OMU News
Dec 15, 2025
- Informatics
Professor Kai Cai’s project selected for the 2025 JST ASPIRE Program
Osaka Metropolitan University is proud to announce that a research project proposed by Professor Kai Cai from the Graduate School of Informatics has been selected for the 2025 Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for Innovative Research Ecosystem (ASPIRE) program funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
The project, “From Natural Language to Safe Actions: Crafting an Automatic Control Design Architecture for AI-Physical Systems towards Society 5.0 through the Japan-Canada-USA Network”, aims to pioneer a new paradigm for the automatic control design of AI-Physical Multi-Agent Systems and contribute to the vision of Society 5.0.
Professor Cai will serve as the Principal Investigator on the Japan side and collaborate closely with Professor Lacra Pavel from the University of Toronto and Professor Chuchu Fan from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The project will be implemented from December 2025 to March 2029, with a total funding of approximately 90 million yen.
Professor Kai Cai of the Graduate School of Informatics
“I am deeply honored to be selected for the 2025 JST ASPIRE for Rising Scientists program. This program provides a remarkable opportunity to advance our international collaboration with Canada and the United States, and to jointly craft a new foundation for safe and reliable AI-Physical Systems. I am particularly excited about the unique synergy our team brings—combining expertise in supervisory control theory, game theory, multi-agent systems, and AI—to address emerging global challenges in the safe integration of AI into the physical world. I am committed to ensuring that this research project not only delivers impactful scientific results, but also fosters sustainable networks and cultivates the next generation of researchers in Japan.”
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