Program Overview

Introduction to AIQDS

The AIQDS program is a graduate program designed to develop highly-specialized globally working researchers who can find out and solve real-world problems by utilizing knowledge and skills of data science and artificial intelligence through HPC and quantum computing. This program started in October 2021, as a part of "The International Priority Graduate Programs (PGP) -Advanced Graduate Courses for International Students-" supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Technology (MEXT).

Program Overview

The AIQDS is a graduate program that combines a two-year master's program with a three-year doctoral program. A participant in this program must be a student of either of the four graduate schools: Graduate Schools of Information Sciences (GSIS), Life Sciences, Economics and Management, and Biomedical Engineering. The program assigns a primary mentor in the student's graduate school and a sub-mentor from GSIS for supporting the student's application of data science to her/his research.

Master's Course

• Course work:
  • Expertise course offered by the student's own graduate school
  • Fundamental data science course
  • Data science course: sensing, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, statistics, computer science, data mining, quantum computing, etc.
• Practical trainings and internship:
  • Data science training camps
  • Internship in private companies (elective subject)
• Research work for the master degree in the student's graduate school

Doctoral Course

• Data science project-based learning of real-world problem solving
• Advanced data science seminars
• Research work for the PhD in the student's graduate school

Eligibility for AIQDS

• Applicant must be an excellent student newly coming from abroad to study as a graduate-level foreign student.
• Applicant must have earned over 2.3 evaluation point average of their latest or current degree program based on the specialized calculation.
• Applicant must be able to leave for and arrive in Japan by the beginning of October 2023.
• Applicant for AIQDS need to satisfy one of the following conditions:
  • For 5 years Master's and Doctor's Course Applicant:
    • Those who have graduated, or will graduate, from a university, that is, completion of a total of 16 years of school education by September 30, 2023.
    • Those who have reached 22 years of age by September 30, 2023 and can be recognized to have an academic ability equivalent or superior to those who have graduated from a university based on individual qualification examinations.
  • For 3 years Doctor's Course Applicant:
    • Those who have earned, or will earn, Master's degree by September 30, 2023.
    • Those who have engaged in research activities for at least 2 years at an educational or research institution after graduation from a university and can be recognized to have an academic ability equivalent or superior to those who have earned Master's degree on the basis of their research performance.
    • Those who have reached 24 years of age by September 30, 2023 and can be recognized to have scholastic ability equivalent or superior to those who have earned Master's degree based on individual qualification examinations.

Financial Support

Japanese government (MEXT) scholarship will be available for excellent students who intend to be actively engaged in the AIQDS program and contribute to its objectives. The scholarship includes:

• Exemption from Application, Admission and Tuition fees
• Monthly stipend: 146,000 JPY for 2 years in Master's course
• Flight tickets between the applicant's country of nationality and Japan

• 4-scale evaluation: A (100-80), B (79-70), C (69-60), D (59-)
• 5-scale evaluation: S (100-90), A (89-80), B (79-70), C (69-60), D (59-)
• Evaluation Point: 3 (A), 2 (B), 1 (C), 0 (D)
• Number of total credit: N4, N3, N2, N1, N0
• Evaluation Point = ((N4+N3)×3+N2×2+N1×1)/(N4+N3+N2+N1+N0)