Graduate School / Faculty ofInformation Science andElectrical Engineering

ISEE Kyushu University 2013

Toward an Advanced Information
Society Using “i & e” Technologies
Since the beginning of the 1990s, there has been a great demand for highly
educated graduates who are capable of leading an advanced information society
in the 21st century. This society is firmly based on the new technologies developedin the fields of electrical and electronic engineering, communication engineering,and computer science. To meet this demand, the Graduate School of Information
Science and Electrical Engineering (ISEE), the first graduate school in Japan designed
to enable a comprehensive study of both information and electrical–electronics ( i &e ) technologies, was established in 1996 at Kyushu University. In 2000, the school
was restructured and a new two-body system was created with Graduate School(the education body) and Faculty (the research body). The new system has provided
innovative and unique graduate programs including the Graduate School of Systems
Life Sciences and the Graduate School of Integrated Frontier Sciences, in which
many of our faculty members are also involved.
At the Center of Excellence (COE), within the ISEE, our faculty members lead many
important research and educational activities at Kyushu University, as well as thegraduate and undergraduate programs. For example, at the System LSI ResearchCenter, the faculty are the core members of the “Fukuoka Cluster for Advanced
System LSI Technology Development: Knowledge Cluster Initiative (The Second
Stage).” In addition, the following noteworthy programs are also led at the ISEE:RISS—Research Institute of Superconductor Science and Systems; QITO—theeducational program for Information Communication Technology Architect; andE-JUST Center—Center for Japan–Egypt Cooperation in Science and Technology.
In 2006 the Faculty and Graduate School of ISEE moved to a new campus, the “ItoCampus,” and this has enabled us to engage in various creative activities to further
expand our collaboration within “ i & e ” technologies. A key aim of the ISEE is tocultivate the next generation of researchers and engineers in the field of “ i & e ,”that is, those who possess a superior research ability, a broad range of expertise,and international common sense.
May 2013

Dean and Professor
Graduate School and Faculty of Information
Science and Electrical EngineeringDr.
Rin-ichiro Taniguchi

Summary
The Aims of the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
Information science has become an importantcomplicated and large-scale electrical and electronic

academic discipline as the fundamentals to provide

systems, which provide the important basis of any kinds ofbasic methodology of science, which is comparable toinformation and social systems. Therefore, it is expected

mathematics and physics. The progress of informationthat the electrical and electronic engineering will developscience, especially the increased applicability ofin close cooperation with information science. In order toInformation and Communications Technology (ICT), hasmeet this expectation, the Graduate School of Information

not only raised the productivity of the whole industrial

Science and Electrical Engineering cultivates researchers

field but also brought about great changes to our economy,

and engineers of the next generation in the field ofsociety and culture. Meanwhile the discipline of electricalinformation and electricity-electronics ( i & e ), who haveengineering has a long history and embraces a wide variety

advanced research ability and a broad range of expertise.

of industrial fields. It has produced highly functional,

The Structure of the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical● The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Engineering (ISEE) consists of the following threeaims to construct the bases of the industrial anddepartments to achieve the goal mentioned above.

social systems in the advanced information society by
combining electrical, electronic and communication● The Department of Informatics studies Informationengineering. There are two educational courses under

Science from the viewpoints of the theoreticalthis department: Electrical engineering course andfoundations of sciences and tools for sciences, which

Information electronics course.

provide us a deeper understanding of “information.”● The Department of Advanced Information Technology

These three departments cooperate with one anotheraims to realize sophisticated systems to support variety

to conduct comprehensive education ranging from theof human social activities by combining computer

fundamentals to the applications of our new academicengineering, communication technology and real-world

discipline, Information Science and Electrical Engineering.

information processing. To provide effective education

Following the Kyushu University’s strategic scheme forof the expertise of this field, we have two different

University Reform and Activation, the ISEE founded theeducational courses under this department: Social

following two independent departments; Department of

information systems engineering course and Intelligent

Giga Photon Next GLP in 2011 and Department of I & E

information systems engineering course.

Visionaries in 2012.

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Educational Features of the ISEE

Educational Features of the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
Cutting-edge and Comprehensive Studies of the 21st Century, andCultivation of Human Resources to Cope with Social Demands
Recently, Information Technology (IT) typified by world-wide computer networks and highly
integrated nanometer-scale technologies has been developed rapidly and has attracted
considerable attention. The Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering(ISEE) consolidates the foundations of information science in a new era, leading the informationsociety of the 21st century in various aspects of the industrial world, community, culture andeconomy. It also cultivates researchers and engineers who will take major roles in electrical,
electronics and communication fields, the most important industrial foundation in the world.
The ISEE covers an extremely large field of disciplines and consists of faculty members withcomprehensively specialized fields. Students can attend lectures and seminars in multiple
departments to acquire profound knowledge. By attending various classes from science,engineering to human science courses, students can acquire a wide range of knowledge from thefundamentals of science to practical studies, the application of engineering and the knowledgeof human science.
Thereby, those who graduate from this Graduate School will have a large variety of career
options, for instance in electrical, electronics, information, communication and software
engineering industries as well as in automobile, heavy machinery, precision machinery, steel,chemical, transportation and media industries. There are high expectations on them from theindustrial world and they can receive individual guidance from their respective department
heads when they want to obtain jobs.

Shortened Term of Study

Skipping-Grade System

The average term of study in the master’s program is two

High-achieving third-grade undergraduates can skip theyears and three years in the doctoral program. Though,fourth year and proceed to the master’s program. Making

the term of students who have achieved satisfactory

the best use of this system and the above-mentioned

research results can be shortened.

Shortened Term of Study system, students can obtain adoctor’s degree at the age of twenty-four at the earliest.

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Educational Features of the ISEEAcquisition of Degrees in Extensive Disciplines
As this graduate school covers a wide range of

Selection of International Students Aiming to Cultivate
International Human Resources

disciplines, students can obtain a degree in engineering,Students from abroad are willingly accepted to cultivatescience, or philosophy according to their research field.

international human resources. The ISEE has a separate
quota for international students and a selection system

Special Selection for Students from Other Universities andColleges of Technology (KOSEN)
A special selection system for admissions of excellent

for admissions of them to the master’s program otherthan the ordinary selection examination. Regarding thedoctoral program, selection is made for those who wish
to be enrolled in April and October.

students from other universities and colleges oftechnology (KOSEN) has been instituted, where anoral examination is given to the applicants. In theInternational Exchanges and Short-Term Travel Overseas

entrance examination for the academic year 2014,

International exchanges are actively promoted throughthe Department of Informatics and the Department ofcooperative research with foreign universities andElectric and Electronics Engineering adopt this special

research organizations, as well as hosting international

selection, which is made in the end of June or the

symposiums. Also, our graduate students are

beginning of July.

encouraged to present research papers at international
conferences. There are research grants available thatSpecial Selection and Re-Education of Working People

provide travelling expenses to the graduate students
attending and presenting at international conferences.

A special selection system for admissions of working
people has been instituted, which enables them to beenrolled in the doctoral program in April and October.
The selection is made in February and August every year.
Using this system, working people can obtain credits ofthe doctoral program and the doctor’s degree by attending
the graduate courses and studying with a distanceeducation system which involves the use of the internet.

Educational Features of the ISEE

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History of ISEEHistory of Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
Graduate School of Information Science and ElectricalEngineering (ISEE) was established in April, 1996 to forma new type of organization for research and education
aiming to go beyond the existing organizational structure.
It was an independent Graduate School consisting offive departments: the Department of Informatics, theDepartment of Intelligent Systems, the Department ofComputer Science and Communication Engineering,the Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems
Engineering, and the Department of Electronics. The
faculty members were from the departments of ElectricalEngineering, Electronics Engineering, and Computer
Science and Communication Engineering in Facultyof Engineering, Department of Information Systems in
Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Research Instituteof Fundamental Information Science attached to Faculty of
Science, the Department of Physics in Faculty of Science aswell as Faculty of Literature and Faculty of Education, who(

ISEE main building on the Hakozaki Campus
in 1996-2006)

were reshuffled and assigned to the above-mentioned fivedepartments. In addition, professors from the University
Computer Center, Educational Center for Information
Processing, and Research Institute for Superconductivity
also joined to support them. This reorganization was in thevanguard of the ‘Graduate School Priority Program’, which
followed the outline of the plan for reorganizing Kyushu
University. The ISEE was reorganized in April, 2000 into adual structure consisting of Graduate School and Graduate
Faculty. Then, Research Institute of Superconductor
Science and Systems (RISS), which used to be attached to
the Faculty of Engineering was attached to the Graduate
Faculty. In April, 2009, the ISEE was reorganized again
to reflect the recent research issues in the informationand the electricity-electronics fields and to adapt to therecent educational needs from the industry and the society.
Thereby, presently the Graduate School consists of three
departments and the Graduate Faculty consists of four
departments. The quota of students is 140 for the master’s
program and 45 for the doctoral program. Most of thefaculty members in this Graduate School serve concurrently
as professors of the Department of Electrical Engineeringand Computer Science and the others serve as professorsof the Informatics Course in the Department of Physics,
teaching undergraduates.

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History of ISEE

Graduate School/Graduate Faculty System

The New Graduate School/Graduate Faculty System
Kyushu University is the first of all Graduate Schools inJapan to adopt this new system in 2000 following therevision of the School Education Law. In splitting the former
Graduate School into the Graduate School (the educationbody) and Graduate Faculty (the research body to which
faculty members belong), this reorganization seeks to revitalize relationships between the Graduate Faculty and the
Graduate School as well as the Graduate Faculty and theUndergraduate School, and in this way contribute to more
dynamic and flexible functioning of the Graduate Faculty in
its relation to the Graduate School and the Undergraduate
School.
Along with the general shift to the Graduate School/

Molecular Cell Biology, and Molecular Life Sciences andGraduate Faculty System, all faculty members under

the latter consists of three departments of Kansei Science,

the new structure have been transferred from theAutomotive Science, and Library Science. A part of theUndergraduate Faculty to the Graduate Faculty. In addition,

faculty members of our Graduate Faculty are in charge ofthe educational body (Graduate School) and the researcheducation in these new Graduate Schools. Activities ofbody (Graduate Faculty) are technically separated. In

these newly established institutes have attracted attention

doing so, we have created a more flexible administrative

nationwide.

mechanism, enabling Graduate Faculty members toparticipate more easily, in various ways, in the educationof both the Undergraduate and Graduate School bodies.
In this way, we are able to promote more dynamic
relationship between the education bodies (Undergraduate
and Graduate Schools) and the research body (Graduate
Faculty), and thereby accommodate changes and shifts ofpedagogic and research focus as these may occur in the
future.
At present, departments in the Graduate School
correspond to departments in the Graduate Faculty except
for the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
The advantage of separating research from education is
to make the Graduate School system more flexible. For
example, this flexibility has enabled ‘System LSI ResearchCenter’ to be established in 2001. It is a new-type of alluniversity research institute attended by faculty members
from this Graduate Faculty as well as the Graduate Facultyof Engineering, the Graduate Faculty of Economics, and
the Graduate Faculty of Agriculture. All of these faculty
members also hold a post in teaching. Another example isthe foundation of new graduate schools, i.e. the Graduate
School of Systems Life Sciences and the Graduate Schoolof Integrated Frontier Sciences. The former consists of four
divisions of Bioinformatics, Life Engineering, Medical

Graduate School/Graduate Faculty System

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Departments and Their Quota of Students

Graduate School

Departments

Courses

Informatics

Advanced Information
Technology

Graduate
School ofInformation
Science andElectricalEngineeringIntelligent Information Systems
EngineeringSocial Information Systems
Engineering

Electrical and Electronic
Engineering

Information Electronics

Electrical Engineering〈Collaborating Graduate Schools〉

Graduate School of Integrated Frontier Sciences
Graduate School of
Systems Life Sciences●

Department of Kansei Science●

Department of Automotive Science●

Department of Library Science

Quota of Students
Departments

Doctoral Course

Master Course

Department of Informatics

1440

Department of Advanced Information Technology

15(Intelligent Information Systems Engineering Course)（20）(Social Information Systems Engineering Course)
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

16(Information Electronics Course)

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Organization Structure of Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering

55

（27）
（28）

(Electrical Engineering Course)
Total

45

（25）

45

140

Contents of the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering

Department of Informatics
Mathematical Informatics
Intelligence Science
Computational Science● Theoretical Foundation of Information Society● Practical Aspects of Infrastructure ofInformation Society● Foundation of “i & e” Industries
Electrical industry
Electronics industry
Information industry
Telecommunication businessInformation service industry
Power industry

Department ofAdvanced Information Technology

Department of Electrical andElectronic EngineeringIntelligent Information Systems
Engineering Course

Information Electronics Course• Electronic Devices• Integrated Electronics• Real World Robotics• Advanced Information andCommunication Technology• Advanced Distributed Processing Systems• Advanced Software Engineering• Embedded Software and Systems

Social Information Systems
Engineering Course• Measurement and Control Engineering• Applied Energy Engineering• Superconductive Systems Engineering

Electrical Engineering Course

Organization Structure of Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering

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Department of Informatics“Information” is the origin of human intellect and sensibilities, and plays a central role innatural and artificial systems. Informatics is the study of “information”, from the viewpoint

Department
ofInformaticsof the foundations of sciences. Through systematic education and research in this new
fundamental science and by supporting not only science and engineering but humanities fromthe viewpoint of informatics, the Department of Informatics aims to nurture researchers andengineers who have advanced expertise and are capable of contributing to the informationsociety.
To achieve this goal, the department comprises three divisions : the Division of Mathematical
Informatics, the Division of Intelligence Science, and the Division of Computational Science.
The Division of Mathematical Informatics studies, in the field of Informatics, especially theconstruction and analysis of mathematical models related to information. The Division ofIntelligence Science studies cognitive science, as well as fundamental theories in information
theory and their applications to intelligent systems, with an aim to explore the principles ofhuman intellectual information processing. The Division of Computational Science (operatingin cooperation with the Research Institute for Information Technology at Kyushu University)
studies foundations of computational science that span the field of simulation.
Informatics is an emerging synthetic science
regarding information, that encompasses
traditional information science as well as
humanities with foundations in information
science. With these divisions, the department aims
to explore new methodologies and perspectives in
informatics, and establish the basis for the creative
development of informatics.

