Initiatives for Attractive Education in Graduate Schools

*Japanese

Study Abroad

Electrical & Computer Engineering of University of Maryland

I was dispatched to ECE (Electrical & Computer Engineering) of University of Maryland as a short stay research worker from October to November at 2006.
My research was the development of a new matrix solver for LSI circuit simulation as the application of the new solution PSM of huge linear equations.
Since my stay was restricted very much, I was very busy every day. But I could spread my idea and viewpoint through discussion with other researchers and students in the laboratory. As a result, I developed a new solver which has a target performance. I visited other laboratories of LSI design, it became helpful very much.
UMD is suburbs from Washington, D.C. and is very convenient. The circumference of a university is very widely beautiful. It is the highest environment for researcher.

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology

I stayed in Max Planck Institute in Germany, from Oct until Dec 2006, for three months. I belonged to Bioinformatics group and studied the new thesis at the Institute. This was first time to live abroad. It was very hard for me to live alone because I needed to learn German language and cook by myself using European ingredients. However, I got great valuable experiences in my staying because of meeting some people, getting the opportunity of presentation about my research and continuance of my research at Max Planck after going back to NAIST. I have to reduce my experiences to my laboratory in NAIST.

Universite cathorique de Louvain, Belgium

I stayed Universite cathorique de Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium from September to November, 2006 as an internship.
I worked on a subject for compressing and decompressing stereo image pairs. Stereo image pairs are used in 3D cinemas. Recently, 3D cinema using stereo images has gathered more and more attention. However, stereo images have too large amount of data to distribute over the network. I utilized the differences between the pair of images for the compression method.
In the laboratory there are many people from different countries and they speak multiple languages. I could know various cultures and customs. I want to make use of this experience for both developing my research and studying English.

University of Joensuu, Finland

I stayed in the University of Joensuu in Finland from July, 2006 to March, 2007 as an exchange student.
In my laboratory, color science was actively studied, and I worked on a subject for spectral image mosaicing for multiple images measured in several batches. Though I had many difficulties in discussing technical terms, changing to a new theme different from the one I had in Japan and writing the paper in English, I finally achieved a satisfying system. I received a broader view of things and became more interested in various other fields through daily conversation with many exchange students from various countries, so my stay in Finland became a precious experience.
Because of this experience, I would like to improve my English even more and make use of it in my future activities.

International Conference

WC2006 International Conference

I presented to the WC2006 conference a presentation on the research topic I had been working for during my stay in MIT. My presenting session was about database and images for medical and biological area. Presenters were Pr. Kitney from Imperial College and his student, Pr.Dewey, my MIT supervisor, and me. The conference room was full of people, the audience was very interested in our presentations, and asked many questions. I attended many presentations and this gave me the opportunity of discovering not only other research subjects but also presenting techniques. Attending this conference was thus very useful for me, and I would like to thank GP for its financial support.

European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases

I joined a conference, called PKDD (European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases). This conference is on data mining technology. Here, data mining is a techniqe used to obtain useful knowledge from huge databases.
In this conference, I gave a presentation on link analysis that is a sub-field of data mining and got two questions on my presentation from audiences. Though it is difficult to answer questions in English, it seems that they understood my responses. On the other hand, this conference was a good oppotunity for me to learn about some up-to-date work.

IEEE SECON'06

I had a chance to attend the third Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks(SECON'06) held in Reston, VA, USA.
This conference's topics of interest include tequnics in sensor networks and ad-hoc networks, and I made a poster presentation about security tequnics for sensor networks. There were a lot of researchers in the conference room, also in front of our poster. We were able to have informative discussions, moreover, we were asked some reserchers to send an e-copy of our papers. Of course, I was able to listen many presentations that will be helpful for my future work. I could gain precious experience.

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering 2006

I have presented my research on the prediction of software reliability at ISESE2006 (International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering 2006).
In a session I presented, several researchers including Dr. Mendes of the University of Auckland, who was a sesson chair, gave me helpful comments on my research. Also, after the session, through discussions with many researchers, I could gain the domain knowledge on my research area. Fortunately, I became friends with those who had discussions on software engineering related topics. I really would like to express my gratitude to the GP's financial support for providing me such a good opportunity.

SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference 2006

I participated in SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference 2006 which was mostly related to control theory.
And it had been held in international conference hall, BEXCO located in Pusan in South Korea in October, 2006. I presented about the design method of the Delay Feedback Controllers in the session that treated the control technique of H∞ control, and I had the essential questions and comments from famous researchers. Then, since I can hardly ever listen to the presentation of famous researchers usually, it became a very valuable experience for me.
And I was impressed by depth of attendee's view by exchanging the researcher with the opinion, and it motivated me. Finally, I wish to express my gratitude to graduate school GP for capital help to this opportunity.

