Master and Doctor course Students

Our laboratory welcomes applications for admissions from highly qualified students, especially students with Monbukagakusho scholarship*, having knowledge about (or being interested in) massive-volume data analysis, such as:

• Analysis of search engine trustworthiness
• Improving search engine rankings for both text and image retrieval
• Knowledge discovery from Web data
• Social analysis using Web data
• Cloud computing middleware
• Data mining techniques
• Next-generation user interfaces to display massive data volumes and enable user interaction

Send the copy of the following documents to Prof. YAMANA by e-mail.

• Curriculum vitae
  Including name, address, education qualification, research and working experiences, list of publications.
• Research proposal
• School record (undergraduate and/or masters course).
  Please provide your cumulative Grade Point Average on a 4.0 scale (A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1). 3.0 or higher is required.
• Certificate of your bachelor's (and master's) degree(s).
• Recommendation letter from your supervisor.
• Scores of GRE. (if possible)
  You must take both the General tests and the Advanced Subject test in computer science. Applicants are at least expected to be in the 90th percentile on the Quantitative and Analytical sections of the GRE.
• Scores of English language test such as TOEFL and TOEIC if you are not a native speaker of English.
  Score of 90 on the TOEFL iBT or the equal level on the TOEFL ITP/PBT (570), CBT (230) or the TOEIC (800) is required.
• Score of Japanese Language Proficiency Test
  Level one (at least level two) for masters course applicants, since we have lectures in Japanese whose credits you have to earn in our masters course. But no compulsory Japanese lectures in our doctors course. However, if you want to come to our doctor course but your TOEFL iBT score is less than 90 (but more than 75), you must have level two proficiency in Japanese.
• Your photograph.
• Plan for financial support.

You also have to take an admission examination of graduate course of the department. Please see this page. Our lab welcomes applicants of master/doctor course students in International Graduate Program (English only) and master/doctor course students who have sufficient proficiency to take lectures in Japanese.

* Please ask Embassy of Japan or Consulate General in your country for Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship Program. Note that you have to apply it by yourself. See more detail;http://www.cie-waseda.jp/mext/index_e.html