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C-AIR

The C-AIR is composed of the “Artificial Intelligence

Institute for Integrated Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS) and theInfrastructure Research Division” and the “Project ResearchCenter for Computational Science Research. We are also

The University of Tsukuba has established the Center

Division.”developing Digital-Bio research through integrating

for Artificial Intelligence Research (C-AIR) to foster

In the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Research Division,

biological science and digital/AI technology with thegroundbreaking research projects in the field of

we conduct basic research on fundamental fields of AI,

Tsukuba Digital-Bio International Center, research on

Artificial Intelligence.

such as machine learning, mathematical algorithms,

innovative Cybernic Systems in cooperation with the Center

This center works as a hub for Interdisciplinary

quantum system information, big data analysis, cloudfor Cybernics Research, and research on the next-

Research, fostering cooperation between different

infrastructure, and privacy protection. In addition to these,

generation sequencer, along with a functional prediction of

departments in the university, centered around thewe also conduct research on fundamental technologies thatcandidate substances using chemical screening inapplication of interdisciplinary Big Data.

support the application of Service Engineering and Human

collaboration with the Precision Medicine Development

Technology.

Research Center.

In particular, the center promotes the research of

The Project Research Division is divided into four fields:

In the “Society and Arts” field, we collaborate with the R&D“Human-supporting Artificial Intelligence” for the“Health Care and Sports,” “Medical and Material,” “Society

Center for Frontiers of MIRAI in Policy and Technology andrealization of the next generation smart communities.

and Arts,” and “Mobility.” Researchers from othermunicipal governments on the research of regional

To this end, C-AIR forms a spiral from basic scientificdepartments and projects in Tsukuba University and otherinfrastructure and basic research on the social engineeringresearch to practical and industrial applications,

Research Institutions coordinate and collaborate withof future societies. Also, we accelerate research andwhich is achieved through the collaboration with various

researchers from the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructuredevelopment on fundamental technologies for “Green

research institutes and companies.

Research Division in application-oriented research projects.

Innovation” by leveraging AI technology with the R&D

The field of “Health Care and Sports” promotes research inCenter for Zero CO2 Emission with Functional Materials.

these fields using health and medical care data held byUsing data analysis and artistic approaches, we perform

municipalities, developing projects for the use of AI in data

research work on design, service engineering, and theanalysis of regional medical care, comprehensive care, anddevelopment of future agricultural industries.

Me s s a g e f ro m t h e Dire c t o rservices. Working in cooperation with the Human HighIn the “Mobility” field, we investigate technologies for

Performance Research Center, this field also performs

developing self-driving cars and advanced driving support

The Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (C-AIR) was

research on state-of-the-art sports measurement and datatechnology, based on driver and pedestrian movementfounded in April, 2017. Because modern research invisualization technology and virtual reality.

analysis and risk assessment. This also includes

In the “Medical and Materials” field, we are developing aapplications of these technologies in various fields such assystem for automatic sleep stage determination using

drone systems and the Naval fields.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires the collaboration ofdifferent fields, and leads to diverse applications in society,machine learning in collaboration with the International

it was necessary for the university to construct a structure
to facilitate cross-disciplinary research and education

Director

activities.
At this center, we employ the interdisciplinary nature of our

Tetsuya Sakurai

university to assemble a network of research centers andDirector of Center for Artificial

research projects from different fields, conducting basic andapplied research on AI.
We also actively pursue industry-university collaboration
initiatives in order to allow the AI technology developed onIntelligence Research,
Univerisity of Tsukuba

Division of Fundamental Research in AI
Board Committee
Steering Council

Deputy Director
Division Leader

Computational Algorithms
Machine Learning

Big Data and Crowdsourcing
Privacy and Security

Service Engineering
Human Technology

campus to provide concrete benefits to society.

