Mercari R4D has launched the “Mercari R4D PhD Support Program,” a program to support employees to pursue PhD studies, from February 2022.
We are pleased to announce that the 2nd round of the program has been decided!
Chenghui Weng
- Affiliation: Engineer at Mercari
- University: Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University
- Research Theme: Toward a Formal Information-leakage Analysis Framework for Secure Multi-party Computation Languages
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I always feel security by verification is an important yet feasible vision, which can bring our engineering outcome as safe as other engineering domains. We won’t launch a car or a bridge without verifying its safety. Still, there are thousands of services launched every day, and most of their safety only relies on how many – if not how comprehensive – tests are written. So I greatly thank Mercari gives me this opportunity to study for my Ph.D. course, and also gives me a chance to utilize what I would learn in the future for real business services.
Applications for the 3rd round of the PhD Support Program have been closed, and the selection process is now underway. Mercari will continue to support various opportunities for recurrent education and career building for employees, and in addition to focusing on developing talent capable of contributing to economic development and solving social issues, will continue to strive for a work environment that encourages the success of its diverse people.About “Mercari R4D PhD Support Program”
“Mercari R4D PhD Support Program” will provide tuition support and flexible working hours to ensure sufficient study and research time to Mercari employees who aspire to enter doctorate programs in fields that will contribute to the future growth of Mercari and the solution of social issues. We will give employees the opportunity to redesign their careers and explore new horizons, all while retaining their jobs at Mercari. Also, we will be able to dispatch employees into areas beyond the ones that R4D has been involved in up to this point. In this way, Mercari will increase the number of employees with highly specialized knowledge, and strengthen its human resource development in order to stoke innovation.