Admission

Send your documents to:

Yoko Kubota
Ishida & Matsubara Laboratory
Department of Social Informatics
Kyoto University
Kyoto 606-8501 JAPAN

Phone: +81-75-753-4820
FAX : +81-75-753-4820
email:

We will reply to you within two weeks or so after we receive your application and information.

Important!

You should obtain fellowship or scholarship from Japanese government. As for Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship Students Program, please ask Embassy of Japan or Consulate General in your country. Embassies and Consulates list is available from Embassies and Consulates list.
More detailed information about Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship Students Program is available from here. Information about university recommendation is available from International Doctoral Program in Informatics.
For graduate course applicants, please contact the department for information regarding entrance examination.

Graduate School of Informatics
Kyoto University
Kyoto 606-8501 JAPAN

You should obtain postdoctoral fellowship for financial support from JSPS. Send the following documents to Ishida & Matsubara Laboratory.

1. C.V. (curriculum vitae)
   name, address, education qualification, research and working experiences, list of publications.
2. Your papers (including your doctoral thesis)
3. Research proposal.
4. Application and research proposal for JSPS fellowship.
   • Name in Full (family / first / middle)
     Both in English and Chinese characters, if available.
   • Sex (Male / Female)
   • Date of birth (day / month / year)
   • Place of Birth:
   • Nationality:
   • Language: Japanese/English/Others
   • University Education
     (Period (from/ to) / Name of University / Place / Subject / Degree):
   • Academic degree (title and month / year obtained):
   • Academic Awards (title and year):
   • Current Appointment (position and institution):
   • Mailing Address: (Please do not give us a post-office box.)

     1) Office Address:

     Telephone:

     Facsimile:

     E-mail:

     2) Home Address:

     Telephone:

     Facsimile:

   • Proposed Tenure of Fellowship:

     from:

     to:

     total: days

   • Major Publications (title / journal or publisher / pages / year):
   • Recommendation letters.
   • Title of proposed research in Japan:
   • Plan of proposed research in Japan: (100-200 words):
   • Previous JSPS Related Activity (if available):
   • Closest Airport:
5. Your photo.

This laboratory welcomes applications from highly qualified students having basic knowledge about
- artificial intelligence, especially agent and semantics
- human interface, especially communication, collaboration, and usability

The following books are helpful to deepen your understandings about our researches.
- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
  Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
- Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction
  Jenny Preece, Helen Sharp, Yvonne Rogers

Send the following documents to Ishida & Matsubara Laboratory.

1. C.V. (curriculum vitae)
   name, address, education qualification, research and working experiences, list of publications.
2. Research proposal.
3. School record (undergraduate).
   Please provide your cumulative Grade Point Average on a 4.0 scale (A = 4 points, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1). Our requirement is 3.0 or higher.
4. Certificate of your bachelor's degree.
5. Recommendation letter from your supervisor.
6. Scores of GRE.
   You must take both the General tests and the Advanced Subject test in computer science. Applicants with scores below the 90th percentile on the Quantitative and Analytical sections of the GRE are rarely admitted.
7. Scores of English language test (TOEFL, TOEIC, etc.).
   We have a minimum score requirement of 90 on the TOEFL iBT or the equal level on the TOEIC.
8. Score of Japanese Language Proficiency Test, level one.
9. Your photo.

As for Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship Students Program, please ask Embassy of Japan or Consulate General in your country. Embassies and Consulates list is available from Embassies and Consulates list. You have to apply it by yourself. You also have to take an entrance examination of graduate course of the department. For Chinese citizens, Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship is not available for Masters course program but can be available only for Ph.D. course for 3 years.

Your Ph.D. research will be social informatics related areas. Refer our research group pages for your consideration of research proposal.

This laboratory welcomes applications from highly qualified students having basic and advanced knowledge about
- artificial intelligence, especially agent and semantics
- human interface, especially communication, collaboration, and usability

The following books are helpful to deepen your understandings about our researches.
- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
  Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
- Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction
  Jenny Preece, Helen Sharp, Yvonne Rogers

Send the following documents to Ishida & Matsubara Laboratory.

1. C.V. (curriculum vitae)
   name, address, education qualification, research and working experiences, list of publications.
2. Your papers (including your master thesis)
3. Research proposal.
4. School record (undergraduate and masters course).
   Please provide your cumulative Grade Point Average on a 4.0
   scale (A = 4 points, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1). Our requirement is 3.0 or higher.
5. Certificate of your master's and bachelor's degree.
6. Three letters of recommendation.
7. Scores of GRE.
   You must take both the General tests and the Advanced Subject test in computer science. Applicants with scores below the 90th percentile on the Quantitative and Analytical sections of the GRE are rarely admitted.
8. Scores of English language test (TOEFL, TOEIC, etc.).
   We have a minimum score requirement of 90 on the TOEFL iBT or the equal level on the TOEIC.
9. Score of Japanese Language Proficiency Test, level one.
10. Your photo.

As for Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship Students Program, please ask Embassy of Japan or Consulate General in your country. Embassies and Consulates list is available from Embassies and Consulates list. You have to apply it by yourself. You also have to take an entrance examination of graduate course of the department.

Your Ph.D. research will be social informatics related areas. Refer our research group pages for your consideration of research proposal.

Fellowship

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Scholarship

Study in Japan Comprehensive Guide

• Japanese Language Proficiency Test
• GRE: Graduate Record Examination
• TOEFL: Test of English as a Foreign Language