The Center for Data Science Education and Research, Shiga University has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, to cooperate in a statistical teacher training project.As a collaborative project, a satellite facility of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics will be set up on the Hikone Campus of Shiga University in Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture.
According to the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, in order to overcome the urgent need to develop data-related human resources in Japan, it is a memorandum to cooperate in training specialist teachers in statistical mathematics science, which is extremely lacking. Purpose.Hiroe Tsubaki, Director of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, and Akimichi Takemura, Dean of the Faculty of Data Science, Shiga University, signed a memorandum of understanding.
In addition to the satellite facilities of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, which will be established based on the memorandum, both parties will promote practical research at the university and mutual exchange of faculty members, and will accelerate the training of statistical faculty members.
Since its establishment in 2016, the Shiga University Data Science Education and Research Center has been working as a data science education and research center in collaboration with the Faculty of Data Science and the Graduate School of Data Science.The Institute of Statistical Mathematics is the only research institute in Japan for statistical science and related mathematical science, and has established the Institute of Statistical Thinking to train data scientists.
