On December 16, a delegation from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), led by President Chi-Hung Lin and joined by Senior Vice President Chien Chou and Vice President for International Affairs Wensyang Hsu visited Tohoku University. The delegation was warmly received and held a meeting with Tohoku University’s executive leadership.
The meeting participants from Tohoku University included President Teiji Tominaga, Executive Vice Presidents Prof. Takafumi Aoki, Prof. Asako Sugimoto, Prof. Toshiya Ueki, Mr. Tsuyoshi Tohyama, and Vice President Prof. Masahiro Yamaguchi, as well as department heads involved in the collaboration.
Last month, President Tominaga and other members of Tohoku University’s executive leadership visited NYCU to sign a revised university-level academic exchange agreement to further solidify the partnership between the two institutions.
This visit provided an opportunity to explore specific promotional measures for advancing cooperation under the revised agreement. Presentations on research in specific fields were held with the goal to initiate new collaborations in areas such as biomedical sciences, AI, disaster science, and the humanities and social sciences, while also strengthening existing joint research in semiconductors, dentistry and industry-academia collaborations. Later in the evening, a general meeting was convened to summarize the discussions from each research field and each shared their views on future prospects.
Also, the delegation was divided into groups based on their areas of expertise and visited either the NanoTerasu, Tohoku University Hospital, the Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES), or the Micro System Integration Center (µSIC).
It is hoped that the two universities will continue to build on their existing collaborations and that the revised academic exchange agreement will foster deeper interdisciplinary exchanges and partnerships between respective departments, thereby strengthening our relationship with
NYCU further.
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Executive leadership from Tohoku University and NYCU during their meeting.
Commemorative photo from the executive leadership meeting: NYCU President Lin (seventh from right, front row) and Tohoku University President Tominaga (sixth from right, front row).
Tour of the Tohoku University Hospital
Commemorative photo from the presentation on research in the humanities and social sciences.
During the presentation on research in semiconductor-related fields
Tour of NanoTerasu
Presentation session on current and future collaborative research.
Commemorative photo from the presentation session on current and future collaborative research.