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The National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Tokyo
http://www.nii.ac.jp/en/
http://www.nii.ac.jp/userdata/publications/nii-youran/youran2015_en.pdf
Mains research activities
and
International Cooperation Policy
e.g. Internship Program
Professor Henri Angelino
Visiting Professor
Acting Director Global Liaison Office
November 2015
[email protected]
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National Institute of Informatics
Where is NII in Tokyo ?
National Institute of Informatics
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What is National Institute of Informatics (NII)
• April 2000 NII a national research Institute is established as
reorganization of former Institutes existing since 1976
• April 2002 NII Joint SOKENDAI University (The Graduate University for
Advanced studies http://www.soken.ac.jp/en/ to open Ph.D Program as
Department of Informatics (http://www.nii.ac.jp/graduate/index_e.html)
• April 2004 begins new chapter as member of Research Organization of
Information and Systems (ROIS)
• General figures
- 200 Professors (including visiting professors)
- 250 Administration, Development staff, Project researchers, etc,
- 130 Graduate students (registered Sokendai- University for Graduate
Advanced Studies-80-, or Tokyo University, or Tokyo Inst. of Technology, or
Waseda Univ., as NII is involved in their Graduate Schools
http://www.nii.ac.jp/en/about/graduate/
http://www.nii.ac.jp/graduate/index_e.html
- budget 10.6 billion JPY (~82 M€ or ~93 M$)
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Department of Informatics, The Graduate University for Advanced
Studies (SOKENDAI) registered Ph.D students
90
Foreign Students
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70
In 2015 China 12, Vietnam 11, Thailand 10,
France, Australia, NZ, etc.
Japanese Students
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2015
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National Institute
NII missions and characteristics
EDUCATION
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RESEARCH (Research Organization for
Information Systems ROIS)
• The only one academic research
Institute for informatics or IT in
Japan
• Comprehensive research from basic to
applied from natural sciences to
humanities and social sciences
• Interdisciplinary approach
• Partnership with private sector and
public sector, national and international
SOKENDAI
Dept Informatics
Education Ph. D programs (MsE)
Training for highly qualified
professionals researchers or
specialists
http://www.nii.ac.jp/en/about/grad
uate/
Service OPERATION
Construction /Operation of
Cyber Science Infrastructure
Academic Network and contents
SINET (1992), Super SINET (2002)
SINET 3 (April 2007) SINET4
(April 2011) SINET 5 (April 2016)
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Domestic Network Science Information Network SINET
National Institute of Informatics
National Institute of Informatics
Dual Target Research System
Fundamental Research
Principles of Informatics
Information Systems Architecture Science
Research Divisions
Digital Content and Media Sciences
Information and Society
Research Centers
They undertake strategic research
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R&D Center for Academic Networks
Research Center for Knowledge Media and Content Science
GRACE Center: Center for Global Research in Advanced Software Science & Engineering
Research Center for Community Knowledge
Research Center for Knowledge Media and Content Science
Center for Cloud Research and Development
Center for datasetsharing and collaborative research
Global research for Quantum Information Science
Global Research Center for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)
Global Research Center for Big Data Mathematics
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Principles of Informatics Div.
http://www.nii.ac.jp/userdata/publications/nii-youran/youran2015_en.pdf pp6,7
Research to discover new principles, theories and methods in informatics, and extend our goal
to pioneering the frontiers to try and achieve a paradigm shift in informatics.
Mathematical Informatics
Numerical analysis, numerical linear Algebra, Graph coloring problems in discrete math, Structural graph
theory, Fast algorithms for solving large scale problems, data structure, data mining, etc.
Mathematical Logic
Lambda calculus and formal grammar, Type theory for classical logic, Linear logic, Type theory and
computational complexity, etc.
Quantum Information
Quantum Information/computation, Quantum optics, Photonic quantum information systems, Security of
quantum key distribution schemes, quantum simulation using optical semiconductors etc.
Materials and Life Informatics
Comparative genomics research, Computer assisted chem. reaction, Structure determination, Development
of interface of chemical software, etc.
