List
of research topics
as of February 27,
2009
No. |
Research
Division |
Title of
research (Give a www
site for more information) |
Name of
Supervisor |
Student |
Duration |
Comments |
1 |
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 |
2 |
Principles of Informatics |
Semantic
Web |
Prof. Hideaki TAKEDA (武田教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
3 |
Principles of Informatics |
Social
web / Social network analysis |
Prof. Hideaki TAKEDA (武田教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
4 |
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 |
|
5 |
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 |
|
6 |
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 |
|
7 |
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 |
|
8 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
・
Automatic Modeling of
3D Objects ・
Geometric computation
using integers http://research.nii.ac.jp/~sugimoto/ |
Prof. Akihiro SUGIMOTO (杉本教授) |
Ph.D. students |
About 3 months (up to 6 Months) |
Rigorous background on mathematics is
required. In particular, sufficient knowledge of linear algebra, graph theory
and number theory are important requirements. Programming skills are also
required. |
9 |
Principles of Informatics |
Architecture for large-scale scalable quantum
computation Quantum Communication Applications of quantum devices |
Assoc. Prof. Kae NEMOTO (根本准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
Requires the undergraduate-level knowledge
in quantum mechanics |
10 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Software
Development with Event-B |
Prof. Shin NAKAJIMA (中島教授) |
Master’s students |
3 to 5 months |
|
11 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Aspect-oriented
Software Development |
Prof. Shin NAKAJIMA (中島教授) |
Master’s students |
3 to 5 months |
|
12 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Internet
traffic measurement and statistical analysis |
Assoc. Prof. Kensuke FUKUDA (福田准教授) |
Master and Ph.D. students |
4 to 6 months |
Solid programming skills in C or C++ |
13 |
Information Systems Architecture
Science |
Sensor data mining |
Assoc. Prof. Kensuke FUKUDA (福田准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
4 to 6 months |
Solid programming skills in C or C++, or
Java |
14 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Constraint Programming |
Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi HOSOBE (細部准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
15 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Resource management and QoS control in
broadband wireless networks |
Assoc. Prof. Yusheng JI (計准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
16 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Cross-layer design for wireless ad hoc and
sensor networks |
Assoc. Prof. Yusheng JI (計准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
17 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Security
and Safety Engineering http://sse-project.org/confluence/display/SSE/CallForPosition |
Assoc. Prof. Nobukazu YOSHIOKA (吉岡准教授) |
Master and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
18 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Classification
of video shots into semantic categories: TRECVID High-level feature
extraction task |
Prof. Shin’ichi SATOH (佐藤真一教授) |
Ph.D. student |
3 to 6 months |
|
19 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Video search:
TRECVID search task |
Prof. Shin’ichi SATOH (佐藤真一教授) |
Ph.D. student |
3 to 6 months |
|
20 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
TRECVID
content-based copy detection |
Prof. Shin’ichi SATOH (佐藤真一教授) |
Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
21 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Surveillance
video analysis: TRECVID Surveillance event detection |
Prof. Shin’ichi SATOH (佐藤真一教授) |
Ph. D. student |
3 to 6 months |
|
22 |
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. |
23 |
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. |
24 |
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. |
25 |
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. |
26 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Computational
Photography (Image-based rendering,
Image processing) |
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. |
27 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
R&D in the
Foundations of the 3D Internet (Second Life and OpenSim)、MPML3D, EML3D,TWM |
Assoc. Prof. Helmut PRENDINGER (プレンディンガー准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
4-6 months (longer stay
preferred) |
Solid
programming skills |
28 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Collaborative
Scientific Visualization and Modeling in the 3D Internet (Life Sciences,
Agriculture, Astrophysics) |
Assoc. Prof. Helmut PRENDINGER (プレンディンガー准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
4-6 months (longer stay
preferred) |
Solid
programming skills |
29 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Participatory Science and
Interaction in the 3D Internet |
Assoc. Prof. Helmut PRENDINGER (プレンディンガー准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