Quantum System Information

It is also an important task to foster new human resources

Division of Applied Researchcapable of developing AI and advanced knowledge of data
analysis and putting it into practical applications. In thissense, we plan to develop activities that contribute toimproving the research skills of researchers at companies
and other members of society.

Division Leader

Health Care and Sports
Medical and Materials
Society and Arts
Mobility

Project Promotion Office
Health Careand Sports
Medical andMaterials

Society andArts
Mobility
Applied AI

Company Labs.

● Health and Wellness● Regional Medical and Nursing Care
● Aging Care Research● Human High Performance● Sports Innovation● Tsukuba Digital-Bio● Cybernics● Sleep Medicine● Precision Medicine● Chemical Library Screening● Zero CO� Emission with Functional

Materials● Cities and Mobility, and Future● Social Infrastructure● Service Engineering● Plant Innovation● Open Science● Media-Art● Human Machine Interface● Mobility Support for Elderly and

People with Disabilities

Campus, Oﬀ-Campus Collaborative
Research
Academic-Industrial Cooperative
Research

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Me m be r s / La bor a tor ie s

The University of Tsukuba opened the Center for Artificial

Sleep Medical Science, the Center for Computational Science,Intelligence Research (C-AIR) in April 2017 to promote

the R&D Center for Frontiers of MIRAI in Policy andadvanced research and education on AI. This center supports

Technology, the Precision Medicine Development Researchand organizes the activities and collaborations between AI

Center, the Tsukuba Digital-Bio International Center, and theresearch groups from different fields in the University,

R&D Center for Zero CO2 Emission with Functional Materials,

promoting the interdisciplinarity that is key to the University ofamong others, we aim to explore new areas of research

Tsukuba’ s research vision. In this sense, this center will work

related to the theme “Human-supporting Artificial Intelligence.”

as a hub to mediate the cross-sectoral network of Research

Our work draws a spiral of projects that begin at basic scientificCenters and AI research projects within the University of

research and reach to applied and industrial research,

Tsukuba.

contributing to the creation of new values and the realization of

In particular, through collaboration with the Center for

the future super smart society.

Cybernics Research, the International Center for Integrated

Division of Fundamental Researchin Artificial Intelligence

MachineLearning

Center for
Computational
Sciences

Quantum
SystemInformation

Numerical
Algorithms

Healthcare
Supercomputers

Human
Technology

SecuritySociety

Medical Material
Sciences

SportsAdvancement of the“Human-supportingAI” research towards
Society 5.0

ServiceEngineering

Big Data

Arts

Division of Applied Research

Division of Fundamental Research in Artificial IntelligenceSpecialty on Numerical Algorithms
Tetsuya Sakurai

Shigeru Saito

Director of Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Visiting Professor / SIGNATE Inc.

Area of Expertise

Area of ExpertiseComputational Mathematics

Wisdom of Crowds, System Life Science

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to ResearchHigh performance algorithms, Data analysis, Image
analysis, Neural network computation

Open innovation, Machine learning, OMICs data analysis

Akira Imakura

Akira Terui

Associate Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Associate Professor /Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Numerical analysis

Computer Algebra, Symbolic Computation

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Matrix computations, Matrix factorization-based algorithms
for deep neural network computation

Computer algebra, Symbolic-numeric computation,
Automated deduction

Big Data and Collaboration
Living/Health

Cutting Edge Medicine,Material Science

Future Society

Kenkou Cloud

International
Institute forIntegrative
Sleep Medicine

Future Service
DesignAdvanced
Research
Initiative for
Human High
Performance

Center for
Cybernics
Research

R&D Center for
Health Services

R&D Center forSportsInnovation

R&D Center for
Precision
Medicine

FutureAgriculture

Tsukuba
Digital-Bio
International
CenterChemical
Library
Screening

R&D Center forOpen Science
Frontiers of
MIRAI in Policy Media and Arts
and Technology

R&D Center for
Zero CO2
Emission with
Functional
Materials

Data-based
Service● Collaboration with local National ResearchInstitutes (NIMS, AIST, NIED, etc)

● Collaboration with TIA● Collaboration with the AI center of AIST

● Collaboration with the Advanced Intelligence Project at RIKEN

Development of a base for Big Data utilization

Use of the Tsukuba Area as an Empirical Model City

Development of AI technologies employing thepower of Supercomputing

Development of New Human Resources for AI and
Data Analysis

Using the Interdisciplinary Character of our university, we will build a
Big Data Utilization base through a network with each research center.