Intelligent Informatics
Machine learning for semantic annotation, Text mining, Ontology eng., Information extract., Data mining,
Human robot interaction, Inference and knowledge representation, Construction multi-agent systems,
Knowledge sharing system, Application of AI to legal reasoning, Community support system, Development
e-learning environ., Engineering ethics, Semantic web, Research on ubiquitous and mobile networks and
their applications, on Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Networks (DTNs) etc.
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Introduction to ERATO Project
Large Graphs：
Analysis and Efficient Algorithms
• Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi
• National Institute of Informatics
• https://www.facebook.com/erato.kawarabayashi
• Email: [email protected]
National Institute of Informatics
Some results from 2013 to incl. 2015 (Prof K.Kawarabayashi’s project)
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Papers in Top Conferences
Algorithms&Theory（STOC, FOCS, SODA）
+ SODA’13 &15+FOCS’15 Best Paper Awards!
Database(SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE)
Machine Learning(ICML, NIPS, AAAI, IJCAI)
Data Mining(KDD, WWW, CIKM,WSDM)
Other theory(SOCG, LICS, INFOCOM)
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> 70 papers!
• Top math + optimization + CS journals
> 35 papers!
(J. ACM, Siam J. Comput., J. Combin. Theory etc)
Note
1．Almost all areas in CS
2. Most papers are driven by Students or PD.
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Information systems Architecture Div.
http://www.nii.ac.jp/userdata/publications/nii-youran/youran2015_en.pdf pp 6,7
Research into the architecture and systems behind computers, networks and other forms of
hardware and software
Network architecture
Internet traffic measurement & analysis, Cybersecurity, anomaly detection, mobile IP communication
Information Network
Netw. Traffic modeling and analysis, Dynamic resource optimization technologies for multi-layers network,
Context aware& mobile computing netw. Privacy protec &security techno. ,wireless ad hoc and sensors
network etc.
Computer Architecture
Parallel computing, Grid, Cloud computing, Computer system networks, large scale HPC, processor
architecture, Memory architecture, Human Interface, etc.
Software infrastrucrure
Optimi of XML query lang.,Extensible distributed Op.Syst., Functional programing, Parallel programing
Dependable software construction, Bidirectional graph transformation, Extensible distributed OS,
Middleware for ubiquitous, Mobile& distributed computing, Programing language , Functional programing
etc.
Software Engineering
Software testing, source code analysis, dependable software, Model checking Agent oriented software eng.,
Autonomous agents and Multi agents systems Ubiquitous computing, software engineering, Formal
methods, Dependable VSLI system implementation based on asynchronous circuit technology, Componentbased and model driven software, High Level synthesis of asynchronous circuits, middleware for open
wireless sensors network, Software arcitecture/self adaptive systems etc.
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Digital content and Media Sciences Div.
http://www.nii.ac.jp/userdata/publications/nii-youran/youran2015_en.pdf pp 6,7
Research into methods of analyzing, generating, storing, using and processing text, images and
various other content and media from theories to actual systems
Foundation of content management
Technology and systems for multimedia content security, Service oriented computing, Data
management for video corpus analysis ,Optimization for casual queries data base, Data and text
mining scalable association for huge corpus access, Informatics association, Data sharing and its
metadata management, etc.
Text and Language Media
Information retrieval and integration of heterogeneous data, Identification/ linkage of text
information, Language media and interface, Research on techniques for utilizing web
information, synthetic parsing, semantic parsing etc.
Pattern media
Video analysis, Retrieval and knowledge discovery based on broadcast video archives, Image
retrieval, Video mining, Advanced video search engines, Automatic modeling of 3 D objects,
Computer vision, Digital archives for cultural heritage, Earth and environment informatics, Physic
based object shape and reflectance modeling, image video coding and streaming, etc.
