For Students Considering Joining Our Lab

In addition to the introduction to our lab, please also take a look at the lab introduction slides (PDF), past papers, GitHub repositories, and slides on SlideShare and Speaker Deck to explore research topics that match your interests.

When considering graduate school admission or lab placement, if you would like a lab tour or an individual meeting, please first consider attending the department’s official graduate school information sessions and lab visits. If you have additional questions, please briefly describe your research interests and the topics you would like to discuss, and reach out by email. Online or in-person meetings can be arranged as needed.

If you are considering entering a doctoral program or a long-term research stay, please briefly describe your previous research, your topics of interest, and the program and timeline you have in mind, and contact us by email to discuss research topic alignment. A meeting can be arranged as needed.

Note: Whether prior approval from the supervisor is required for lab placement depends on the student’s status at the time of placement (undergraduate, master’s, or doctoral) and the program. For example:

  • Undergraduate (Special Research / Graduation Thesis): Prior approval is not required
  • Master’s Program:
    • General graduate school entrance exam: Prior approval is not required
    • International Graduate Program (IGP) or government-sponsored international students: Prior approval is required
  • Doctoral Program: Prior approval is required

For details, please refer to the university’s official website and graduate school information sessions. Even when prior approval is not required, we believe that confirming alignment with the supervisor and research topics is important, which is not only for our lab. We therefore encourage you to actively make use of the department’s official information sessions and lab visits. If you have individual questions specifically about our lab, please include the information mentioned above when contacting us by email.

How to Do Good Research: “How to Research” by Prof. Tomohiko Uyematsu

Prof. Uyematsu’s “How to Research” is an excellent guide to choosing a lab and getting started with research. It covers many of the essential things students should know regardless of their field, so we strongly recommend reading it at least once. [link (PDF)] [mirror] (Copyright Prof. Uyematsu; in Japanese)

For the sections on tools and information sources in Prof. Uyematsu’s document, Jun Kurihara also prepared a supplementary note in 2022. The original document already contains the important ideas, but this supplementary note may help you put that advice into practice in your own research workflow. [link (PDF)] (in Japanese)