AY2024 Science Tokyo Graduation Ceremony for Academies for the WISE Program
Fourteen graduates of TAC-MI, five graduates of WISE-SSS, fifteen graduates of ISE and four graduates of ToTAL were celebrated in the graduation ceremony at Hisao & Hiroko Taki Plaza on Ookayama Campus on March 26, 2025. Commemorative medals were presented to the graduates.
At the beginning of the ceremony, Executive Vice President for Institute Strategy Jun-ichi Imura and Executive Vice President for Education Noriyuki Wakabayashi gave the graduates congratulations. And then, the directors of each academy introduced the graduates and shared their congratulatory messages.
Finally, the ceremony concluded with words from student representatives of each academy. On behalf of the TAC-MI graduate, Yuna Tatsumi commented “Truth be told, I didn’t know much about the doctoral course, and I didn’t try to know either, when I entered the college. However, in my third year, I caught sight of a poster for the TAC-MI program. Learning both materials science and informatics draw my attention strongly, which was the first step of my doctoral course with TAC-MI. During my time in TAC-MI, the world changed dramatically. Generative AI, such as ChatGPT, became our daily tool and the developers of AlphaFold2 won the Novel Prize last year. I face materials science and informatics have big impacts on our life. TAC-MI program lets us study both materials science and informatics and get hands-on experience like Practice School. All experiences from TAC-MI led us to get a lot of knowledge to make new innovations. Yet, TAC-MI gave me more than knowledge — it gave me invaluable connections. We alumni have big connections with professors and friends. We will open up each next stage, continue to learn, and try to create a sustainable society. When we face challenges and try to overcome them, TAC-MI’s big connection will become our grate support. Finally, I mention that TAC-MI program will evolve into TAC-MI course this April. More students will have fruitful time with TAC-MI. I give my special thanks to all of you I meet here, such as professors, industrial members, friends and staffs, and I wish for mush success of TAC-MI.”
Members of faculty, mentors, and staff in the TAC-MI program look forward to seeing how the latest program graduate exercise their problem-solving ability, global leadership and expertise of “materials × information” on the world stage.
