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Available Projects of ILDP-Internship 2020

Applicants can choose a desired supervisor from the below 58 projects. If you cannot find your desired project, you can suggest the supervisor by
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Integrated Sciences for Life

No Research Fields Name Project Duration Undergraduate Master Doctor Website

Environmental
1. Energy recovery from biomass by means of anaerobic LABORATORY OF
Biotechnology Yutaka
1 digestion 6 months ✓ ✓ METABOLIC
Synthetic NAKASHIMADA
2. Biological acetate production from H2-CO2 ENGINEERING

Biotechnology

1. Molecular dynamics simulations of proteins and DNA. 1 to 4 months

Computational
2 Yuichi TOGASHI 2. Mechanical modeling of cells (June-Aug. or ✓ ✓ ✓ Personal Website
Biophysics

3. Analysis of bioimaging data Nov.-Feb.)

Tropical Forest Toshinori OKUDA

1. Sustainable natural resource management in tropics

3 Ecology, Biodiversity 6 months ✓ ✓

2. Interlinkage on local benefit and forest conservation
conservation Toshihiro YAMADA

1. Neurotoxicity induced by environmental chemicals

Laboratory of
Pharmacology and and particle matters
4 Yasuhiro ISHIHARA 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ Functional
Toxicology 2. Effects of unsaturated fatty acids on maintenance of

Biochemistry
neuronal function

Physical Chemistry for

chemical and 1. Correlation of bilayer curvature and interfacial
Masumi
5 biological sciences, properties of colloids 6 months ✓ ✓
VILLENEUVE
Colloid and Interface 2. Interfacial properties of rice starch granules

Science
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No Research Fields Name Project Duration Undergraduate Master Doctor Website

Organic chemistry, 1. Study of organic stereochemistry by circular

6 Natural product Tatsuo NEHIRA dichroism 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ ✓
chemistry 2. Biochemical study of plant allelopathy

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Research Fields Name Project Duration Undergraduate Master Doctor Website

Characterization of multidrug efflux transporters in

Microbiology, pathogenic bacteria Department of
7 Teruo KURODA 4 to 6 months ✓ ✓
Bacteriology * Intern students need to participate in a DNA training Microbiology

course to be held in April or October

Analysis of genome and secondary metabolite biosynthetic

Microbiology, genes in Streptomyces
8 Takanori KUMAGAI 4 to 6 months ✓ ✓
Bacteriology * Intern students need to participate in a DNA training

course to be held in April or October

Pharmacognosy, 1. Phytochemical study of tropical and subtropical

Katsuyoshi 2 weeks to 6 Department of
9 Natural product plants ✓ ✓ ✓
MATSUNAMI months Pharmacognosy
chemistry 2. Bioactive compounds from microorganism culture

1. Health care system (Population Health Management)

Clinical nursing
2. Chronic care, Long-term care, Disease Management,
10 Nursing & Health Care Michiko MORIYAMA 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ research
community-based care3. Telehealth, telenursing2.

laboratory
Nursing

1. Animal model of depression

2. Role of inflammation in psychiatric and neurological
disorders
11 Neurobiology Hidenori AIZAWA 3. Role of neural excitability in stroke and migraine - ✓ ✓
4. Three-dimensional visualization of neural activity and
connectivity
5. Left-right asymmetry in the brain
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Research Fields Name Project Duration Undergraduate Master Doctor Website

1. Expression and purification of viral polymerases

Virology, Structural Takemasa
12 2. Analysis of proteins by X-ray crystallography or other 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ Virology laboratory
Biology SAKAGUCHI

methods

Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Fields Name Project Duration Undergraduate Master Doctor Website

13 Human Geography Kazuo TOMOZAWA Socio-economic changes of rural area in the NCR of Delhi 1 months ✓ HINDAS Center

Psycholinguistics 1. Associative learning of novel word and meaning

Toshimune Psycholinguistics
14 (Psychology of 2. Classical conditioning of language 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ ✓
KAMBARA Lab
language) 3. Sound symbolic words

