Introduction of Faculty Members(5/19/2017)

• Major in Computer and Information Sciences　[Master’s and Doctoral]
• Major in Mechanical Engineering　[Doctoral only]
• Major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering　[Master’s and Doctoral]
• Major in Applied Informatics　[Master’s and Doctoral]
• Major in Systems Engineering and Science (Advanced Sciences Track) [Doctoral only]
• Major in Systems Engineering and Science (Management Science Track) [Master’s and Doctoral]
• Major in Applied Chemistry　[Master’s and Doctoral]
• Major in Frontier Bioscience (Frontier Bioscience Field) 　[Master’s and Doctoral]
• Major in Frontier Bioscience (Clinical Plant Science Field) 　[Master’s and Doctoral]

Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences

Major in Computer and Information Sciences　[Master’s and Doctoral]

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• Academic Areas

Kensuke AISHIMA

• Numerical analysis
• Numerical analysis, high performance computing, data analysis

Mina AKAISHI

• Intellect engineering
• Information compilation technology based on story structure; management, search and visualization techniques for knowledge media; science of historical knowledge and so forth

Katsunobu ITO

• Speech processing, Multimodal dialogue systems, Music information processing
• Speech recognition, multimodal dialogue systems, speech interfaces, information retrieval, music information processing, data science

Kaoru UCHIDA

• Pattern and image recognition, Machine learning
• Pattern recognition, machine learning, deep learning, and their real-world applications; Biometrics; Business innovation through computer and information sciences

Satoshi OBANA

• Cryptography, Information Security
• Cryptographic protocols, including secret sharing and secure multiparty computation

Takafumi KOIKE

• 3D imaging technology, Computer graphics, Augmented reality
• Real world-oriented media, optical information processing, physical computing, real-time rendering, computational photography

Katsumi KONISHI

• Data-driven modeling, sparse optimization
• sparse modeling, compressed sensing, system identification, modeling

Akira SASAKI

• Programming language processing systems, Domain-specific languages, Attribute grammars
• Programming language processing system implementation technologies and theory

Yuji SATO

• Evolutionary computation, Intelligent computing, Soft computing
• Genetic algorithms, Evolutionary algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic and/or Multimodal problems, Distributed evolutionary computation, Evolutionary multi-objective optimization

Yasunari ZEMPO

• Computational methodology and computational materials science,　Development of new computational algorithms in large-scale parallel computers
• High perfomance computing and its applications such as optical propergations and optical properties of materials

Toshihisa NISHIJIMA

• Algebraic coding theory and its applications
• Aasymptotically good algebraic coodes, Weight enumerators, Maximum distance separable codes

Hiroshi HANAIZUMI

• Image processing and recognition, Remote sensing, Image measurement
• Remote sensing, image processing for medical purposes, facial recognition, and mobile camera applications

Soichiro HIDAKA

• Programming languages, Infrastructure software
• Programming languages, Program transformation, Bidirectional transformations and their applications to model driven engineering

Toshio HIROTSU

• Internet, Operating systems, Ubiquitous computing
• Dynamic relay control mechanisms for distributed virtual routers

Runhe HUANG

• Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Neural network, Data mining and knowledge fusion
• Knowledge representation and configuration, Knowledge discovery and fusion, Human cognitive process modeling, Associative memory and recall modeling

Satoru FUJITA

• High speed XML processing, Web services, Service-oriented software
• Service strategy modeling, social simulation analyses, basic technologies for implementing the XML and Web services that sustain the service industry-centered society

Hiroshi HOSOBE

• User interfaces, Information visualization, Constraint programming
• Mathematical approaches to the construction of visual and interactive systems

Jianhua MA

• Ubiquitous network and computing, smart object, space and service, autonomic and trusted system
• Ubiquitous networking and communication

Shuichi YUKITA

• Visualization of geometrical and abstract mathematical concepts
• Using diagrams and other methods to visualize abstract concepts

Yamin LI

• Computer architectures, Parallel and distributed systems, Mobile ad hoc networks
• Interconnection networks, routing and broadcasting algorithms

Toru WAKAHARA

• Character recognition, Distortion-tolerant image matching, Pattern recognition
• Text detection and character recognition in scene images, object tracking, and human behavior recognition

Graduate School of Science and Engineering　

Major in Mechanical Engineering　[Doctoral only]

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• Academic Areas

Chiharu ISHII

• Control engineering, Medical robotics, Rehabilitation engineering, Assistive technology
• Development of laparoscopic surgical robot, power assist suit, myoelectric prosthetic hand and its sensory feedback system, etc.