The 13th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC2006)

From 6th December through 8th December, I attended APSEC2006 (The 13th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference) in Bangalore for presentation of our study. Bangalore is a center of IT industry in India, and APSEC is the leading international conference that widely treats software engineering topics in Asia-Pacific region.
I presented our study at 3rd day. Since it is my first-time presentation abroad, I got so nervous, however, the audience earnestly listened to my presentation, and I had so many questions in spite of my poor speech of English. On the whole, the conference went off in a friendly atmosphere. Though there are some accidents such as blackout while a session in the 1st day, the conference was finished without a hitch. I learnt a lot from the participation, and I advance our research in a positive way and make opportunities of presentation.

The Fifth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference 2007 (APBC2007),
The University of Hong Kong

APBC is an annual forum for exploring research, development, and novel applications of bioinformatics. It brings together researchers, professionals and industrial practitioners for interaction and exchange of knowledge and ideas. The main topics of APBC2007 are Sequence Analysis, Motif Finding, Recognition of Genes, RNA Analysis, Physical and Genetic Mapping, Evolution and Phylogeny, Protein Structure Analysis, Microarray Design, Transcriptome, Gene Expression, Proteomics, Pathways, Networks and Systems, Ontologies, Databases and Data Integration, Text Mining, Population Genetics/SNP/Haplotyping, Comparative Genomics, Genome Rearrangements and Applications.
I presented our research (TITLE: Developing algorithm for visualizing Orthologous gene clusters having common domains) in the Poster Session. I discussed about our research with some people with different research backgrounds. I learned the various new perspectives in our research from them. I could I reaped big reward. I appreciate having the opportunity to present our research in the international conference.

SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference 2006
	I participated in SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference 2006 in Pusan, October 2006. I have already done the presentation of the theme, but I feel really benefitable for the other presentation, comments, and questions of foreign researchers. I really appreciate for GP to give me the chance.

The fifth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference

It has participated in international conference APBC2007 (The fifth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference) held at the Hong Kong university on 15-17 day in January, 2007. As for APBC, a wide content was announced in the field of bioinformatics. I have presented the poster of the method of analyzing the genome being done now this time.

Students and researchers in China, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, the United States, and South Korea came to my presentation to listen the research, and were interested about the content of the research. I feel that it becomes the result attending the conference. Finally, we wish to express our gratitude to graduate school GP capital to this opportunity.

The Fifth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference 2007 (APBC2007)
The University of Hong Kong

I participated APBC2007 (The Fifth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference) held at the Hong Kong university on 15-17 of January, 2007.
It was my first experience to go abroad, to participate an international conference and to use English as a medium of communication. I talked with foreign researchers at lunch break time but I couldn’t explain enough technically important points to foreign presenters. It was a very embarrassing experience. I heard the oral sessions and I felt that to get the question from the audience, the presenter should speak very fluently.
Through the experience of this time, I again recognized the importance of learning English. So if I get a chance to go and study abroad, I want to take the challenge of acquiring skill in English that can be used all my life.

The Fifth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference 2007 (APBC2007),
The University of Hong Kong

I joined APBC 2007 (The fifth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference) held at Hong Kong University. This conference focused on Bioinformatics department.
I presented the poster of our research. It was first time to discuss about our research in English, so I felt it was difficult to express our points of research. However, all of them were very kind to give their opinion to me. Their indication was very informative to us to advance our research.

I really enjoyed this conference. I'm filled with gratitude for the Graduate school GP for capital.

The Fifth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference 2007 (APBC2007),
The University of Hong Kong

I attended APBC2007 (The Fifth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference) held at Hong Kong University on 15-17 day in january, 2007. This conference is an annual form for exploring research, development and novel applications of Bioinformatics.I made a presentation of the poster of our study which title is "Species-metabolite Database(KNApSAcK)".

By poster presentation, I discussed with several researcher or student. I could re-realize the importance of our study and expand my view. Finally, I'm grateful for the graduate school GP for capital.

DUMBO-Project and AINTEC 2006, Thailand

I worked on a DUMBO-Project in the end of November, 2006.
DUMBO-Project did demonstration experiment for lifesaving and weather data observation. This experimental system used MANET( Mobile Ad-hoc Network ) consisted of elephants. I brought weather sensors on this network, and I made observation system, with which we can easily observe weather infomation about a disaster area.
In AINTEC'06, we demonstrated this system. It was a gread opportunity that I constructed demonstration system and discussed reseach topics with lots of reseachers from all over the world.
I appreciate for GP to give me the opportunity.

AINTEC(Asian Internet Engineering Conference)2006, Thailand

From the end of November to the beginning of December, I went to AIT(Asian Institute of Technology) in Thailand.
We presented demonstration in AINTEC(Asian Internet Engineering Conference)2006 held in AIT. We built a network connecting AIT and Phuket with a satellite, and presented demonstration about this network. There were some groups from France and other countries. I saw their demonstration and had contact with them. It was very amazing experience for me.
In addition to this, we installed sensors on network of AIT and KU(Kasetsart University). I also had contact with their students, too.
I would like to thank GP for its financial support and gaving me this opportunity.

