List
of research topics
as of September 1, 2008
No. |
Research
Division |
Title of
research (Give a www
site for more information) |
Name of
Supervisor |
Student |
Duration |
Comments |
1 |
Principles of Informatics |
Comparative
genomics of primates http://www.nig.ac.jp/section/fujiyama/fujiyama-e.html |
Prof. Asao FUJIYAMA (藤山教授) |
Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
2 |
Principles of Informatics |
Numerical
Linear Algebra and Numerical Analysis http://research.nii.ac.jp/~hayami/index-e.html |
Prof. Ken HAYAMI (速水教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
Basic knowledge on numerical analysis and
numerical linear algebra is desirable. |
3 |
Principles of Informatics |
Automated
Reasoning and Machine Learning Techniques for Bioinformatics and Systems
Biology |
Prof. Katsumi INOUE (井上克巳教授) |
Ph.D. Students |
2 to 6 months |
Required: Basic Knowledge on Artificial
Intelligence and/or Biology |
4 |
Principles of Informatics |
Knowledge
sharing on Internet, Social Web http:///www-kasm.nii.ac.jp/ |
Prof. Hideaki TAKEDA (武田教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
5 |
Principles of Informatics |
lambda-Calculus
and Type Theory |
Prof. Makoto TATSUTA (龍田教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
It would be better to know lambda-calculus, type theory, or mathematical logic. |
6 |
Principles of Informatics |
Domain-based Text
Mining and Knowledge Acquisition |
Assoc. Prof. Nigel COLLIER (コリアー准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
7 |
Principles of Informatics |
Data mining
methods for bibliography data |
Assoc. Prof. Ryutaro ICHISE (市瀬准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
8 |
Principles of Informatics |
Machine
learning methods for semantic integration |
Assoc. Prof. Ryutaro ICHISE (市瀬准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
9 |
Principles of Informatics |
Adaptive learning mechanism based on
human-robot interaction |
Assoc. Prof. Tetsunari INAMURA (稲邑准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
10 |
Principles of Informatics |
Behavior Imitation on a Humanoid Robot |
Assoc. Prof. Tetsunari INAMURA (稲邑准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
11 |
Principles of Informatics |
Intelligent tele-operation system for
network robots |
Assoc. Prof. Tetsunari INAMURA (稲邑准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
12 |
Principles of Informatics |
Lambda
Calculus and Formal Grammar |
Assoc. Prof. Makoto KANAZAWA (金沢准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
Basic familiarity with formal language
theory and/or lambda calculus is required. |
13 |
Principles of Informatics |
Quantum
Information Processing http://www.qis.ex.nii.ac.jp |
Assoc. Prof. Kae NEMOTO (根本准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
Students are required to have the basic
skills and knowledge of theoretical physics as a university graduate. |
14 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Software
Development with Event-B |
Prof. Shin NAKAJIMA (中島教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
15 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Model
Checking of C Programs |
Prof. Shin NAKAJIMA (中島教授) |
Master’s students |
4 to 6 months |
|
16 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Middleware
for Pervasive/Ambient Computing http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ichiro/ |
Prof. Ichiro SATOH (佐藤一郎教授) |
Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
17 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Mobile
Agent http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ichiro/ |
Prof. Ichiro SATOH (佐藤一郎教授) |
Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
18 |
Information Systems Architecture
Science |
Internet traffic
measurement and statistical analysis |
Assoc. Prof. Kensuke FUKUDA (福田准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
Solid programming skills in C or C++ |
19 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Constraint Programming http://research.nii.ac.jp/~hosobe/ |
Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi HOSOBE (細部准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
20 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Resource management and control in
broadband wireless networks |
Assoc. Prof. Yusheng JI (計准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
21 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Quality of service provisioning in
multi-service networks |
Assoc. Prof. Yusheng JI (計准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
22 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Model Driven Security and Safety |
Assoc. Prof. Nobukazu YOSHIOKA (吉岡准教授) |
Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
23 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
High-performance interconnection networks in
multiprocessor systems http://research.nii.ac.jp/~koibuchi/ |
Assistant Prof. Michihiro KOIBUCHI (鯉渕助教) |
Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
24 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Any of TRECVID tasks, including 1)
high-level feature extraction, 2)
search, 3) surveillance event detection, 4) rushes summarization, or
5) content-based copy detection. |
Prof. Shin’ichi SATOH (佐藤真一教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. student |
3 to 6 months |
Please select your preferable tasks (1-5) |
25 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Automatic
Modeling of 3D Objects |
Prof. Akihiro SUGIMOTO (杉本教授) |
Ph.D. students |
About 3months (up to 6 months) |
Rigorous background on linear algebra and/or graph theory is required. Programming skills are also required. |
26 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Multi-view
geometry under the existence of digitization errors |
Prof. Akihiro SUGIMOTO (杉本教授) |
Ph.D. students |
About 3 months (up to 6 months) |
Rigorous background on linear algebra and/or graph theory is required. Programming skills are also required. |