Hiroaki OSAWA

• Advanced materials engineering
• Light metal sheet forming, Superplasticity, Non-Ferrous alloys

Tadashige KAWAKAMI

• Combustion engineering, Energy conversion engineering
• Combustion, Internal combustion engine, Emission, Blended fuel

Genci Capi

• Assistive Robotics, Intelligent Robotic Systems
• Assistive robotics, Robot indoor/outdoor navigation, Intelligent Robots, Brain Machine Interface

Hideaki TSUKAMOTO

• Mechanics of materials, Materials science, Micromechanics
• Functionally graded materials, Plastic forming, high-temperature composites, Creep, Powder metallurgy

Hoshio TSUJITA

• Computational fluid dynamics, Fluid machinery
• Turbomachinery, Highly loaded turbine cascade, Secondary flow loss reduction

Motohisa HIRANO

• Nanotribology, Atomistics of friction, Computational mechanics
• Nanometer-scale tribology, Superlubricity, Chaotic friction and non-linear dynamics, Molecular dynamics, Frictional and elastic anisotropy, Optimization and inverse problem algorithm

Gaku MINORIKAWA

• Mechanical acoustics, Environmental engineering, Aviation technology
• Noise control, Aeroacoustics, Sound quality, Small fan design, Light aircraft design, Urban air mobility, 3D printing

Graduate School of Science and Engineering

Major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering　[Master’s and Doctoral]

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• Academic Areas

Kazuyuki ITO

• Intelligent robotics
• Bio-inspired robot, Soft robot, Rescue robot, Reinforcement Learning, Genetic Algorithm

Yoshihumi OKAMOTO

• Computational Electromagnetics, Electrical Machinery, Design Optimization
• Finite Element Method, Synchronous Motor, Interior Permanent Magnet Motor, Synchronous Reluctance Motor, Topology Optimization, High-speed and Large-scale Computation, Magnetic Hysteresis

Toshimichi SAITO

• Nonlinear circuits, Neural networks, Evolutionary Computation
• Binary Neural Networks, Chaotic Circuits, Stability Analysis, Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm

Jun SHIBAYAMA

• Functional element engineering
• Finite-difference time-domain method, Terahertz devices, Sensors

Hiroyuki TORIKAI

• Intelligent Circuit, Complex System
• Neuroprosthetics, Gene network, VLIS, Dynamical System Theory

Akira YASUDA

• Electronic circuit engineering, Control engineering
• Analog-Digital converter, Digital-Analog Converter, Analog Integrated Circuit, Analog RF circuit, Digital Direct Driven Technique, Digtal Speaker, Multi-coil Motor

Junji YAMAUCHI

• Electromagnetic wave transmission engineering, Design of passive optical devices
• Beam-propagation method, Polarization converter, Surface wave antennas

Sousuke NAKAMURA

• Assistive Robotics, Wireless Power Transfer, Human Augmentation
• Virtual Reality, SLAM, Teleoperation, Telepresence, Personal Vehicle, Magnetic Resonance, Health Care, Vital Sensor, Kalman Filter, LQR, Nonlinear Control

Major in Applied Informatics　[Master’s and Doctoral]

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• Academic Areas

Shigeru AKAMATSU

• KANSEI information engineering
• visual pattern recognition systems, facial image synthesis, human information processing

Hitoshi IYATOMI

• Intelligent information processing, Image recognition and analysis, Medical engineering
• Deep learning, computer vision, machine learning, image proecssing, text mining, medical engineering

Koichi OGAWA

• Image processing, Medical imaging
• computed tomography, image processing, medical imaging, x-ray detector, simulation technology

Atsushi KANAI

• Data networks and security, Data comunications and security
• Cyber security, Internet protocol, Web service, Privacy preserving

