Fostering doctoral students who will serve as the foundation for science, technology and innovation and work to solve social issues. Waseda University W-SPRING-AI

With the aim to achieve Next-generation AI Innovation Ecosystem that continues to produce AI innovations across fields aim to foster doctoral resources who lead research on global AI technologies and applications, the Program provides environment where students can concentrate on challenging and integrated research by providing 3.90 million JPY per student per year, which includes living expenses and research expenses, for maximum of three years (the support period is until the completion of the third year of the student’s doctoral program).

The Program will provide opportunities for students to acquire advanced expertise and research capabilities in the field of next-generation AI through various supports including training contents due to acquire the “expertise” to cover all areas from theory to engineering and application in a cross-disciplinary manner, the “advanced expertise” to capture the direction of remarkable next-generation AI technologies and applications, as represented by generative AI, and to pioneer the next-generation AI field, and the “deploy ability” to grasp the needs and issues in various fields and create innovative technologies and applications as AI becomes the foundation of society and industry in the future.

※ The amount of support is tentative, and the details may change.