Graduate Schoolof Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University
Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, School of Engineering, Hokkaido University Course of Media and Network Technologies

Hokkaido University has been selected under the top-tier category of the FY2023 Project for Strengthening University and College of Technology Functions (Support for Strengthening Functions to Secure Highly Skilled Information Professionals) by the National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education. As part of this project, the enrollment capacity of the Course of Media and Network Technologies has been significantly expanded. With the rising demand for AI and data science, this course has seen the largest increase in capacity among all courses at the University.

• The Course of Media and Network Technologies has the highest number of AI-related academic journal publications within the School of Engineering.
• As a result of its active research efforts, the Course has produced many students who have been exempted from repaying their Japan Student Services Organization scholarship loans (based on academic performance).

In the Course of Media and Network Technologies, faculty members and students alike actively submit to and are accepted by the world’s leading journals and international conferences.

• AI field: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), Neural Networks (NN), International Conference on Learning Representation (ICLR) , Other fields
• Data mining field: Information Processing & Management (IPM), Advanced Engineering Informatics (AEI), Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) , Other fields
• Multimedia field: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), ACM Multimedia (MM), Other fields
• Computer vision field: Pattern Recognition (PR), European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Other fields
• Computer graphics field: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), SIGGRAPH, Other fields
• Optical communication field: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Other fields

• We conduct collaborative research with organizations in various fields, including medical science (Olympus Corporation, The University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, etc.), civil engineering (NEXCO East Japan, Hokkaido Regional Development Bureau, Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd., etc.), materials science (Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., Hitachi, Ltd., etc.), planetary science (JAXA, Japan Weather Association, etc.), and sports science (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo, etc.).
•  In addition, Hokkaido University has built a collaborative framework across its Schools of Medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Science, Agriculture, and others, creating an environment that fosters diverse interdisciplinary research. This collaboration has led to the publication of papers in top-tier academic journals.

The Course of Media and Network Technologies has secured one of the highest levels of collaborative research funding among all schools at the University, enabling it to offer an outstanding research and education environment where students can acquire the practical skills essential for their future careers.

Due to the increasing demand for digitally skilled professionals with AI and data science expertise, our master’s students engage in research thanks to grants from various businesses. Furthermore, nearly all our doctoral students are eligible for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science’s Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, scholarship grants, or other fellowships, receiving generous financial support.

The Course of Media and Network Technologies boasts one of the highest rates of advancement to doctoral programs within the Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, producing many doctoral graduates who will go on to become leaders in society.

Our graduates find employment in a wide range of industries, including telecommunications carriers (NTT DOCOMO, INC., KDDI Corporation), IT companies (Sony Corporation, Canon Inc., Panasonic Corporation, Rakuten Group, Inc., Hitachi, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., NEC Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, Toshiba Corporation, IBM Japan, Ltd., LINE Corporation, Yahoo Japan Corporation), consulting firms (Nomura Research Institute, Ltd., Accenture Japan Ltd.), IT ventures (CyberAgent, Inc.), and academic institutions (Hokkaido University, Kansai University). Our alumni also work in various universities and companies abroad, e.g. MIT, DeepMind, Orange, OFAI, Rakuten New York, Uppsala University, or Jagiellonian University and startups like Techmo, Exatel, Awl or Insight Tech.