Here at the Faculty and Graduate School of Informatics (FGSI) of Shizuoka University, our primary institutional goal is the promotion of innovative informatics research combining humanities and scientific disciplinary approaches. Toward this goal, we have established the Informatics Research Promotion Office (IRPO) located on our home campus. The IRPO provides a venue for guest researchers from the realms of business and community governance to advise, pursue, and otherwise cooperate in promoting practical research for the benefit of society using our university as a base from which to coordinate these efforts.

 Our objective is to plan and facilitate informatics research at FGSI combining humanities and scientific disciplinary approaches, with the aims of contributing to the field of informatics itself and to the benefit and further development of today’s highly information-oriented society.

 Our IRPO organization consists of the following members:
• Director (concurrently serving FGSI Professor)
• Members (several concurrently serving FGSI faculty members)
• Visiting researchers, including businesspersons, technicians, politicians, bureaucrats, etc., working in various informatics-related fields appointed after IRPO nomination and FGSI faculty meeting approval (see current list of researchers).
• Other staff

 We are currently carrying out the following activities in pursuit of our above-stated Objective:
• Supporting group research projects underway at the FGSI
• Hosting the Informatics Workshop (WiNF)
• Augmenting existing funding and procuring new funding sources (especially government research grants)
• Coordinating joint research with industry
• Promoting practical benefits to society from funded research results and newly developed technologies
• Other activities contributing to advances in the field of informatics

Visiting Researchers

Name	Face Photo	Through History
Tetsuya Izu (Visiting Professor)		Data & Security Research Laboratory, Research Unit, FUJITSU Research, FUJITU Limited
Naohiko Uramoto (Visiting Professor)		Chief Digital Officer, Emerging Technology and Business Development Office, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp.
Kazuhiko Ohkubo (Visiting Professor)		Department CEO Information Security Department ICT Solutions Headquarters KYOWA EXEO CORPORATION
Ken Ohta (Visiting Professor)		NTT DOCOMO, Inc. Service Innovation Department General manager
Shoichi Otomo (Visiting Associate Professor)		Chief Executive Officer GEOJACKASS, Inc.
Hideto Ogawa (Visiting Professor)		Chief Researcher Center for Technology Innovation-Systems Engineering Research & Development Group Hitachi,Ltd.
Hiroyuki Kazama (Visiting Professor)		NTTDATA, Inc. Head of Silicon Valley Office
Kazuhiro Kusunoki (Visiting Professor)		Senior General Manager Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Information Technology R&D Center
Kazushi Kuse (Visiting Professor)		Senior Executive Officer, Digital Value Creation, Asahi Kasei Corp.
Keizo Sugiyama (Visiting Professor)		Security Division, KDDI Research, Inc.
Yasutomo Suzuki (Visiting Professor)		Mayor of Hamamatsu
Mikiya Tani (Visiting Professor)		Executive Chief Engineer,Research & Development Unit, NEC Corporation.
Makoto WADA (Visiting Professor)		Developmental Disorders Section, Department of Rehabilitation for Brain Functions, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities