The International Graduate Program on Science and Engineering at Saitama University offers highly qualified overseas students the opportunity to pursue doctoral studies and research in Information and Computer Sciences.

The scholarships for the program of Information and Computer Sciences are available for only TWO highly qualified students each year. Therefore, the selection is highly competitive. Evaluation of applications will be based on the candidates’ scholastic ability and research potential assessed from previous credentials, recommendation letters and the essays of research plan on selected topics. Short-listed candidates will then be invited to face an Internet-based interview conducted by a panel of three faculty members at a pre-determined time schedule. The details of this interview will be sent out to short-listed candidates. The final selection is made based on the performance at the interview. The two selected candidates will also be asked to fill in and submit some application forms required by The MEXT. The list of candidates nominated for the scholarship is then recommended to the Ministry for final approval.

Faculty Members and Research Fields

Professors:
CHENG, Jingde
Relevant and Ampliative Reasoning, Relevant Logic, Epistemic Programming for Scientific Discovery, Highly Reliable and Highly Secure Systems, Persistently, Reactive Systems.

IKEGUCHI, Tohru
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Chaos, Chaos Engineering, Biological Cybernetics, Time Series Analysis, Neural Networks, Combinatorial Optimization, Complex Networks.

KATSUBE, Teruaki
Information Devices, Electronic Devices, Sensing Systems, Biological Information, Soft Computing, Microelectronics.

KUNO, Yoshinori
Human-Machine System, Human Interface, Computer Vision, Intelligent Robot.

MAEKAWA, Hitoshi.
Intelligent Robotics (Motion Planning, Environmental Information Acquisition), Computer Vision, Sensor Fusion.

MISHIMA, Taketoshi
Computational Biomechanics and Distributed Autonomous Robotic System.

OHSAWA, Yutaka
Geographic Information System, Image Processing, Data Engineering, Multimedia Database.

SHIGEHARA, Takaomi
Numerical Analysis, High Performance Computing, Quantum Chaos.

YOSHIDA, Norihiko
System Design Methodology, Parallel/Distributed/Cooperative Computation, Computer Network (Internet Technologies).

Associate Professors:
KONDO, Kunio
Computer Graphics, Geometric Modeling, Man-Machine Interface, Kansei Information Processing.

KOSHIBA, Takeshi
Computational Cryptography, Computational Complexity, Randomness and Computation, Quantum Computation

SHIMAMURA, Tetsuya
Digital Signal Processing, Speech Information Processing, Communication Systems, Intelligent Signal Processing, Circuits and Systems.

TANAKA, Masaru
Mathematical Informatics, Pattern Recognition, Biomimetic Information Processing.

YAMADA, Toshinori
Parallel and VLSI Computation, Graphs and Networks, Algorithmic Game Theory

YOSHIKAWA, Nobukazu
Information Photonics, 3D information measurement and recognition, Photonic Network System, Holographic Information Processing.

For more information on Course of Information and Computer Sciences, please access to the web page of our department at the following URL:
http://www.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp/en/Entrance/PhdCourse2006/index.html
http://www.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp/en/Staff/

Correspondence
All correspondence should be address to:

Professor Tohru Ikeguchi
Department of Information and Computer Sciences
Saitama University
255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama-city, Saitama, 338-8570, Japan
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