Through collaboration with our university's Center for Computational
Sciences, we will develop large-scale data analysis tools for Artificial
Intelligence.

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Xiucai Ye
Associate Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Parallel Numerical Algorithm

Machine Learning

Keywords Related to Research
Dimensionality reduction, High performance parallel algorithm,
Parallel solver for eigenvalue problems, Parallel numerical software

Keywords Related to Research
Feature selection, Data analysis, Clustering, Classification, Network computing

Engineering
Mobility

Implementation of the “Super Smart Community” with Tsukuba Area as a model City
● Collaboration with Industry

Yasunori Futamura
Associate Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Keiichi Morikuni

Tomoki Mihara

Assistant Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Assistant Professor /Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Numerical Linear Algebra

Number Theory

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Least Squares Problem, Singular System, Preconditioning,
Krylov Subspace Method, Eigenproblem

p-adic analysis, p-adic geometry, p-adic representation

Application of new technologies in Tsukuba as an Empirical Model City throughthe collaborative network with national research institutes and enterprises.

Develop new human resources capable of deploying high level knowledge ofAI and data analysis technologies to real world applications. We conduct
education through research activities to members of society in industries, etc.

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Kazuhiro Fukui

Specialty on Big Data / Crowdsourcing
Taro Tezuka

Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Toshiyuki Amagasa

Atsuyuki Morishima

Professor / Center for Computational Sciences

Professor /Institute of Library, Information and Media Science

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Computer Vision

Machine Learning, Database

Database, Data Engineering

Database Systems

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Kernel methods, Computational neuroscience

Big data, Data mining, Semi-structured data

Crowdsourcing systems, Crowdsourcing applications,
Human computation, Query processing

Takumi Kobayashi

Satoshi Iizuka

Hiroaki Shiokawa

Kazumasa Horie

Professor (Cooperative Graduate School Program) /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Associate Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Associate Professor / Center for Computational Sciences

Assistant Professor / Center for Computational Sciences

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning

Computer graphics, Computer vision, Machine learning

Data Engineering, Database System

Machine Learning, Biological Signal Processing

Subspace methods, Mutual subspace method, Object recognition,
Face image analysis, Time series analysis, Motion analysis

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Feature Extraction, Feature Representation Learning, Image Recognition,
Deep Learning, Sensor Data Analysis

Image processing and generation, Image recognition, Deep learning

Big data processing, Data mining, Graph data management

Neural networks, Deep Learning, Electroencephalogram, Electromyogram

Claus Aranha

Ryotaro Sakamoto

Bou Savong

Hiroyoshi Ito

Assistant Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Assistant Professor /Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences

Assistant Professor / Center for Computational Sciences

Assistant Professor /Institute of Library, Information and Media Science

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Theory and Application of Evolutionary Algorithms,
Modeling and Program Generation

Number Theory

Data Engineering, Database System

Data mining, Machine learning

Keywords Related to Research

Iwasawa Theory, Selmer group, L-function

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Big data processing, Data mining, Data stream processing・analytics

Keywords Related to ResearchTime-series data analysis, Social network mining, Human-AI collaboration

Evolutionary algorithms, Swarm intelligence, Artificial life

Specialty on Security / Privacy
Kazumasa Omote

Youhei Akimoto

Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Associate Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Information Security

Black-Box Optimization

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Malware countermeasure, Cloud security, Risk assessment for cyber attacks

Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning, Markov Chain Analysis

Kazuto Fukuchi
Assistant Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Area of Expertise
Mathematical statistics and machine learning

Keywords Related to Research
Statistical inference, Machine learning, Fairness, Privacy

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Specialty on Service Engineering

Specialty on Quantum System Information

Yukihiko Okada

Akiko Yoshise

Noboru Kunihiro

Yasuhiro Tokura

Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Professor / Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Area of ExpertiseJapan’ s Service Development Theory

Mathematical Optimization, Operations Research

Cryptography, Quantum Computation

Condensed matter physics, Quantum Information

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Conic optimization, Algorithms, Optimization models

Cryptanalysis, Quantum Algorithm, Information Security

Keywords Related to ResearchService target costing, Data-driven service engineering,
Applied statistics

Hiroyasu Ando

Tuan Phung-Duc

Yutaka Shikano

Visiting Professor / Tohoku University

Associate Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Complex Networked Systems

Applied Stochastic Process

Quantum Information Science, Theoretical Physics

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Mathematical modeling, Dynamics analysis, Data science

Modelling and performance analysis of services and information
systems, Stochastic models, Queueing theory

Semiconductor qubit, Quantum network, Non-equilibrium statistical physics

Quantum Metrology, Quantum Measurement, Quantum Randomness,
Fundamental Physics Search

Division of Applied Research
Yuichi Takano

Kyosuke Yamamoto

Associate Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Associate Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Operations Research

Civil Engineering

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Mathematical Optimization, Financial Engineering, Machine Learning

Bridge Maintenance, Structure Design

Specialty on Healthcare and Sports
Shinya Kuno

Tsuyoshi Matsumoto

Professor / Institute of Health and Sport Sciences

Associate Professor /Institute of Health and Sport Sciences

Area of Expertise

Area of ExpertiseSport Medicine, Health promotion, Health policy

Sport Coaching

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Health promotion for the middle-aged and elderly, Health policy in community and workplace,Sport, Coaching, Tactics, Strategy

Prevention of lifestyle-related diseases and nursing care,
Prevention of sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity

Specialty on Human Technology
Kenji Suzuki

Yasushi Nakauchi

Vice Director, Professor / Center for Cybernics Research,Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Intelligent Environments

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Cybernics, Medicine and healthcare, Assistive technologies

IoT, Sensor network, Big data analysis

Etsuko T. Harada

Nanako Tamiya

Professor / Institute of Human Sciences

Director, Professor /R&D Center for Health Services, Institute of Medicine

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Engineering

Medicine, Medical and Health Services Research

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Human-artifact interaction, Cognitive aging

Health services research, Research based on medical & long-term care claim data, Outcome
research, Public health, Long-term care insurance system, The integrated community-caresystem, Evaluation of quality of medical treatment, Nursing and social welfare services

Hajime Nobuhara

Naoto Ienaga

Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Assistant Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Area of Expertise

Area of ExpertiseComputational Intelligence

Machine learning, Computer vision

Keywords Related to Research

Computational intelligence, Multi-media processing,Web intelligence, Drone

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Keywords Related to Research

Deep learning, Fisheries, Occupational therapy

Li-Chen Fu

Bogdanova Anna

Visiting Professor / National Taiwan University

Assistant Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Smart Healthcare, Intelligent Robotics, AR/VR, Visual Application, Control

Machine Learning

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to ResearchSocially Assisted Robots, Elderly Care, Visual Detection, AR for Metaverse, UAV

Distributed Data Analysis, Federated Learning, Explainability, Natural
Language Processing

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Specialty on Medical and Material Sciences
Taka-Aki Sato

Masashi Yanagisawa

Kou Miyake

Nii O. Attoh-Okine

Director, Professor / R&D Center for Precision Medicine

Director, Professor / International Institute for Integrative
Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS)

Visiting Professor / NTT Data Intellilink Corp.