Human and Knowledge media
Integration of user’s context in real and virtual world , Understanding multimodal interaction,
Multilingual multimedia semantic management ,Multimodal interaction ,Multimodal communication,
Interactive information gathering,/retrieval, Personal communication and interaction in semantic
Web environment, Life like characters and avatars, Participatory science and collaboration in the
3D Internet, Automatic content creation, Human-agent interaction, etc.
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Highly Accurate Object-Search System
Search example of emblems of VW
Instance Search Task
TRECVID
Most Precise Search
Prof. Shin'ichi Satoh
Digital Content & Media
Sciences Research Div.
First
Rank
2011・2013
・2014
at the top conference
ICCV2013
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NII (MAP 31.3%)
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TRECVID Instance Search
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A specific object is searched by a video archive
Several pieces of example images of the object are given as an inquiry
The object concerned is searched by the video of a little over 450 hours
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Privacy Visor
Privacy Visior
Method for preventing
unauthorized face image
detection based on light
absorbing and reflecting
properties
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Prof. Isao Echizen
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NII News Release (2012/12/12)
Digital Content & Media
Sciences Research Div.
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Many overseas media pay attention
(2013/1/12)
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Digital watermarking / Technologies
for making copyright protection and
distribution control
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TV Tokyo WBS, TBS JNN News
Broadcasted in TV news: BBC News, Discovery
Channel
Covered by overseas news media more than
300: TIME, BBC, NBC, ABC, NY Times, ACM
Tech News etc.
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Seeking to build interactive multimedia systems that offer outstanding compression and data
Graph Signal
Processing
(GSP)
distribution
performance
node
• Process signals on irregular data kernels
edge
Assoc. Prof. Gene
CHEUNG
described by graphs.
• Graph edge describes correlation bet’n 2
random vars / similarity bet’n 2 objects.
• Graph Fourier Transform (GFT):
Digital Content & Media
Sciences Research Div.
– generalizes known DFT, DCT on reg. kernel.
– provides frequency interpretation for
signals on graphs.
contrast enhancement
Depth Image Coding
Image Restoration
• Use signal-adaptive GFT
• Signal-adaptive graph
Sleep Monitoring
over DCT for compact rep.
smoothness prior.
• Track sleep patient’s
• Up to 68% bitrate
• Depth Image denoising:
respiratory / heart
reduction w.r.t. HR-DCT.
2dB gain w.r.t. BM3D.
rate using recorded
• Other applications:
depth video.
interpolate Image, de• Classify sleep apnoea
quantize compressed
events via robust
image, enhance bitgraph-based learning.
depth and/or contrast.
DCT
GFT
W. Hu, et al. "Multi-resolution Graph Fourier Transform
for Compression of Piecewise Smooth Images," IEEE Trans
on Image Processing, Jan 2015.
W. Hu, et al. "Depth Map Denoising using Graphbased Transform and Group Sparsity," IEEE MMSP,
Pula, Italy, October, 2013. (Top 10% paper award.)
C. Yang et al. "Estimating Heart Rate via Depth
Video Motion Tracking," accepted to IEEE ICME,
Torino, Italy, June, 2015. (30% acceptance rate)
Modeling
imaging
technology
thatVisual
merges
into
the fabric
Physic based Visual
object shape
and reflectance
modelling
imaging
technology
that of
into the fabricand
of daily
life
dailymerges
lifereflectance
fluorescence
Prof. Imari Sato
Digital Content & Media
Sciences Research Div.
Fluorescence is a common phenomenon observed
in many objects from natural gems, corals, etc..
Goal: Analyzing fluoresce of real world material
Separating reflectance and Fluorescence
Spectra recovery and relighting of a scene
8 papers presented at top conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV) since 2011.
Computer Vision and Discrete Geometry
Prof. Akihiro Sugimoto
Digital Content & Media
Sciences Research Div.
Scrutinizing methods of computer
vision from the standpoint of applied
mathematics
Real-time 3D mapping using RGB-D cameras
http://www.dgcv.nii.ac.jp
Gaze estimation and navigation
Shape discretization and fitting 18
Extracting desired sound from mixture sound
Fast Blind Source Separation
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Blind source separation (BSS) is
a technique to separate mixture
signals into sources
without any source information.
We have developed a fast and
stable BSS algorithm.
It works on iPhone.
Prof. Nobutaka Ono
Principles of Informatics
Research Div.
ICA Pioneer Award 2015
from SPIE
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Performance
Separation
SIR improvement
[dB] [dB]
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Our
method
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Existing
method
Natural Grad. (mu=0.1)
Natural Grad. (mu=0.2)
Natural Grad. (mu=0.3)
AuxIVA1
AuxIVA2
5
0
0
50
100
Iteration
steps
Iterations
150
200
(http://www.ica-wavelet.org/ICA.html)
Speech
Speech
Mixture
BSS
TV sound
TV sound
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Statistical
speech synthesis
and Speech
‘voicerecogntion
cloning’
Speech ProcessingSpeech synthesis-
Prof. Junichi Yamagishi
Digital Content & Media
Sciences Research Div.
Voice cloning of individuals who has lost or are
losing their voices due to diseases such as ALS
おはよう！
Good morning
S2ST
Speech-to-speech
system
translation
ASR
Intelligible speech generation in noisy
conditions (EC FP7 Lista project)
MT
TTS
Speech-to-speech translation with your own
voice (EC FP7 EMIME project)
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Information and Society Div.
http://www.nii.ac.jp/userdata/publications/nii-youran/youran2015_en.pdf pp 6,7
Interdisciplinary research combining information and systems technology with
human and social sciences for a society in which the information world merges with
the real world
Information use
Designing collaborative learning environment, Mathematical logic, Motor coordination
in communication, Similarity search for 3D models, Evaluation of information access
technologies, Cross lingual information access, Term extraction for text corpora, Union
catalogue data base construction and usage, Development of next generation
information system, Speech-gesture coordination
Science Information
Science and technology policy studies, Bibliometric research for measuring research
levels and identifying research trends, Grant in aids role for promotion of basic
research, Statistical study of change of research environment, University-industrygovernment relations,etc
Information Public policy
Social and political consequences of ICT use, Critical growth factors of E-commerce and
E-money, Digital commerce, Intellectual property rights lifecycle management system,
Relation ICT/humans, S&T for society, network Policy for broadband society, Social
capital theory
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The Rate of Adoptive KAKENHI Proposition from NII
Ranking among Japanese Institutions
KAKENHI: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research by MEXT
4th
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5
11st
10
16th
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20
25
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Out of the rank
FY2011
FY2012
30th
35
FY2013
FY2014
FY2015
Ranking
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Budget of some on going Big projects
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JST ERATO Prof. Kawarabayashi：ERATO Kawarabayashi Large Graph Project, October 2012 – March
2018, Approximately 1.2 billion yen in 5.5 years ~ 10.5 M US$
MEXT Prof. Adachi：An Integrated IT Platform for Cyber-Physical Systems to Accelerate Implementation
of Efficient Social Systems, September 2012 - March 2017, Approximately 800 Mil JPY ~7 M US$
CAO IMPACT Assoc. Prof. Utsunomiya： Advanced Information Society Infrastructure Linking Quantum
Artificial Brains in Quantum Network, October 2014 – March 2019, Approximately 330 Mil JPY 2.9 MUS$
CAO IMPACT Prof. I. Sato: Innovative visualization technology to lead to creation of a new growth
industry, Approximately 300 Mil JPY in 5.5 years 2.6 M US$
JST CREST Prof. Uno: Data Particlization for Next Generation Data Mining, October 2014 – March 2020,
Approximately 275 MIL JPY in 5.5 years ~ 2.4 M US$
CAO SIP(Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion) Prof. Adachi & Prof. Takasu: Integrated Data
Management Platform for Civil Infrastructure Sensing, October 2014 - March 2019, Approximately 200
Mil JPY in 5 years ~1.74 M US$
JST CREST Prof. Aida: Application-Centric Overlay Cloud Utilizing Inter-Cloud, October 2015 – March
2021, October 2014 – March 2019, Approximately 115 Mil JPY in 5 years ~ 1.0 M US$
CAO SIP(Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion) Prof. Takeda: Technologies for creating nextgeneration agriculture, forestry and fisheries, October 2014 - March 2019, Approximately 56 million yen
in 5 years
JST SICORP Assoc. Prof. Kitamoto: Human-Centered Situation Awareness Platform for Disaster Response
and Recovery, April 2015 – March 2018, Approximately 30 million yen in 3 years
JST SICORP Prof. JI Yusheng: Preparations to an accident and correspondence by big data analysis and a
strong network, April 2015 – March 2018, Approximately 30 million yen in 3 years
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Possibilities in the frame of MOU using NII GLO’s budget
(Initiative of NII researcher, 2 calls for applications per year)
• It is a “corporate” budget to implement international cooperation in
the frame of NII International policy while each researcher controls
his/her own budget
• Invitation of confirmed researchers for short period (1 week - 2
months) to work on a specific project
• Invitation of a post-doct. up to 3 months to work on a specific project
• Invitation of Master/ Ph.D students in the frame of NII International
Internship (list of subjects proposed by NII researchers)
• Visit of partner Institution
• Organization of joint workshop
no special credits are available for the implementation of the
research project per se, the funds must be found elsewhere by the
two partners.
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Number of ＭＯＵ
120
Morocco
Argentina
2004:20 / 2005:32 / 2006:41
96
100
93
Egypt
EU
Swiss
Finland
Czech
79
Italy
80
Portugal
73
61
Netherlands
66
Austria
Germany
55
60
Ireland
UK
49
Spain
France
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Canada
40
USA
Australia
Singapore
Korea
Bangladesh
20
Asia
Paci
fic
Vietnam
Thailand
Taiwan
China
0
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
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MOU NII International Internship Program
http://www.nii.ac.jp/Internship/Guidelines/2st_call_of_2015_internship_webpage.html
• First step Internal call for proposal of research subjects among NII
researchers
• Second step The proposals, after validation, are sent to all “partner
institutions” with www pages of the “supervisor”. There will be a
deadline for receiving the answers from “partners institutions”
• Third Step Proposals by each partner institution can submit up to 3
candidates. Each candidate can select a maximum of 3 topics. No
direct application from candidates will be accepted.
• Very Important: Contact between future intern and future NII
supervisor
• Fourth Step Each NII researcher select the candidates mentioning the
ranking
• Fifth Step GLO meeting will confirm the choice and prepare the
proposal to send back to partner Institutions
There are two call for applications per Fiscal Year :one in April one in
October
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http://www.nii.ac.jp/Internship/Guidelines/1st_call_of_2015_internship_webpage.html
80 proposals
Duration :
No.
Research area
Title of the research
Name of
supervisor
Requirements
Title of
for applicants
the
: Master /
supervisor
Ph.D. Student
Number of 2-6months
acceptance (less than
180days)
Comments
1. Principles of Informatics Research Division
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legal reasoning
juris-informatics,
http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/
Ken Satoh
Professor
PhD
2
2-3
months
A basic knowledge of law would be preferable
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argumentation
Extension of Dung's argumentation
Ken Satoh
scheme, http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/
Professor
PhD
2
2-3
months
strong back ground of logical reasoning is needed
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natural language
processing and logical
reasoning
Combination of NLP and LR in legal
reasoning,
http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/seminar/057/
Ken Satoh
Professor
PhD
2
2-3
months
one of the back grounds of NLP, LR and Law would
be preferable
Ryota Kobayashi
Assistant
Professor
Master's or
Ph.D students
1〜2
4〜6
month
Applicants should have a strong interest in
applications of information sciences to neuroscience.
Basic knowledge of machine learning, optimization,
or mathematical engineering will be appreciated.
1
2-6
months
Knowledge of numerical linear algebra and
optimization required.
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Computational
Neuroscience
① Data mining of brain data,
② Brain simulation,
Homepage: http://research.nii.ac.jp/~rkoba/en/index.html
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Numerical Linear
Algebra
Application of numerical linear algebra to
optimization.(http://researchmap.jp/KenH Ken Hayami
ayami/?lang=english)
Professor
Ph.D.
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Airtificial Intelligence
Machine learning method for large scale
data
http://ri-www.nii.ac.jp/
Ryutaro Ichise
Associate
Professor
Master's or
Ph.D students
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Airtificial Intelligence
Data mining method for web data
http://ri-www.nii.ac.jp/
Ryutaro Ichise
Associate
Professor
Master'sor Ph.D
students
3-6
months
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Quantum computation Computer archtecture for quantum
information processing
and communication
http://www.qis.ex.nii.ac.jp/
Kae Nemoto
Professor
Master'sor Ph.D
students
2-6months
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Quantum computation
Quantum devices
and communication
http://www.qis.ex.nii.ac.jp/
3-6
months
3
2
Kae Nemoto
Professor
Master'sor Ph.D
students
2-6months
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Solution of under-determined inverse
problems and its application to
pharmacokinetic modeling etc.
ken Hayami
(http://researchmap.jp/KenHayami/?lang=e
nglish)
Crowd sourcing and quantum Quantum network：protocols and
implementation
computation
Kae Nemoto
Master's or
Professor Ph.D
students
1
2-6
months
Professor Ph.D.
1
2-6months
Knowleｄge of numerical analysis.
2. Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division
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resource management in wireless networks
Yusheng Ji
http://klab.nii.ac.jp/
Master's or
Professor Ph.D
students
1
3 or 6
months
Basic understanding on infrastructure-based and/or
ad hoc wireless communication systems is expected
36 Self-adaptive Software
Model-driven development for selfadaptive software
Kenji Tei
(http://www.honiden.nii.ac.jp/en/research/
mdd-for-sas)
Associate Master's or
Professor PhD students
3
2-6
months
See the web site
(http://www.honiden.nii.ac.jp/en/research/mdd-forsas)
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Internet traffic anomaly detection and
classification. http://www.fukudalab.org/mawilab
Kensuke Fukuda
Associate Master's or
professor PhD students
1 or 2
5-6
months
Solid knowledge on machine learning algorithm
and/or network programming is required
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Internet traffic visualization.
http://www.fukuda-lab.org
Kensuke Fukuda
Associate Master's
professor students
1 or 2
5-6
months
Programming skills in D3.js
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Internet traffic measurement.
http://www.fukuda-lab.org
Kensuke Fukuda
Associate Master's or
professor PhD students
1 or 2
5-6
months
Solid programming skills
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Bidirectional Graph Transformations and its
Applications to Model Transformations
Soichiro Hidaka
http://research.nii.ac.jp/~hidaka/internship
Assistant Master's or
professor PhD students
2
2 to 6
months
Motivational Methods for WillingRing: A
Motivation System using Gamified
Kazunori
Precommitment based on Life Log Analysis Sakamoto
(Web site: http://goo.gl/xMePpN)
Assistant Master's or
Professor PhD students
2
2 to 6
months
We welcome students who love programming and
creative activities. You can see my profile via LinkedIn
(http://goo.gl/em22I4).
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Up to 6
months (at
least 3
months; a
longer
period is
better)
Rigorous background on mathematics is required.
Programming skills on image processing and
computer vision are also required. In the case of
Master course students, highly motivated students
who can stay for 6 months are preferable. Students
who are willing to pursuit ph D at NII are preferable
as well. Potential applicants should send your CV
and research interests/proposals directly to Prof.
Sugimoto before your application.
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Gamification,
Motivation
3. Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division
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One of the following topics.