The 11th European Symposium On Research In Computer Security (ESORICS‘06)
Hamburg, Germany

I attended the 11th European Symposium On Research In Computer Security (ESORICS‘06) held in September 2006 in Hamburg, Germany.
The title of my presentation was "HBAC: A Model for History-based Access Control and Its Model Checking." This talk was about my recent results on security verification of programs with runtime access control mechanism called HBAC.
Because it is my initial presentation in English, I felt nervous very much. I get acquainted with researchers and also gained some knowledge by attending other presentations. They are very helpful to my research in future.

ARC2007(Application Reconfigurable Computing)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

I presented an international workshop, ARC2007(Application Reconfigurable Computing) held at Brazil Rio de Janeiro.
The workshop is on reconfigurable computing.
I gave a presentation on an application of it.
I got so nervous because it is my first time presentation abroad. So I regreted that I didn't give a presentation well. I recognized the importance of learning English. So I'll learn English to communication with foreign researchers.
Finally, I really appreciate for GP to give me the chance.

IIEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
Hong Kong, China

I participated in international conference WCNC2007 (IIEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference) held at the Hong Kong on 11-15 day in March, 2007, I presented about multicast routing in Mobile Ad hoc Network, and got the question.
Moreover, since this conference was treated the field from the physical layer of radio to application layer and 20 sessions were performed simultaneously in parallel, this is very large-scale.Therefore, It was significant to listen the announcement and argument by a researcher with various special backbones and to know comprehensively about research trends.
I'm filled with gratitude for GP about its financial support.

ISPA06
Sorrento, Italy

I participated in international conference ISPA06 held in Sorrento, Italy, December, 2006.
This conference's topics of interest include tequnics in Paralle and Distributed and multimedia. Because the venue was Italy, a lot of researcher of European each place participated. In addition, a lot of researchers of an Asian such as Korea participated, too.
Since there were many presentation, I was able to hear many subjects of research besides a field. Moreover I deepened exchange with other researcher at lunch and dinner, and became a precious experience.
Attending this conference was thus very useful for me, and I would like to thank GP for its financial support.

ISITA 2006
Seoul, Korea

I attended the international conference, ISITA (International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications) 2006.
At the conference, I had an oral presentation of my work about a new quantum communication algorithm for transmitting a message securely between two quantum computers. There were many presentations about Cryptograpy, Coding Theory, Optical Communications, Mobile Communications, and so on. I had my presentation at the special session of quantum information processing.
I had a valuable experience and got the better English presentation skill. I will work hard so I can make many presentations abroad.

Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2007
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

I attended the international conference, QIP (Quantum Information Processing) 2007. At the conference, I had a poster presentation of my work about a new quantum communication algorithm for transmitting a message securely between two quantum computers AND ITS SECURITY ANALYSIS. There were many presentations about Quantum Computing, Quantum Cryptograpy, Quantum Information Theory, and so on. I had some exchanges of opinions with audience. I heard many most-advanced international presentations there.
I had a valuable experience and got the better English presentation skill. I will work hard so I can make many presentations abroad.

The 5th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference 2007
Hong Kong

I joined the fifth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference 2007 in Hong Kong under the program of Initiatives for Attractive Education in Graduate Schools and I presented at poster session.
Many people visited this conference in Hong Kong University despite it was related to only one field, bioinformatics. My presentation was in second day. Some people were interested in my study and asked me many questions. I answered them, but I am worried whether I was able to give them appropriate responses by my poor vocabulary. At discussion, questioners gave me interesting opinions. On another occasion when I asked other presenters, they explained politely.
I enjoyed this conference and thank this program that gave me the opportunity.

Asian Conference on Quantum Information Sicence 2006
Beijing, China.

It has participated in AQIS2006(Asian Conference on Quantum Information Sicence 2006) held for four days from September 1, 2006. It was held in Beijing, a lot of researchers gathered from the country and the region that exceeded 20, and an active discussion was exchanged in the field over many topics of the theory and the experiment of quantum information this time. Quantum information is one of the fields where the most active discussion was exchanged now, So I appreciate GP to participate in such the conference. I think that I can have a fruitful discussion in poster this presentation.

SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference 2006
Pusan, Korea.

I participated in SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference 2006 held in Pusan, in October 2006. I presented our paper " Robust catching control of robot manipulators without impact".
I felt nervous because this was my first experience of presenting our research result in English in a conference. I recognized the importance of communicating research ideas. I had a very valuable experience in attending other related sessions.
Finally, I am grateful for having this opportunity. I would like to thank the financial support from the GP program.