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Applied Information Systems Laboratory

Affiliation:
Toyohashi University of Technology, Graduate School of Computer Science and Engineering
Address:
1-1 Hibarigaoka, Tenpakucho, Toyohashi-shi, Aichi, 441-8580 Japan

Research Topics

We are working the following several topics. For more detail, check the OrcID page and the Japanese page.

Prospective Students

We welcome enthusiastic PhD students from all over the world. If you are considering applying to our laboratory, please contact Masatoshi TSUCHIYA well before the application deadline, as we need sufficient time to discuss your research plan. Most students enroll in the autumn semester, so we recommend reaching out no later than the beginning of the previous autumn.

If you hope to receive the Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT), the same timing applies. Regarding eligibility, we accept applicants under the following conditions:

MEXT Embassy Recommendation route:
Applicants recommended through the MEXT Embassy Recommendation route are welcome to apply.
Other routes (including MEXT University Recommendation):
Applicants are required to submit, along with their application, a recommendation letter from either (a) a researcher who has co-authored a paper with Masatoshi TSUCHIYA, (b) a former MEXT scholarship recipient, or (c) a faculty member at a Japanese university.

Your application letter MUST state the season in which you hope to enroll at Toyohashi University of Technology (e.g. Fall 2024) and MUST include your curriculum vitae (CV). Your application letter MUST clearly explain your research plan. The plan is strongly expected to relate to one of our previous publications, and must have sufficient depth and scope to support the completion of two journal papers and one international conference paper, which are required for a PhD degree from Toyohashi University of Technology. If you are not applying for the MEXT scholarship, your application letter MUST also include a plan for financing your studies. Please be aware that we cannot offer a salary for you, and you will have to pay tuition fees by yourself.

We do not accept students who intend to enroll only in the Master's program and do not plan to proceed to a PhD. If you have already completed a Master's degree and wish to enroll directly in the doctoral program, please note that this is extremely challenging. Completing the required two journal papers and one international conference paper within a standard doctoral period without the foundation built during a Master's course here is very difficult. We will only consider such applications if your research plan clearly demonstrates how you will realistically achieve this publication requirement.

If you have not done graduate work in natural language processing, you will need to demonstrate your skills in the field. If this applies to you, please post your results of the NLP 100 Exercise to a GitHub repository so that we can review them.

Please note that I will not respond to letters that do not meet the above requirements.

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