R&D Areas

Areas

About the areas

 This program covers a wide range of technical areas in information and communication sciences. Issues that cannot be resolved by technological innovation based on conventional common sense or by innovation in specific technical areas are emerging as technological needs, becoming more diverse and complicated. Through efforts to achieve the Grand Challenges, this program aims to promote collaboration and integration between different technical areas, including personnel exchanges.
 Technology categories will be established for the areas. Two areas, one focusing on the information and communication area and the other on the information processing area, are defined, and the PO of each area manages the area. Each area will encompass multiple technological fields and hierarchies, and the two areas will promote research and development in collaboration with each other.


AREA 1 (Program Officer : NAKAO Akihiro) AREA 2 (Program Officer : KAWAHARA Yoshihiro)
Technology
categories

Information and Communication Infrastructure
 sensing, collection, encoding, compression, recognition, classification, optimization, control, and learning related to communication
Network Security
 cyber attack/security operation system
Devices and Communication principle
 radio wave, light, quantum communication
Technology
categories
Information Service
Information Processing Infrastructure
  sensing, collection, encoding, compression, recognition, classification, optimization, control, and learning related to information processing
Information Security
 encryption/authentication/privacy
Device and calculation principle
 electronic, optical, quantum circuits

Management system of the areas

AREA 1 (Mainly in the area of information and communication)

■Program Officer (PO)
 NAKAO Akihiro (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
■Area Advisors (AD)

Name Position, Affiliation
FUJISHIMA Morio Professor, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University
HARADA Hiroshi Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
MORI Tatsuya Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
SUGIYAMA Masashi Director, Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN
/Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The university of Tokyo
TODE Hideki Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Osaka Metropolitan University
TOYOSHIMA Morio Director General, Wireless Networks Research Center, NICT
WAKIKAWA Ryuji Vice President, Head, Research Institute of Advanced Technology, SoftBank Corp.,
YAMANAKA Naoaki Project Professor, Shin-Kawasaki (K2) Town Campus, Keio University

AREA 2 (Mainly in the area of information processing)

■Program Officer (PO)
 KAWAHARA Yoshihiro (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
■Area Advisors (AD)

Name Position, Affiliation
AMANO Hideharu Project Researcher, Graduate School of Engineering, Systems Design Lab (d. lab), The University of Tokyo
MAEKAWA Takuya Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University
OKABE Yasuo Professor, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University
ONIZUKA Makoto Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University
SAWADA Hiroshi Senior Distinguished Researcher, Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation
TAKEDA Akiko Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
TSUBOUCHI Kota Senior Chief Researcher, LY Research, LY Corporation
YOKOTA Rio Professor, Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology