Degree Programs in Systems and Information Engineering
Graduate School of Science and Technology
Faculty member list （Master’s programs）
Master's Program in Computer Science
Field of Research

Faculty

Information
Mathematics andModeling

KAWABE Tohru

Detailed Description of Research Field

Control design: Theory and applied research in Biologically
InspiredTechnology,

Computational

Intelligencebased

Control, Robust Control, etc.
KUNO Takahito

Mathematical optimization: Numerical algorithms for
globally solving nonconvex optimization problems.

SAKURAI Tetsuya

Computational Mathematics, Numerical Mathematics for
Computers, Parallel Computing Algorithms forSupercomputers, Algorithms for Large-scale Data
Analysis, Computational Science, Mathematical Software.

TOKUNAGA Ryuji

Chaos, fractals and bifurcation theory. Computer amusement
oriented elementary technologies.

AIHARA Ikkyu

Mathematical modeling of animal behavior and its
applications: Nonlinear dynamics, Field recordings ofanimal calls, Sensor networks.

IMAKURA Akira

Numerical analysis: Numerical algorithms for solving linearsystems and eigenvalue problems.

CAI Dong Sheng

Multimedia using artificial life theory. High performancecomputing and parallel computing for space simulation.
Imaging using chaos and fractals.

SANO YoshioDiscrete Mathematics, Graph Theory, Combinatorics

HIRATA Yoshito

Nonlinear time series analysis: theory and its applications.

【TOKUDA Keita】

Dynamical systems, Neural networks, Chaos, Machinelearning, Learning and memory, Hippocampus, Biomarker,
Central nervous system disease.

【FUTAMURA Yasunori】

Numerical analysis, High performance parallel algorithm,
Parallel solver for large-scale linear systems and eigenvalue
problems, Parallel numerical software.

【MORIKUNI Keiichi】

Numerical linear algebra, large sparse matrix computations,preconditioning algorithms for Krylov subspace methods,
least squares problems, singular linear systems.

【BAKKU Ranjith Kumar】

Bioinformatics

approaches

Mass-Spectrometry,

BiologicalforOmics
networks,

dataandBiochemical

regulatory mechanisms a nd Computational Functional
genomics
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Field of ResearchIntelligent
SoftwareFaculty
OHYA Akihisa

Detailed Description of Research Field

Intelligent robots and sensing: Mobile robots working inhumans’ daily life environment, real world sensory
information processing, networked robotics, cooperative
multiple mobile robots.

KAMEYAMA Yukiyoshi

Programming languages and symbolic logic: type system,
metaprogramming, programming logic, program verification.

SHIZUKI Buntarou

Human-computer interaction: Visual programming andinteraction techniques for end users.

MISUE Kazuo

Information visualization: visual interface, visual analytics,
network visualization, graph drawing.

UNNO Hiroshi

Program verification : model checking, type systems,
program analysis, automated theorem proving.

TAKAHASHI ShinUser interface software, Ubiquitous computing,Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW).

【MIZUTANI Tetsuya】

Program theory and musical informatics: Logicalfoundation of verification and analysis of realtime
intellectual program systems and musical information.

【VASILACHE Simona】

Software engineering, software development process, human
computer interaction; intercultural communication, global
software engineering【KAWAGUCHI Ikkaku】

Human Computer Interaction, Remote Communication
Support, Communication Robot.

【YOROZU Ayanori】

Intelligent robot for human-harmonious collaboration, Task
and motion planning, Human and environmental sensing,
Field robotics.

Software System

AMAGASA Toshiyuki

Database system, data engineering: XML/RDF Database,social media, and scientific database.

KATO Kazuhiko

System software: Distributed system, cloud computing,operating system, cyber-physical system, software security

ABE Hirotake

System Software, Distributed Systems, Computer Security,
Computer Network.

OYAMA Yoshihiro

Computer security, system software, operating systems,virtualization.

OKA Mizuki

Social Media Analysis, Web Science, Artificial Life.

SHINJO Yasushi

Operating systems, distributed systems, virtualization,
privacy protection, decentralized social networkingservices.

SHIOKAWA Hiroaki

HASEBE Koji

Database systems and data engineering

Multi-agent systems: Game theory, Mathematical logic,
Formal methods, Autonomous distributed systems.
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Software System

Faculty
MAEDA Atusi

Detailed Description of Research Field

Implementation of programming languages, garbage
collection, runtime system, resource management.

MACHIDA Fumio

System dependability, dependability evaluation, stochastic
models, system design optimization.

【CHEN Hanxiong】

Database system, knowledge-base system, e-education,
information retrieval, knowledge discovery and data mining.

【TSUGAWA Sho】

Network mining, Social network analysis, Computationalsocial science【HAYASE Yasuhiro】

Software Engineering : Program comprehension, software
repository mining, software maintenance.

【HORIE Kazumasa】

Machine Learning, Neural Network, Pattern Recognition,
Biological Signal Processing.

ComputerArchitectureTAKAHASHI Daisuke

High-performance computing: High-performance
numerical algorithms on parallel computers andperformance evaluation.

TATEBE Osamu

Parallel and distributed system software, data-intensivecomputing, and high performance computing.

NUKADA Akira

High Performance Computing, Performance Optimization,
GPU Computing

BOKU Taisuke

Massively parallel and high performance computing systems:
Massively parallel computer architecture, cluster computing
and its system software, high performance computing system
including GPU/FPGA accelerators.

YASUNAGA Moritoshi

VLSI engineering: VLSI design and implementation ofparallel and distributed systems and evolutionary systems.

KIMURA Shigetomo

Information communication engineering: Process algebra,
network protocols and performance evaluation ofcommunication systems.

SATO Akira

Design and operation technology for academic network
systems, information systems and computing systems.

SHOUNO Kazuhiro

Analog integrated circuit and circuit theory: Highlylinearized CMOS transconductors and complex filters.

YAMAGIWA Shinichi

Algorithms,

Software/Hardware

andApplicationsofEmbedded System, Data Compression, Distributed System,
Computer Architecture and Sports Engineering
YAMAGUCHI Yoshiki

Reconfigurable architecture, computing, and highly
efficient systems with high performance and low-power
consumption applied to AI, encryption, IoT, and scientificapplications.

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Field of Research

ComputerArchitecture

Faculty【TOMIYASU Hiroshi】

Detailed Description of Research Field

Making better use of significantly progressing
microprosessors for parallel computer architecture after Ageof vector supercomputers and massively parallel
computers.

【KANAZAWA Kenji】

VLSI Engineering, Reconfigurable computing, Accelerator for
hard computation problems using reconfigurable LSI.

【KOBAYASHI Ryohei】

FPGA applications, Reconfigurable Computing System,
High-speed RTL Simulation.

【SANNOMIYA Shuji】

Autonomous, parallel, and distributed processor
architecture: Research on data-driven chip-multi-processor
based on self-timed elastic pipeline.

【TADANO Hiroto】

Numerical analysis: Numerical algorithms for large scalelinear systems. Parallel computing for eigenvalue problems.

【FUJITA Norihisa】

High Performance Computing, Accelerator, GPU Computing,
Reconfigurable Computing, High Performance Interconnection

MediaEngineering

KAMEYAMA Keisuke

Learning, adaptive information processing, signal / image
encoding, and applications to retrieval and restoration.

KUDO Hiroyuki

Image processing and medical imaging : Image and video
processing, imaging science, medical imaging (CT,PET,MRI)
and computer-aided diagnosis, intelligent image sensing,music and sound processing, mathematics of inverseproblems.

○MAKINO Shoji

Acoustic signal processing, Music signal processing,Computational auditory scene analysis: Blind source
separation, Acoustic echo cancellation, Segregation,processing, synthesis, 3D reproduction, and retrieval ofmusic, Technical realization of the cocktail party effect.

MITANI Jun

CG and CAD : Geometric modeling, Human computerinterface, Computational origami.

KANAMORI Yoshihiro

Computer graphics (CG), rendering, deep learning, image
editing techniques, CG applications for industry

SUZUKI Taizo

Multi-perception

media

processing:

Signalprocessing,image/video processing, compression, perceptual encryption,
information

hiding,sparserepresentation,banks/wavelets.
TAKIZAWA Hotaka

Intelligent image processing: medical image recognition,
computer-aided diagnosis, computer vision, 3-D object
recognition.

