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

http://research.nii.ac.jp/il/

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

http://www-kasm.nii.ac.jp

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

http://www-kasm.nii.ac.jp

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

http://research.nii.ac.jp/~collier

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

http://www.iir.nii.ac.jp/

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

http://www.iir.nii.ac.jp/

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

http://www.iir.nii.ac.jp/

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

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

Requires the undergraduate-level knowledge in quantum mechanics

10

Information Systems Architecture Science

Software Development with Event-B

http://research.nii.ac.jp/~nkjm/official/content_e.html

Prof.

Shin NAKAJIMA

(中島教授)

Master’s students

3 to 5

months

 

11

Information Systems Architecture Science

Aspect-oriented Software Development

http://www.nii.ac.jp/staff/NAKAJIMA_Shin.shtml

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

http://www.entia.org/~kensuke

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

http://www.entia.org/~kensuke

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

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

 

15

Information Systems Architecture Science

Resource management and QoS control in broadband wireless networks

http://research.nii.ac.jp/~kei/

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

http://research.nii.ac.jp/~kei/

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

http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/tv2009/tv2009.html

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

http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/tv2009/tv2009.html

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

http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/tv2009/tv2009.html

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

http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/tv2009/tv2009.html

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
http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typhoon/
http://earth.nii.ac.jp/

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
http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/~kitamoto/research/cbir/

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
http://eye.tc/
http://front.eye.tc/

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
http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/

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)

http://research.nii.ac.jp/~imarik

Assoc. Prof.

Imari SATOH
(
佐藤いまり准教授)

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

http://www.prendingerlab.net/globallab/

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)

http://www.prendingerlab.net/globallab/

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

http://www.prendingerlab.net/globallab/

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

http://www.prendingerlab.net/globallab/

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

http://research.nii.ac.jp/~uno/index.html

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

http://research.nii.ac.jp/~uno/index.html

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

http://research.nii.ac.jp/~iechizen/official/content_e.html

Assoc. Prof.

Isao ECHIZEN
(
越前准教授)

Ph.D. students

3 to 6

months

 

42

Principles of Informatics

Lambda Calculus and Formal Grammar

http://research.nii.ac.jp/~kanazawa/

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.

43

Principles of Informatics

Numerical Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis
http://research.nii.ac.jp/~hayami/index-e.html

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

http://ri-www.nii.ac.jp/

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

http://ri-www.nii.ac.jp/

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

http://www.biglab.org/

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

http://research.nii.ac.jp/~hu/project/skepara.html

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

http://research.nii.ac.jp/~hu/project/CFP.html

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

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

 

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

http://cres.jpn.org/

Prof.

Noriko KANDO

(神門教授)

Master’s and  Ph.D. students

3 to 6

months