Mitsuru SHINAGAWA

• IT engineering, Ubiquitous networks, Wireless networks, Optical measurement
• Intra-body communication, Electro-magnetic shielding, Organic photovoltaics, Optical coherence tomography

Jinjia Zhou

• Algorithms and ASIC/FPGA architectures for multimedia signal processing
• Low-power, high-performance, VLSI design, video coding, HEVC, H.264/AVC, compressive sensing

Makoto HIRAHARA

• Master's only
• Biological information processing
• Vision, Memory, Neural networks, Machine learning

Akihiro FUJII

• Distributed system design
• Web Service, Semanitc Web, Collective Intelligence

Kenji MIYAMOTO

• Master's only
• Programming languages
• User Interfaces, Software engineering

Kazuo YANA

• Data processing engineering
• Ubiquitous health care system, biosignal big data processing, Mental stress test via heart rate variability, Cardiac risk assessment

Lei LI

• Intelligent information engineering, Algorithms
• Fast Algoritms, Parallel Algorithms, Soft Computing, the Computational Complexity

Koichi WADA

• Theoretical computer science
• Computation, Parallel/Distributed Algorithms, Computer Aided Education

Major in Systems Engineering and Science (Advanced Sciences Track) [Doctoral only]

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Takashi KASUGA

• Radio astronomy, Developing highly sensitive electromagnetic wave detection technologies
• Radio astronomy, Developing highly sensitive electromagnetic wave detection technologies

Makoto KANAZAWA

• Formal language theory, Mathematical logic, Mathematical linguistics, Interactive theorem proving
• Grammatical inference; Nonclassical logic; Grammar formalisms

Kazuyuki KOBAYASHI

• Sensing engineering, Sensor signal processing
• mobile robot, outdoor navigation, intelligent sensing

Shuichi SATO

• Gravitational wave physics, Experimental tests of general theory of relativity
• Gravitational wave, Laser interferometory

Isamu SHIOYA

• Graph grammar, Time series processing, Artificial intelligence
• Complex systems, Traffic flow, Machine Language processing

Kaoru SUZUKI

• Ergonomics, Human factors, Human information sensing
• Ergonomics, Human factors, Human information sensing

Makoto TAKIZAWA

• Information engineering
• Distributed systems, Computer networks, Distributed dabases

Mikito TANAKA

• Galactic archaeology, Observational astronomy
• Nearby galaxies, M31, Stellar halos, Stellar population, Galaxy evolution, Dwarf galaxies, Subaru telescope, Hyper Suprime-Cam, Prime Focus Spectrograph

Yasuyoshi HORIBATA

• Simulation engineering, Numerical analysis, Computational physics
• numerical simulation, optimization, data assimilation, parallel computing

Yukari MATSUO

• Laser spectroscopy, Atomic and molecular physics, Quantum electronics
• laser spectroscopy of atoms and molecules, laser ablation processes

Takao MIURA

• Databases, Machine Learning
• Data Models, Data Bases, Data Mining, Statistical Learning

Major in Systems Engineering and Science (Management Science Track) [Master’s and Doctoral]

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Shin ISOJIMA

• Master's only
• Nonlinear integrable systems
• Integrable systems, Difference equations, Cellular automata, Ultradiscretization

Tadashi URATANI

• Financial engineering
• Derivative pricing, No aribitrage, Black-Scholes formulas

Mitsuhiro KIMURA

• Reliability engineering, Quality control engineering
• Mathematical reliability modeling, Software reliability, Reliability and Quality data analysis

Hiroyuki GOTO

• Operations research, High-performance computing
• Discrete event systems, scheduling, geographic computation

Kenjiro TAKAZAWA

• Master's only
• Mathematical engineering,Discrete mathematics
• Combinatorial optimization,Graph algorithm,Matching theory

Nobuyuki TAMURA

• Applied probability theory, Operations research
• Optimal maintenance policy, Degradation process modeling, imperfect maintenance

Eishi CHIBA

• Master's only
• Operations research
• Discrete algorithms, Scheduling,Combinatorial optimization

