Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Composite Materials Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Conducts research on characterization and life prediction of light and strong composite materials used in the aerospace and other fields. Challenging to create new materials that can withstand high-speed collisions with space debris.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Medical and Welfare Robotics Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Conducting research on functional robots related to medical and welfare engineering, such as development of multi DOF robotic forceps used in endoscopic surgery and control of electric prosthetic hands using muscle potentials
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Fluid Power Production Systems Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Based on fluid power systems (measurement and control of hydraulic and pneumatic pressure) and digital engineering, this laboratory researches soft actuators, air turbines used in ultra-precision machine tools, ultra-precision positioning stages, and performance support devices for wind instruments.
Research on the improvement of competitive ability (mental - technical, physical, and intellectual strength) in baseball / research on the development and improvement of the qualities of coaches and sports leaders. Also, research on the strategic and tactical aspects of winning a game / Theory of baseball as a lifelong sport. Actively contribute to sports and exchange with the local community through youth baseball classes, etc., to expand the base of the sport.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Energy Conversion Engineering Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
The subject of this laboratory is to obtain guidelines for the effective use of energy and the reduction of environmental pollutants associated with it, with the environment as the keyword, by conducting multifaceted research on various energy conversion phenomena, including thermal energy
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Advanced Materials Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
The laboratory develops new materials such as ultra-high temperature thermal barrier materials and intelligent composite materials for use in space and aeronautics. Research is carried out from both experimental and micromechanical theoretical approaches using state-of-the-art equipment. Creation of unknown materials with a global perspective
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Fluid Engineering Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
To improve the performance of turbomachinery such as jet engines for aircraft and gas turbines for industrial use, the flow behavior and loss generation mechanisms in the blade train of the components are investigated by both experimental and numerical fluid dynamics methods.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Fluid Machinery Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
This laboratory conducts research on turbomachinery to reduce the size, increase the efficiency, and expand the operating range of turbomachinery. The flow inside turbomachinery is an unsteady three-dimensional flow, and if it is operated outside the design point, it causes flow instability.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Aeroacoustics and Machine Acoustics Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Experiments and analyses are conducted to establish design methods for noise reduction and comfort noise of various types of machinery. Also, conducts various studies related to the popularization and safe operation of small aircraft.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
Major
Digital Engineering, Design Engineering and Design Science
Seminar or Research Theme
Design engineering and design science are at the core of R&D and product manufacturing, and metrology plays a very important role in driving science and engineering. By integrating these with tribology and other disciplines, research is conducted on the compatibility of function and environmental performance, as well as on designs that move people's hearts and minds.
Tatsuhito Aihara Associate Professor AIHARA Tatsuhito
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
Major
Laboratory of Transmission Mechanisms and Mechanical Vibration
Seminar or Research Theme
To provide highly efficient and quiet power transmission mechanisms for automobiles and other transportation equipment, we conduct research on clarifying the phenomena of nonlinear vibrations that cause noise and improving the efficiency of power transmission mechanisms through theory, CAE, and experiments.
KOIZUMI Takayuki Associate Professor KOIZUMI Takayuki
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
Major
Materials Strength Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
We study the strength and deformation mechanisms of structural metallic materials from both microscopic and macroscopic viewpoints.
Furthermore, we aim to establish new evaluation methods for material strength and material testing methods, and to develop our research with a view to industrial applications.
SAKATA Shigehiro Associate Professor SAKATA Shigehiro
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Mathematics Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Maximum-minimum problems appearing in geometry and analysis
Elementary geometry, analytic geometry, inequalities, shape analysis of functions related to maximum-minimum problems
Cuts and shadows of convex bodies
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Environmental Materials Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on high-strength recycled CFRP, mechanisms for generating litter from spacecraft, and structural materials that are less likely to generate space litter
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Pilotage
ARAI Kazuyoshi Professor ARAI Kazuyoshi
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Aeronautical Pilotage
Major
Composite Materials Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Conducts research on characterization and life prediction of light and strong composite materials used in the aerospace and other fields. Challenging to create new materials that can withstand high-speed collisions with space debris.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Aeronautical Pilotage
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Energy Conversion Engineering Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
The subject of this laboratory is to obtain guidelines for the effective use of energy and the reduction of environmental pollutants associated with it, with the environment as the keyword, by conducting multifaceted research on various energy conversion phenomena, including thermal energy
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Aeronautical Pilotage
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Aeronautical Flight Science Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Aircraft operation requires not only technology but also safe and environmentally friendly operation. This laboratory conducts research on the knowledge and skills required for future-oriented pilotage in society.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Aeronautical Pilotage
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Flight Safety Promotion Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
To establish an appropriate system according to the scale of its training in order to realize high-quality human resource development while maintaining safe operation
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Aeronautical Pilotage
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Digital Engineering, Design Engineering and Design Science
Seminar or Research Theme
Design engineering and design science are at the core of R&D and product manufacturing, and metrology plays an extremely important role in driving science and engineering. By integrating these with tribology and other fields, we will conduct research that balances functionality and environmental performance, as well as research on designs that move people's hearts and minds.