4-6 months (longer stay
preferred) |
Solid
programming skills |
30 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Opinion
Mining in Second Life |
Assoc. Prof. Helmut PRENDINGER (プレンディンガー准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
4-6 months (longer stay preferred) |
Solid
programming skills |
31 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Clustering
large scale data via similarity graph construction and evaluation of the
clusters |
Assoc. Prof. Takeaki UNO (宇野准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
Recently we developed quite fast algorithm
for similarity analysis for large scale data. This project aims application
to real world data, with evaluation and developing new methods. |
32 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Develop
fast genome sequence analysis, mapping fragments and assembling fragments |
Assoc. Prof. Takeaki UNO (宇野准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
Our recent algorithm detects overlapping
fragments of genome sequences quickly. This project aims evaluation of the
efficiency on real-world data and develop new methods for mapping and
assembling. |
33 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Text
mining and matching for data integration |
Prof. Atsuhiro TAKASU (高須教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
34 |
Information System Architecture |
Autonomic
management of networked sensing systems http://honiden-lab.ex.nii.ac.jp/~levent/internship-description-HonidenLab |
Prof. Shinich HONIDEN (本位田教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
Experience and interest in ubiquitous
computing, sensor applications, Java programming. |
35 |
Collaborative Research Division |
Correlation-based
Outlier Detection 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 |
6 months preferred, PhD candidate preferred |
36 |
Collaborative Research Division |
Unsupervised
Feature Selection 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 |
5 to 6 months |
6 months preferred, PhD candidate preferred |
37 |
Collaborative Research Division |
Cache-based Query Result Estimation http://research.nii.ac.jp/~meh/internship/intern-proj-cache.doc |
Visiting Prof. Michael HOULE (フール客員教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
4 to 6 months |
6 months preferred, PhD candidate preferred |
38 |
Collaborative Research Division |
Dynamic Query-Result Clustering http://research.nii.ac.jp/~meh/internship/intern-proj-qclust.doc |
Visiting Prof. Michael HOULE (フール客員教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
4 to 6 months |
6 months preferred, PhD candidate preferred |
39 |
Collaborative Research Division |
Distributed Data Clustering http://research.nii.ac.jp/~meh/internship/intern-proj-pclust.doc |
Visiting Prof. Michael HOULE (フール客員教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
5 to 6 months |
6 months preferred, PhD candidate preferred |
40 |
Collaborative Research Division |
Multimodal Data Clustering http://research.nii.ac.jp/~meh/internship/intern-proj-morsc.doc |
Visiting Prof. Michael HOULE (フール客員教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
5 to 6 months |
6 months preferred, PhD candidate preferred |
41 |
Digital Content and Media Sciences |
Fundamental
techniques and systems for media security |
Assoc. Prof. Isao ECHIZEN |
Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
42 |
Principles of Informatics |
Lambda
Calculus and Formal Grammar |
Assoc. Prof. Makoto (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. |
43 |
Principles of Informatics |
Numerical
Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis |
Prof. Ken HAYAMI (速水教授) |
Master’s or Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
Basic knowledge on numerical analysis or
numerical linear algebra is desirable. |
44 |
Principles of Informatics |
Data mining
methods for linked data |
Assoc. Prof. Ryutaro ICHISE (市瀬准教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
45 |
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 |
|
46 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Bidirectional
Model Transformation for Software Development |
Prof. Zhenjiang HU (胡教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
47 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Skeletal
Parallel Programming for Multicore Architecture |
Prof. Zhenjiang HU (胡教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
48 |
Information Systems Architecture Science |
Program
Transformation and Optimization in Calculational Form |
Prof. Zhenjiang HU (胡教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
2 to 6 months |
|
49 |
Information and Society |
Any of NTCIR
tasks, including 1) Advanced Cross-Lingual Information Access, 2)
Multilingual Opinion Analysis, 3) Patent Retrieval, 4) Geographic and
Temporal Information Retrieval, and 5) IR Evaluation methodology |
Prof. Noriko KANDO (神門教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|
50 |
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 |
|
51 |
Information and Society |
CRES
(Cognitive Research for Exploratory Search) Project |
Prof. Noriko KANDO (神門教授) |
Master’s and Ph.D. students |
3 to 6 months |
|