Mathematical Informatics
The Division of Mathematical Informatics studies, inthe field of informatics, especially the construction andanalysis of mathematical models related to information.
By capturing various phenomena in the field of scienceand technology from the viewpoint of informatics, andby constructing and analyzing information models,
making full use of mathematical methods, the division

numerical analysis, cryptography, and distributed
systems, which are essential for the construction andanalysis of mathematical informatics models. This
allows for the fostering of abilities that actively working
engineers and researchers must possess, that is, theability to find, formulate (model), and solve problems.

Intelligence Scienceaims to promote the application of information systems

The Division of Intelligence Science scientificallyto the field of science and technology, and to educate

pursues human intellect and behavior, and at the same

students so that they may contribute to the development

time aims to establish fundamental technologies ofof the field of science and technology.

information science for assisting intellectual activitiesof human beings, as well as plan their application andMore specifically, while emphasizing educational

development.

foundations such as algebra, geometry, and probability,8

the division also provides education on chaos theory,

More specifically, the division aims to construct a

information theory, computational theory, algorithms,

human friendly environment from a cognitive science

Department of Informatics

viewpoint, through education and research on theelucidation and application of the characteristics ofhuman sensation, cognition, and behavior. Also, thedivision aims to provide information scientific assistancefor human intellectual activities through education
and research of: data/web/text mining, information
visualization, automated recognition technologies, online decision making, machine learning, complexityof knowledge representations, editing, generating,and searching of multimedia contents, with bases inbasic theories of machine discovery and theory ofcomputation.

Computational Science
The Division of Computational Science aims toestablish fundamental technologies in modeling,
parallel algorithms, and high precision computation, as
foundations of computational science that spans various
fields of computer simulation.
More specifically, the division will focus on education
and research on high performance computing, covering
topics such as methods and algorithms for projecting
and abstracting Multi-Scale Multi-Physics phenomena
into mathematical models, massive parallelization of
applications, and the quality and precision assurance ofnumerical computations. The main area of applicationand development will be in the field of molecularscience and high precision eigenvalue analysis.

The Structure of the Department of Informatics
Divisions

Mathematical
Informatics

Faculty Members
Professor
Seiji Fujino, Kouichi Sakurai, Masayuki Takeda, Jun’ichi Takeuchi,
Masafumi Yamashita
Associate Professor
Hideo Bannai, Shunsuke Inenaga, Yutaka Jitsumatsu, Shuji Kijima, Takayoshi Shoudai
Assistant Professor
Kohei Hatano, Masanori Kawakita, Yukiko Yamauchi
Professor
Ryuzo Hasegawa, Keiji Iramina*, Shuji Mori, Kazunori Shidoji,Einoshin Suzuki, Eiji Takimoto, Yoichi Tomiura, Makoto Yokoo, Yoshihiro Okada

Intelligence
Science

Associate Professor
Hiroshi Fujita, Daisuke Ikeda, Yuko Sakurai
Assistant Professor‌Nobuyuki Hirose, Atsushi Iwasaki, Yoshinori Katayama, Miyuki Koshimura,
Shigeru Takano

Computational
Science

Professor
Mutsumi Aoyagi* Professor Iramina takes charge of education in the Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences.

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Supercomputing Laboratory
We are highly concerned with the preconditioning and iterative solvers for solving efficiently linear systems on a variety ofsupercomputers.
Prof. Seiji Fujino

Circuits and Communication Networks Laboratory
This group is studying several fundamental problems related to modern digital communication systems, based on nonlinear
theory, probability theory, information theory, and communication theory. The main research interests of this group include
random number generation from nonlinear dynamics and its applications to digital communications, such as spread spectrum
communications, secure image transmission, and cryptography. The following subjects are currently studied: 1) design of chaotic
maps with guarantees to generate independent and identically distributed random sequences; 2) analysis of block ciphers fromthe information theoretical point of view; 3) analysis and synthesis of robust analog-to-digital (A/D) converters from the viewpointof chaotic dynamic systems; 4) design of chip waveform and its associated pseudorandom codes for CDMA communication
including multicarrier systems; 5) multiuser detection (MUD) receivers and their relation to spin-glass theory and random matrix
theory.
Assoc. Prof. Yutaka Jitsumatsu

Information Technology and Multimedia Security Laboratory
Security and privacy of electronic commerce are significant subjects by the spread of the Internet. Our main subject of researchis to solve problems of the security and the privacy by using cryptography technology. Cryptography technology is not able
to solve all the problems. Thus one of our themes is to make the limitation of cryptography technology clear. Besides, westudy the solution of the problems. In current computer networks, reliability and security are significant subjects. Especially,
countermeasures against threats on wired and wireless computer networks are required. Therefore our main research subject also
includes reliability and security for computer networks.
Prof. Kouichi Sakurai, Assoc. Prof. Yoshiaki Hori

String Data Processing Laboratory
Our laboratory studies the following topics: string algorithms, machine learning, machine discovery, and bioinformatics.
Prof. Masayuki Takeda, Assoc. Prof. Hideo Bannai, Assoc. Prof. Shunsuke Inenaga, Assist. Prof. Kohei Hatano

Learning Theory and Nonlinear Systems Laboratory
We are studying the mathematical engineering, mainly on learning theory and nonlinear systems theory. The purpose of learningtheory is to establish foundations for knowledge acquisition technology. In particular, our concern is on stochastic complexity,
model selection, information geometry, ensemble learning (e.g. boosting), kernel method (e.g. support vector machine), timeseries analysis, and their application to network security, pattern recognition, image processing, etc. The purpose of nonlinear
systems theory is to understand various nonlinear models arising in engineering and computer science. We are currently working
on recurrent neural networks, large-scale optimization techniques, complex networks, and their application to signal processing,pattern recognition, etc.
Prof. Jun’ichi Takeuchi, Assist. Prof. Masanori Kawakita

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Department of Informatics

Department of Informatics

Algorithm Science Laboratory
This research group is dedicated to foundations of computer science. Modern society produces many computational problems tobe solved under a variety of constraints on resources (e.g., time, space, communication, and so on) using a variety of computer
environments, and hence correct and efficient algorithms for them a re always looked for. Our main research theme is to establish
the amount of resource necessary and sufficient to solve a given problem under a given constraint using a given computer
environment. Main research keywords include approximation / heuristic / randomized / online/ distributed / parallel / quantum
algorithms, combinatorial optimization, graph theory, computational complexity, probabilistic methods, and data structures.
Prof. Masafumi Yamashita, Assoc. Prof. Shuji Kijima, Assist. Prof. Yukiko Yamauchi

Algorithmic Graph Theory Laboratory
Graphs provide a general way to model a variety ofrelations among data. Our research interests include:graph theory, graph and network algorithms, graphpattern mining, graph grammars, and learning of graphlanguages.

Tree dataNew
webminingsystems

common tree patterns
New machinelearning techniques
for discovering
useful graphpatterns from large
graph databases.

Assoc. Prof. Takayoshi ShoudaiOuterplanar graph data

common graph patterns
Structural similarity analysis

Automated Reasoning and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Our laboratory is conducting research on automated reasoning andintelligent systems. Currently, we are focusing on developing highperformance reasoning systems including SAT solvers, aiming at solving
hard problems such as those on Ramsey number and on job shop
scheduling.
We are also developing user-friendly Web
retrieval systems based on machine learning andinductive logic programming.
Prof. Ryuzo Hasegawa,
Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi Fujita,
Assist. Prof. Miyuki Koshimura

2. Web Retrieval by
Using User’s Profile

1. Extract User’s Profile

User’s Profile
4. Personalize the Results

User

Personalized
Results

Web
Results

5. Return the
Personalized Results

3. Return the Results

Personalization
A solution to Ramsey problem

An intelligent Web retrieval system

Neuroimaging and Neuroengineering Laboratory
Our laboratory specializes in non-invasive functional brain imaging,which includes EEG, NIRS and transcranial magnetic stimulation(TMS)of the brain. We develop, integrate, and apply new ideas throughinnovative interdisciplinary research approaches. We also develop thebrain computer interface (BCI) or brain machine interface (BMI) using ourmeasurement and analysis techniques.
Prof. Keiji Iramina, Assist. Prof. Yoshinori Katayama<Professor Iramina takes charge of education in the Graduate School of
Systems Life Sciences.>

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Cognitive Science Laboratory
This laboratory conducts research on human cognitive systems with topics including sensory psychophysics, humaninterface, virtual reality, sport-scene perception, kansei engineering and traffic accident prevention.
Prof. Shuji Mori, Prof. Kazunori Shidoji, Assist. Prof. Nobuyuki Hirose

Biological motion of tennis forehand stroke

Driving simulator

Favorite color of fruits

Virtual reality

Data Mining Laboratory
Our laboratory studies the following topics: data mining, knowledge discovery in databases, machine learning, text/Web mining,and swarm robotics.
Prof. Einoshin Suzuki, Assist. Prof. Shigeru Takano

Data mining for hepatitis/Web
data (classification, visualization)

Swarm robots for patrol, formation control, foraging, etc.

Computation Theory Laboratory
Our laboratory seeks a deep understanding of the notion of “computation” from the view points of algorithms and complexity.
Our research interests include: computational learning theory, online decision making, circuit and formula complexity, harmonic
analysis of Boolean functions.
Prof. Eiji Takimoto, Assist. Prof. Kohei Hatano

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property
Stock A

Hedge
algorithm
Stocks
B E
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Multi-agent Systems Laboratory
Our research topics with multiple agents include: distributed constraint satisfaction, mechanism
design, such as developing auction protocols that is not manipulated by false-name bidding,coalition formation problems that involves how to divide the value that a coalition among agentsproduces, and repeated games with imperfect private monitoring where each player privately
receives a noisy observation of the opponent’s action.

goods
false-name bids

Prof. Makoto Yokoo, Assoc. Prof. Yuko Sakurai, Assit Prof. Atsushi Iwasaki
A single person submits
bids from multiple identifiers such as multiple
e-mail addresses.

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Department of Informatics

Natural Language Processing Laboratory
Our laboratory studies the following topics: organization of documents on theweb, knowledge acquisition for NLP such as case-frames, classification of words’
meanings and relations between events, and support system for writing English
documents.

CorpusProf. Yoichi Tomiura• Knowledge
acquisition for NLP• Support System for
Writing English

Scholarly Communication and Contents Mining Laboratory
Our laboratory studies the following topics: institutional
repositories, digital library, information retrieval, searchengine, authN/authZ, mining from text/Web/time series data,
usage analysis, spam detection
Assoc. Prof. Daisuke Ikeda
We are developing a platform to share materials safely amongcolleagues, to publish our academic works, and to mine useful
information from them.

3D Multimedia Software Laboratory
Research topics: 3D Multimedia systems, 3D graphics, computer animation, network collaboration, human-computer interface/interaction, virtual reality, information visualization, image processing/retrieval
Prof. Yoshihiro Okada, Assist. Prof. Shigeru Takano

Wavelet transform

Computer Animation

Network Collaboration Entertainment
Information Visualization

Multimodal Interfaces

Image retrieval

Computational Science Laboratory
Interdisciplinary research on Computer Science and Computational Science
To analyze multi-scale and multi-physics problems in Nano- and Bio-science, in which
complex physical phenomena in different spatial and temporal scales are inter-related,
we are developing a new middleware that allows various kinds of scientific simulations to
be coupled efficiently over distributed computing environments. We also study modeling,
parallel algorithms, and high precision computation, as foundations of computational
science.
Prof. Mutsumi Aoyagi

Electronic
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Department of Advanced
Information Technology
The Department of Advanced Information Technology investigates computer technology,
information and communication technology, and real-time information processing technology

Departmentof Advanced
Information
Technology

for the realization of an advanced information society.
The divisions in this department are: Advanced Information and Communication Technology,
Advanced Software Engineering, Real World Robotics, Advanced Distributed Processing
Systems, Information Communication Engineering (E-JUST), and Practical Embedded Software
Development Engineering.
The Department of Advanced Information Technology offers two courses with different
curriculum policies: Intelligent Information Systems Engineering Course and Social
Information Systems Engineering Course. The aim of Intelligent Information Systems
Engineering Course is to provide students who can research and develop frontier technologies
for the advanced information society. For this aim, this course deals with a wide range ofknowledge and skills on hardware, software, communication technology, and real-time
information processing. The aim of Social Information Systems Engineering Course is toprovide students who can carry out practical projects for developing (namely, planning,
designing, building, and managing) various advanced information systems. For this aim, thiscourse fully utilizes project-based learning (PBL).

Advanced Information and Communication Technology
This division performs the research and education in
the fundamental and application areas of new emerging
ICT (information & communication technology), ranging
from the high-speed and dependable communication
technologies to the architectures and design
methodologies of next-generation computer systems.

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design automation) and CAD (computer aided design)technologies for dependable SoC (system-on-a-chip),adaptive and customizable many-core or reconfigurable
SoC architectures, dependable and low-power 3D
integration, and so on.

Advanced Software Engineering

The division particularly focuses on the following

This division conducts research and education regarding

topics: novel satellite communication systems, RFID

advanced software and is composed of the following(radio frequency identification) systems, advanced

research groups. Formal software engineering groupwireless mesh networks as a range extension method

employs multi-aspect formal method approaches byof WLAN spots focusing on pursuing a mesh network

using different kinds of specification languages, such

empowered by low complexity MIMO (multiple

as VDM languages, CSP, and functional programming

inputs multiple outputs) modem, EDA (electronic

languages for real-world software development

Department of Advanced Information Technology

process. Advanced system software group studies issues
related to system software such as multithreading andcloud computing. Embedded computing researchgroup researches software product line development
methodologies and tools. Ubiquitous computing
research group researches wireless LAN based
positioning and context aware computing infrastructure.
Pervasive computing research group studies personalized
and community-based information sharing/retrieval/recommendation mechanism, and secure agentcommunity-network-based systems based on multiagent Kodama framework. The Language Informatics

Advanced Distributed Processing Systems
To meet the demands of various up-to-date decentralized
applications on network, this division conducts
education and research on the latest technologies forprocessing large amount of data, which are distributedon wide range of network. The subjects of this division
ranges from search engine technologies, web service
technologies, distributed grid computing systems andnext generation internet. The practice with the real andconcrete data as well as the basic theories are treated astheme of education and research.

Group conducts studies of natural language processing,information retrieval, and computational linguistics.
The members describe the universal nature of language
through mathematical models and create languagerelated software.

Information Communication Engineering (E-JUST)The division of Information Communication Engineering
carries out educational and research activities
mainly on the field of integrated circuits and digitalcommunication systems. It also provides educational

Real World Robotics
This division conducts education and research on wide
range of subject ranging from real world data acquisition

and research supports for the Department of Electronics
and Communications Engineering (ECE) in Egypt-Japan
University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) in Egypt.

to human interaction with an embedded robot.
For creating an advanced information processing
system which closely coexists and collaborates withhuman beings, it is indispensable to realize a practicalprocessing loop from data acquisition and recognition
to active interaction with human.This system has to berobust and reliable for uncertainties and diversity in thereal world environment. To fulfill this goal, the divisionparticularly focuses on the following topics: robotics,

Practical Embedded Software Development Engineering
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Development Engineering deals with education andresearch on embedded software. This division is incollaboration with Renesas Solutions Corporation andaims at bringing up engineers with high quality of skills
embedded software through practical education.

real world sensing, artificial intelligence, patternrecognition, computer vision and graphics, media
processing, intelligent human- computer interface, andvirtual reality.

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Advanced
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Advanced
SoftwareEngineering

Faculty Members
Professor
Kazuaki Murakami, Hiroto Yasuura, Hiroshi Furukawa
Associate Professor
Kouji Inoue, Yuuske Matsunaga, Kiyotaka Fujisaki,
Makoto Sugihara, Ahmed Ashir Uddin
Assistant Professor
Masayosi Yoshimura
Professor
Keijiro Araki, Akira Fukuda, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii
Associate Professor
Shigeru Kusakabe, Tsunenori Mine, Tsuneo Nakanishi, Kenji Hisazumi
Assistant Professor
Yoichi Omori, Yasutaka Kamei
Professor
Rinichiro Taniguchi, Ryo Kurazume, Seiichi Uchida

Real World
Robotics

Associate Professor
Kunihiko Kaneko, Hajime Nagahara, Ken’ichi Morooka
Assistant Professor
Tokuo Tsuji, Yumi Iwashita, Atsushi Shimada, Yaokai Feng

Advanced Distributed
Processing Systems

Professor
Sachio Hirokawa, Koji Okamura
Associate Professor
Hirofumi Amano, Eisuke Ito

Information Communication
Engineering (E-JUST)

Associate Professor
Osamu Muta, Mehdipour Farhad, Victor Mauro Goulart Ferreira

Practical Embedded Software
Development Engineering

Professor
Naoshi Sakamoto

Computer Architecture Laboratory
Research goals : We explore “next-generation computer architectures” to improve performance,energy efficiency, and dependability, for advanced computer systems. The targets include
supercomputers, laptop/desktop PCs, and also embedded systems. (http://ngarch.isit.or.jp/)
Main Topics : Multi-Core Processors, 3D-IC Architectures, Reconfigurable Processors and Compiler
Optimizations, Energy Efficient Accelerators, Performance Predictions, Architecture Explorations,
Biometrics Authentication, Homology Search Algorithms
Prof. Kazuaki Murakami, Assoc. Prof. Koji Inoue

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Communications Technology Laboratory
This laboratory studies the wireless communications technology and its related fundamentals.
Main research topics are as follows.
Communication
Satellite* Satellite communication systems* Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems* Wave radiation, propagation, and scattering in random media* Large-scale computer simulations* Analytical and numerical techniques in electromagnetics

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Assoc. Prof. Kiyotaka Fujisaki

Link Control
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Mobile Communication Systems Laboratory
Our laboratory studies next generation mobile communication
systems with high capacity and high throughput. Emphasis
is placed on studies of wireless backhaul as an enabler ofpicocell based high capacity system. PicoMESH, a trademarkof our original wireless backhaul system, is the world’s first
WiFi access point with capability of organizing an over 10hop
network being free from any wired connections.
Prof. Hiroshi Furukawa, Assoc. Prof. Osamu Muta

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17Software Engineering Laboratory(1) Formal Approaches to Software Development : In order to establish advanced software development methods, we employ
multi-aspect formal method approaches. For real-world software systems, we use different kinds of specification languages,
such as VDM languages, Z, Statecharts, UML, and CSP, and devise sophisticated methods to integrate them. We also use
functional languages and domain specific languages as executable specification languages. Our interests also include softwaredevelopment process issues to maximize the benefits of formal approaches.
(2) Formal Approaches for Parallel and Distributed Processing : We use parallel and distribute processing, such as multithreadingand MapReduce in cloud computing, to accommodate computational power required for Verification & Validation in formal
approaches. We also use formal approaches to configure such parallel & distributed platforms.
Prof. Keijiro Araki, Assoc. Prof. Shigeru Kusakabe, Assist. Prof. Yoichi Omori

Embedded & Ubiquitous Computing Laboratory
Embedded & Ubiquitous Computing Lab researches technologies and development methodologies for embedded & ubiquitous
computing systems including wireless LAN based positioning, context aware computing infrastructure, automotive software,
product line software engineering, and generative software development.
Prof. Akira Fukuda, Assoc. Prof. Tsuneo Nakanishi, Assoc. Prof. Kenji Hisazumi

Software Language Laboratory
Our laboratory studies next generation software languages, software
verification, and software development environment. Main research topics
include aspect-oriented programming, reflection, modeling languages,architecture description languages, domain-specific languages, formal
methods, formal verification, and software repository mining.

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between design modeling andimplementation
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encapsulated in interfaces

Prof. Naoyasu Ubayashi, Assist Prof. Yasutaka Kamei

Pervasive Computing Laboratory
Our research topics include: multi-agent systems, Agent-Community-Network(ACN), peer-to-peer network, information sharing/
retrieval/recommendation and personalized technologies.
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Language Informatics Laboratory
The universal nature of natural language is described through mathematical models, andlanguage-related software is generated by applying the models.
1. ‌Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval: Elements of information
technologies are studied by using machine learning techniques to process immense
amounts of natural language texts and meaningful data.
2. ‌Language Software Applications: Useful software applications are created to aid humanlanguage processing and communication, both among humans and between humans
and various devices.
3. ‌Mathematical Modeling of Language: Universal properties of language are studied anddescribed via mathematical models by using a variety of large-scale language corpora.
Prof. Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

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Intelligent Robotics and Vision Systems Laboratory
Our lab’s main research goal is to realize human-symbiotic intelligent robots which can robustly work in complex real world to
support human daily activities. Our research projects include a wide range of new technologies in human-symbiotic robotics andinformationally structured large scale daily life environment.
Prof. Assoc. Prof. Ken’ichi Morooka, Assis. Prof. Tokuo Tsuji

Image and Media Understanding Laboratory
The goal is to establish higher level of multimedia information processing technologies, and the important issue is to develop
frameworks assisting people’s activities in various situations.
Prof. Rin-ichiro Taniguchi, Assoc. Prof. Hajime Nagahara, Assist Prof. Atsushi Shimada

Real World Information Robotics Laboratory
We have been challenging to develop intelligent robot systems which are applicable to real-world problems. Our research field
includes multiple mobile robots, legged and wheeled robot, laser-based 3D modeling, human sensing and recognition, andmedical imaging.
Prof. Ryo Kurazume, Assit. Prof. Yumi Iwashita

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Human Interface Laboratory
Our research topics include: image pattern recognition, human activity recognition, character recognition, optimization
techniques for pattern recognition, video/still image processing, and searching and indexing technologies for multidimensional
data.
Prof. Seiichi Uchida, Assist Prof. Feng Yaokai

image pattern recognition

image processing

activity recognition

multi-sensor integration

Data Engineering Laboratory
Our research topics include: three dimensional geographic information, database system for medical applications, Web databasesystem, spatial and image data management, time series data management, and database for human motion and animation.
Assoc. Prof. Kunihiko Kaneko

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Search Engine and Text Mining Laboratory
The laboratory works on search engine and text mining. We are analyzing real text documents such as web files, patents andannual reports of enterprises.
Prof. Sachio Hirokawa
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Grid Computing Laboratory
This laboratory works on grid computing technology, such as grid middleware, grid portals, or high-performance data transfer
mechanisms for distributed parallel programs.
Assoc. Prof. Hirofumi Amano

Web Information Service Platform Laboratory
To support secure Web information services, we research digital
certificate, user identity management, and convenient authentication/authorization system. We also consider to apply our developed platformto practical services, such as e-Learning system, SNS service, andrepository of library. Finally, we develop web mash up mechanism to
combine services.

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Assoc. Prof. Eisuke Ito
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Advanced Internet Technologies Laboratory
This laboratory studies the following topics: Key Technologies for Future Internet such as OpenFlow and Virtual Networking,advanced techniques for Network Operations based on Power Consumption and Green Technologies, Measurement Techniqueand Practical case studies using those new technologies with various Internet researchers over the world.
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21Social Information Systems
Engineering Course“Social Information Systems Engineering Course” has been established within the “Departmentof Advanced Information Technology”.

CoursePhilosophy
andAdmission
PolicyIn the late 20th Century, Information Communication Technology (ICT) progressed rapidly
and had several breakthroughs, which brought the fundamental changes to the way how
various organizations (corporations, government, educational institutions) operate. It has big
influences on our society, like product design, manufacturing, service offerings, education
systems, etc. It is going to create the fundamental changes in our social system and social
structure. ICT, as a basic technology, has become the core of social infrastructures, which
underpins the various social systems (government administration, economy, finance,
communication, transportation, logistics, education, and so on). On the other hand, there
is a serious shortage of skilled personnel who can lead the next generation of Japanese
information communication industry. With the joint efforts of industry, government andacademia group, this course will provide education and training programs to foster
engineers who will lead the information society in the future. In this course, we will nurtureengineers who will understand the positioning of ICT in the society and will have the wide
breadth of knowledge, high ethical standards and outstanding technical capabilities. To be
more specific, a graduate of this course will have; 1) technical skills that are immediately
required in software research and development, 2) insight to assess long-term changes ofsocial environment and to transform ICT accordingly, 3) flexibility to develop softwareaccommodating such changes, and 4) qualified capabilities to take a leadership in business
communities and various social organizations.

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has selected Kyushu
University as one of fifteen hub universities of “Education Network for Practical Information

CourseOverview

Technologies”. Kyushu University was also selected as one of two critical alliance universities
by Japan Federation of Economic Organizations. Our partners are Japan Federation of
Economic Organizations, many corporations that support this program, Kyushu Institute ofTechnology, Fukuoka University, Kumamoto University and University of Miyazaki.

Master Thesis
Courses for technology and theory
Knowledge for ICT, like software, hardware and network area

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Insight into cutting-edge ICT and
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Training for leadership andcommunication skills

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Social Information Systems Engineering Course

The purpose of this course is to have the students acquire the following state-of-the-art IT
knowledge and skills;

CourseOverview

1) Skills and knowledge to plan, design, develop and manage the technology in the society2) Entrepreneur mind3) Leadership and Communication Skills
In particular, Real Project-Based Learning (PBL) is the focus of this course so that the students
can experience the real system development projects with the help from various supporting
companies. ICT sophistication classes and ICT human skill classes are also put in place aswell as practical classes in order to foster self-motivated and well-structured personnel.
Internship, in which students can learn and experience real jobs in the corporations, and thementoring program, in which staffs from business communities will provide consultation on
the career path or how to learn, are also provided in this course

Figure 2 : Special Lectures on Advanced Topics on
Information Systems

Figure 3 : Project Based Learning

Department of Advanced Information Technology
All the professors, associate professors and assistant professors in “Department of Advanced

Teaching
Staffs andCooperating
Companies

Information Technology” participate as the teaching staffs of “Social Information Systems
Engineering Course”.

Cooperating Companies (as of May, 2013)
Center for Future ICT Leaders, Software Research Associates, Nomura ResearchInstitute, Hitachi, Ltd., NEC Corporation, FUJITSU LIMITED, Nihon Unisys, NTT DATACORPORATION, TOYO Corporation, FUJITSU KYUSHU NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES,NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE WEST CORPORATION, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire
Insurance, Geisha Tokyo Entertainment Inc., IBM Japan, CATS, Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency, Kyushu Hitachi Maxell, Runesas Solutions, Accela Technology Corporation, ITS
Japan, FUJITSU DESIGN LIMITED, Queen’s University

Social Information Systems Engineering Course

23Department of Electrical andElectronic Engineering
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering provides education programs which
help students to systematically understand the basics and advanced knowledge of electrical

Department
of Electricaland Electronic
Engineeringengineering, electronics, communication technology. The purpose of this department is to
eduate research engineers who possess the ability to create new values for the future basedon the certain knowledge of information and communication technology and electricalsystems. These are, for example, an engineer who creates low-energy consuming electricalsystem that contributes to solve the global warming issue and an engineer who creates new
information-technology-based social-systems that provide safety and comfort for human life.
To complete the purpose, the department offers the following two education courses:(1) Information Electronics Course
is aiming at growing researchers and highly skilled engineers who are able to lead thecreation of next generation electronics and new applications and those who contributeto sustainable growth of electronics related industry through research and developmentof advanced electronic devices and integrated electronics. The education program ofthis course is managed by the faculty members of Department of Electronics and I&E
Visionaries, Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering.
(2) Electrical Engineering Course
The field of electrical and electronic systems based on the electro magnetic phenomenais the most fundamental and key technology to support our society and its infrastructure.
Nowadays, the field is rapidly advancing and diversifying its applications by merging
with splendid high technologies including superconductivity, information and control
technologies based on a new paradigm, and digital technologies aiming at advanced
intelligent systems.
The department is composed of four divisions of Measurement and Control Engineering,
Applied Energy Engineering, Superconductive Systems Engineering and Energy andEnvironment. Under the above situation, the department offers advanced education andresearch programs in each division, not only for Master and Doctor course students but
also for professional engineering trainees entrusted by industries and foreign countries.

Information Electronics Course
Electronic Devices

Integrated Electronics

Innovative creation of highly functional electronic

As we learn from LSI (large scale integrated circuit)devices is the engine of the development of future

it is necessary to produce integrated electronic

information and communication society. Thissystems to create social values from the elemental

division provides research and education programs tofunction of electronic devices. This division provides

students who are interested in electronic properties ofresearch and education programs to students who

semiconductors, magnetic material, dielectric material,

want to learn design and process technology of LSI,

and organic materials and their application to electron,

information communication using radio frequency

magnetic, optical, and bio devices and nanotechnology(RF) electromagnetic waves, information display, andto produce device functions.

opto-electronic systems in terms of the five elemental
composites of information systems, sensing, processing,memory, communication, and display.

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Department of Electrical and Electronic EngineeringElectronics and Communication Engineering (E-JUST)This division of Electronics Communication Engineering
aims to provide the fundamental concepts andtechniques to conduct independent research in
the advanced RF and analog integrated circuits,
integrated antennas and filters in CMOS technology.

We do extend our resaerch beyond Moore era for next
generation microwave and millimeter wave wirelesscommunication systems. It also provides educationaland research supports for the Department of Electronics
and Communications Engineering (ECE) in Egypt-Japan
University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) in Egypt.

Electrical Engineering Course
Measurement and Control Engineering

Applied Energy Engineering

Measurement and Control Engineering takes charge ofAn electric power and energy system is one of theeducation and research on next-generation measurement

key infrastructures that support our lives and various

and control systems aiming at the integration ofindustries including information technology. Applied

the electrical and electronic systems, the control

Energy Engineering provides education and researchtechnology, and the information technology. It provides

concerning systems of generation, transmission, storage,

education and conducts research on: (1) a modeling

control and effective use of electric and electromagnetic

method for electrical machine control systems, aenergy. It deals with the development, application

power electronics control technology; (2) measurement

and protection of electric and electromagnetic energy

technology, such as a new functional sensor based on

systems for the next generation including a new power

the Josephson quantum effect; (3) motion and vibration

generation system, a superconducting electric power

control, control methodology for hybrid system,

system, an electromagnetic energy system, a high-learning and optimization and their applications tovoltage pulsed power system, a high-power laser system,

power system control and operations; and (4) modelinghigh-density and high-temperature plasma system andand identification of an electronic system composed

applied discharge system. In addition, it targets to limitof various electronic equipments as well as thethe power consumption of power electronic systems,

performance assessment based on a numerical system

while preserving their high performance at low EMI

modeling.

emissions using high technology of analog/digital mixed
electronic circuits.

Superconductive Systems Engineering
Superconductivity leads to the key technology for theadvanced electric power machines and devices, which
provide new energy generation, energy transmission
and energy storage systems with a high efficiency anda high energy density in the future highly intelligent
society. In addition it will play an important role in themagnetic sensors with extremely high sensitivity and in
the mobile communication with a high performance.
Superconductive Systems Engineering offers education
and research on superconductivity focusing on the basic
material science, the analysis and evaluation techniqueof the electromagnetic properties and the application
technology of superconducting films, wires and cables.

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Electrical Energy Environment Engineering

company supplying the laser light source for lithography

Electrical Energy Environment Engineering offers
education and research on new power system which
can deal with expanding electricity liberalizationand increasing renewable power sources. One of ourapproaches is to utilize superconducting technology
which has potential for high-efficiency powertransmission, energy storage, power conversion, etc.
Effective installation and control of such advanced
devices are also investigated to maintain power systemstability and quality. This division is endowed by Kyushu
Electric Power Co., Inc.

processes. Laser processing technologies have been
widely utilized to various industrial applications suchas electronic devices, automobile, medical care andnew material synthesis. Our mission is to contributeto society through development of innovative laser
processing technologies.
(*) Joint Research Departments have been established as
research hub to conduct joint research in a specific field
between Kyushu University and the private organization,etc. The Joint Research Departments are to be provided
with joint research staff such as associate professor, andsuch staff forms core of the joint research. Thus, thissystem constitutes a new mechanism for collaboration

Gigaphoton Next GLP

differing from those of both the Donation Research

Gigaphoton Next GLP is the first Joint Research

Department System and the Joint Research System.

Department(*) of Kyushu University, which was
founded in 2011 by support of Gigaphoton Inc. forinvestigating next generation gas laser processing(Next GLP). Gigaphoton Inc. is the world’s leading

Information Electronics Course
Divisions

Faculty Members
Professor
Kiyoshi Toko, Kimihide Matsuyama, Masaharu Shiratani,
Kenshi Hayashi

Electronic
Devices

Associate Professor
Taizoh Sadoh, Hisao Kuriyaki, Kazunori Koga, Naho Itagaki
Assistant Professor
Takeshi Onodera, Giichiro Uchida, Terumitsu Tanaka, Yusuke Tahara,
Chuanjun Liu
Professor
Tanemasa Asano, Kazutoshi Kato, Ramesh K. Pokharel, Yuji Oki

Integrated
Electronics

Associate Professor
Haruichi Kanaya, Kohei Hamaya
Assistant Professor
Akihiro Ikeda, Ryo Takigawa, Hiroaki Yoshioka

Electronics andCommunication
Engineering

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Professor
Kuniaki Yoshitomi
Associate Professor
Hongting Jia

Department of Electrical and Electronic EngineeringDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Electrical Engineering Course
Divisions
Measurement andControlEngineering

Faculty Members
Professor
Taketoshi Kawabe, Takanobu Kiss, Junichi Murata
Associate Professor
Katsumi Kesamaru, Masayoshi Inoue
Assistant Professor
Masakazu Mukai, Hirotaka Takano

AppliedEnergyEngineering

Professor
Tatsuo Okada, Junya Suehiro, Masahito Shoyama, Masataka Iwakuma
Associate Professor
Daisuke Nakamura, Takashi Yoshida
Assistant Professor
Michihiko Nakano

Superconductive
Systems
Engineering

Professor
Keiji Enpuku
Associate Professor
Kazuhiro Kajikawa

Electrical Energy
Environment
Engineering

Associate Professor
Kohei Higashikawa
Assistant Professor
Sihun Yang

Gigaphoton Next GLP

Research Professor
Keishiro Kurihara
Associate Professor
Hiroshi Ikenoue

Bio Electronic Device Laboratory■ Research field :· Taste and odor sensor,· ‌Ultrahigh performance sensing system for security and safety;
Detecting landmine, drug, fire bad smell,· ‌Functional sensor surfaces using nanotechnology andbiotechnology,· Information technology based on food quality database.

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Portable SPR sensor

Photorechargeable
batteryProf. Kiyoshi Toko, Assoc. Prof. Hisao Kuriyaki,
Assist. Prof. Takeshi Onodera and Assist. Prof. Yusuke Tahara
URL: http://ultrabio.ed.kyushu-u.ac.jp/
Odor code sensor chip
Portable SPR sensor

Microfabricatedgas sensor

Taste sensor chip

Magnetic Functional Devices Laboratory
Our research group investigates fundamental physics of the electron spin in nano-structures. Practical applications of spin
freedom to various functional devices are our main research issue.
Prof. Kimihide Matsuyama, Assist. Prof. Terumitsu Tanaka

Spin data storage

Nano structures

Micromagnetics

Spin dynamics

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Si-Nanotechnology Laboratory
We have been investigating novel crystal growth of SiGe-based heterostructures for multi-functional LSIs and system-in-displays.
Assoc. Prof. Taizoh Sadoh, Assoc. Prof. Kohei Hamaya

Plasma Nanosystem Laboratory
Prof. Masaharu Shiratani, Assoc. Prof. Kazunori Koga, Assist. Prof. Giichiro Uchida

Organic Electronic Device Laboratory
Research topics: sensor device, nano material, plasmonic device, organic electronic material, spatial chemical information, odor
sensor and odor visualization.
Prof. Kenshi Hayashi, Assist. Prof. Chuanjun Liu
imaging nano beads

odor flow image

odor shape image

Functional Device and Integration Laboratory
Prof. Tanemasa Asano leads the research works on micro- and nano-devices and their integration process technology, covering
silicon LSIs, thin-film transistors (TFTs), MEMS, and 3D devices.

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Opto-electronics device Laboratory
Our laboratory studies the following topics:-wavelength-tunable semiconductor lasers,-optical switches,-photo-mixers,-optical routers
for photonic networks and tera-herz wireless systems
Prof. Kazutoshi Kato

Electronic Materials Laboratory
Research Targets:· Excitonic transistor· Third generation solar cells· Alternatives to rare metals

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Assoc. Prof. Naho Itagaki

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RFIC Laboratory
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matching circuit, band pass filter and small antenna■ Applications: Wireless LAN, Ultra Wideband(UWB),
broadband and millimeter wave transmission■ URL: http://yossvr0.ed.kyushu-u.ac.jp/
Assoc. Prof. Haruichi Kanaya

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our solar cells

Circularly polarized small
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RF receiver LSI

System Design Laboratory
Our aim is to understand, design and control various systems ranging from microscopic
to macroscopic systems. Especially, emphasis is placed on the macroscopic systems
or collections of systems interacting with each other (e.g. automotive traffic flow,
power systems and social systems). To achieve the aim, research is being conductedon predictive control, motion and vibration control, control methodology for hybrid
systems (continuous dynamics governed by discrete events), and learning andoptimization techniques.
Prof. Taketoshi Kawabe, Prof. Junichi Murata
Assist. Prof. Masakazu Mukai, Assist. Prof. Hirotaka Takano

Instrumentation Engineering Laboratory
Our studies focus on the understanding and resolving key
performance issues of superconducting forefront materials
and power devices based on the state-of-the-art measurement
technologies. Perspective of these studies are to lead breakthroughto the energy-efficiency solutions to electric power grid,alternative energy, transportation and advanced medical systems.
(See also the Research Institute of Superconductor Science andSystems.)
Prof. Takanobu Kiss
Assoc. Prof. Masayoshi Inoue

SQUID microscopy of
Vortex dynamics

Development of novel laser
microscope

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Electromechanical Energy Conversion Laboratory
Our laboratory studies the following topics: FEM Analysis, PM
Motors, Electric Vehicle, Wind generator, and PM generator.

