Chiba University and Triple Eyes Sign Comprehensive Partnership to Advance AI Education and Regional DX

Chiba University, a national university corporation headquartered in Inage Ward, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture and led by President Kotaro Yokote, has signed a comprehensive partnership agreement with Triple Eyes Inc., headquartered in Minato Ward, Tokyo and led by CEO Hiroya Katafuchi, to promote AI education and digital transformation in local communities. A signing ceremony was held on Friday, May 1, 2026. Since October 2025, Chiba University and Triple Eyes have collaborated on AI-related courses for high school students under ASCENT-6E, an innovative education and research support program operated by Chiba University’s Next-Generation Talent Support Office as part of its high school-university partnership initiatives. The program aims to foster outstanding talent in science and technology at an early stage. Under the new agreement, Chiba University will launch a new general education course, “AI Co-Creation and Digital Design Fundamentals” for two credits, beginning in April 2026. The course will be open to students from all faculties and years. The partnership will also connect researchers across the diverse fields of a comprehensive university with Triple Eyes’ AI technologies and implementation expertise, further strengthening collaboration to address a wide range of social challenges. Chiba University President Kotaro Yokote said the agreement will organically connect Triple Eyes’ cutting-edge AI technologies with the university’s resources in general education, high school-university collaborative education, entrepreneurship education, and related areas. He said the university aims to build a partnership that maximizes the strengths of both sides. He also expressed high expectations that the collaboration will be flexibly customized according to its purposes and target audiences, leading to the realization of human resource development suited to the AI era. Triple Eyes CEO Hiroya Katafuchi said that combining Triple Eyes’ social implementation capabilities with Chiba University’s academic research outcomes and talent could enable social initiatives capable of making a real impact. Triple Eyes plans to use its assets in image recognition and AI research and development to pursue interdisciplinary joint research, cultivate international DX talent, and promote activities based in Chiba. He said he looks forward to working with Chiba University to build a sustainable society for the future. The course “AI Co-Creation and Digital Design Fundamentals” will target first- through fourth-year students across all faculties. It will be offered in the first term of the first semester of the 2026 academic year, every Friday during the fourth and fifth periods, for a total of 15 sessions. The venue will be Lecture Room 110 in Building 15 of Chiba University’s Faculty of Engineering, with 42 students enrolled. The course will cover UI/UX design using design thinking and app development using generative AI, delivered in an exercise-based format across all 15 sessions. The course has four goals: first, to practice design thinking by turning solutions to social issues into digital products; second, to understand and appropriately control the characteristics of generative AI; third, to develop logical debugging skills by identifying and correcting errors in AI-generated code while learning the essence of programming; and fourth, to experience agile development by cycling through design and implementation to complete original applications. Going forward, the partners will continue to provide Triple Eyes’ generative AI lectures for high school students through ASCENT-6E. Through inquiry-based programming exercises that ask what the problem is and how solutions can be used in the real world, they aim to cultivate creative problem-solving abilities.