Three KyotoU researchers selected for 15th JSPS Prize (27 December 2018)

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On 27 December 2018, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) announced the year's JSPS Prize awardees, including the three KyotoU researchers listed below.

The award ceremony took place Thursday 7 February 2019 at the Japan Academy (Nippon Gakushi-in) in Tokyo.

Field of research

Name

Title and affiliation

Research topic

Artificial intelligence and machine learning

Hisashi Kashima

Professor, Graduate School of Informatics

Machine Learning Methods for Various Data Types as Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

Synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry

Yoshiaki Nakao

Professor, Graduate School of Engineering

Development of Activation and Transformation Methods for Unreactive Bonds Based on Designed Metal Catalysis

Agricultural history

Tatsushi Fujihara Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities A Critical Study on Ecological Thoughts in the Third Reich: From the Viewpoint of Food and Agriculture

The JSPS Prize was established in 2004 to honor highly creative and capable Japanese researchers in their early careers. By further motivating such researchers in their work and supporting their endeavors, it aims to contribute to raising "the level of scientific research in Japan to the world's highest standard".

Awardees are selected by a committee of world-leading researchers from various fields of the humanities and sciences.

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