東北大学情報科学研究科 Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University

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東北大学 大学院情報科学研究科 Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University

Laboratories by Department

Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Explore the nature and potential of information sciences

Laboratories by Specialized Subject Group

Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences is engaged in research in the area of information sciences for the future. Our research subjects include basis of information sciences such as computer sciences and software sciences, next-generation computational sciences for super-parallel computing and large-scale high-speed computing, and a wide range of applications of information sciences associated with mathematical sciences. Also we are devoted to developing future leaders of those fields. Our department consists of the foundation part and the cooperation part. The foundation part is made up with four sections: Mathematical Structures, Applied Mathematical Science, Computation Science and Systems, and Software Science and Systems. Those disciplines have existed from the very beginning of the GSIS. The cooperation part is divided into five sections: Logic for Information Science, Communication Theory, High Performance Computing, Information Security, and Environmental Informatics.

Mathematical Structures

Lab Professors / Keywords
Mathematical Structures I A01
  • Prof. Akihiro Munemasa    
  • Assoc. Prof. Yuanyuan Bao      

combinatorics, algebraic graph theory, combinatorial designs, finite group theory, knots, 3-dim manifolds, quantum invariants, Heegaard Floer homology
Mathematical Structures II A02
  • Prof. Toshiyuki Sugawa      

Complex Analysis, Geometric Function Theory, Quasiconformal Mappings, Special Functions
Mathematical Structures III A03
  • Prof. Hajime Tanaka      

Algebraic Graph Theory, Algebraic Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematics
Mathematical Structures IV A04
  • Prof. Hiromi Seno    

mathematical biology, biomathematics, mathematical modeling

Applied Mathematical Science

Lab Professors / Keywords
Mathematical Informatics A05
  • Prof. Masayuki Ohzeki      
  • Prof. Kazue Kudo    
  • Assoc. Prof. Yuki Sughiyama    
  • Assoc. Prof. Rumiko Honda
  • Assis. Prof Madoka Kobayashi

Quantum Computing, Quantum Annealing, Information statistical mechanics, Machine learning, Sparse modeling, Quantum Machine learning

Applied Mathematical Science

Lab Professors / Keywords
Mathematical Modeling and Computation A06
  • Prof. Satoru Yamamoto      
  • Assoc. Prof. Takashi Furusawa      
  • Assis. Prof. Hironori Miyazawa      

Mathematical Modeling and Computation, Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD), Multiphysics CFD, Numerical Simulation

Computation Science and Systems

Lab Professors / Keywords
Computer Structures A08
  • Prof. Takafumi Aoki    
  • Assoc. Prof. Koichi Ito      

Image/Signal Processing, Data Science, Deep Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Biometrics, Medical Image Processing
Intelligent Integrated Systems A09
  • Prof. Masanori Hariyama      
  • Assoc. Prof. Hasitha Muthumala Waidyasooriya      
  • Assoc. Prof. Mamiko Koshiba      

Intelligent Systems, Big-data applications, High-performance computing, Reconfigurable VLSI, FPGA, VLSI Computing

Software Science and Systems

Lab Professors / Keywords
Foundations of Software Science A11
  • Prof. Eijiro Sumii      
  • Assoc. Prof. Kazutaka Matsuda      
  • Assis. Prof. Yuki Nishida    
  • Visiting Scholar Oleg Kiselyov    

Programming Language Theory, Computation Models, Information Security

Software Science and Systems

Lab Professors / Keywords
Computer Architecture A12
  • Prof. Hiroaki Kobayashi      
  • Assoc. Prof. Masayuki Sato      
  • Assoc. Prof. Akihiro Yatabe  

High-Performance/Low-Power Computer Architectures, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Supercomputing Systems and their Applications, Hybrid Computing with Machine Learning and Quantum Annealing

Logic for Information Science

Lab Professors / Keywords
Logic for Information Science A13
  • Prof. Keisuke Nakano      
  • Assis. Prof. Kazuyuki Asada      
  • Assis. Prof. Kentaro Kikuchi    

