Takehiko Hashimoto, General Manager of AI Strategy Center (AI Strategy Center), is appointed as a visiting associate professor of the University of Electro-Communications Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Promotion Center in FY2019. Did. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology subsidy for human resources for science and technology training The Data Entrepreneur Fellow Program, which is run after the adoption of the Data-related Human Resource Development Program, will start classes on data-related human resource development.

This appointment aims to develop top-level human resources by supporting the career development of data scientists by experts in various fields and industries in the "Data Entrepreneur Fellow Program" promoted by the University of Electro-Communications. The annual number of AI-related human resources trained at universities is only about 2,800 nationwide (*1), and it is expected that by 2020 there will be a shortage of about 50,000 advanced IT human resources (*2). Against this background, from the industry side, in order to contribute to the establishment of the AI human resource base promoted by the government and aim to realize a data utilization society, human resources through AI / data utilization for business and acceptance of interns at our AI specialized department Hashimoto, who has been working on training activities, will give classes on the theme of acquiring data scientist knowledge and skills in this program.

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(* 1) MEXT / NEDO "5th Artificial Intelligence Technology Strategy Conference March 2017"
(* 2) Cabinet Office `` Science and Technology Innovation Conference / 14th Key Tasks Expert Study Meeting (April 9, 2018) `` Consultation Status of Artificial Intelligence Technology Strategy Conference ''