4filterField of ResearchMediaEngineering

Faculty
YAMADA Takeshi

Detailed Description of Research Field

Speech and acoustic information processing: speech
recognition, sound scene understanding, multi-channel
signal processing, media quality assessment, ande-learning.

【AOTO Takahito】【ENDO Yuki】

Computational Photography, Computer Vision

Computer graphics, image synthesis and editing techniques,
image recognition, data mining, machine learning, deeplearning

Intelligent
SystemKUNIHIRO Noboru

Cryptography, Information Security, Quantum Computation,
Cryptanalysis, Cryptographic Protocol.

SAKAI Ko

Computational vision: representation of shape, perception of3D

structure,

figure-ground

segregation,

corticalrepresentation, cognitive neuroscience, and psychophysics.
SAKUMA Jun

Security and Privacy for Artificial Intelligence: Machine
Learning,

Artificial

Intelligence,DataPrivacy,Applied

Cryptography.
FUKUI Kazuhiro

Pattern recognition and computer vision: Face recognition,
3D object recognition, human sensing, robot vision.

YAMAMOTO Mikio

Natural Language Processing on the Web using statisticalmethods: Statistical machine translation and Web

AKIMOTO Yohei

IGARASHI Yasuhiko

INUI Takashi

documents processing such as sentiment analysis.
Black Box Optimization and its Applications: probabilistic
model based optimization, evolutionary computation, hyperparameter optimization in machine learning, reinforcement
learning, application of information geometry to algorithm
design.
Machine learning, Multivariate analysis, Sparse modeling,
Data-driven science, Measurement informatics, Materials
informatics

Natural Language Processing: Information extraction andknowledge acquisition from natural language data, opinion
mining, and sentiment analysis.

BABA Yukino

Human computation, Crowdsourcing, Collective intelligence,
Machine learning, Data mining.

【ARANHA Claus】

Research
Programon

Evolutionary

Generation,Agents and Artificial Life.

5Computation:

ProceduralOptimization,Generation,Intelligent

Field of ResearchIntelligent
SystemProfessorsof Cooperative
Graduate School

Faculty【IIZUKA Satoshi】

Detailed Description of Research Field

Computer graphics, image processing, image editing,computer vision, machine learning【FUKUCHI Kazuto】

Mathematical statistics and machine learning: statisticalinference, statistical learning, fairness and privacy in machinelearning, data mining【YE Xiucai】

Feature selection for high dimensional data, Clustering,
Machine learning, Data analysis, Classification, Networkcomputing.

INO Shuichi

Human machine interface, soft actuator technology,(National Institute ofinformation accessibility, haptic interface design,

Advanced Industrial

healthcare and quality of life technology, rehabilitation

Science andengineering.

Technology)
SATO Mitsuhisa

High-performance parallel computing systems : Cluster(Institute of Physicalcomputing, parallel programming systems such a OpenMPand Chemicaland HPF, benchmarking and performance evaluation ofResearch (RIKEN))

parallel computing systems, parallel and distributed
computing on Grid

SATOH Yutaka

Ubiquitous vision, Robot vision, Stereo omnidirectional(National Institute ofsystem (SOS).

Advanced Industrial
Science andTechnology)
NAKADA Hidemoto

Parallel computing, distributed computing, grid, cloud,(National Institute ofmachine learning.

Advanced Industrial
Science andTechnology)
TANIMURA Yusuke

Parallel and distributed storage. Large-scale data

(National Institute ofprocessing.

Advanced Industrial

Cloud computing. Grid computing. E-science applications.

Science andTechnology)
NAKATA Ayako

Application of Computational Mathematics and Machine(National Institute forLearning to Materials Science (Quantum chemistry,Materials Science)First-principles simulation).

○: Appointed until 31 March 2022
(Note)
Applicants cannot choose faculty members written in square brackets as a prospective supervisor directly, but, can choose them withthe cooperation of faculty members who are not written in square brackets.
Applicants have to contact a prospective supervisor (a faculty member from whom you wish to receive academic instruction) and obtainhis/her consent to your application in advance.

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