Research in Tsukuba
This summer isn't actually all about traveling. We each got a fellowship to study with a professor/researcher of our choice in Japan. Doug is working on musical analysis with machine learning at the National institute of Advance Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) through the National Science Foundation. Megan is studying Epidemiology at the University of Tsukuba through the National Institute of Health.
Megan's office is at the University of Tsukuba's Medical school where she works under Dr. Wagatsuma, MD, PhD, MPH, one of two female professors at the Univerity. They are working on analyzing all of Zimbabwe's Schistosomiasis data from the 1996-2002. It has been tougher than expected, mainly due to thousands of missing data entries.
Doug advisor is Masataka Goto, a world expert in Music Information Retrieval. Doug is also working with Elias Pampalk, another world expert, who is a post-doc working with Masataka for the year. (See Elias' Blog about Tsukuba.) Both have filled Doug's head with great ideas throughout the summer.
The lab has been a very inspiring place due to the fact that Masataka has had many students working at AIST during their summer semester. In the photo, we have Masataka-sensei and his hachi merry students: Katsu, Elias, Tommi, Hiro, Masataka, Doug, Nishio, Ohishi, and Ito.
One project that other members of our group work on involves a dancing robot.
Megan's office is at the University of Tsukuba's Medical school where she works under Dr. Wagatsuma, MD, PhD, MPH, one of two female professors at the Univerity. They are working on analyzing all of Zimbabwe's Schistosomiasis data from the 1996-2002. It has been tougher than expected, mainly due to thousands of missing data entries.
Doug advisor is Masataka Goto, a world expert in Music Information Retrieval. Doug is also working with Elias Pampalk, another world expert, who is a post-doc working with Masataka for the year. (See Elias' Blog about Tsukuba.) Both have filled Doug's head with great ideas throughout the summer.
The lab has been a very inspiring place due to the fact that Masataka has had many students working at AIST during their summer semester. In the photo, we have Masataka-sensei and his hachi merry students: Katsu, Elias, Tommi, Hiro, Masataka, Doug, Nishio, Ohishi, and Ito.
One project that other members of our group work on involves a dancing robot.
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