and tribology, etc., to achieve both functional and environmental performance.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Major
Nano-optical properties engineering
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on semiconductor nanomaterials, random lasers, and plasmonics light emission control for application to next-generation light emitting devices
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Major
Robotics, Power Engineering
Seminar or Research Theme
Wireless power transmission, intelligent robots, spatial intelligence (robotic rooms), measurement and control of internal states such as sensory, physiological, and psychological
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Analog and digital electronic circuits
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on circuit design techniques and semiconductor technologies for integrating communication, information processing, and interface functions on semiconductors
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Electrical System Design Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on automatic design of electrical equipment, application of machine learning technology to the field of electromagnetic field analysis, etc., and work on optimization technology to generate shapes that outperform existing designs at high speed
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Applied Informatics
Major
Intelligent Information Processing Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on artificial intelligence technology itself, including deep learning, or various applications using it. Automatic diagnosis (plants, skin cancer, etc.) using image analysis, diagnosis support, risk prediction technology, various natural language processing, security applications such as malware detection and automatic design of application firewalls, etc.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Applied Informatics
Major
Image Engineering Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Conducts research in imaging engineering for medical and industrial applications. Research includes CT technology that uses X-rays and gamma rays to visualize the inside of objects, as well as visual image processing and techniques for embedding information in images.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Applied Informatics
Major
Information Network Security Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Privacy control on networks, defense against virus attacks, spam mails, and phishing via the Internet, development of cryptographic systems, and development of secure programming methods.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Applied Informatics
Major
Optoelectronic and Electrical Information Engineering Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on information and communication technologies that integrate short-range wireless communications and human body communications using the human body as a transmission channel, making full use of various technologies such as optics and electricity, software and hardware, in order to realize ubiquitous networks that are friendly to both humans and the global environment.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Applied Informatics
Major
Network Application Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on communication methods in information networks (multicast communication protocols, LAN communication frequency sharing methods, etc.) and Internet application technologies (Web information services, ubiquitous computing, etc.)
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Applied Informatics
Major
Combinatorics and representation theory
Seminar or Research Theme
Study of zeta functions of graphs by algebraic and combinatorial methods and their application to quantum walks, combinatorial representation theory related to Hecke algebras, quantum groups, symmetric functions, etc.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Applied Informatics
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Computing Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Design and analysis of artificial intelligence algorithms, computational complexity and complex systems, synchronous and asynchronous parallel processing, stability of control systems, numerical analysis, combinatorics and counting methods, etc.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Applied Informatics
Major
Computer Science Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on methodologies for safe and efficient construction of parallel and distributed systems, including architectures for massively parallel computers, self-stable and autonomous adaptive distributed systems, and fault-tolerant algorithms for autonomous distributed robot swarms
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Applied Informatics
Major
Intelligent Media Processing Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Efforts related to the development of intelligent multimedia processing systems based on image sensing, image analysis and compression, deep learning, and other technologies; "Development of a highly distributed surveillance system with battery-less wireless video collection capabilities," "Research on intelligent video compression technology for telemedicine systems," Research on intelligent video compression technology for telemedicine systems," "Development of a billion-pixel surveillance camera," and other research projects.
Makoto Hirahara Associate Professor HIRAHARA Makoto
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Applied Informatics
Major
Brain Information Processing Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on neural nets, a new parallel and distributed information processing system based on neural information processing in living organisms, through research on visual information processing and brain functions.
Masao Yamagishi Associate Professor YAMAGISHI Masao
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Applied Informatics
Major
Data Science and Optimization Engineering Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on data science, such as machine learning and signal processing, with the aim of "extracting useful information from data. Development of machine learning algorithms and signal processing algorithms based on the knowledge of mathematical optimization, and its application to sparse modeling and speech and image processing
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Applied Informatics
Major
Seminar or Research Theme
My research interests range from basic theory to fundamental technology and applied applications.
- Construction of efficient subgraph enumeration algorithms
- Approximation approaches to enumeration
- Combinatorial transition problems
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Major
System reliability and quality evaluation methods
Seminar or Research Theme
Research and development of various mathematical models to quantitatively evaluate, maintain, and improve reliability as a "natural quality" that industrial products and large-scale software should have.
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Major
Mathematical Engineering and Discrete Optimization
Seminar or Research Theme
Design of efficient algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems related to matching, matroids, and TSP, and analysis using the theory of discrete convex analysis
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Major
Algebraic geometry, hypergeometric function theory
Seminar or Research Theme
Based on algebraic geometry, research on the geometry of finite bodies, which is the basis of code theory and cryptography theory, and special functions such as hypergeometric functions
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Major
Seminar or Research Theme
Developing machine learning and econometrics methods to solve economic problems and develop industrial technologies in the field of data science, supporting IoT, Big Data analysis and FinTech, and providing solutions for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Society 5.0
Guillermot Celeste Associate Professor GUILLEMOT Celeste
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Major
Phonetics and phonology, second language acquisition
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on the physical characteristics of language sounds and the mechanism of articulation, and research on pronunciation features in second language acquisition
TAMURA Nobuyuki Associate Professor TAMURA Nobuyuki
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Major
Probabilistic systems analysis
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on mathematical methods useful for efficient and effective operation of systems, with particular emphasis on applications of probability theory and stochastic process theory
Chihiro Shibata Associate Professor SHIBATA Chihiro
Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Advanced Sciences
Major
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Laboratory
Seminar or Research Theme
We conduct applied research on natural language processing, adversarial generative networks (GANs), image recognition, etc., using machine learning techniques such as deep learning.
Interdisciplinary research related to the universe, regardless of humanities or sciences, such as investigating the nature of cosmic fossils and dark matter through astronomical observations, and the relationship between people and the universe through fieldwork and interview surveys