27 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Fundamental
techniques and systems for media security http://research.nii.ac.jp/~iechizen/official/content_e.html |
Assoc. Prof. Isao ECHIZEN |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
28 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Earth
Science and Environmental Databases |
Assoc. Prof. Asanobu KITAMOTO (北本准教授) |
Ph.D. preferred but also master. |
2 to 6 months |
Programming skill and/or domain knowledge on application areas is required. |
29 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Image
Databases and Image Search |
Assoc. Prof. Asanobu KITAMOTO (北本准教授) |
Ph.D. preferred but also master. |
2 to 6 months |
Programming skill and/or domain knowledge on application areas is required. |
30 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Technologies
and Information Design for Participatory Media |
Assoc. Prof. Asanobu KITAMOTO (北本准教授) |
Ph.D. preferred but also master. |
2 to 6 months |
Programming skill and/or domain knowledge on application areas is required. |
31 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Digital
Archives and Cultural Heritage |
Assoc. Prof. Asanobu KITAMOTO (北本准教授) |
Ph.D. preferred but also master. |
2 to 6 months |
Programming skill and/or domain knowledge on application areas is required. |
32 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
R&D in the
Foundations of the 3D Internet (Second Life and OpenSimulator) http://research.nii.ac.jp/~prendinger/ |
Assoc. Prof. Helmut PRENDINGER (プレンディンガー准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3-6 months (longer stay
preferred) |
Solid
programming skills |
33 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
A Virtual 3D Collaboration
and Experimentation Environment for Large-Scale Simulations http://research.nii.ac.jp/~prendinger/ |
Assoc. Prof. Helmut PRENDINGER (プレンディンガー准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3-6 months (longer stay
preferred) |
Solid
programming skills |
34 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Experience Sharing and
Knowledge Creation in Virtual 3D Worlds |
Assoc. Prof. Helmut PRENDINGER (プレンディンガー准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3-6 months (longer stay
preferred) |
Solid
programming skills |
35 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Opinion Mining http://research.nii.ac.jp/~prendinger/ |
Assoc. Prof. Helmut PRENDINGER (プレンディンガー准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3-6 months (longer stay
preferred) |
Solid
programming skills |
36 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Image Based Modeling
and Rendering http://research.nii.ac.jp/~imarik |
Assoc. Prof. Imari SATOH |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
5 to 6 months |
A basic knowledge of computer graphics and
good programming skills are required. |
37 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Image
retrieval http://research.nii.ac.jp/~m-inoue/index.html |
Assistant Prof. Masashi INOUE (井上雅史助教) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 3 months (Dec.1-Feb.28) |
Programming skills needed |
38 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Face-to-face
conversation analysis http://research.nii.ac.jp/~m-inoue/index.html |
Assistant Prof. Masashi INOUE (井上雅史助教) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 3 months (Dec.1-Feb.28) |
Either Speech/Video processing or Japanese
language analysis |
39 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Pervasive,
Quality-Assured Service Composition and Delivery http://research.nii.ac.jp/~f-ishikawa/internships/ |
Assistant Prof. Fuyuki ISHIKAWA (石川助教) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
40 |
Information and Society |
Any
of NTCIR tasks, including 1) Advanced Cross-Lingual Information Access, 2)
Multilingual Opinion Analysis, 3) Patent Translation, Retrieval, Mining, 4)
Trend Information, and 5) Evaluation methodology http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/index-en.html http://ntcir.nii.ac.jp/ |
Prof. Noriko KANDO (神門教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
41 |
Information and Society |
MEW
(Multi-Faceted Exploratory search system for Web Resources) Project |
Prof. Noriko KANDO (神門教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
42 |
Information and Society |
CRES
(Cognitive Research for Exploratory Search) Project http://cres.jpn.org/ |
Prof. Noriko KANDO (神門教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
43 |
Information and Society |
Analysis
on E-commerce consumers’ behavior |
Assoc. Prof. Hitoshi OKADA |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
Currently conducting an E-commerce research
in Thailand. |
44 |
Information and Society |
Network Economics, Open Source Software http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ueda/official/content_e.html |
Assistant Prof. Masashi UEDA (上田助教) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
Up to 6 months |
I welcome both natural science and social
science background students. |
45 |
Collaborative Research Division |
Classification Under the Relevant Set Correlation Model http://research.nii.ac.jp/~meh/internship/intern-proj-class.doc |
Visiting Prof. Michael Houle (フール客員教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
4 to 6 months |
C, C++ or Java programming skills |
46 |
Collaborative Research Division |
Unsupervised Feature Selection Based on Relevant Set
Correlation http://research.nii.ac.jp/~meh/internship/intern-proj-features.doc |
Visiting Prof. Michael Houle (フール客員教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
4 to 6 months |
C, C++ or Java programming skills |
47 |
Collaborative Research Division |
Relevant-Set Correlation Clustering for Outlier Detection
(OutlierRSC) http://research.nii.ac.jp/~meh/internship/intern-proj-outlier.doc |
Visiting Prof. Michael Houle (フール客員教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
4 to 6 months |
C, C++ or Java programming skills |