Visiting Professor / University of Maryland, College Park

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Molecular Oncology

Sleep Biomedicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology

Cybersecurity, IT System Architecture

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Resilience, Cyber Security in Critical Infrastructure,
Graphical Probability Models and Railway Engineering

Keywords Related to Research

Oncogene, Tumor suppressor gene, Liquid biopsy, Metabolome analysis

Yoshiyuki Sankai

Executive Research Director, Director, Professor / Center for
Cybernics Research, R&D Center for Frontiers of MIRAI in Policy andTechnology, Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Sleep / Wake, Electroencephalography, Polysomnography

Cybersecurity Architecture and related leading-edge technology, Risk
Management, Security Management, National Security

Keywords Related to Research

Hitoshi Imaoka

Toshiaki Uchiyama

Visiting Professor / NEC Corporation

Associate Professor / Institute of Art and Design

Graphical Probability Models, Railway Track Engineering, Blockchain Technology,
Bayesian Networks, Neural Networks

Masahide ItohDirector, Professor / R&D Center for Innovative Material
Characterization, Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Cybernics, HOJO-brain, Artificial Intelligence; AI, Artificial brain, Cybernic kernel

Applied optics

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Biometrics, Pattern Recognition

Design Science

Cybernics, Robotic treatment device, Bio robotics, Neuro-machine interface

Optical information processing, High-precision interferometric measurement,
Optical wavefront measurement

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Kazuya Morikawa

Larry Nagahara

Professor / Institute of Medicine

Visiting Professor / Johns Hopkins University

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Bacteriology

Face Recognition, Medical Image Processing, Machine Learning

Design Science

Yoichi Ochiai

Hiroko Terasawa

Nanotechnology, Sensors, Scanning Probe Microscopy

Associate Professor /Institute of Library, Information and Media Science

Associate Professor /Institute of Library, Information and Media Science

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to ResearchGram-positive pathogens, Staphylococcus

Nanosensors, Nanobiotechnology, Internet of Things

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

CGH, HCI, VR, Visual Auditory Tactile Display, Digital Fabrication

Acoustics, Computer Music, and Sound Design

Chii-Wann Lin

Haruka Ozaki

Visiting Professor / National Taiwan University

Associate Professor / Institute of Medicine

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Bio-electronics, Optical Biosensor, Medical Devices

Bioinformatics, Computational Biology

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Neuromodulation, Plasmonics, Bio-signal Analysis

Single-cell omics data analyses, Multi-omics data analyses, HTS, Epigenomics,
Biological sequence analysis

Takaho Tsuchiya
Assistant Professor / Institute of Medicine

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

CGH, HCI, VR

Sound synthesis, Data sonification, Sonic interaction, Musical emotion,
and Timbre perception

Specialty on Mobility
Makoto ItohYoshinari Kameda

Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Professor / Center for Computational Sciences

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Human Factors

Computational Media

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Human-Machine Systems, Automation, Automated Driving

Computer vision, Mixed reality, Virtual reality, Augmented reality

Area of Expertise
Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology

Keywords Related to ResearchSingle cell omics data analysis, Sparse modeling, System identification

Yuichi Saito
Assistant Professor /Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Specialty on Society and Arts

Area of Expertise

Hiroshi Ezura

Naoya Fukuda

Professor / Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences

Professor / Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences,
Tsukuba-Plant Innovation Research Center

Area of Expertise

Area of Expertise

Horticulture, Plant Molecular Breeding

Protected Horticulture

Keywords Related to Research

Keywords Related to Research

Tomato, Melon, Genetics and breeding, Plant biotechnology,
Genetic transformation, Genome editing

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Human-machine systems, Cognitive engineering, Human interaction

Keywords Related to Research
Automated driving, Driver assistance, Shared control,
Analysis of drive recorder data

Greenhouse management, Plant physiology, ICT for agriculture11