1. Textual and fieldwork studies of Hinduism and

Buddhism in India and Nepal
Hindu and Buddhist
2. Theories of Religious Studies and comparative studies
15 Studies in South Asia, Tsunehiko SUGIKI 6 months ✓ ✓ Academia
of religions from theoretical perspective

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

1. Social mobility and higher education in Delhi or Uttar

Sociology of Education
16 Hiroshi SASAKI Pradesh, India 3 months ✓ ✓
and Social Work

2. Poverty in Japan

1. International tourism from India to Japan

17 Tourism geography Carolin FUNCK 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ ✓
2. Sustainable tourism development in Japan

Cultural Anthropology,
Migration Studies, 1. Internal and international migration and development
18 Itaru NAGASAKA 6 months ✓ ✓ ✓
Southeast Asian 2. Anthropological studies on development projects

Studies
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Research Fields Name Project Duration Undergraduate Master Doctor Website

1. Foreign minorities’ social inclusion

19 Welfare sociology Naoe KAWAMOTO 6 months ✓
2. Foreign minority children’s’ education for integration

1. Social structure of Japanese rural community

20 Rural sociology Satoshi FUKUDA 2. A historical study on forest management in Japan 6 months ✓
*Japanese language skills are required

Philosophy of Sport, 1. A study on concept of sport in ancient or modern

Sociology of Sport, society
21 Kouki UWAIZUMI 6 months ✓
Theory of Soccer 2. An elucidation of the thought of Tactical Periodization

Training Studies of soccer

Aesthetics of the
Sublime Edmund 1.
22 Burke, Landscape or Hideki KUWAJIMA 2.
Nostalgia, Irish Art 3.
Culture
Landscape Aesthetics, or Philosophy on the Sacred
Edmund Burke and Irish Art Culture 1 – 6 months ✓ ✓
The Sublime Theory in Modern Colonialism

Special Needs 1. Special Needs Education and Inclusive Education

Education, Inclusive systems 2 weeks-6
23 Norimune KAWAI ✓ ✓ ✓
Education, Speech- 2. Psychological aspects of fluency disorders and other months

Language Pathology communication disorders

1. Rural economics, issues related to agricultural

economy
Agricultural Maharjan Keshav
24 2. Rural dynamics 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ Maharjan Seminar
Economics Lall

3. South Asian studies, issues related to life and culture

of South Asia

Advanced Science and Engineering

Research Fields Name Project Duration Undergraduate Master Doctor Website

Elementary Particle Phenomenology for Particle Physics based upon Quantum

25 Takuya MOROZUMI 3 months ✓ ✓
Physics (Theory) Field Theory (CP violation, flavor physics)

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Research Fields Name Project Duration Undergraduate Master Doctor Website

Phenomenology for Particle Physics based upon Quantum

Elementary Particle
26 Takuya MOROZUMI Field Theory (CP violation, flavor physic, baryogenesis- ✓
Physics (Theory)

leptogenesis, non-equilibrium quantum field theory)

1. Design and numerical simulation of optical

Experiments of experimental setup for quantum foundation Quantum Frontier
27 Masataka IINUMA 3 – 6 months ✓
Quantum Foundation 2. Experimental studies on quantum measurements for Group

optical system

1. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction using

Earth Sciences, geochemical and isotopic signatures.
28 Kaushik DAS 6 months ✓ ✓
Paleoenvironment 2. Shallow to deep crustal deformation (microstructure,

metamorphism, geochronology)

1. Preparation of siloxane-based new functional

Organic Materials materials Organic Material
29 Joji OHSHITA 6 months ✓ ✓
Chemistry 2. Preparation of new metallole-conaining compounds Chemistry

for optoelectronic applications

Chemical engineering,
1. Development of microporous inorganic membranes
Unit operation,
with controlled porous structure
30 Membrane science & Hiroki NAGASAWA 2 – 6 months ✓ ✓ ✓
2. Facile synthesis of ceramic thin films of polymer

engineering, Thin film

materials
formation

1. Synthesis, optical and electrochemical properties of

Functional Dye
functional dyes
31 Chemistry, Materials Yousuke OOYAMA 1 – 3 months ✓ ✓ ✓
2. Preparation and photovoltaic performance of dye-

