Faculty Members: Academic Areas and Research Topics
System Control Track
Sadanori Okamura
Professor
Galactic astronomy, observational cosmology
Galaxy and galaxy cluster structures and evolution in various environments
Takashi Kasuga
Professor
Radio astronomy, developing highly sensitive electromagnetic wave detection technologies
Highly sensitive millimeter wave and sub-millimeter wave reception, optical interference technologies, developing satellite instrumentation devices
Kazuyuki Kobayashi
Professor
Sensing engineering, sensor signal processing
Environmental recognition in outdoor environments, autonomous driving
Shuichi Sato
Professor
Gravitational wave physics, relativity theory experiments
Laser interferometry, precise ranging, gravitational wave physics, quantum optics
Isamu Shioya
Professor
Graph grammar, time series processing, artificial intelligence
Cooperative actions of multiagents
Makoto Takizawa
Professor
Information engineering
Research on credibility in P2P networks, research on eco-decentralized systems, research on group communication protocols
Tetsuo Tamai
Professor
Software engineering
Requirement analysis of software, formal methods and modeling technology, the evolution of objects
Rebecca Fukuzawa
Professor
Cultural anthropology, educational sociology
Educational and social strata
Yasuyoshi Horibata
Professor
Simulation engineering, numerical analysis, computational physics
Modeling of temperature distribution using observation data of single Doppler radar
Yukari Matsuo
Professor
Laser spectroscopy, atomic and molecular physics, quantum electronics
Precision laser spectroscopy in atomic and molecular physics and nuclear applications
Keiichi Yamada
Professor
Hydrology, disaster preparedness engineering
Interactions between underground and surface water, reconstructions of paleocurrents of diluvial plateaus and underground water flows, human behavior during disasters and estimating to what extent damage can be mitigated
Kajiro Watanabe
Professor
Controls engineering, diagnosing abnormalities, sensor engineering
Cell-phone handset applications, ubiquitous medical care, autonomous vehicles, bipedal walking robots, restraint-free, noninvasive sleep monitors
Management Science Track
Ryuichi Ito
Professor
Clinical psychology, industrial psychology
Research on personality using the projection method, etc.
Tadashi Uratani
Professor
Financial engineering
Research into economic risks using probability theory and computers. This will enable the acquisition of capabilities for creating new financial products embodying new ideas when entering the financial industry.
Toshiyuki Katsura
Professor
Coding theory, positive characteristics’ algebraic variety
Algebraic geometry, coding theory
Yutaka Kato
Professor
Probability theory, operations research
AHP estimation methods and the error structures of pairwise comparison matrices
Mitsuhiro Kimura
Professor
Reliability engineering, quality control engineering
Research into assessments of software test completion percentages, research into detecting variance points of defect ratios in product population manufacturing processes
Hiroyuki Goto
Professor
Operations research, high-performance computing
Optimal control of discrete event systems and its application to scheduling problems; efficient ways of calculating feature points, quantities and areas from spatiotemporal data
Kaoru Suzuki
Professor
Ergonomics
Improvement and evaluation of input devices for personal computers, strain assessment based on the physiological index, various sensor-related aspects, etc.
Yoichi Nakamura
Professor
Economic engineering
Empirical and applied economics, system of national accounts
Kenji Nagasaka
Professor
Mathematical sciences, data security, applied statistics, mathematical engineering
Applying symbol and code theory to electronic watermarks, research into the misuse of statistical terms, creation and characteristics of random number generation devices, independent component analysis and its applications
Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi
Professor
Applied financial analysis
Globalization of financial systems and worldwide financial crises
Shin Isojima
Associate Professor
Nonlinear accumulation analysis
Research on cellular automaton using ultra-discretization techniques
Kazuhiro Esaki
Associate professor
Project management
Creation of new values using logical thinking
Nobuyuki Tamura
Associate Professor
Applied probability theory, operations research
Using Markov decision processes to analyze optimal maintenance policies, statistic inference of degradation models
Kazuhiro Yasuda
Associate Professor
Probability analysis; mathematical finance
Research on mathematical finance and its peripheries through the use of probability analysis