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Kansai Science City
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, website
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, abbreviated as NAIST, is a
Japanese national university
As of 2013, there were 86 , 90 public universities and 606 private universities in Japan. National universities tend to be held in higher regard in higher education in Japan than private or public universities.
As of the 2019 fiscal year, the nu ...
located in
Ikoma, Nara
is a city in the northwestern end of Nara Prefecture, Japan. It was founded on November 1, 1971. As of April 1, 2017, the city had an estimated population of 120,741, with 49,672 households. It had a population density of 2,300 persons per km², ...
of
Kansai Science City
is an unincorporated city located in the , a border region between Kyoto, Osaka, and Nara Prefectures in Kansai region, Japan. The name is commonly shortened to or . The name Keihanna is constructed by extracting a representative kanji from Kyo ...
. It was founded in 1991 with a focus on research and consists solely of
graduate school
Postgraduate or graduate education refers to Academic degree, academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by higher education, post-secondary students who have earned an Undergraduate education, un ...
s in three integrated areas: Biological Sciences, Information Sciences, and Material Sciences. NAIST is one of the most prestigious research institutions in Japan.
In the "Evaluation of Achievements Related to the 2nd Medium-term Goals and Plans" (2010-2015) conducted by the Japanese government for national universities, NAIST was evaluated as exceedingly superior especially concerning research levels. (One of 5 institutions from the 86 national universities). In 2010, NAIST ranked first overall among the 86 Japanese national universities by the Japanese government in its first-ever six-year (2005-2010)assessment of national university standards and achievements.
The university has a total of about 1,000 Master's and Doctoral students in its three graduate schools (2010), among which more than 20% are international students (2017). There are about 200 faculty members and 170 staff (2010).
In 2018, NAIST underwent an organizational transformation to continue research in these areas while promoting interdisciplinary research and education across traditional fields.
History
NAIST was founded in 1991 with the establishment of the Graduate School of Information Science and the University Library, followed by the Graduate School of Biological Sciences the next year. The first master's students were admitted in 1993, and doctoral students were first admitted in 1996, which is also the year the Graduate School of Materials Science was established. The establishment of the Venture Business Laboratory and the Intellectual Property Division in 2003 furthered the university's drive to utilize research results to secure patents and licenses, and form new businesses. In 2004, along with all of Japan's national universities, NAIST became an independent
National University Corporation is a corporate body (legal entity) established under the provisions of the ''National University Corporation Act'' (2003) for the purpose of establishing a national university in Japan.
History
As part of promoting the reform of Japanese univer ...
.
* 1991: Establishment of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, including the Graduate School of Information Science and University Library
* 1992: Establishment of the Graduate School of Biological Sciences
* 1993: Establishment of the Research and Education Center for Genetic Information
* 1994: Establishment of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology
* 1996: Establishment of the Graduate School of Materials Science
* 1998: Establishment of the Research and Education Center for Materials Science
* 2003: Establishment of the Venture Business laboratory
* April 2011: Establishment of Department of Information Science, Graduate School of Information Science , Establishment of Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Biological Sciences
* April 2013: Establishment of Career Services Office
* April 2015: Establishment of Center for Strategy and Planning established , Establishment of Institute for Educational Initiatives , Establishment of Institute for Research Initiatives, Closing of Center for International Relations , Closing of Institute of Research Initiatives
* April 2017: Establishment of Data Science Center
* April 2018: Department of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Science and Technology established and students accepted (The merging of the Graduate School of Information Science, Graduate School of Biological Sciences and the Graduate School of Materials Science)
Organization
Graduate schools (After 2018)
From April 2018, the past three graduate schools (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Materials Science) were integrated into one research department, Graduate School of Science and Technology.
Graduate schools (Before 2017)
* Graduate School of Biological Sciences
** Division of Plant Biology
** Division of Biomedical Science
** Division of Systems Biology
** Plant Global Education Project
**
Global COE Program Special Research Group
* Graduate School of Information Science
** Division of Computer Science
** Division of Media Informatics
** Division of Applied Informatics
* Graduate School of Materials Science
Centers and facilities
* Research and Education Center for Genetic Information
* Research and Education Center for Materials Science
* Information Initiative Center
* Center for Frontier Science and Technology
* Center for Industry-Government-Academia Collaboration
* Center for International Relations
Notable research
*
ARToolKit
ARToolKit is an open-source computer tracking library for creation of strong augmented reality applications that overlay virtual imagery on the real world. Currently, it is maintained as an open-source project hosted on GitHub. ARToolKit is a very ...
*
ChaSen ChaSen is a morphological parser for the Japanese language. This tool for analyzing morphemes was developed at the Matsumoto laboratory, Nara Institute of Science and Technology.
See also
* MeCab
MeCab is an open-source text segmentation lib ...
*
DyNet
DyNet is the communications network and communications protocol for Dynalite lighting automation and building automation
Building automation (BAS), also known as building management system (BMS) or building energy management system (BEMS), ...
*
Induced pluripotent stem cell
Induced pluripotent stem cells (also known as iPS cells or iPSCs) are a type of pluripotent stem cell that can be generated directly from a somatic cell. The iPSC technology was pioneered by Shinya Yamanaka's lab in Kyoto, Japan, who showed in ...
*
MeCab
MeCab is an open-source text segmentation library for use with text written in the Japanese language originally developed by the Nara Institute of Science and Technology and currently maintained by Taku Kudou (工藤拓) as part of his work on th ...
*
Natural language processing
Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to pro ...
Notable researchers
*
Shinya Yamanaka
is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He serves as the director of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyo ...
- Former professor, 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine winner
*
Kimito Funatsu
is a Japanese chemist specializing in chemoinformatics and data-driven chemistry, a Professor Emeritus at University of Tokyo, and the research director of the Data Science Center at Nara Institute of Science and Technology.
Biography
He gra ...
- the research director of the Data Science Center, 2019
Herman Skolnik Award winner
Gallery
NAIST gate.jpg, NAIST gate
Student dormitory NAIST.jpg, NAIST Student dormitory
NAIST Gate.jpg, Gate of NAIST
Sentan guest house.jpg, Sentan guest house
NAIST library.jpg, NAIST library
Plant lab.jpg, Plant lab
NAIST information science building.jpg, Information science building
Kombini.jpg, Convenience store in NAIST
NAIST in spring.jpg, NAIST in spring
Notes and references
External links
Official website
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Educational institutions established in 1991
Japanese national universities
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Engineering universities and colleges in Japan
1991 establishments in Japan
Kansai Science City