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Assoc. Prof. Katsumi KesamarudLaser and Electromagnetic Energy Laboratory
The Prof. Okada’s group is mainly working on the development ofvarious types of lasers and light sources, including fluoride-based fiber
lasers, tunable lasers, VUV-EUV light sources, and on their application
to material processing such as optically functional thin film deposition,
synthesis of nanostructured materials and so on.
Prof. Tatsuo Okada, Assoc. Prof. Daisuke Nakamura
Laser-induced plasma

Micro-Nano Electrostatics Laboratory

Manipulation ofbacteria andnanomaterials by
dielectrophoresis

We are involved in research subjects based on pplied electrostatics for the
cross-disciplinary area such as bio and nanotechnology. Especially, wecurrently focus on applications of electrokinetic
phenomena and pulsed power technology to manipulation and processing of
micro and nanoscaled materials.
Prof. Junya Suehiro
Assist. Prof. Michihiko Nakano

Functionalizationof nanomaterials
using microplasma

Green Electronics Circuits Laboratory
Our research topics are related to Switched-Mode Power Converter which is “theheart of any electronic equipment”. Circuit topologies, control strategies, simulation
techniques, EMC issues, and so forth are investigated. Miniaturization, highefficiency, and low noise are prominent features, which can be obtained through hightechnology of analog/digital mixed electronic circuits. All levels of investigation arecovered including both technology and system levels.
Prof. Masahito Shoyama

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Applied Electromagnetics Laboratory
Our laboratory studies the following topics : NanobioMagnetic, Design
and Control of Motors
Assoc. Prof. Takashi Yoshida

Magnetic nano-bio imaging

Applied Superconductivity Laboratory

FE analysis of a PMLSM

Characteristic test of a 15kW
superconducting motor in water

We mainly study the electromagnetic properties of superconducting wires and cables with the aim at
the wide application of superconducting devices and systems. We take the lead in the developmentof advanced oxide superconducting power devices, e.g. a liquid-nitrogen-cooled superconducting
transformer and motors. We also join the national project for the research and development of suchdevices. In addition we support the development in the next-generation oxide superconducting wires
making free use of our ac loss evaluation technique with high accuracy.
(see the Research Institute of Superconductor Science and Systems.)
Prof. Masataka Iwakuma

Superconducting Sensing System Laboratory
Main research topic is the development of advanced sensing
systems based on superconducting sensors, such as biosensing
system using magnetic marker and SQUID, Nondestructive
Evaluation system and high precision Picovoltmeter. We are also
carrying out basic researches toward realization of the large-scale
application of superconductivity from various perspectives.
Prof. Keiji Enpuku, Assoc. Prof. Kazuhiro Kajikawa
SQUID sensor and bio-sensing
system (Enpuku Lab.)

Level sensor for liquid hydrogen withsuperconducting wire (Kajikawa Lab.)

Electrical Energy Environment Laboratory
Our studies mainly focus on- technology development for advanced
electric power devices such as
superconducting applications- their effective installation andcontrol in the power system withincreasing renewable power sources
Assoc. Prof. Kohei Higashikawa,
Assist. Prof. Sihun Yang

Advanced Power Device

Real-time Simulation for Power System

Next Generation Laser Processing Laboratory
We have been investigating next generation laser processing utilizing high power gas laser
such as KrF-, ArF-excimer laser, F2 laser and ns pulsed CO2 laser.
Main research topics· Direct micromachining of glass plates for electric device fabrication.
· Laser annealing of semiconductor thin films.
· Impurity doping by liquid immersion laser irradiation.
Research Prof. Keishiro Kurihara, Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi Ikenoue

Our laboratory is supported by

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

31Department of I&E Visionaries
The Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering (ISEE) has a principle ofcollaboration of Information Science and Electrical Engineering and aims to cultivate researchersand engineers of the next generation in the field of information and electricity-electronics (I& E). The ISEE applied to the Kyushu University’s strategic scheme for University Reform andActivation and proposed to establish a new department to promote the above collaboration
between Information Science and Electrical-Electronics Engineering. Fortunately, our proposal
was approved and the Department of I & E Visionaries was newly established in 2012.
This department is a special organization independent of the existing departments in the ISEE,
and has the members listed below including Inner-ISEE sabbatical professors and cooperating
professors. This department has a mission to activate the collaborations between I & E, create
new research areas, and renew the ISEE continuously. In the first stage, this department would
mainly focus on the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) as the common research interests.

Research area
I&E Ubiquitous sensing group
Our goal is realize of ultra-distributed and ubiquitous sensors network for IT-social system based cyber physical system(CPS). The unlimited objects in real-world must require large amount of electrical energy based on traditional electrical
CPS. Therefore, we proposed multiple-quantronic sensing in which multiple quantum(electron, photon, polariton, spintron, and molecules) can be converted eachother without electoronic-conversion. The fully-photonic sensors can enhance

Cyberspace &Bigdata

optical information. For example, battery-free or optical harvesting using multiquantronics can be key-technology for green energy and secure society.
Extremely low cost fabrication of optical sensing structure is also
another theme for ubiquitous sensor network. With above scheme
the ubiquitous sensing network can be construct over our real-Intelligence-izing of
Human action
spacial data
Supplyoptimization
Real world
Quasi-DBizing optimization
based on monitors

world. The networks are activated by optical scanning andoptically enhanced information can be observed with spectrally
extended cameras. We can name them such as “Quasi-databaseizing” of real-physical-world.

Energyharvesting
Real - CPS
Interfacecandidate for extremely low cost, human-suitable and printable sensing

waveguide can solve and deliver doped molecules inside. Right figure

Refractive
index
1.000
1.416

shows a schematic of multiple layered waveguide laser using the PDMS

1.408

studied for optical system. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) based

Infrastructure
Green energy

Big steps of ubiquitous secsor-network on
reactions between real world, cyber space andenergy infrastructure.

The optical microcavity structure on organic materials are importantdevice. The intermediate material between solid-state and liquid-state was

Smartgrid(Superditributed)

lasing layer. The refractive index design as shown realize single peak of
distributed structure and inter-circulated dye layer. Fluorene based blue-

PTFEMA (DFB) layer

Dye:PDMSlayer

Laser output
2.5 µm~100 µm

PMMA Substrate

chromophore is newly developed as PDMS soluble. The inter-circulation can

PDMS
based
distributed
PDMS
based
distributed
feedback
laser
forforblue
regionfeedback
laser
blue
regionextend dye durability by 20 times.
Another micro fabrication research is based on ink-jet technique.

Pumping beam at 355 nm

100µm

Right figure shows SEM image of organic micro disk fabrication using
low-viscus polymer. Refractive index controlled and stacked disks
were wet-etched and organic micro-disks with diameter of 150μm. Inkjet condition
control, solubility control and drying-up profile must be optimized for the disk
quality control.
Organic micro disks fabricatedwith inkjet technology

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Department of I&E Visionaries

I&E LSI and System Groupadvance semiconductor technology solutions ,i.e. LSI

With advance technology, the data size is growing

solutions, are always dedicated to deliver improved

exponentially and handling such “big data” forsolutions to cut short the challenges. Fig.1 depicts

capturing, transmission and process is challenging.

how a semiconductor technology brings forth theInnovations in both software and hardware platforms

solution to big data and cyber physical systems. Moreare desired. Our group is devoted to develop innovative

specifically, our research and development is focusedand intelligent solutions in wireless technologies.

on a battery-less wireless sensor node (see Fig. 2) and a

Our research is aimed to ease the challenges of “bigmaintenance-free ultrafast wireless transmitting system.

data” with respect to its capture, storage, process,The system is capable of continuous collection of hugetransfer and visualization by novel solutions in wirelessand complex data from several sources and transmission

technologies. Big data renders several considerable

to a data center at data rate which exceeds 10 Gbps.

challenges on cyber physical systems (CPS) and

Fig. 2 : Battery-less sencor nodeFig. 1 : Big data.CPS related technologies that
semiconductor technology bring forth

Members of Department of I&E Visionaries
Faculty

Yuji OkiPokharel Ramesh Kumar
Hiroaki Yoshioka

Professor
Professor
Assistant Professor

Inner-ISEE sabbaticalprofessors

Naho Itagaki
Haruichi Kanaya

Associate Professor
Associate Professor(Electronics)(Electronics)

Cooperating professors

Kazuaki Murakami
Keijiro Araki
Masaharu Shiratani
Kazutoshi Kato
Shigeru Kusakabe

Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor
Associate Professor(Advanced Information Technology)(Advanced Information Technology)(Electronics)(Electronics)(Advanced Information Technology)

Department of I&E Visionaries

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System LSI Research Center(SLRC)The Goal of SLRC
System LSI Research Center (SLRC) was founded in 2001 to develop the design and application
technologies of System LSIs. Due to the rapid progress of semiconductor integrated circuit
technology, we can now implement a complicated system which is composed of more thantens of millions of transistors on a tiny silicon chip. A system LSI, which is also called an SoC(System-on-a-Chip), is an integrated circuit consisting of various components such as processors,
memories, digital circuits, analog circuits, sensors, radio frequency interface and software.
System LSIs have been used in mobile phones, portable computers, digital still cameras, and TV
game machines and the application area will be spread to various social systems.

System LSI as Social Information Infrastructure

Fukuoka prefecture. We have two satellite campuses;
Fukuoka System LSI Design and Development Center

SLRC is in the second period of which aim to create

at Momochihama area which has many LSI designnovel values of System LSIs and to construct next

industries since 2004, and Social System Demonstration

generation social information infrastructure based onCenter in Itoshima Research Park since 2011.

achievements of the first period. Design technology
of System LSIs itself is important. However social

The Role of SLRC

information infrastructure employing System LSIs
is shifting its paradigm among the world. We are

In Japan, there are several research and education

researching novel social information system employing

centers for LSI such as VDEC (VLSI Design andthem as follows:

Education Center) in the University of Tokyo and Centers(1) Electronic Economic Systems

in Tohoku University, Hiroshima University, and Kyushu(2) Green Energy Technology

Institute of Technology. The main research subjects of(3) Robot Engineering

these centers are LSI design methodology, fabrication(4) Economic Management Systemtechnology, and testing. The principal question of the(5) Agricultural System

research of SLRC is “What are implemented on System

SLRC is promoting Kyushu University Campus IC

LSIs ?” SLRC provides a bridge between requirements ofCard project and Silicon Sea Belt Fukuoka withapplication areas and System LSI technology.

Application
Consumer Electronics
Game
Communication
Automobile
Air Lines
Rail Road
e-Commerce
e-government
Medical Application
Vending Machines
RobotsLife Lines

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System LSI Research Center (SLRC)

Kyushu University
SLRC

VDEC University of Tokyo
Test Chip Fab. Service

System LSI

System LSIs

Software
Fabrication
VLSI Design

Software + VLSI

Tohoku Univ. andHiroshima Univ.

Silicon Sea Belt

More than 60% of LSIs are produced in this area. We

Eastern Asian countries are one of the most active areasof the semiconductor industry in the world. We call thisarea as“Silicon Sea Belt”, which includes Korea, Kyushu,
Okinawa, Taiwan, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Malaysia andSingapore.

are working to establish the collaboration network oftechnology and business on System LSIs in this area.
Fukuoka prefecture started a new project to construct
COE of SoC design, named Silicon Sea Belt Fukuoka.
We have tight collaboration with Kumamoto, Okinawa
and Asian countries.

・Collaboration in Silicon Sea Belt objectives:− Pipelining for SoC products− Marketing and system planning− SoC Design (SW and HW)− Fabrication (Silicon and board)− Testing (from chips to systems)

・Silicon Sea Belt is a center ofsemiconductor fabrication.
・This area is also the world’s
largest market of IT industries.
・More than 50% of production andconsumption of LSI is done in this area

Divisions and Members of SLRC
Divisions
Director
Social Information
Infrastracture

Foundation System
Techonlogy

Energy Technology

Embedded Software
Technology

Application Systems

Demonstration of
the Social Information
Infrastructure

Faculty Members[Department of Advanced
Information Technology]

Akira Fukuda

Professor

Hiroto Yasuura

Professor(Exective Vice President)

Ashir Ahmed

Associate Professor

Hiroshi Furukawa

Professor

Yusuke Matsunaga

Associate Professor

Koji Inoue

Associate Professor

Makoto Sugihara

Associate Professor

Haruichi Kanaya

Associate Professor[Department of Advanced
Information Technology][Department of Advanced
Information Technology][Department of Advanced
Information Technology][Department of Advanced
Information Technology, SLRC][Department of Electronics]

Masahito Shoyama
Daisuke Nakamura

Professor
Associate Professor[Department of Electrical Engineering][Department of Electrical Engineering]

Akira Fukuda

Professor

Tsuneo Nakanishi

Associate Professor

Kenji Hisazumi

Associate Professor

Motoji Yamamoto

Professor

Kunio Urakawa

Associate Professor

Takashi Okayasu

Associate Professor

Koji Ishida

Visiting Associate
Professor[Department of Advanced
Information Technology][Department of Advanced
Information Technology][Department of Advanced
Information Technology][Department of Advanced
Information Technology][Department of Advanced
Information Technology, SLRC][Department of MechanicalEngineering, Faculty of Engineering][Department of Economic
Engineering, Faculty of Economics][Department of Agro-environmental
Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture](Fukuoka Industry, Science &Technology Foundation)

System LSI Research Center (SLRC)

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Research Institute of Superconductor
Science and Systems (RISS)Applications of superconductivity to prospective systems of energy transforming and information
processing will be based on creative scientific efforts and the accumulation of innovativetechnology. The Research Institute of Superconductor Science and Systems (RISS) has been
initiated in 2003 as the joint-use research center of Kyushu University for the basic scienceand the near-future application of superconductors. Research & Education in RISS covers basic
phenomena and new concepts in superconductors, improvements in electromagnetic properties
of superconducting wires and films, applications to superconductive devices and systems
in cooperation with the Graduate Schools/Faculties of Information Science and ElectricalEngineering, Engineering, Engineering Sciences, Sciences, and so on.
RISS consists of five divisions: Material Science, Applied Physics, Electronics, ElectricEngineering and Advanced Electric System. The characterized points are related with intimate
connections between superconductor science and the system engineering. Using the uniqueproperties of the superconductors, we can develop high performance in electronic and electricaldevices and their systems. They are indispensable for many application fields, e.g., medical
and biological science, material science, communication and information processing, energy
transforming and industrial structure reforming.

