Faculty Members: Academic Areas and Research Topics
Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences Major in Computer and Information Sciences
Mina Akaishi
Professor
Intellect engineering
Information compilation technology based on story structure; management,
search and visualization techniques for knowledge media; science of historical
knowledge and so forth
Katsunobu Ito
Professor
Speech recognition, multimodal dialogue systems, speech interfaces
Speech recognition, multimodal dialogue systems, speech interfaces, data retrieval
Kaoru Uchida
Professor
Pattern and image recognition and its applications
Applications of pattern and image recognition, biometrics, real-world innovation with information science
Satoshi Obana
Professor
Encryption, information security
Encrypting protocols, including secret sharing schemes and secure evaluation
Takafumi Koike
Professor
3D imaging technology, computer graphics, augmented reality
Real world-oriented media, optical information processing, physical computing,
real-time rendering, computational photography
Katsumi Konishi
Professor
Data-driven modeling, sparse optimization
sparse modeling, compressed sensing, system identification, modeling
Akira Sasaki
Professor
Programming language processing systems, domain-specific languages, attribute grammar
Programming language processing system implementation technologies and theory
Yuji Sato
Professor
Evolutionary computation, machine learning
Applied evolutionary computation research focused on genetic algorithms, applying dynamic problems in software computing
Yasunari Zempo
Professor
Computational materials science and computation method development, developing and applying large parallel computation technologies
Optical properties in conjugated polymers
Hiroshi Hanaizumi
Professor
Image processing and recognition, remote sensing, image measurement
Remote sensing, image processing for medical purposes, facial recognition
Soichiro HIDAKA
Professor
Programming languages, Infrastructure software
Programming languages, Program transformation, Bidirectional transformations and their applications to model driven engineering
Toshio Hirotsu
Professor
Internet, operating systems, ubiquitous computing
Dynamic relay control mechanisms for distributed virtual routers
Runhe Huang
Professor
Artificial intelligence, mobile computing, ubiquitous systems software
Research into innovative search robot brains, refrigerator (IT appliance) systems for health and preferences, supermarket product database systems
Satoru Fujita
Professor
High speed XML processing, Web services, service-oriented software
Service strategy modeling, social simulation analyses, basic technologies for implementing the XML and Web services that sustain the service industry-centered society
Hiroshi Hosobe
Professor
User interface, information visualization, computer graphics, constraint programming
Constructing methods for visual and interactive systems using a mathematical approach
Jianhua Ma
Professor
Ubiquitous network and computing, smart object, space and service, autonomic and trusted system
Ubiquitous networking and communication
Shuichi Yukita
Professor
Visualization of geometrical and abstract mathematical concepts
Using diagrams and other methods to visualize abstract concepts
Yamin Li
Professor
Computer architectures, parallel and distributed systems, mobile ad hoc networks
Metacube—a new interconnection network, efficient broadcast algorithms on mobile ad hoc network
Toru Wakahara
Professor
Character and image recognition, pattern recognition
Cursive script recognition, recognizing color characters against background scenery, facial recognition, fingerprint matching, gesture recognition, human interaction
Kensuke Aishima
Associate professor
Numerical analysis
Numerical analysis, high performance computing, data analysis
Yuichi Sudo
Associate professor
Theoretical Computer Science
distributed computing theory, population protocols, mobile agents