Information for Prospect Students

Greetings

• See video!
  
  
  (Students of the Year 2012)

Laboratory Introduction

• AHC Lab brochure
• Introduction from NAIST brochure "Sentan (September 2012)" *in Japanese

Every Day Visit AHC lab

NAIST offers 'Everyday Campus Tours' to interested visitors at any time, to introduce individual research labs and the school's environment. If you come visit us, we will introduce the overall of AHC research laboratory, including poster presentations and demo systems by AHC research groups. Faculty members will also respond to any inquiries concerning entrance examination and other matters.



A previous appointment is required for the visiting. Further details and how to make an appointment can be found here.

Short-term Internship at AHC lab

• Internship Program
  
  
  

  InterACT Student Exchange Program	The International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (InterACT) is a network of leading Research Universities and Institutes of the main economies of the world, which aim to build technologies that improve global communication and collaboration. InterACT provides exchange program where outstanding students of the institute members could expand their interpersonal skills and then collaborate and participate in research projects. [Note: Direct submission by students is not acceptable]
  	Members: Carnegie Mellon University (USA, Pittsburgh & Silicon Valley) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong, China) Waseda University (Japan) Italian Institute of Technology (Italy) University of Southern California (USA) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan) Nara Institute of science and Technology (Japan)
  	Futher details can be found here.
  JASSO Summer Internship Program	NAIST offers short-term reserach opportunities (approx. 3 months: June-August) under the International Internship Program for Advanced Human Education in the field of Information Science, funded by Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO). This Internship is open to outstanding bachelor (last year) or master (1st or 2nd year) students enrolled at partner intitutes [Note: Direct submission by students is not acceptable].
  	Members: University of Indonesia, Indonesia Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia Vietnam National University - University of Engineering and Technology,Vietnam [New] University of Ulm, Germany
  	Futher details can be found here.
  Others	Besides InterACT and JASSO program, we are also open to any outstanding students from any university that have collaboration agreement with NAIST and are interested to work with our ongoing research projects at AHC Laboratory in the fields of technologies that support communications between human-to-human and human-to-computer, including but not limited to: Cognitive Communication & Computational Neuroscience Dialogue Systems & Dialogue Management Machine Translation & Natural Language Processing Speech Recognition & Understanding Speech Synthesis & Conversion
  	Requirements: Enrolled at the University that have collaboration agreement with NAIST Proof of Funding Curriculum vitae Academic transcript Research proposal related to any of the above topics Two Recommendation Letter [Acceptance may vary depend on our available projects and spaces.]
  	Interested students shall first contact their supervisor for internal screening and approval, then the corresponding persons of NAIST collaboration (as stated in MOU) may contact us via email. [Note: Direct submission by students is not acceptable]

• Past Interns and Publications
  
  
  
  --> See list of all past interns and publications

Scholarship for International Students

Information for prospective international students who are considering applying to NAIST (including MEXT scholarship) can be found here.