Category: For Students

GSEP Student Orientation 2022

The orientation schedules for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year students under the GSEP program for AY 2022 are as follows:

2nd year: 11:00 – 12:00, April 8, 2022

3rd year: 15:00 – 16:00, April 5, 2022

4th year: 16:15 – 17:15, April 5, 2022

Venue: Basement rooms, Ishikawadai 4 Building

Orientation handouts will be uploaded soon. Timetables will be shared during the orientation. Recommended timetables will no longer be provided for fourth years since most of them will now be focusing on their Independent Research Projects.

Students from TSE won best presentation awards in MISW 2021

The Multidisciplinary International Student Workshop (MISW) 2021 was held on August 5 and 6, 2021. It was held online and participated by 49 students of Tokyo Tech and 11 students from institutions in the Asia Oceania Top University League on Engineering (AOTULE).

Four out of five of the awardees for best presentation belong to the Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, School of Environment Society.

Congratulations to the following students and keep the good work!

  • Yasser Tasya Muhamad (2nd-year master’s student)
  • Linux Farungsang (2nd-year master’s student)
  • Uyanga Tumurbaatar (2nd-year master’s student)
  • Muhammad Usman (2nd-year master’s student)

Further details of the event can be found here.

GSEP Student Orientation 2021

The orientation schedules for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year students under the GSEP program for AY 2021 are as follows:

2nd year: 13:30 – 14:30, April 7, 2021 (I-4 Basement and Online)

3rd year: 14:30 – 15:30, April 7, 2021 (I-4 Basement and Online)

4th year: 13:30 – 14:00, April 5, 2021 (Online only)

Note to 2nd and 3rd year students: If you are in Tokyo, it is recommended that you attend the orientation at I-4 Building. Recommended timetables will no longer be provided for fourth years since most of them will now be focusing on their Independent Research Projects.

The orientation documents (with edits after the orientation) can be downloaded by clicking the links below that apply to the year level of interest. The documents only apply to AY 2021.

1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year, 4th year

Free online “Code Biased” movie screening and panel discussion

The movie CODED BIAS by Shalini Kantayya explores the fallout of MIT media lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

Algorithmic bias can affect anyone. To increase awareness of this phenomenon, we are hosting a free virtual screening of Coded Bias through the Women Techmakers Program and Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Online Education Development Office from January 22 to 24, 2021 Japan time. This will be followed by a panel discussion with AI ethics movers in Japan on January 25, 2021 from 7:30PM to 9:00PM Japan time. You can mingle with other film viewers and AI ethics enthusiasts in raising questions for the panel discussion every 8:00PM to 8:30PM Japan time during the screening days. Please refer to the flyer for more details.

The slots are limited to 100 and we will be giving priority to students who can join our panel discussion as well. If selected, we will be sending you the watch links on January 20, 2021. Registration is open until January 18, 2021.

Sign-up sheet: https://forms.gle/6qShV8278x6snnnS8

Flyer: CodedBiasFlyerTIT

 

Graduate school opportunities in Tokyo Tech from April 2021

Opportunities for graduate school in Tokyo Tech (April 2021):

  1. The application period for IGP-C (masters degree program) commencing from April 21, 2021 in Tokyo Tech. For specific details, click here.
  2. The application period for SGU-MEXT scholarship. For specific details, click here.

The TSE faculty and staff continually wish you the best in your future.