ICT for Human Enhancement

The e-Society Laboratory is a multi-disciplinary, international research and learning space, centering its work around individuals, social groups, organizational networks, as well as public administrations in the age of digitalization.
Classical IT projects are envisaged in a broader environmental and social perspective, encompassing the exchange with experts from urban planning, mariculture and farming, management, linguistics and sociology, but also from engineering and physics. One of the distinctive features of the laboratory is its international character. The working language is English.
Student members of the Laboratory are typically expected to discuss results of their work at professional meetings, including international conferences, while graduate research projects are to produce results that would be reported in international journals. Graduate student work is often coupled with overseas partners of the laboratory that include research groups from Universitas Brawijaya, Universitas Dinamika (STIKOM Surabaya), and The Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm.
Laboratory social events include birthday tea-and-cake parties, cross-cultural picnics, and city tours.
Important note to potential applicants: Please be informed that at the laboratory, we do not deal with research grounded in military, medicine, pure mathematics, computer games, finance and stock markets in principle. Please, also be informed that those applying to a Graduate Program are expected to have a substantial undergraduate background in mathematics (especially in probability theory and statistics), artificial intelligence, and programming.
For initial screening, all applicants are requested to submit, via e-mail, the following documents (in PDF, with English translations when applicable): 1) full undergraduate transcripts, 2) results of a standard English proficiency test taken within two years from the application date (unnecessary if the undergraduate program was completed in English), 3) proposed research theme and research plan for the whole period of study (use the form posted at the Graduate School website). Do not send resume, CV, etc.
College of Information Science and Engineering, H726
Osaka Ibaraki Campus, Ritsumeikan University
2-150 Iwakuracho, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8570 JAPAN