2022.9.21（Wed）

Press release

【Press release】Project Lecturer Hiroki Sakaji has been selected for the 2022 JST PRESTO “Social transformation platform”.

【Press release】Project Lecturer Hiroki Sakaji has been selected for the 2022 JST PRESTO "Social transformation platform".

==Award Date==
September 20, 2022

JST PRESTO had selected a research theme of Project Lecturer Hiroki Sakaji as a new theme for the call for research proposals for 2022.

Strategic Objectives: Creation of fundamental technologies to analyze human and society for Society 5.0
Research Areas: Co-Creation of the transformation platform technology for human and society by integration of the humanities and sciences
Research Supervisor: Satoshi Kurihara（Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University）

Name: Hiroki Sakaji
Institution: Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Position: Project Lecturer
Research Theme: Economic Narrative Simulation Using Causal Information
Research period: From October 2022 to March 2026

List of Adopted Theme:
https://www.jst.go.jp/kisoken/presto/application/2022/220920/220920presto.pdf#page=3

JST PRESTO is a network-type research (individual type) for promoting the unique and challenging fundamental research with leading purposes estimated to develop into an internationally high level for overcoming important problems facing Japan and producing creative and innovative technology seeds (new technology seeds) to be a source for the science and technology innovation, which will renovate the society and economy as a world-wide precursor.

The research area "Social transformation platform" aims to co-create technologies by integrating humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences as a platform for society transformation, such as behavior modification: technology for analyzing people and society from data of various scales and types, and technology for deriving policy scenarios by simulation based on this analytical technology.