Faculty Members: Academic Areas and Research Topics
Graduate School of Science and Engineering Major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Kazuo Kuriyama
Professor
Electronic physics engineering
Modifying the electrical characteristics of compound semiconductors with neutrons and ion beams, with a focus on the dimensionality controls of conduction mechanisms and wide bandgap semiconductors’ crystal growth and optical properties; evaluating crystallinity with ion channeling techniques; assessing surface atom arrays and electronic structures with scanning tunneling microscopes and atomic force microscopy; developing technologies to implant ultra-thin, rechargeable lithium batteries on silicone substrates
Toshimichi Saito
Professor
Nonlinear circuits, neural networks, swarm intelligence, power electronics
Nonlinear circuits; neural networks; swarm intelligence; power electronics; analysis of signal processing applications and the behavior of spiking neural networks; phenomenon analysis and behavior optimization of renewable energy supply circuits; synthesizing reconfigurable, multifunctional digital circuits; developing and applying optimizing algorithms for self-organizing particle arrays; synthesizing chaos generator circuits and analyzing bifurcation phenomena; basic research into highly precise analog-digital conversion circuits
Yoshifuru Saito
Professor
Computational electromagnetics, visualized data processing, graphical computational mechanics
Research into data mining by means of electromagnetic field visualization technologies and machine cognition applications
Hisamatsu Nakano
Professor
Electromagnetic radiation communications engineering
Wave motion analysis, analyzing in vivo electromagnetic fields, developing left-handed materials, developing antennas for radio astronomy
Toru Nakamura
Professor
Integrated circuit engineering, semiconductor engineering
Semiconductor device refinement technologies, wide bandgap semiconductor processing technologies, GaN and SiC wide bandgap semiconductors, high-speed and high-power devices
Takao Miura
Professor
Data engineering
Database theory, data mining, machine learning, knowledge acquisition and knowledge processing
Akira Yasuda
Professor
Electronic circuit engineering, control engineering
Research into basic and applied technologies for clustering communications, data processing, interfaces, and other functions on semiconductors; research into basic technologies of digital direct drive method for actuators, such as speakers and motors, as well as packaging technologies using semiconductors
Junji Yamauchi
Professor
Communication transmission engineering, electromagnetic wave transmission engineering
Optical transmission engineering, developing sub-wavelength optical elements, surface wave transmission element applications
Yasuhiro Yamamoto
Professor
Electronic materials engineering, beam applications engineering
Developing formative technologies for thin-film semiconductor and dielectric materials to create devices with new functions
Kazuyuki Ito
Associate professor
Perceptual information processing and intelligent robotics, intelligent mechanics and mechanical systems, systems engineering
Research related to generalizations in reinforcement learning, developing rescue robots with operability taken into account, ecological psychology applications in autonomous robots
Jun Shibayama
Associate professor
Functional element engineering
Terahertz devices, development of sensor devices, highly efficient finite difference time domain method