Super Smart Society Innovation A1: Frontiers in Quantum Technology

Offered quarter: 3Q

Students learn about quantum sensing using spin defects and color centers in wide bandgap semiconductors, cutting-edge research on quantum computers, and AI related to mobility, especially focusing on image recognition, data analysis, and optimization technologies.

Class 1

Diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center and its quantum sensing
Lecturer: Takeshi Oshima, QST

Class 2

Spin defects/color centers in other wide bandgap semiconductors
Lecturer: Takeshi Oshima, QST

Class 3

Creation of spin defects/color centers
Lecturer: Takeshi Oshima, QST

Class 4

Overview of quantum computers
Lecturer: Masayuki Shirane, NEC System Platform Research Laboratories

Class 5

NEC’s activities for superconducting quantum computers
Lecturer: Masayuki Shirane, NEC System Platform Research Laboratories

Class 6

Quantum and simulated annealing theory and their applications
Lecturer: Masayuki Shirane, NEC System Platform Research Laboratories

Class 7

AI Technology for Mobility Industry
Lecturer: Daisuke Kaji, Denso Corporation

Super Smart Society Innovation A2: IoT/ Robotics/Smart city

Offered quarter: 2Q, 4Q

Students learn about the latest research on control and communication technologies that support cloud robotics, approaches to smart cities, examples of IoT applications in industry, and mechanisms for creating new value by sharing data among industrial machines.

Class 1

Advanced robot control technologies utilizing communication networks
Lecturer: Yuji Yoshida, NEC System Platform Research Laboratories

Class 2

KDDI Research’s Challenge toward Post 5G/6G Era
Lecturer: Takahito Yoshihara, KDDI Research, Inc.

Class 3

Latest Research and Development on IoT in KDDI Research
Lecturer: Takahito Yoshihara, KDDI Research, Inc.

Class 4

Smart Manufacturing and Data Utilization (part 1)
Lecturer: Takahide Kaneara, Yaskawa Electric Corporation

Class 5

Smart Manufacturing and Data Utilization (part 2)
Lecturer: Takahide Kaneara, Yaskawa Electric Corporation

Class 6

Network control technology for supporting remote robot control
Lecturer: Takanori Iwai, NEC System Platform Research Laboratories

Class 7

Operational revolution for process industry with digital twin
Lecturer: Minoru Nakaya, Yokogawa Electric Corporation