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About
- Sylff Program
  
  Cultivating leaders of tomorrow in countries worldwide
  
  Mission & Philosophy
  
  The goals of the Sylff Program and the leadership qualities it seeks to nurture
- Message from the Chairman
  
  Promoting peaceful and socially inclusive development
  
  Sylff Association
  
  Platform to bring all Sylff stakeholders closer together
- History
  
  Major milestones since the program's inception in 1987
  
  Contact
  
  Ask questions, offer comments, or come visit us in Tokyo
Institutions
Fellows
Support Programs
- Overview
- Research
  
  Research Grant (SRG)
  
  Up to US$5,000 to support doctoral and post-doc fellows’ academic research activities in their field of expertise.
  
  Research Abroad
  (SRA)
  
  Up to US$5,000 to support research in a foreign country for a doctoral dissertation.
- Social Action
  
  Leadership
  Initiatives (SLI)
  
  Up to US$10,000 for social action projects and conferences/workshops initiated by fellows.
  
  Project Grant (SPG)
  
  Large-scale grants for projects with potential for substantial social impact.
- Networking
  
  Leaders Workshop
  
  Opportunities for intercultural group learning and leadership enhancement.
News & Voices
Administrators
Operation Manual
- Overview
- Conventional Scheme
  
  Guidelines on program and endowment management
- New Scheme
  
  For institutions wishing to focus on program operations
- Administrators Meetings
  
  Learn best practices and meet other Sylff administrators

Fellows Profile

Shiori Hikichi

Keio University

Interdisciplinary Studies

Received Sylff fellowship in 2019.
Current affiliation: Keio University (PhD), JAPAN
Academic achievements, social engagement initiatives:
IEEE 11th Int'l Conf. on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC 2017), San Diego, California, USA (Acceptance Ratio: 20.15%)

My motivation is to integrate multi-disciplinary academic fields (Semantic Computing(Computer Science) and Bioinformatics(Biology)).
My academic research is aimed to develop a new analytical method for discover the difference in nationality. As a case study, I applied our proposed analytical method to one of biological data (e.g. human gut microbiome data). The detail of my research is shown in IEEE paper and others in my linkedin page.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiori-hikichi-3129b6b6

To contact this fellow, email the Sylff Association at sylff[a]tkfd.or.jp (replace [a] with @).