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 2024 entered graduate schools in top universities in the world such as Brown University (1 fellow), California Institute of Technology (4 fellows), Carnegie Mellon University (11 fellows), Columbia University (1 fellow), Cornell University (5 fellows), ETH Zürich (4 fellows), Harvard University (8 fellows), Johns Hopkins University (2 fellows), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (14 fellows), McGill University (1 fellow), Princeton University (1 fellow), Stanford University (11 fellows), University of California at Berkeley (14 fellows), University of Cambridge (7 fellows), University of Chicago (2 fellows), University of Oxford (3 fellows), University of Pennsylvania (2 fellows), University of Washington (4 fellows), Yale University (5 fellows), and so on.
2. Out of 72 Funai fellows from 2009 to 2018, 67 completed the Ph.D. programs with Ph.D. degrees (high rate, 93%, of doctorate degree completion).
3. Out of 67 students above who finished the Ph.D. programs successfully, 23 are currently assistant professors, lecturers, and associate professors, and 13 are postdocs, and 31 work in industry, including those who started venture companies abroad and in Japan.
4. To name a few, some are associate professors at Ehime University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Hitotsubashi University, Kyoto University, Kyushu University, National University of Singapore, The University of Tokyo, lecturers at Hitotsubashi University, The University of Tokyo, and assistant professors at Boston University, Duke University, National Institute of Informatics (Japan), National Taiwan University, National University of Singapore, Osaka University, Purdue University, University of Coimbra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Massachusetts Boston, University of Michigan, The University of Tokyo, and so on.

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