Physical Chemistry
sensitized solar cells

1. Soft exoskeleton using pneumatic artificial actuators

32 Human augmentation Yuichi KURITA 2 – 6 months ✓ Personal Website
2. Design and evaluation of haptic feeling

1. Development of Embedded GPU/FPGA-based High-

speed Vision
High-speed Vision & 2. Informatic projection mapping for multi-camera Robotics
33 Idaku ISHII 1 – 6 months ✓ ✓ ✓
Intelligent Sensing surveillance Laboratory

3. Ultrafast tracking system for flying objects

(multicopter, insects, etc.)
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Research Fields Name Project Duration Undergraduate Master Doctor Website

Robotics & 1. Development of aerial manipulator for multicopter Robotics

34 Takeshi TAKAKI 1 – 6 months ✓ ✓ ✓
Mechatronics 2. Flight controller for multicopter using visual feedback Laboratory

1. Design of a Data-Driven Smart Control System

35 Control Engineering Toru YAMAMOTO 2. Construction of a Data-Oriented IoT Platform for 1 – 6 months ✓ ✓ ✓
Controlling Industrial Systems

1. Impact and dynamic deformation behavior of Fe-

based materials with phase transition such as TRIP
36 Mechanics of Materials Takeshi IWAMOTO steel and Fe-based Shape Memory Alloys 1 – 3 months ✓ ✓ ✓ Personal Website

2. Multi-scale modeling and simulation of materials

3. Improvement of impact testing method

Biomass, Thermal Thermal

Yukihiko 1. Biodiesel production using supercritical fluid
37 Engineering, Chemical 4 – 6 months ✓ Engineering
MATSUMURA 2. Gasification of biomass in hot compressed water
Engineering Laboratory

Biomass, Thermal 1. Solid catalyst for biodiesel production Thermal

Yukihiko
38 Engineering, Chemical 2. Reaction kinetics on biomass gasification under 4 – 6 months ✓ Engineering
MATSUMURA
Engineering hydrothermal condition Laboratory

1. Microgravity research: Combustion characteristics

and flame propagation mechanisms in dust explosions
Combustion, Explosion
39 Wookyung KIM 2. Hydrogen safety: Flammable limits 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ ✓ Personal Website
safety

3. Flame acceleration of hydrogen-air mixtures

4. Explosion properties of hybrid mixtures

Structural Strength,
1. Fatigue strength of tubular structures
Offshore Structures,
2. Buckling/Ultimate strength of steel structures
Computational
40 Satoyuki TANAKA 3. Fatigue and fracture problem in engineering 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ ✓
Mechanics, Finite

4. Development of new method for finite element

Element
method, meshfree method and peridynamics
Method/Peridynamics

1. Development a novel cost effective and low energy

Wastewater
consumption biological sewage treatment reactor for Environmental
Treatment,
41 Akiyoshi OHASHI developing countries 3 months ✓ ✓ Preservation
Environmental

2. Biological wastewater treatments with recovery of Engnieering

Engineering

energy, phosphorus, and minor metals

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Research Fields Name Project Duration Undergraduate Master Doctor Website

Environmental Science, Environmental

Analysis of behavior of trace organic toxicants in urban air
42 Environmental Noriatsu OZAKI 3 months ✓ ✓ Preservation
and water environments

Engineering Engnieering

Machine Learning, 1. Applications of Deep Neural Network

2 weeks – 6
43 Statistical Pattern Takio KURITA 2. Image and Video Understanding ✓ ✓ ✓ Personal Website
months

Recognition 3. Bioimage Analysis

1. Cover Concrete Quality Inspection Design and

44 Concrete Engineering Kenichiro NAKARAI 2. Expansive Concrete 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ Maintenance of
3. Cement-Treated Soils Structures

Computer Vision, 1. Deep learning for understanding videos and images

45 Pattern Recognition, Toru TAMAKI 2. Cross modal understanding of vision and language 1 – 6 months ✓ ✓ ✓ Personal Website

Machine Learning 3. 2D/3D scene understanding

1. Study of entanglement and other non-classical

Foundations of
46 Holger F. HOFMANN correlations 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ ✓
Quantum Mechanics

2. Theory of quantum measurement

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
Regional and Urban
3. Adaptation behavior of the elderly people to smart
Planning, Mobilities
technologies Mobilities and
47 and Urban Policy, Junyi ZHANG 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓
4. Long-term impacts of smart technologies on urban Urban Policy Lab

Smart Urban Life,

forms and the progress of urbanization

Energy Policy
* 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.

