Application groups and research fields

The below lists research fields of each application group for a reference. Please consult "Guidelines for Admission" and  "Application Group Guide" available from the school's guidline page for more detailed information.

  • IST-1Neuroinformatics, Brain Decoding, Brain-Machine Interface, Brain Imaging, Computational Neuroscience, Vision Science, Biological Psychiatry, Social Neuroscience, Neuroeconomics
  • IST-2Psychoinformatics, Higher Brain Function, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Cognitive Interface, Psychological State Estimation, Cognitive Science
  • IST-3Cognitive Informatics, Vision Science, Psychophysics, Functional Brain Measurements, Media Technologies Using Human Visual Characteristics, Cognitive Neural Dynamics
  • IST-4a (Adjuct Unit)Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Decision Making and Reinforcement Learning, Neurocomputational Mechanism of Social Functions, Brain-based Intelligence and Machine Learning, Human fMRI Experiments with Quantitative Methods
  • IST-4b (Adjuct Unit)Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Emotion Sensing, Facial Expression Recognition, Human-robot Interaction, Experimental Psychology, fMRI Measurement, Physiological Measurement
  • IST-5*: Computational Intelligence, Knowledge Discovery, Computational Learning Theory, Optimization for Machine Learning
  • IST-6Collective Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Human Computation
  • IST-7*: Conversational Informatics
  • IST-8Language Media Processing, Language Information Processing, Language Analysis, Language Synthesis, Machine Translation, Information Retrieval
  • IST-9Speech and Audio Processing, Speech Recognition and Understanding, Music Information Processing, Human Robot Interaction, Statistical Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition
  • IST-10Computer Vision, Visual Information Processing, Visual Intelligence
  • IST-11: Human Sensing, Visual and Physiological Sensing, Human Motion Understanding and Assist, Communication Sensing and Support
  • IST-12Text Media, Language Understanding, Language Generation, Language Knowledge Acquisition, Verbalizing for Thought and Understanding, Symbol Grounding
  • IST-13Biological Information Networks, Bioinformatics, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Complex Networks

*: The fields IST-5 Computational Intelligence and IST-7 Conversational Informatics currently do not take students.

(Updated: November, 2023)