Projects
T1-1 “Strategic Target 1-1”
| Project Title | Materials AI Infrastructure to enable AI for Materials |
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| PI | DEMURA Masahiko, Director, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) |
| Co-PI | YOSHIDA Ryo, Professor, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) |
| Co-PI | YOKOTA Rio, Team Principal, RIKEN |
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T1-2 “Strategic Target 1-2”
| Project Title | Discovery from Scratch - Towards an Autonomous Materials Research System |
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| PI | HITOSUGI Taro, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Co-PI | TAMURA Ryo, Group Leader, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) |
| Project Overview | TBA |
T1-3 “Strategic Target 1-3”
| Project Title | AI-Driven Innovative Materials Creation for Light Energy Conversion (AI4LEC) |
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| PI | ABE Ryu, Professor, Kyoto University |
| Co-PI | MORITA Hidekazu, Senior Director, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | AI-Driven Development Platform for Hard Bulk Metals and Ceramics |
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| PI | KUMAGAI Yu, Professor, Tohoku University |
| Co-PI | MIYAMOTO Goro, Professor, Tohoku University |
| Co-PI | SHIGA Motoki, Professor, Tohoku University |
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| Project Title | AI for Industrial Materials Development Grounded in Tacit Knowledge and Rationale |
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| PI | SHIOMI Junichiro, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Co-PI | TSUDA Koji, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Co-PI | KAWATA Kentaro, General Manager, Nippon Paint Corporate Solutions Co., Ltd. |
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| Project Title | Autonomous Research and intelligence-Synergized Elucidation for Magnetic Materials (ARiSE-Mag) |
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| PI | HIROHATA Atsufumi, Professor, Tohoku University |
| Co-PI | IWASAKI Yuma, Principal Researcher, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) |
| Co-PI | ONO Kanta, Professor, Osaka University |
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T2 “Strategic Target 2”
| Project Title | AI Foundation for the Causal Human State Space |
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| PI | IMOTO Seiya, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Co-PI | MATSUDA Koichi, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Co-PI | OKADA Yukinori, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
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| Project Title | Generative Immunology through Antigen-Specific Immune Digital Twins |
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| PI | OHUE Masahito, Associate Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo |
| Co-PI | ISHIGAKI Kazuyoshi, Team Director, RIKEN |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | Genome Language Models for Biological Discovery and Design |
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| PI | KUROKAWA Ken, Professor, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) |
| Co-PI | HIGASHI Koichi, Associate Professor, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | Morphological Digital Twin: An Integrative AI Foundation Model for Human 3D Biological Systems |
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| PI | SUSAKI Etsuo, Chair Professor, Juntendo University |
| Co-PI | SHIMAMURA Teppei, Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo |
| Project Overview | TBA |
T3 “Strategic Target 3”
| Project Title | Development of Autonomous Research Facilities for Science by AI |
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| PI | KANDA Genki, Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo |
| Co-PI | TAKAHASHI Koichi, Project Director, RIKEN |
| Co-PI | OZAWA Yosuke, Representative Director, CEO, Epistra Inc. |
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| Project Title | SPARK: Synchrotron Platform for AI-empowered Research and Knowledge |
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| PI | TAMASAKU Kenji, Team Leader, RIKEN |
| Co-PI | SATO Kento, Team Principal, RIKEN |
| Co-PI | SAKATA Osami, Executive Director, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) |
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International / Convergence Type
| Project Title | AI for Social Science: Paper Replication, Digital Twin, and Counterfactual Simulation |
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| PI | IZUMI Kiyoshi, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Co-PI | MURASE Yohsuke, Team Director, RIKEN |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | A Multimodal AI Platform Integrating Clinical Data and Patient-cell Pathophysiology |
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| PI | INOUE Haruhisa, Professor, Kyoto University |
| Co-PI | HONDA Naoki, Professor, Nagoya University |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | Development of Virtual Cancer Cell Models for Drug Discovery |
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| PI | OKADA Mariko, Professor, The University of Osaka |
