船井情報科学振興財団

The Funai Foundation for Information Technology

The Funai Foundation for Information Technology was founded in Tokyo in 2001 by a generous donation of Mr. Tetsuro Funai, then President and CEO of Funai Electric, co. ltd. The Funai Foundation has been awarding domestic academic prizes in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, namely, Funai Information Technology Award and Funai Information Technology Award for Young Researchers. Since 2009 Funai Foundation has been providing Japanese students in STEM and economics fields with a fellowship to study in a graduate school abroad to pursue a Ph.D. degree. Our fellows have been very successful in the following sense.

1. Fellows from 2009 to 2023 entered graduate schools in top universities in the world such as Carnegie Mellon University (11 fellows), California Institute of Technology (3 fellows), Cornell University (5 fellows), ETH Zürich (4 fellows), Harvard University (8 fellows), McGill University (1 fellow), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (14 fellows), Princeton University (1 fellow), Stanford University (11 fellows), University of California at Berkeley (12 fellows), University of Cambridge (7 fellows), University of Chicago (2 fellows), University of Oxford (3 fellows), University of Pennsylvania (2 fellows), Yale University (5 fellows), and so on.
2. Out of 59 Funai fellows from 2009 to 2016, 54 completed the Ph.D. programs with Ph.D. degrees (high rate, 91.5%, of doctorate degree completion).
3. Out of 54 students above who finished the Ph.D. programs successfully, 19 are currently assistant professors, lecturers, and associate professors, and 11 are postdocs, and 24 work in industry, including those who started venture companies abroad and in Japan.
4. To name a few, some are associate professors at Georgia Institute of Technology, Kyushu University, National University of Singapore, University of Tokyo, and so on, assistant professors at Boston University, Duke University, Osaka University, Purdue University, University of Coimbra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Massachusetts Boston, University of Michigan, University of Tokyo, and so on.

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