(1) 3D Scene reconstruction using RGB-D
cameras,
(2) RecoC49:C76+C49:C56gnizing human
activities from video,
(3) Image
categorization and segmentation, and
(4) Gaze sensing and gaze naviation.
http://www.dgcv.nii.ac.jp/
Akihiro Sugimoto Professor
Master's or
Ph.D Student
Some Practical Information
• Interns will receive 5,700 yen/day #170,000 per months and will have basic health
insurance
• Accommodation cost in Tokyo 60,000 to 90,000/month depending location in Tokyo
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http://www.azalea-house.com/index_en.html
http://www.jafplaza.com,
http://www.sakura-house.com/en, (most popular)
www.airbnb.com/tokyo
http://www.tokyoroomfinder.com/
http://japan.accommodationforstudents.com/searchform.asp,
http://www.tokyocityapartments.net/
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Cafeteria NII available for lunch /diner 350-800 yens/meal.
Outside restaurant lunch set 1,000 yens
Diner around minimum 2000/2500 yens
Cinema 2,000 yens
Ticket metro 160 yens minimum and vary with distance
Inside NII English is working language
Japanese language classes are offered
Many seminars/lectures are offered by visiting researchers and open to Interns
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NII International Internship Program
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Switzerland
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Turkey
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Finland
Taiwan
2005 17 interns
2006 31 interns
Netherlands
Italy
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Egypt
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Argentina
Spain
Ireland
Middle East
Australia
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80
Canada
USA
Portugal
Czech
60
Austria
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Germany
France
40
UK
Singapore
Bangladesh
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Vietnam
Thailand
Korea
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Cooperation with UK Universities
• Imperial College London: Learning and adaptation of biochemical
networks/Distributed reasoning and logic-based learning/software engineering for
evolvable self-adaptive systems
• University College London : Engineering for Adaptive Evolutionary Software
systems/ Requirements Engineering with Emerging Paradigms/Big Data
• Open University: Software Engineering /Artificial Intelligence
There are regular workshops at least once a year between NII and Imperial/
UCL and OU. Moreover there is a special program UCL/NII Grace Center to
exchange for 1 week M.Sc/ Ph.D students to work together on specific projects
• University of Bath: Computational Logic in Multi Agent Systems and Legal
Reasoning
• University of Bristol : Consequence Finding techniques for Full causal Learning
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and Reasoning/Quantum computing
University of Edinburgh: Embodied Machine Learning and Human Robot
Interaction/speech Processing
University of Essex : QoS-aware Resource Management and Scheduling
Algorithms in Converged Wired and Wireless Networks
University of Kent University: Bidirectional programming/Debugging
University of Newcastle: Requirements structuring for assisting in formal
modelling and verification in Event-B systems
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SHONAN Meetings
http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/shonan/
• NII International Meetings, following the well-known Dagstuhl Seminars, aim to
promote informatics research at an international level
• NII invites international standing scientists to submit proposals for international
meetings on any topics of informatics. The proposal should clearly motivate the
topic
• Each NII Shonan Meeting is led by at most three organizers. One must be
from Asia and preferably they are from different institutions.
• The optimal number of participants is between 25 and 35 participants.
• Proposal are welcome anytime through the whole year, although submission is
closed in June 15th, September 15th & December 15th. Notification of acceptance
is only made after about 2-3 months of each closing day.
• The proposal will be reviewed by NII’s Scientific Committee. Once proposal is
approved, NII staff will help to organize the seminar.
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Special Program DAAD/NII
• Same program as International Computer Science Institute in
Berkeley (only two worldwide)
• signed in December 2008 renewed 2013 until 2017
• DAAD will support German Post-doc to stay at NII for minimum 3
months (6 months recommended) up to 2 years
• Ph.D must be “magna cum laude”
• The period may be extended up to 24 months
• Post-doc must have a NII contact for his/her own research project
• No deadline for application
• DAAD will pay directly air fare + fellowship according familial situation
• DAAD will pay to NII general expenses for each Post-doc
• NII will use part of it for supporting Post-doc expenses
Books/Software/trips inside Japan, etc.)
• Post-doc works on his/her own research project
• He/she can benefit from help from Master/ Ph.D students staying at
NII as Interns and also from engineers
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Inside and surroundings…
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Thank you / Questions ?
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