Advanced Information Specialist Course (JAIST×Human Course)

Fostering Human Resources with Advanced Information Expertise for the Creation of a Next-Generation AI Society

JAIST will open the Advanced Information Specialist Course (commonly known as the JAIST×Human Course) in October 2025, following its selection for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's fiscal 2024 project to support universities and technical colleges in enhancing their functions to secure highly specialized information technology human resources.

In today's era of data × AI, data science has become an extremely important academic field. However, it is not enough to study only data science and AI to develop human resources for the realization of a human-centered society (Society 5.0). There is an urgent need to develop advanced information specialist who possess a composite of advanced knowledge in IoT, cybersecurity, man-machine interaction, and human informatics, with a focus on data science and AI.

The aim of this course is to develop advanced information specialist who have knowledge of AI solution technologies and AI ethics, which are in high demand in industry, and who can work on research and development of next-generation AI in a society where AI and humans coexist, and who can comprehensively and complexly solve problems in the creation of various AI solutions, thereby creating a next-generation AI society. To this end, the course JAIST×Human (Joint Ai Interaction cyberSecuriTy×Human) provides a curriculum covering four fields (AI×Interaction×Cybersecurity×Human) in a composite manner and fosters human resources who can tackle research and development issues in the next generation of AI.

JAIST×Human Course:Four Research Fields and Common Subjects

JAIST×Human

Course target

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Fostering advanced information specialists capable of conducting advanced research and development of next-generation AI in a society where AI and humans coexist in harmony
2

Produce specialists with the ability to raise and solve problems in next-generation AI (human-centered AI and interpretable AI).

In the four research fields (AI, Interaction, Cybersecurity, and Human) that create diverse AI solutions that match the needs of society and the seeds of academia, we will produce highly specialized information specialists who can deepen their understanding of the issues and solve problems in a comprehensive and complex manner.

Course features

Providing a unique research and education environment covering four research fields
Common subjects to all four research fields (Research Ethics for AI/Human)
Selecting joint research fields on their own initiative
Recurrent education that meets the needs of society, including industry