Yoichi NAKAMURA

• Economic engineering
• Economic statistics, System of national accounts, Econometric analysis

Tatsuyoshi MIYAKOSHI

• Applied financial analysis
• Financial crisis, Japanese and Asian financial system

Kazuhiro YASUDA

• Master's only
• Stochastic analysis, Mathematical finance
• Stochastic differential equations, Derivative pricing, Portfolio optimization, Stochastic numerical analysis

Major in Applied Chemistry　[Master’s and Doctoral]

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• Academic Areas

Takaya AKASHI

• Inorganic materials chemistry, solid state electrochemistry
• Solid state reactions, High temperature oxidation, Thermal reduction, Joining, Sintering, Ionic onduction

Takamasa ISHIGAKI

• Inorganic synthetic chemistry
• Ceramic material,Laser synthesis,Wet chmeical synthesis,Photocatalyst,Optical Material

Hironori OGATA

• Materials Science,Solid state chemistry
• Organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials,Biomass-based materials,Development of new functional nanomaterials for energy and sustainability and their device applications

Atsushi KAWACHI

• Organo main group element chemistry; organometallic chemistry
• Maig group element,Silicon,Boron,Organic synthesis

Kenji SUGIYAMA

• Polymer chemistry,Organic chemistry
• Biodegradable polymer,Conjugated polymer,Fluoropolymer,Water-soluble polymer

Kazuyuki TAKAI

• Materials Science,Physical Chemistry
• Electronic and energy devices,Catalytic activity,Graphene,2D-Materials,Electronic properties

Takamasa MORI

• Chemical engineering,powder technology
• Slurry,Suspension,Dispersion control of nano particles

Akihiro YAMASHITA

• Chemical and biomedical engineering
• Transport phenomena in biological systems and in medical devices,Drug delivery systems

Yujiro WATANABE

• Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Materials Chemistry
• Water environment, Environmental purification materials, porous materials, Aluminosilicates, Ion exchangers

Major in Frontier Bioscience (Frontier Bioscience Field) 　[Master’s and Doctoral]

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Tomoyuki KANEKO

• Biophysics, cell biology
• Liposome, cell reconstruction, community effect, cardiomyocyte, multi- electrode array, cardiotoxicity, agarose microchamber

Ikuro KAWAGISHI

• Molecular biology, Biophysics
• Bacteria, signal transduction, receptor, molecular machine, protein structure and function, gene expression

Tsutomu SATO

• Molecular biology
• Virus, phage, bacteria, differentiation, DNA recombination, gene expression

Yoshiyuki SOWA

• Biophysics
• Molecular Motor, single-molecule detection

Antonio TSUNESHIGE

• Biophysical chemistry, Protein science, Biomolecular spectroscopy
• Hemoproteins, allostery, protein hydration, macromolecular crowding, protein refolding, microcalorimetry

Masafumi HIRONO

• Cell biology, Molecular biology
• Cytoskeleton, centrosome, cilia, flagella, cell motility, cell division

Naoki MIZUSAWA

• Phototrophic biology
• cyanobacteria, photosynthesis, photosystem, lipid, environmental stress

Kaneyoshi YAMAMOTO

• Molecular biology, Genome biology
• bacteria, transcription regulation, gene expression, nucleoide, signal transduction

Major in Frontier Bioscience (Clinical Plant Science Field) 　[Master’s and Doctoral]

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• Academic Areas

Seiju ISHIKAWA

• Clinical plant science
• Plant fungal disease, ecological control

Kenro OSHIMA

• Clinical plant genomics
• Phytoplasma, plant pathogenic bacteria, genome

Toshio SANO

• Plant nutrition and physiology
• Plant physiological disease, Mineral transporter, Mycorrhizal fungi, Plant tissue culture

Shinya TSUDA

• Clinical Plant Science, Plant Protection
• Plant virology, epidemiology, plant-microbe interaction

Hiroshi HAMAMOTO

• Plant pathology, clinical plant science
• Plant pathogenic bacteria, molecular diagnostic of plant disease

Yuuri HIROOKA

• Clinical plant science, Mycology
• Phytopathogenic fungi, Fungal ecology, Forest pathology