Image of afuture society withsuperconductor
technologies

Superconducting transformer for a Shinkansen rolling stock developed in collaboration with Railway Technical ResearchInstitute.

Test scene of a YBCO superconducting motor installed into a
Ship propulsion system in the
shipyard of Mit subishi Heav yIndustry. It was partly supported
by NEDO.

Superconductor science and Vortex engineering are basic concepts in RISS for developing
wide application of superconductivity to near-future systems of Information and Energy.

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Research Institute of Superconductor Science and Systems (RISS)

Scientific Collaboration

International
Cooperative Tasks

National Lab.
Research Institutes
Universities

IEC/TC90

Research Institute ofSuperconductor
Science and Systems(RISS)

National Project
MITI, NEDO
ISTEC
JSPS, JSTTechnical Supports&Assessment

International ScientificCollaboration
Promotion of Int. Projects
National Lab.
Universities

International cooperation
Int. Conference
Ext. Assessment member

Companies
Peer review of projects

Strategic Activities of RISSDivisions

Members

Director

Material Science

Applied Physics

Electronics

Electric Engineering

Advanced Electric
System

Education and Research Area
Prof. Keiji Enpuku

Professor
Kenji Kaneko· Nano-structure and superconductivity

Associate Professor
Ryo Teranishi· New superconducting materials

Professor
Takanobu Kiss

· Electromagnetic properties of superconductor

Associate Professor
Masayoshi Inoue· Vortex science for superconductor application

Professor
Keiji Enpuku· Superconducting sensor systems

Associate Professor
Keisuke Maehata· Advanced biomedical and analysis systems

Professor
Masataka Iwakuma· High Jc and low loss SC conductors

Associate Professor
Kazuhiro Kajikawa· Superconducting machine and energy devices

Professor
Ichiro Sasada· Superconducting energy systems

Associate Professor
Takashi Yoshida· System engineering for social and life innovation

Research Institute of Superconductor Science and Systems (RISS)

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Research Institute forInformation Technology (RIIT)RIIT (Research Institute for Information Technology) is an institute for research and developmenton wide variety of topics in computer science field such as computation, network, security andeducation. On the other hand, as a member of Information Infrastructure Initiative in Kyushu
University, it is playing an important role in efficient management of information technologies in
the university. Moreover, as one of the centers for academic computing, it provides resources forhigh-performance computing for researchers in Japan.

1. Academic information section

4. Next Generation and Future Network Section

Academic Information Section studies multimedia
academic information such as Web data, scientificarticles, observational data and social system data. The
section researches and develops method and systemfor collecting, searching and analyzing those data. The
section studies cloud computing as basis for information
services.

2. Language Education Environment Section

5. Interdisciplinary Computational Science Section

Language Education Environment Section is to explore
new research areas between foreign language educationand information science. We study and develop ICT
based foreign language learning systems as well asteaching methods and materials for language classes.
We’re now focusing on developing mobile learning
systems with smart phones.

3. Learning Spaces Design Section

Interdisciplinary Computational Science Section
promotes cross-frontier research and development
between computational science applications andcomputer science studies. In particular, it focuses on
sophisticated analyses coupling multiple simulations,and advanced e-science studies utilizing grid/cloudcomputing technologies.

6. Advanced Computing Infrastructure Section

This section studies on development of information
infrastructure for higher education, such as e-learning
or distance learning systems. And also studies,
analyzes and shares technical and practical knowledgeof learning environments, through the support for
introduction of e-learning.
Sections

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Students can study following topics: Key Technologies
for Future Internet such as Open Flow and Virtual
Networking, advanced techniques for Network
Operations based on Power Consumption and GreenTechnologies, Measurement Technique, Security andPractical case studies using those new technologies withvarious Internet researchers over the world.

The central topic of the research group is thedevelopment on advanced computing infrastructure andits programming for large scale numerical simulations.
Especially, it studies technologies for high-performanceand high-precision computing on linear problems.

Faculty Members
Department of Informatics

Director

Mutsumi Aoyagi

Professor

Deputy Director

Koji Okamura

Professor

Department of Advanced Information Technology

Academic
Information Section

Sachio Hirokawa
Takahiko Suzuki
Eisuke Itoh
Tetsuya Nakatoh

Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor

Department of Advanced Information Technology
Department of Informatics
Department of Advanced Information Technology

Language Education
Environment Section

Yoshiyuki Tabata
Chengjiu YIN

Professor
Assistant Professor

Learning Spaces
Design Section

Naomi Fujimura
Hitoshi Inoue
Takahiro Tagawa
Keiichiro Fukazawa

Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

Next Generation and
Future Network Section

Koji Okamura
Yoshiaki Kasahara

Professor
Assistant Professor

Department of Advanced Information Technology

InterdisciplinaryComputational
Science Section

Mutsumi Aoyagi
Hirohumi Amano
Toshiya Takami
Taizo Kobayashi
Hiroaki Honda

Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Project Associate Professor
Project Associate Professor

Department of Informatics
Department of Advanced Information Technology
Department of Informatics

Advanced Computing
Infrastructure Section

Seiji Fujino
Yoshitaka Watanabe
Takeshi Nanri

Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor

Department of Informatics
Department of Informatics
Department of Advanced Information Technology

Research Staff for
Computational Science

Ryutaro Susukita

Project Associate Professor

Research Institute for Information Technology (RIIT)Information Technologies in Kyushu University Powered by RIITSupercomputing

Computer for Education

RIIT is one of the national academic supercomputer
centers in Japan. It has large and fast computer systems
and offers advanced computing services to university andnon-university users. In addition to that, as a member of
HPCI in Japan, it is constructing an HPC Infrastructure,
centered upon the “K-computer”.
RIIT promotes the formation of specialized researchclusters of active researchers by code-tuning support
tailored to cater to their individual computing needs,
and accumulating the latest know-how on computational
science for common use. Furthermore, the institute isforming a computing service alliance with the computer
centers of neighboring universities and investingcollectively on efficient computing resources.
RIIT supports researchers of computational science by
hosting events such as forums and tutorials, fulfilling
requirements for specific applications, and maintaining
user-developed software.

An important mission within our organization is to offer
the ICT environment utilizing computers and networks in
ICT education, language education, medical education,and so on. For this purpose, we have installed several
PCs throughout our campuses. Moreover, to support
learning outside the class and university, we have built
an e-learning environment using a web-based learning
system and video-on-demand systems.
Some course materials and videos on the web learning
system are open to the public and are collectively known
as Kyushu University Open Course Ware (QOCW) andKyushu University YouTube. We are actively promoting
the QOCW and YouTube project.
Since Kyushu University comprises five major campuses,
we also offer iClass (inter Campus Learning ASsistantSystem) to provide support to classroom students on
several campuses.

ID Management and SSO
To provide more security for IT services, the Information
Infrastructure Initiative (iCube for short) constructed thecampus authentication platform, and have been issuing“SSO-KID” for staff and issuing student ID for students.
The iCube is an integrating user authentication platform,
and it can deliver user-friendly, trustworthy, and secure
protected services. The iCube has the ID management
system of all university staff and students. The iCube
manages LDAP server, matrix password authentication
server, and Shibboleth IdP server. The Shibboleth IdP is
not only the university SSO platform but also the world
wide academic SSO platform

IC staff ID card

ID and Matrix password(back of IC-staff card)

Campus Networking
The Kyushu University Integrated-information Transmission
Environment (KITE), the university campus network,
provides advanced, fast, internet services to university
members for e-mail usage, accessing the world wide web,and collaborating with others in relation to their education
and research.
Fast Campus Backbone Network and Advanced Gateway
Operation
KITE provides 10Gbps Back-bone networking services forthe five main campuses (Hakozaki, Ito, Hospital, Kasuga
and Ohashi). KITE connects to the Internet by 10Gbps
with BGP operation, and provides fast speed and flexible
gateway services. Any security incidents are monitored
using IDS and detected in real-time by a commercial
service

Educational Computer Room

Hitachi SR16000 L2

Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX200S6

Campus Wide Wireless Service: kitenet
kitenet, which is Kyushu University’s wide wireless service,provides wireless Internet services to all of the members
in Kyushu University with 802.1x standard and SSO-KID.
The users who belong to Kyushu University can get accessto the campus network directly but any guest users areprovided for on commercial based Internet services on afeature of kitenet based on the security policy of Kyushu
University.
Contribution to the Local/National Network Community
We have organized the Information Network Consortiumfor representatives from universities in Kyushu, Chugoku,
and Shikoku. Through promotional activities suchas seminars on the latest topics, we help network
administrators in these regions improve their skills. We also
participate in the operations of SINET (organized by the
National Institute of Informatics) and JGN (organized by
the National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology).

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Center of Plasma Nano-interface
Engineering (CPNE)
This center was established in October 1st 2010 to promote innovative researches, collaborations
with researchers in industry, and worldwide networks for plasma engineering. It consists of four
divisions: 1) fundamental plasma engineering, 2) plasma electronics, 3) plasma environmental
engineering, and 4) plasma bio-engineering.

The Purpose of CPNE
Plasma-based fabrication of nanomaterials andprecise top-down processes by suppressing fluctuations

nanostructures is widely employed for top-down processes

and well controlled self-organized bottom-up processes

such as ULSI processing as well as bottom-up processes

by controlling fluctuations. CPNE aims to bring aboutsuch as carbon nanotube production. CPNE explores

an explosive development of fabrication technologies offrontier science of interactions between plasmas andnanomaterials and nanostructures. We are carrying out

nano-interfaces by focusing on novel features such as

international collaborations with Germany and Korea asfluctuations of interactions due to the nanometer scale.

well as companies.

Plasma processing based on the science realizes highly

Divisions and Members of CPNE
Divisions

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Faculty Members

Director

Masaharu Shiratani

Professor[Department of Electronics]

Fundamental
plasma engineering

Kunihiro Kamataki
Seo Hyunwoong

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor[Faculty of Arts and Science]

Plasma electronics

Naho Itagaki

Associate Professor[Department of Electronics]

Plasmaenvironmental
engineering

Masaharu Shiratani
Giichiro Uchida

Professor
Assistant professor[Department of Electronics][Department of Electronics]

Plasmabio-engineering

Junya Suehiro
Kazunori Koga
Michihiko Nakano

Professor
Associate professor
Assistant professor[Department of Electrical Engineering][Department of Electronics][Department of Electrical Engineering]

Center of Plasma Nano-interface Engineering (CPNE)

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Center for Japan-Egypt Cooperation in Scienceand Technology (EJUST Center)
Kyushu University is selected as one of the three chair universities (Kyushu University, Kyoto University, andWaseda University) to support the setup of Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), a
national project between Japan and Egypt, in Arab Republic of Egypt. The Faculty of Information Science andElectrical Engineering in Kyushu University is in charge of establishing intra-disciplinary collaborations withthe department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) which is one of the eight departments in
E-JUST. To execute these duties effectively, the Center for Japan-Egypt Cooperation in Science and Technology(EJUST Center) was set up in August 2010 in Kyushu University. Moreover, E-JUST’s objective is to support aunique model of international cooperation in the higher education. It also aims to establish an ecosystem in
Egypt and African region to train their students and young researchers in the department of ECE of E-JUST oreven to establish a sustainable way of international exchange of future leaders in science and technology in theregion.
The center provides advanced analytical as well as technological knowledge in various fields of electronics
and communication engineering. The program includes a number of core as well as elective courses, which
permits the students to specialize in a particular area. The center also dispatches two associate professors to
E-JUST who stay at the E-JUST for a semester every year and take the responsibility to teach courses besides
advising graduate student’s research as co-supervisors. The other full-time professors and associate professors
at the center supervise the students of E-JUST through video conferencing system regularly in the capacity of aco-advisor and visit the E-JUST whenever necessary. The center is currently taking care of the students in threefields: (i) radio frequency, analog and mixed signals LSI technology for next generation wireless communication
systems (ii) VLSI engineering for multi-core digital processor, and (iii) digital communication systems andnetworks as illustrated in Fig. 1.

Fig.1 Illustration of Kyushu University’s
support to E-JUST.

Divisions
Educational Cooperation Division(Specific Research and
Educational Division)

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Role Content
Mission (1) : ‌Contract enforcement, which was signed up with JICA, as a “Mainprogram supporting university for E-JUST,” namely, education andresearch guidance at E-JUST’s ECE.