1. E3 (Energy-Environment-Economy) models
Low-carbon urban
2. Land use-transport interaction modeling as tools for
planning, climate
48 Runsen ZHANG sustainable urban planning 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓
change and energy

3. Impacts of transport policies on energy use and

studies
emissions
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Research Fields Name Project Duration Undergraduate Master Doctor Website

1. New neighborhoods/ new urban areas planning, self-

containment, travel behavior in developing countries
Transportation
2. Social network analysis in neighborhood planning
Planning, Nguyen Thi Anh
49 3. Value of travel time savings for business travelers 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ Personal Website
Neighborhood HONG

4. Impacts of ride-sourcing service on travel mode

Planning
replacement and travel behavior in developing
countries: A case study in Vietnam

1. Autonomous consolidated transport of passenger and

Infrastructure 2.
Makoto
50 planning, Urban risk 3.
CHIKARAISHI
goods
Impacts of new mobility services on urban form
Modeling freight vehicle route choice behavior with 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ Personal Website

management GPS trajectory data

4. Modeling pedestrian route choice behavior with GPS

trajectory data

1. Coastal flooding due to storm surge and tsunami, and

Coastal dynamics, Coastal Hazards
its prediction
51 Coastal risk Han Soo LEE 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ and Energy System
2. Coastal risk management under global warming

management Science Lab

environment

1. Energy-saving houses in the hot-humid climates

2. Adaptive thermal comfort and behaviour in the hot-
Building and Urban humid climates
52 Tetsu KUBOTA 3 – 4 months ✓ ✓ BUESA Laboratory
Environmental Science 3. Indoor air quality in the growing cities of Asia

4. Application of vernacular techniques to modern

houses

1. Utilization of Biomass Energy Technologies in

Biomass Energy
Developing Countries
Technology,
2. Utilization of Natural Products for Sustainable Tran Dang Xuan
53 Sustainable Tran Dang XUAN 6 months ✓ ✓
Agricultural Production Lab

Agricultural

3. Analysis for Environmental Pollution and Counter

Production
measurements

1. Ecology of tropical forests

Lab of Ecology and
Ecology, Ecosystem 2. Conservation of urban biodiversity
54 Tetsuro HOSAKA 3 – 6 months ✓ ✓ Ecosystem
Management 3. Human-wildlife conflicts in Asian countries

Management
4. Ecosystem conservation and nature-based tourism

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Research Fields Name Project Duration Undergraduate Master Doctor Website

Material cycle,
Environmental 1. Energy recovery from biomass by means of anaerobic
55 dynamics, Catchment Shinichi ONODERA digestion 6 months ✓ ✓ ResearchGate

environment 2. Biological acetate production from H2-CO2

management

1. Thermodynamic properties of the global climate

Global fluid dynamics system
56 Hisashi OZAWA 1 – 6 months ✓ ✓ Personal Website
and thermodynamics 2. Thermal convection and fluid turbulence

3. Regular pattern formation in geophysical fluids

Ultrasonic measurements of water- alcohol mixtures or

57 Chemical physics Masanori INUI 2 weeks ✓
liquid metals and alloys

1. A Foundation of Quantum Theory (Schrodinger Cat,

Temporal Bell inequality etc.)
Organic chemistry,
Noriyuki 2. Quantum Information Science (Superconducting
58 Natural product 1 – 6 months ✓ ✓ ✓
HATAKENAKA quantum computer, etc.)
chemistry

3. Quantum Artificial Intelligence (Quantum walk based

quantum neural network, etc.)