ILDP-Internship 2019 in HU

Available Projects of ILDP-Internship 2019

Aplicants can choose a desired supervisor from the below projects list. If you cannot find your desired study fields, you can suggest the supervisor by searching the HU website.

Faculty and Project List (Last-update:2018-2-1)

HU website

School of Integrated Arts and Science / Graduate school of Integrated Arts and Science

* U: Undergraduate Student, M:Master Student, D:Doctoral Student

No. Professor Research Fields Projects Duration Requirement* Note
1 Tsunehiko SUGIKI Hindu and Buddhist Studies in South Asia, Religious Studies
  1. Textual and fieldwork studies of Hinduism and Buddhism in India and Nepal.
  2. Theories of Religious Studies and comparative studies of religions from theoretical perspectives.

*In cases of study for religions of Japan, research guidance is also provided in Japanese.

6 months U / M HP
2 Shinpei TANAKA Active matter dynamics
  1. Experiments and simulation on self-propelled droplets systems.
  2. Exploration of novel active materials and systems.
6 months U / M / D
3 Shinichi ONODERA Material cycle, Environmental dynamics, Catchment environment
management
  1. Effect of human activity and climate change on phosphorus and nitrogen cycle in catchments
  2. Catchment environmental management for healthy material cycles
6 months M / D Research Gate
4 Toshinori OKUDA / Toshihiro YAMADA Tropical Forest Ecology, Biodiversity conservation
  1. Sustainable natural resource management in tropics
  2. Interlinkage on local benefit and forest conservation
6 months M / D Laboratory of Forest Ecology
5 Masanori INUI Chemical physics
  1. Ultrasonic measurements of water- alcohol mixtures or liquid metals and alloys
2 weeks U
6 Hiroshi SASAKI Sociology of Education and Social Work
  1. Social mobility and higher education in Delhi or Uttar Pradesh, India
  2. Poverty in Japan
3 months U / M
7 Itaru NAGASAKA Cultural Anthropology, Migration Studies, Southeast Asian
Studies
  1. Internal and international migration and development
  2. Anthropological studies on development projects
6 months U / M / D
8 Syuuji YAMAZAKI Business management
  1. Analysis of automobile industry

*Japanese language skills are required.

3 months M
9 Ritsuko KURITA Cultural Anthropology
  1. A study of race and ethnicity in multicultural societies
  2. Indigenous studies (eg. Indigeneity in settler societies)
3 months M
10 Ritsuko KURITA Cultural Anthropology
  1. A study of race and ethnicity in multicultural societies
  2. Any studies on people, culture and languages
3 months U
11 Kouki UWAIZUMI Philosophy of Sport, Sociology of Sport, Theory of Soccer
Training
  1. A study on concept of sport in ancient or modern society
  2. An elucidation of the thought of Tactical Periodization of soccer
6 months M
12 Satoshi FUKUDA Rural sociology
  1. Social structure of Japanese rural community
  2. A historical study on forest management in Japan

*Japanese language skills are required.

3 months M
13 Masumi VILLENEUVE Physical Chemistry for chemical and biological sciences, Colloid and Interface Science
  1. Correlation of bilayer curvature and interfacial properties of coions
  2. Interfacial properties of rice starch granules

*Japanese language skills are required.

6 months M / D
14 Naoe KAWAMOTO Welfare sociology
  1. Foreign minorities’ social inclusion
  2. Foreign minority children’s’ education for integration
6 months U
15 Hideki KUWAJIMA Aesthetics, Philosophy of Arts and Culture
  1. Landscape Aesthetics, or Philosophy on the Sacred
  2. Edmund Burke and Irish Art Culture
  3. The Sublime Theory in Modern Colinialism
1 to 6 months M /D

 

School of Letters / Graduate School of Letters

* U: Undergraduate Student, M:Master Student, D:Doctoral Student

No. Professor Research Fields Projects Duration Requirement* Note
16 Kazuo TOMOZAWA Human Geography
  1. Socio-economic changes of rural area in the NCR of Delhi
1 months M

School of Science / Graduate School of Science

* U: Undergraduate Student, M:Master Student, D:Doctoral Student

No. Professor Research Fields Projects Duration Requirement* Note
17 Takuya MOROZUMI Elementary Particle Physics (Theory)
  1. Phenomenology for Particle Physics based upon Quantum Field Theory (CP violation, flavor physics)
3 months M Research Gate
18 Takuya MOROZUMI Elementary Particle Physics (Theory)
  1. Phenomenology for Particle Physics based upon Quantum Field Theory (CP violation, flavor physic, baryogenesis-leptogensis, non-equribiruum quantum field theory)
6 months D Research Gate
19 Yuichi TOGASHI Computational Biophysics
  1. Molecular dynamics simulations of proteins and DNA
  2. Analysis of bioimaging data
1 to 6 months U / M / D HP
20 DAS KAUSHIK Earth Sciences, Paleoenvironment
  1. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction using geochemical and isotopic signatures
6 months U / D HP

Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter

* U: Undergraduate Student, M:Master Student, D:Doctoral Student

No. Professor Research Fields Projects Duration Requirement* Note
21 Yutaka NAKASHIMADA Environmental Biotechnology Synthetic Biotechnology
  1. Energy recovery from biomass by means of anaerobic digestion
  2. Biological acetate production from H2-CO2
6 months M / D
22 Masataka Iinuma Experiments of quantum foundation
  1. Design and numerical simulation of optical experimental setup for quantum foundation
  2. Experimental studies on quantum measurements for optical system
3 months M
23 Holger F. HOFMANN Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
  1. Study of entanglement and other non-classical correlations
  2. Theory of quantum measurement
1 to 6 months U / M / D Research Gate

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences / Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences

* U: Undergraduate Student, M:Master Student, D:Doctoral Student

No. Professor Research Fields Projects Duration Requirement* Note
24 Teruo KURODA Microbiology, Bacteriology
  1. Characterization of multidrug efflux transporters in pathogenic bacteria

* The project work must be started in April or October when the recombinant DNA short course is held, in which the intern must participate.

4 to 6 months M / D Department of Microbiology
25 Takanori KUMAGAI Microbiology, Bacteriology
  1. Disruption analysis of secondary metabolite biosynthetic genes in Streptomyces

* The project work must be started in April or October when the recombinant DNA short course is held, in which the intern must participate.

4 to 6 months M / D
26 Katsuyoshi MATSUNAMI Pharmacognosy, Natural product chemistry
  1. Phytochemical study of tropical and subtropical plants
  2. Bioactive compounds from microorganism culture
2 weeks to 6 months U / M / D Department of Pharmacognosy

School of Engineering / Graduate School of Engineering

* U: Undergraduate Student, M:Master Student, D:Doctoral Student

No. Professor Research Fields Projects Duration Requirement* Note
27 Yukihiko MATSUMURA Biomass, Thermal Engineering, Chemical Engineering
  1. Biodiesel production using supercritical fluid
  2. Gasification of biomass in hot compressed water
4 to 6 months M
28 Yukihiko MATSUMURA Biomass, Thermal Engineering, Chemical Engineering
  1. Solid catalyst for biodiesel production
  2. Reaction kinetics on biomass gasification under hydrothermal condition
4 to 6 months D
29 Yousuke OOYAMA Functional Dye Chemistry, Materials Physical Chemistry
  1. Synthesis, optical and electrochemical properties of functional dyes
  2. Preparation and photovoltaic performance of dye-sensitized solar cells
1 to 3 months U / M / D
30 Idaku ISHII High-speed Vision & Intelligent Sensing
  1. Development of Embedded GPU/FPGA-based High-speed Vision
  2. Infomatic projection mapping for multi-camera surveillance
  3. Ultrafast tracking system for flying objects (multicopter, insects, etc.)
1 to 6 months U / M / D
31 Toru YAMAMOTO Control Engineering
  1. Design of a Data-Driven Smart Control System
  2. Construction of a Data-Oriented IoT Platform for Controlling Industrial Systems
1 to 6 months U / M / D
32 Toru TAMAKI Computer Vision
  1. Classifying videos and images with deep models
  2. Analysis and understanding human behavior
1 to 6 months U / M / D
33 Takeshi TAKAKI Robotics & Mechatronics
  1. Development of aerial manipulator for multicopter
  2. Flight controller for multicopter using visual feedback
1 to 6 months U / M / D Robotics Laboratory
34 Yuichi KURITA Human-machine interaction
  1. Soft exoskeleton using pneumatic artificial actuators
  2. Tele-operation system for an excavator
  3. Evaluation and design of haptic feeling
1 to 6 months U / M / D Biological System Engineering laboratory
35 Joji OHSHITA Organic Materials Chemistry
  1. Preparation of siloxane-based new functional materials
  2. Preparation of new metallole-containing compounds for optoelectronic applications
6 months M / D Organic Materials Chemistry
36 Akiyoshi OHASHI Wastewater Treatment, Environmental Engineering
  1. Development a novel cost effective and low energy consumption biological sewage treatment reactor for developing countries
  2. Biological wastewater treatments with recovery of energy, phosphorus, and minor metals
3 months M / D
37 Noriatsu OZAKI Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering
  1. Analysis of behavior of trace organic toxicants in urban air and water environments
3 months M / D
38 Takio KURITA Machine Learning, Statistical Pattern Recognition
  1. Applications of Deep Neural Network
  2. Image and Video Understanding
  3. Bioimage Analysis
2 weeks to 6 months U / M / D
39 Hiroki NAGASAWA Chemical engineering, Unit operation, Membrane science & engineering, Thin film formation
  1. Development of microporous inorganic membranes with controlled porous structure
  2. Facile synthesis of ceramic thin films of polymer materials
2 to 6 months U / M / D

Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation

* U: Undergraduate Student, M:Master Student, D:Doctoral Student

No. Professor Research Fields Projects Duration Requirement* Note
40 Makoto CHIKARAISHI Infrastructure planning, urban risk management
  1. Autonomous consolidated transport of passenger and goods
  2. Impacts of new mobility services on urban form
  3. Modeling freight vehicle route choice behavior with GPS trajectory data
  4. Modeling pedestrian route choice behavior with GPS trajectory data
3 – 6 months M / D
41 Junyi ZHANG Regional and Urban Planning, Mobilities and Urban Policy, Smart Urban Life, Energy Policy [Smart Technologies and Urban Life]

  1. Changes in people’s lives due to smart technologies
  2. Issues of social inequalities in terms of literary of and access to smart technologies
  3. Adaptation behavior of the elderly people to smart technologies
  4. Long-term impacts of smart technologies on urban forms and the progress of urbanization

*For the doctoral candidate, I’m especially requesting to have a clear output: writing a joint paper to an SCI/SSCI journal during/after the internship period.”

3 – 6 months M / D
42 Han Soo LEE Coastal Engineering, Renewable energy resource management
  1. Coastal hazards (storm surge and storm waves, and tsunami) modeling and prediction system development
  2. Estimations of wind, solar and wave energy resources for sustainable development
  3. Quantitative assessment of climate change impacts on coastal hazards and renewable energy resources
1 – 6 months U / M / D
43 Runsen ZHANG Low-carbon urban planning, climate change and energy studies
  1. E3 (Energy-Environment-Economy) models
  2. Land use-transport interaction modeling as tools for sustainable urban planning
  3. Impacts of transport policies on energy use and emissions
3 – 6 months M / D Runsen ZHANG
44 Tetsu KUBOTA Building and Urban Environmental Science
  1. Energy-saving houses in the hot-humid climates
  2. Adaptive thermal comfort and behavior in the hot-humid climates
  3. Indoor air quality in the growing cities of Asia
  4. Application of vernacular techniques to modern houses
3 – 4 months M / D
45 Tran Dang XUAN Biomass Energy Technology, Sustainable Agricultural Production
  1. Utilization of Biomass Energy Technologies in Developing Countries
  2. Utilization of Natural Products for Sustainable Agricultural Production
  3. Analysis for Environmental Pollution and Counter measurements
6 months M / D Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
46 Tetsuro HOSAKA Ecology, Ecosystem Management
  1. Ecology of tropical forests
  2. Conservation of urban biodiversity
  3. Human-wildlife conflicts in Asian countries
  4. Ecosystem conservation and nature-based tourism
3 – 6 months M / D Ecology and Ecosystem Management Laboratory
47 Nguyen Thi Anh Hong Transportation Planning, Neighborhood Planning
  1. New neighborhoods/ new urban areas planning, self-containment, travel behavior in developing countries
  2. Social network analysis in neighborhood planning
  3. Value of travel time savings for business travelers
  4. Impacts of ride-sourcing service on travel mode replacement and travel behavior in developing countries: A case study in Vietnam
3 – 6 months M / D HP
48 Maharjan Keshav Lall Agricultural Economics
  1. Rural economics, issues related to agricultural economy
  2. Rural dynamics
  3. South Asian studies, issues related to life and culture of South Asia
3 – 6 months M / D Maharjan Seminar

Research Institute for Nanodevice and Bio Systems

* U: Undergraduate Student, M:Master Student, D:Doctoral Student

No. Professor Research Fields Projects Duration Requirement* Note
49 Shin-Ichiro KUROKI Electronics and Semiconductor Physics
  1. Silicon-Carbide (SiC) harsh-environment electronics for space exploration, decommissioning of nuclear power stations, and medical applications
  2. Silicon device and process technologies including silicon thin film devices
2 weeks to 6 months U / M /D