Educational Collaboration Division(Specific Research and
Educational Division)

Mission (2)-1 : ‌Implementation of industry-university cooperative research between
Japan and Egypt
Mission (2)-3 : ‌Developing and implementing of acceptance programs for E-JUST’s
students
Mission (2)-5 : ‌Developing and implementing of double degree program at E-JUSTwith Kyushu university

Project Division

Mission (2)-1 : ‌Implementation of industry-university cooperative research between
Japan and Egypt
Mission (2)-2 : ‌Development and implementation of training program on university
governance and management
Mission (2)-4 : ‌Development and implementation of educational programs on
Japanese, Japanese culture, internal affairs of Japan, Arabic, MiddleEast affairs and Middle-Eastern culture
Mission (2)-5 : ‌Developing and implementing of double degree program at E-JUSTwith Kyushu university

Liaison Division

Mission (3) : ‌The establishment of a liaison office at E-JUST and promoting
cooperation activities between E-JUST in Egypt and E-JUST Center at
Kyushu university

Center for Japan-Egypt Cooperation in Science and Technology (EJUST Center)

Divisions

Faculty Members

Director

Hiroshi Furukawa

Professor

Department of Advanced Information Technology

Vice Director

Ramesh Pokharel

Professor

Department of I&E Visionaries

Educational
Cooperation

Jia Hongting
Victor Goulart

Associate Professor
Associate Professor

E-JUST Center
E-JUST Center

Educational
Collaboration

Kuniaki Yoshitomi
Osamu Muta
Farhad Mehdipour

Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor

E-JUST Center
E-JUST Center
E-JUST Center

Kazuaki Murakami
Hiroshi Furukawa
Tanemasa Asano
Ramesh Pokharel
Koichiro Watanabe

Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor

Reiji Hattori

Professor

Koji Okamura
Haruichi Kanaya
Koji Inoue

Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor

Department of Advanced Information Technology
Department of Advanced Information Technology
Department of Electronics
Department of I&E Visionaries
Department of Earth Resources Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering
Art, Science and Technology Center for
Cooperative Research
Research Institute for Information Technology
Department of Electronics
Department of Advanced Information Technology(TBD)

Professor(TBD)

Professor

Project

LiaisonEgypt-Japan University of Science andTechnology (E-JUST)
Egypt-Japan University of Science andTechnology (E-JUST)Division of Foundation
System Technology

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Innovative Market Design
Research Center
This center was established in 2012 to promote innovative research on market design. Market
design is a research field that aims to design/modify real economic markets that allocate precious
resources in a socially desirable way based on the knowledge obtained in micro economics andgame theory. Such markets include real complicated markets (e.g., spectrum auctions), as wellas markets that do not involve monetary transfers (e.g., school choice programs). To analyze/
design real economic markets in a feasible way, contributions from computer science areindispensable. This center systematically conducts basic and applied research on market designfrom computational/algorithmic perspective, and will be established as a center of excellence onmarket design research. This center conducts interdisciplinary joint research with international/
domestic universities/research institutes, and fosters young talented individuals who are wellacquainted with both computer science and micro economics.
This center will develop the following three types of key technologies.
(1) ‌design technologies, which enable us to design market mechanisms that incorporate various
constraints and agent preferences, and can be executed in a reasonable amount of time.
(2) ‌analytic technologies, which accomplish systematic analysis of the robustness of market
mechanisms, considering the interaction among multiple markets.
(3) ‌representation technologies, which enable us to concisely represent the input parametersof market mechanisms so that market mechanisms can be efficiently executed and analyzed
by utilizing/extending the knowledge representation technologies developed in Artificial
Intelligence.

Specific research topics of this center include automated mechanism design, equilibrium
analysis of repeated games, concise representation schemes for cooperative games, mechanism
design for two-sided matching, combinatorial auctions, discrete convex analysis, etc.

Divisions
Director

Faculty Members
Professor Makoto Yokoo
Professor
Makoto Yokoo

Market Design Theory
Research Division

Associate Professor
Yuko Sakurai
Assistant Professor
Atsushi Iwasaki

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Innovative Market Design Research Center

Education and Research Areas· Conduct‌fundamental researchon market design based on gametheory and agent theoryemphasizefeasibilityofmechanisms
emphasizefeasibilityofmechanisms(e.g.,computationalcosts,representationsize)(e.g.,computationalcosts,representationsize)
TargetComputerTargetinterdisciplinaryComputer
Scienceinterdisciplinary
researchdomainScience
Combinatorial
researchdomainofthis center
Optimization
Combinatorialof this center
Optimization
Artificial
Intelligence
Artificial
Intelligence

Game theory/
Game theory/mechanism
designmechanism design

Micro economics
Micro economics

emphasize theoretical characteristics of mechanisms
emphasize theoretical characteristics of mechanisms

Traditional Economics•Assume a market
mechanism is given•Deal with an idealized
market (perfectlycompetitive market)•Assume “invisible
hand” optimize themarketMarket Design•Intend to design a new market
mechanism or to revise an
existing market mechanism•Deal with a wider range ofmarkets, such as a market
without monetary transfer (e.g.,school choice, kidneyexchange)•Require appropriate market

design to avoid “market failure”

Comparison between Traditional Economics andMarket Design
Innovative Market Design Research Center45

Research Center for ArchitectureOriented Formal Methods
The Research Center for Architecture-Oriented Formal Methods was established on the 1st
May 2013 to propose and utilize formal approaches to develop high-quality software systems
efficiently.
Under the collaboration between industry and academia, we propose practically effective
formal approaches to model, analyze, verify, operate, and maintain complicated IT systems. We
accumulate case studies of applying formal methods into conventional software development
processes, and present as process models effective to real development projects. We also
develop tools which embody our approaches and support system developers and users to realize
high quality and dependable IT systems.
Our research topics include the following:(1) ‌Proposal of effective formal techniques applicable to model and analyze complicated IT
systems and case studies of their applications,(2) Reference models of software development processes based on formal methods,(3) ‌Architecture oriented formal approaches to treat complicated systems of systems including
environment and operation phases, and(4) Development of support tools.
We show practice and experience of architecture oriented formal methods applicable throughthe whole software lifecycle. E.g.,(1) Engineering cases of software development projects to share and reuse,(2) Education and training materials and courses for high-quality and dependable IT systems,(3) ‌Systematic software lifecycle model based on architecture orientation to realize high qualityand dependable IT systems, and(4) Software process improvement through support tools which embody our research results.

Divisions46

Faculty Members

Director

Keijiro Araki

Professor

Department of Advanced Information Technology

Formal Methods
Application
Division

Keijiro Araki
Shigeru Kusakabe
Yoichi Omori

Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor

Department of Advanced Information Technology
Department of Advanced Information Technology
Department of Advanced Information Technology

Research Center for Architecture-Oriented Formal Methods

Description & Analysis
Operation

SystemRequirement
Specification
DesignCodingTesting

Analysis & Verification

Modelling

SoftwareLifecycle

Operation

Environment

Maintenance

Re-UseHighly Applicable Formal Approach
Model Checking

A Variety of Formal Methods

Architecture

Formal Approach Effective at Each Stage in Software Lifecycle

Support Tool for Formal System Modeling (under construction)

Research Center for Architecture-Oriented Formal Methods

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Research Center for Advanced Information
and Communication Technology Education
QUTE (Kyushu University Research Center for Advanced Information and Communication
Technology Education) was established with the purpose of developing the most advanced
educational methods in the ICT field. Collaborating with the industries such as Keidanren (Japan
Business Federation), Kyukeiren (Kyushu Economic Federation), and so on, QUTE engages in
the research and development of practical educational methods. For example, QUTE has beensystematizing the educational experience and know-how obtained from the Social Information
Systems Engineering Course in the Graduate School of Information Science and ElectricalEngineering, and been summarizing them as educational materials. In particular, methods for
effectively carrying out PBL (Project-Based Learning) have been under development. PBL is an
educational method for fostering the capabilities of solving practical problems in teamwork.
As projects continue, students get to equip themselves with the strength of technologies andcommunication etc. The educational materials developed by QUTE are accessible by all
universities in Japan.
QUTE is composed of the following six divisions, which conduct extensive research related toeducational methods ranging from infrastructure to application. Business Strategy Education andResearch Division is a featured division. It becomes necessary for technologists, who will leadthe next-generation of information-oriented society, to master not only information technologies
but also knowledge about the society and business. This division targets the research of
educational methods for such a scenario.

Educational Infrastructure Research Division

Application Education and Research Division

R&D of methods for educational collaboration with bothR&D of practical educational methods targeting social

the inside and the outside of the university

information infrastructure

Architecture Education and Research Division

Business Strategy Education and Research Division

R&D of educational methods for system architecture

R&D of business strategy educational methods forthat enables cultivating novel social information

realizing novel ICT value

infrastructure

Liaison Division
Software Education and Research Division
R&D of educational methods for the architecture,

Serving as a bridge between universities / industries for
an industry-academia collaboration education

design, and development methodologies of social
information infrastructure software

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Research Center for Advanced Information and Communication Technology Education

Divisions

Faculty Members

Director

Naoyasu Ubayashi

Professor

Department of Advanced Information Technology

Educational
Infrastructure
Research
Division

Akira Fukuda
Tsunenori Mine

Professor
Associate Professor

Department of Advanced Information Technology
Department of Advanced Information Technology

Architecture
Education
and Research
Division

Hiroshi Furukawa
Kenji Hisazumi

Professor
Associate Professor

Department of Advanced Information Technology
Department of Advanced Information Technology

SoftwareEducation
and Research
Divisio

Keijiro Araki
Naoyasu Ubayashi
Shigeru Kusakabe
Yoichi Omori
Yasutaka Kamei

Professor
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

Department of Advanced Information Technology
Department of Advanced Information Technology
Department of Advanced Information Technology
Department of Advanced Information Technology
Department of Advanced Information Technology

Application
Education
and Research
Division

Junichi Murata
Daisuke Ikeda
Haruichi Kanaya

Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Informatics
Department of Electronics

Toru Tanigawa

Professor

Megumi Takata

Associate Professor

Art, Science and Technology Center for Cooperative
Research
Faculty of Economics

Kunihiko Kaneko

Associate Professor

Department of Advanced Information Technology

Business
Strategy
Education
and Research
Division
Liaison Division

PBL Scenes

PBL Presentation

Research Center for Advanced Information and Communication Technology Education

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Courses and Subjects of ISEEThe Curriculum Outline of the Graduate School of Information
Science and Electrical Engineering
The social and industrial communities point out

with awareness of interference with the real

shortage of information and hardware engineers,

world, including the real world information

supporting information systems. To cope with the above

processing.

problem is the primary object of the present curriculum

3. Needs‌for education, accommodating torevision. Social demands for the education of ISEE cantechnological revolution and extending

be summarized as the following three subjects.

interdisciplinary research field in the electrical

1. ‌Needs for advanced informatics education, whichcopes with the rapid progress of the scientificengineering.
of researchers and engineers who○ Education‌

scheme related to information technology, caused

support the physical layer of information andby worldwide networking.

energy.

○ ‌Education of researchers and engineers who
support technological scheme concerned with
contents structuralizing from information.
of researchers and engineers who○ Education‌○ ‌Education of researchers and engineers,
supporting interdisciplinary area between theinformation system and the electrical system.
Education in the graduate school of ISEE is conducted by

support a theoretical backbone of information

three departments corresponding to the above subjects.

technology.

Additional courses, according to the field specialty

2. Needs‌for ICT specialist, particularly leading

and the educational method, are established in the

researchers and engineers, triggered with infiltration

department to clarify the details of educational contents.

of the social information foundation.

Establishment of the courses enables us to educate wideof researchers and engineers who○ Education‌variety of engineers satisfying future industrial needs,

support the infrastructure basis of the advanced

without reorganization of the department. Fundamental

information system.

ideas of the curriculum for the Doctor and Muster○ ‌Education of researchers and engineers whocourses are as follows.

support an advanced information foundation

Characteristic Education Methods(a) ‌An advisory committee is organized for each student
to give personalized, close guidance (Doctoral
Program).
(b) ‌Real PBL (Project-Based Learning) is introduced forpractical education.
(c) ‌Collaboration with industries is established for
nurturing leading ICT engineers and introducing
leading-edge technologies to Master Program.
(d) ‌Practical English education is performed by lecturesin English and international PBL.
(e) ‌A long-term Internship program is introduced bycollaboration with industries.
( f ) ‌Lectures and guidance in PBL are given by engineers
who are active at the forefront of industries.

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Courses and Subjects of ISEE(g) ‌Subjects on intellectual property management,
entrepreneuring, and engineering ethics are available
as graduate school common subjects.
(h) Practical‌
education on safety and ethics is performed
in experiments and exercise.
( i ) ‌Collaboration with Graduate School of System Life
Science is established.
( j ) ‌Collaboration with Graduate School of Mathematics
is established to enhance the education onmathematics.
(k) ‌Collaboration with Graduate School of Integrated
Frontier Science is established to explore newinterdisciplinary fields.

Curriculum for Doctoral Course Students
ISEE will organize an advisory committee for eachhis progress periodically and suggests appropriate

doctoral course student. The advisory committee is

directions. The committee also will give some advice on

composed of several faculty members of ISEE andpossible career paths. The curriculum offers chances toother specialists from companies, universities, etc. The

learn intellectual property and teaching skill and joincommittee first designs individual curriculum according

authorized long-term internship.

to the research theme of the student, then checks her/

Research frontierInnovative engineer
Advisory committee

Examination for
doctoral thesis

Long-terminternship

Project-basedlearning

Skill acquisition
on intellectual
property,presentation,and teaching

Support for doctoral
thesis and career

Acquisition ofadvanced
technologies

Surveys andprogress
reports

Social interaction andcareer development

Progress check on
doctoral thesis

Check on research
theme and curriculum

Research theme planand individual
curriculum design

Curriculum for doctoral course students

Courses and Subjects of ISEE51

Curriculum for Master Course Students
subjects in the Kyushu University.)

Practical education systems have been established by(b) Core‌subject: Basic subjects in each department and/emphasizing experiments, exercise, discussion andor courses

course works. Especially, extended subjects have been(c) ‌Advanced subject: Advanced topics based on the

introduced in order to cover interdisciplinary area whichcore subjects

is closely related to each department and/or courses.