| Co-PI | SHIRAISHI Yuichi, Chief, National Cancer Center |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | Tsunami World Model Project |
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| PI | KOSHIMURA Shunichi, Professor, Tohoku University |
| Co-PI | INUI Kentaro, Distinguished Professor, Tohoku University |
| Co-PI | USUDA Yuichiro, Executive Director, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | A Foundation Model for RNA 3D Structure Prediction Integrating Diverse Structural Information |
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| PI | SATO Kengo, Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo |
| Co-PI | KONDO Jiro, Professor, Sophia University |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | Construction and Application of Foundation Models Driven by Spatial Cancer Omics Data |
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| PI | SUZUKI Yutaka, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Co-PI | TSUNODA Tatsuhiko, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Co-PI | SUZUKI Ayako, Professor, Kyorin University |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | Upstream AI: Beyond Foundation Models through Domain-Specific Materials Intelligence — Toward Thermal Management Materials Innovation |
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| PI | SUZUMURA Toyotaro, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Co-PI | SHIOMI Junichiro, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | Open-ended discovery of unknown quantum materials via possibilistic agents |
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| PI | SEKI Munetoshi, Professor, Tottori University |
| Co-PI | ADACHI Masaki, Group Manager, Toyota Motor Corporation |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | Model-Driven Active Experimentation for Systems Biology |
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| PI | TAKAHASHI Koichi, Team Director, RIKEN |
| Co-PI | TAKEUCHI Ichiro, Professor, Nagoya University |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | Unraveling the Mysteries of RNA Interactions and Genome Regulation |
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| PI | TAKAHASHI Hazuki, Research Scientist, RIKEN |
| Co-PI | KAMATANI Yoichiro, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Co-PI | Hamed Najafabadi, Associate Professor, McGill University |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | International Platform for AI-Driven MOF-X Research |
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| PI | TANAKA Isao, Program-Specific Research Center Professor, Kyoto University |
| Co-PI | KASHIMA Hisashi, Professor, Kyoto University |
| Co-PI | Yan Qingyu, President's Chair Professor in Materials Science, Nanyang Technological University |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | Toward Precision Psychiatry and the Atoms of Mind: An fMRI Foundation Model |
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| PI | CHIKAZOE Junichi, Director, Hiroshima University |
| Co-PI | KAWAHARA Daisuke, Professor, Waseda University |
| Co-PI | KAWATO Mitsuo, President's Chair Professor in Materials Science, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | AI for Mathematics and Physics |
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| PI | HASHIMOTO Koji, Professor, Kyoto University |
| Co-PI | IMAIZUMI Masaaki, Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | International Framework for Robot-Executable Science |
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| PI | HARADA Kanako, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Co-PI | HAMAYA Masashi, Research Organizer / Principal Investigator, OMRON SINIC X Corporation |
| Co-PI | YOSHIKAWA Naruki, Senior Researcher, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | AI digital twin for core–edge control of stellarators |
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| PI | MURAKAMI Sadayoshi, Professor, Kyoto University |
| Co-PI | KENMOCHI Naoki, Associate Professor, National Institute for Fusion Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | Generative Digital Twin and World Models for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy |
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| PI | MORI Kensaku, Professor, Nagoya University |
| Co-PI | OHTSUKA Kazuo, Professor, Showa Medical University |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | Sustaining Cybersecurity Advantage through Autonomous Attack-Defense Simulation |
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| PI | YOSHIOKA Katsunari, Professor, Yokohama National University |
| Co-PI | SHIRAKAWA Shinichi, Professor, Yokohama National University |
| Co-PI | MORI Tatsuya, Professor, Waseda University |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | A Foundation Model for Space Science from Massive Multimodal Data |
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| PI | YOSHIDA Naoki, Project Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Co-PI | KIMURA Akisato, Executive Research Scientist, NTT Inc. |
| Project Overview | TBA |
| Project Title | Advancing the Science of Global Water Predictability through Japan–U.S. Collaboration |
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| PI | YOSHIMURA Kei, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Co-PI | SUZUMURA Toyotaro, Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| Project Overview | TBA |