Please note: This seminar presentation will take place in DC 1304.
Dr. Emmanuel Planas
Deputy Director, Global Liaison Office
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
This seminar introduces the National Institute of Informatics (NII) and opportunities for international cooperation with NII.
NII is the ROIS Inter-University Research Institute for Advanced Research on Informatics and Global Science Data Infrastructure support, situated in the heart of Tokyo, Japan. NII is ranked top 2 for publications in Computer Science in Japan.
Research activity is divided in four Departments:
- Principles of Informatics: Mathematical Informatics, Intelligent Informatics, Quantum Information, Algorithmics, Machine Learning Theory, Robotics
- Information Systems Architecture Science: Network Architecture, Computer Architecture, Information Network, Software Architecture, Software Engineering
- Digital Content and Media Sciences: Natural Language Processing, Human and Knowledge Media, Pattern Media, Image processing, Foundations of Content Management
- Information and Society: Information Use, Privacy, Human and Knowledge Media, Science Information, Information Public Policy.
The Global Liaison Office (GLO) at NII has established partnerships with 116 MOU partners. GLO supports international exchanges via the “MOU Grant Program” under which a NII researcher can invite a collaborator from overseas for a stay, or send some member of his team for a research visit (up to 1.5 months, around 40 researches a year supported). GLO also offers the “NII International Internship Program” with which we welcome and fund MOU partners Master’s and Ph.D. students for a research stay in one of our teams (3 to 6 months, around 140 students per year).
Bio: Dr. Emmanuel Planas is the Deputy Director of the Global Liaison Office (GLO) at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan. He has a combined experience of Research, Teaching, Entrepreneurship, and International Relations. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Grenoble University (France) in 1998. During his PhD period, he has stayed eight months in Tokyo (United Nations University). After his PhD he spent 2 years as a postdoctorate fellow at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Keihanna Research Laboratory (Kyoto/Nara, Japan). After serving for one year as an International Relations Officer for Laval Virtual consortium (France), he has launched in 2002 his own start-up company in 2002 on Computer Aided Translation. He has been the CEO and managed it until 2009. In 2010 he joined again the academic career, teaching Computer Aided Translation at Angers University and researching on NLP at Nantes University’s Digital Sciences laboratory (LS2N). He has joined the NII in April 2018.