(d) Survey‌and discussion: Survey, presentation andStudents should select one extended area and should

discussion related to research works

take classes from the designated extended subjects in(e) ‌Extended subject: Basics in extended elective area

addition to their major field. Minimum required credits
are 45, which is world standard level. Subjects areclosely related to major field of each department and/categorized as follows so as to be able to take courses

or course (Faculty members from other collaborated

in a systematic way.

graduate school and other department will givelectures)(a) ‌Common basic subject: Common subject in the ISEE

( f ) Elective subject(also include designated graduate school common

Dept of Advanced
Information Technology
Dept of Informatics

Mathematical
Science Area

Informatics
Area

Social Information
Systems Engineering
CourseDept of Electrical andElectronic Engineering
Information
Electronics
CourseIntelligent Information
Systems Engineering
CourseAdvanced
SystemInformation
Technology Area Design Area

ElectricalEngineering
CourseandInformation Electrical
System Life
Electronic
Devices Area Engineering Area Science Area

Molecular
SystemDevices Area

Elective area for the extended subjects in each department

Strengthen advanced
knowledge and expertise

Basic achievement
Extended subject

Advanced subject

Collaboration
among faculties

Experiments andexercise

Supportfrom industry

Core subjectof the department

Collaboration among
graduate schools

Common subject in the ISEE/Graduate school common subjects

Knowledge in interdisciplinary area

Curriculum for master course students

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Courses and Subjects of ISEE

Subjects in othergraduate school

Subjects in othergraduate school

Courses and Subjects of ISEE

Courses and Subjects of ISEE

53

Admissions forInternational Students
Admission Requirements of the Applicants for the Master’s
Program
The time of entrance to the Master's Program forinternational students is in April and the selectionis scheduled in August of the previous year and inearly February. Applicants who have either a Japanese
university degree or are expected to graduate from aJapanese university are not eligible for the selection in
February.

Sports, Science, and Technology(8) Persons‌
who entered a graduate school according
to Article 102, Clause 2 of the School Education Act
and have been recognized by the Graduate Schoolof Information Science and Electrical Engineeringas having an adequate academic ability to receive
education in the school(9) Persons‌
who are aged, or scheduled to becomeby the time of admission, 22 years or older andhave been recognized by the Graduate School ofInformation Science and Electrical Engineering,

Applicants have to meet one of the following requirements:(1) ‌Persons who have graduated, or are scheduled tograduate by the time of admission, from a college
or university defined in Article 83 of the School
Education Act(2) ‌Persons who have received, or are scheduled toqualifications for admission, as having the academic
ability at least equivalent to that of a university
graduate(10) Persons‌
who have undergone 15 years of school
education in foreign countries, and have been

receive by the time of admission, a bachelor’s

recognized by the Graduate School of Information

degree as stipulated in Article 104, Clause 4 of the

Science and Electrical Engineering as having

School Education Act (namely those who have been

received the required number of credits withrecognized as qualified to receive a bachelor’s degreeby the National Institution for Academic Degrees andUniversity Evaluation)(3) ‌Persons who have received, or will have received byexcellent results(11) Persons‌
who have undergone 15 years of school
education implemented by a foreign country,
including the completion of a correspondence

the time of admission, 16 years of school education

course program provided by a school of the country

in foreign countries

while living in Japan, and are recognized by the(4) ‌Persons who have undergone, or are scheduled tohave undergone by the time of admission, 16 years of

Graduate School of Engineering as having received
the required credits with excellent results

school education implemented by a foreign country,(12) Persons‌
who have completed an education course

including the completion of a correspondence course

provided by a Japanese educational institution

program provided by a school of the country whilethat has been recognized by the school education

living in Japansystem of a foreign country as the country’s(5) ‌Persons who have completed, or are scheduled toacademic course and designated by the Ministercomplete by the time of admission, an educationof Education, Culture, Sports, Science, andcourse provided by a Japanese educational institution

Technology, by receiving the required number ofthat has been recognized by the school educationcredits with excellent results, provided that thesystem of a foreign country as the country’s academic

persons have received 15 years of the country’s

course and designated by the Minister of Education,school education

Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, provided
that the persons have received 16 years of theNotes

country’s school education○ ‌Applicants wishing to be qualified by any of (8) to (12)of the Qualifications for Application must undergo(6) ‌Persons who have completed, or are scheduled
to complete by the time of admission, a specialist
course provided by a vocational school designated byscreening in advance.

the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science,○ ‌Applicants who have either a Japanese university
degree or are expected to graduate from a Japaneseand Technology (a four-year or longer course that

university must go through a general selection

fulfills the criteria established by the Minister) on the
day specified by the Minister or later(7) ‌Persons who have been designated as qualified
applicants by the Minister of Education, Culture,54

based on an individual screening of applicants’Admissions for International Students

screening process.
○ ‌For more details about the application period,
forms and documents which need to be submitted,
the method of selection, etc., please refer to theGuidances for Applicants or the following website.
http://www.isee.kyushu-u.ac.jp/e/admissions/(7) ‌Persons who have qualifications approved by the
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Scienceand Technology of Japan

Admission Requirements of the Applicants for the Doctoral
Program1) ‌Those who, after graduating from a university

The time of entrance to the Doctoral Program foryears in research at a university or a researchinternational students is in April and October andinstitute, and have been recognized to haveselection is scheduled in late February and late July.

an academic ability equivalent to Master’sor finishing 16 years of academic education
outside of Japan, have engaged for two or moredegree holders. This recognition is given by the

Applicants have to meet one of the following requirements:(1) ‌Persons who hold a Master’s degree or
Professional degree, or who are expected to earn
one by the time of admission.
(2) ‌Persons who hold a degree equivalent to a
Master’s degree or a Professional degree from anaccredited institution outside of Japan, or who are
expected to obtain one by the time of admission.
(3) ‌Persons who have completed their formal
education by taking a correspondence course
through a non-Japanese university while residing
in Japan, and hold a degree equivalent to a
Master’s degree or a Professional degree, or
who are expected to obtain one by the time ofadmission.
(4) ‌Persons who have earned a degree from a
graduate program at an educational institution
in a country outside of Japan, which has beenassessed by the Minister of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan to beequivalent to a graduate program in the education
system of Japan, or who are expected to earn one
by the time of admission.
(5) ‌Persons who completed the course of the United
Nations University, who hold a degree equivalent
to a Master’s degree, or who are expected toobtain it by the time of admission.
(6) ‌Persons who have completed their formal
education by taking a correspondence course
through a non-Japanese university, an educational

Graduate School of Information Science andElectrical Engineering, Kyushu University, on
the basis of his/her previous research.
2) ‌Those who, after finishing 16 years of academic
education through correspondence courses run
by foreign educational establishments, haveengaged for two or more years in research ata university or a research institute and havebeen recognized to have an academic ability
equivalent to Master’s degree holders. This
recognition is given by the Graduate School ofInformation Science and Electrical Engineering,
Kyushu University, on the basis of his/her
previous research.
(8) ‌Persons who are evaluated by an individual
screening of requirements for admission to havean academic ability equal to or surpassing that ofstudents who have graduated from the Master’s orProfessional Program of the Graduate School ofInformation Science and Electrical Engineering,
Kyushu University, and are at least 24 years of
age.

Notes
○ ‌Applicants, who are qualified to 7 or 8 of thementioned above, are advised to contact the
Educational Affairs Section of Kyushu University
in advance.
○ ‌For more details about the application period,
forms and documents which need to be submitted,

institution which received the designation of

the method of selection etc., please refer toArticle 156.3 in Enforcement Regulations for the

the Guidelines for Applicants or the following

School Education Law, or the United Nations

website.

University, who have passed an examination

http://www.isee.kyushu-u.ac.jp/e/admissions/or a screening equivalent to the regulations by
Article 16.2 in Standards for the Establishment

Inquiryof Graduate Schools, and who are recognized to

Educational Affairs Section,

have an academic ability equivalent to Master’s

Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University

degree holders by the Graduate School of744, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, JAPANEngineering.

TEL+81-92-802-2722

Admissions for International Students

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Maps
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Satellite
Communications
Laboratory(IE20)

Research Institute ofSuperconductor Scienceand Systems(North bldg.)(CE51)
Institute ofEnvironmental
Systems

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Research Institute ofSuperconductor Scienceand Systems(South bldg.)(CE50)

Kyudai Kougakubu-mae
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West Lecture Hall

Information Science andElectrical Engineering

Restaurant&Shops
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Kyudai SenpakuKaiyo Jikkento Bus-stop

East Zone

Big Orange↓

Science andTechnology
Library

To JR Kyudai-Gakkentoshi
StationAccess to Ito Campus
From Fukuoka Airport
By Subway + JR + Showa Bus:Fukuoka
Kuko【Airport】Sta. － (Subway Kuko
Line: approx. 25 min.) － Meinohama
Sta. － (JR Chikuhi Line: approx. 10min.) － Kyudai-Gakkentoshi Sta.
－ (Showa Bus bound for Kyudai
Kougakubu-mae:approx. 15 min.) －Kyudai Kougakubu-mae

From Hakata Station
By Subway + JR + Showa Bus: Hakata Sta. － (Subway
Kuko Line: approx. 20 min.) － Meinohama Sta.
－ (JR Chikuhi Line: approx. 10 min.) － KyudaiGakkentoshi Sta. － (Showa Bus bound for Kyudai
Kougakubu-mae:approx. 15 min.) － Kyudai
Kougakubu-mae
By Nishitetsu Bus: Hakata Sta. A [Hakata Exit] －(Nishitetsu Bus [Express] bound for Kyudai Ito
Campus: approx. 55 min.) － Kyudai Kougakubu-mae

From Tenjin
By Subway + JR + Showa Bus: Tenjin Sta. － (Subway
Kuko Line: approx. 13) － Meinohama Sta. －(JR Chikuhi Line: approx. 10 min.) － KyudaiGakkentoshi Sta. － (Showa Bus bound for Kyudai
Kougakubu-mae:approx. 15 min.) － Kyudai
Kougakubu-mae
By Nishitetsu Bus: Tenjin2B [Solaria Stage] － (Nishitetsu
Bus [Express] bound for Kyudai Ito Campus: approx.
43 min.) － Kyudai Kougakubu-mae

HAKOZAKI Campus

Access to Hakozaki Campus
Research Institute for Information Technology

3
Faculty ofAgriculture

From Fukuoka Airport
By Subway (approx. 30 min.): Fukuoka Kuko
【Airport】Sta. － (Subway Kuko Line)
Accessto Hakozaki
Sta.Campus－ Nakasu-Kawabata－ Transfer
to a train bound for Kaizuka (Subway
Hakozaki Line) － Hakozaki-Kyudaimae
Sta.
By Taxi (approx. 20 min.)From JR Hakata Station
By JR railway (approx. 20 min.): JR Hakata
Sta. － (JR Kagoshima Line, northboundtrain) － Hakozaki Sta.
By Subway (approx. 25 min.): Hakata
Sta. － (Subway Kuko Line) － NakasuKawabata Sta. － Transfer to a train boundfor Kaizuka (Subway Hakozaki Line) －Hakozaki-Kyudaimae Sta.
By Taxi (approx. 20 min.)

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MOMOCHI Satellite Campus

Momochi Satellite
Campus in Fukuoka
System LSI
Development Center

Fukuoka Yafuoku!
Dome

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Access to Momochi Satellite Campus
From Fukuoka Airport and
JR Hakata Station
By Subway (approx. 15 min.) + Taxi (approx. 10 min.)
Subway: Fukuoka Kuko【Airport】Sta. (or Hakata Sta.) －(Subway Kuko Line) － Nishijin Sta.

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To Fukuoka

Access to Itoshima Satellite Campus
5

The Queen's Hill
Golf Club

Department/InstituteCampusFrom Fukuoka Airport, JR Hakata Station, and Tenjin
By Subway + JR + Taxi: Fukuoka Kuko【Airport】Sta. (oreither Hakata Sta. or Tenjin Sta.) － (Subway Kuko Line:approx. 25 min.) － Meinohama Sta. － (JR Chikuhi Line:approx. 20 min.) － Chikuzen-maebaru Sta. － Taxi (approx.
10 min.)Building

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Research Institute of Superconductor Science and Systems

Ito

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Research Institute for Information Technology
Center for Japan-Egypt Cooperation in Science and Technology
Center for Plasma Nano-Interface Engineering

Ito, Momochi, Itoshima

West Zone Bldg. Ⅱ (Ito)❶❹❺

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students take part in research and educational activities at the Hakozaki Campus,
since several related departments such as the Research Institute for Information
Technology have not yet moved. The Graduate School / Faculty of Information
Science and Electrical Engineering, the System LSI Research Center, and Center forJapan-Egypt Cooperation in Science and Technology have a satellite campus in the
Momochi area, where IT industries accumulate. The System LSI Research Center
also newly opened a satellite campus in Itoshima area in May 2011 in accordancewith the establishment of Experimental Center for Social System Technologies,
which is managed by Fukuoka Prefecture.

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Ito Campus: 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395

Ofﬁce of the Department of Informatics
Tel: +81-92-802-3801
Ofﬁce of the Department of Advanced Information Technology
Tel: +81-92-802-3601
Ofﬁce of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Tel: +81-92-802-3701
Graduate School / Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
Fax: +81-92-802-3600
Educational ofﬁce of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Tel: +81-92-802-3711 Fax: +81-92-802-3710

Momochi Satellite Campus: Fukuoka Institute of System LSI Design Industry
3F, 3-8-33 Momochihama, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka 814-0001
Satellite Ofﬁce
Tel: +81-92-847-5190

Itoshima Satellite Campus: Experimental Center for Social System
Technologies, 1963-4 Higashi, Itoshima, Fukuoka 819-1122
Satellite Ofﬁce of the System LSI Research Center
Tel: +81-92-332-8006