Year 2, Master’s thesis

Each student has to carry out a Master’s Thesis supervised by advisers from the Japanese and from one EU partner during the last semester of the programme. Here is a list of current subjects that could be adressed during the Master’s thesis.

  • Modeling the decision process of human operators in safety critical control tasks. (CNS/Machine Learning + Psychology)
  • Adaptive individualized optimization of the work place in an assembly line. (ML + Production Systems)
  • Optimal distribution of ambulances in a city for minimal rescue times. (Operations Research + City Administration)
  • Modeling brain plasticity for rehabilitation after stroke with unspecific LTP stimulation. (CNS + Rehabilitation research)
  • Aligning medical images of different modalities for real-time surgery assistance. (Biological image processing Medicine)
  • Automatic traffic sign recognition to improve car traffic safety. (Machine Learning + Urban development)
  • Cybernics, medicine and healthcare, assistive technologies (AI & robotics)
  • Intelligent environments based on IoT, sensor network, and big data analysis (AI & IoT)
  • Health promotion for the middle-aged and elderly (AI in health promotion)
  • Prevention of lifestyle-related diseases and nursing care (AI in health promotion)
  • Research based on medical and long-term care claim data (Medical and health services Research)
  • Smart farm technology powered by IoT & CPS (AI & agriculture)
  • Sound synthesis, data sonification, sonic interaction, musical emotion, and timbre perception (AI & music)
  • Human factors in automated driving (AI & mobility)
  • Computational models for understanding human spending behavior (psychology + ML)
  • Prevention of Mental Health Problems via Social Media Networks (Health + ML)
  • Indexing Trainings Knowledge Applied to Interests Matching for Self-Empowerment and Employability (employment + ML)
  • Explore Social Behavior Indicators in Telecom Fraud (sociology + ML)
  • Context-Aware Implicit Feedback based Hotel Recommender System for Anonymous Business Travellers (Sociology + ML)
  • Wikipedia-based Approach to Find Interests of Twitter Users (sociology + ML)
  • Transparency of search engine
  • Data privacy of image-based, proteomic and genomic biomarkers (Bioinformatics + Medicine)
  • Annotation workflows and their effect on the accuracy and security of biomarkers (Bioinformatics + Production Systems)
  • Image analysis of advanced cell culture systems for high-throughput developmental neurotoxicity assays (Bioinformatics + Neurotoxicology)