovating measurement and analysis processes to offer Japan’s research environments advantages over the coming 10 or 20 years. Moreover, the effectiveness of the new measurement and analysis methods produced in this research area should be verified in the real-world situation such as the development of actual new materials, and their generality should be explored in other research and development fields that face similar difficulties beyond the original target fields.
More specifically, the research will position “boundary-breaking advanced measurement,” “adaptation of measurement data informatics,” and “multiscale/multimodal measurements, and their use case development” as key research components, and will pursue measurement and analysis innovations by realizing a research environment that merges these components.

Research Area Advisors

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Schedule of Selection Process

Deadline for application 2024/06/04 at 12:00 noon, Japan time
Document-based review 2024/07/06
JST will contact to the interviewees no later than 2024/07/16
Interview-based review(ONLINE)
※Interview date and time will be assigned by JST.
2024/07/27

Research Supervisor's Policy

Research Supervisor's Policy of this Research Area can be downloaded from below.

【Research Supervisor’s Message】

We expect the novel proposals for principal, method, and framework of measurement and analysis which are innovative in the view of both measurement science and information science and which clarify concrete social issues you want to solve and backcast scenario to solve them.

FY2024 Explanatory Materials (Japanese only)[PDF]