Programming Language Theory, Formal Language Theory, Theorem Proving

Communication Theory

Lab Professors / Keywords
Network Architecture A14

Information Network Architecture, IoT, Mobile Network, Network System Optimization

High Performance Computing

Lab Professors / Keywords
High Performance Computing A15
  • Prof. Hiroyuki Takizawa      
  • Assis. Prof. Keichi Takahashi      

High Performance Computing, System Software, Performance-aware Programming, Machine Learning

Information Security

Lab Professors / Keywords
Information Security A16
  • Prof. Minoru Kuribayashi      
  • Assoc. Prof. Masao Sakai    
  • Assoc. Prof. Shuji Isobe    
  • Assis. Prof. Eisuke Koizumi    

computational complexity theory, reduction, public-key cryptosystem, cryptographic assumption, forensic technology, AI security, blockchain

Fundamental Data Informatics

Lab Professors / Keywords
Fundamental Data Informatics A18
  • Prof. Yoshinori Hayakawa    
  • Assoc. Prof. Takashi Mitsuishi    
  • Assis. Prof. Mineaki Ohishi      

Data Science, Statistical Science, Complex Systems, Behavior Analysis, Learning Analytics, Spatio-temporal Analysis

Advanced Computing Systems

Lab Professors / Keywords
Advanced Computing Systems A19
  • Prof. Kentaro Sano    
  • Assoc. Prof. Kento Sato  

Computing systems, Post-Moore era, architectures, system software

System Information Sciences

Analyze complex systems and construct better systems

Laboratories by Specialized Subject Group

In the world we live, there exist many systems. Information processing, controlling of robot movement, image processing, kinetic controlling of life forms are good examples. Our department sets our goals in analyzing and constructing complex systems through the viewpoints of mathematics, natural sciences, as well as engineering. In particular, our research themes include Mathematical System Analysis involving systems, intelligent information sciences involving algorithm and mechanism, Biosystem Information Sciences including Information Biology and Design and Analysis of Information Systems, Image Analysis and Intelligent Control System, which are essential in robot engineering, information sciences associated with vision and auditory senses, and computer sciences associated with Interactive Content Design and software.

Mathematical System Analysis

Lab Professors / Keywords
Mathematical System Analysis I B01
  • Prof. Masaaki Harada    
  • Assoc. Prof. Kei Funano    
  • Assis. Prof. Junya Takahashi    

Coding theory, Combinatorial design theory, Global Analysis, Homogenization theory
Mathematical System Analysis II B02
  • Prof. Kanta Naito    
  • Assoc. Prof. Takako Nemoto    

function estimation/multivariate analysis/machine learning/mathematical logic/constructive mathematics/reverse mathematics
Statistical Mathematics B03
  • Prof. Yuko Araki      
  • Assoc. Prof. Utako Yamamoto    

statistical science, data science, functional data analysis, biostatistics, information criterion, multivariate analysis, high-dimensional data, multi-level model, machine learning

Intelligent Information Science

Lab Professors / Keywords
Algorithm Theory B04
  • Prof. Xiao Zhou      
  • Assoc. Prof. Akira Suzuki    
  • Assis. Prof. Yuma Tamura    

Algorithm, Graph Theory, Combinatorial Reconfiguration
Intelligent Systems Science B05
  • Prof. Ayumi Shinohara      
  • Assoc. Prof. Ryo Yoshinaka      

String Processing, Machine Learning, Data Compression
Natural Language Processing B06
  • Prof. Kentaro Inui      
  • Assoc. Prof. Keisuke Sakaguchi      
  • Assis. Prof. Sho Yokoi      

natural language processing, artificial intelligence, communication science

Biosystem Information Sciences

Lab Professors / Keywords
Information Biology B07
  • Prof. Takeshi Obayashi      
  • Assis. Prof. Katsuya Uchida    
  • Assoc. Prof. Emi Yuda (concurrently)      

Marine biology, Evolutionary ecology, Functional genomics, Bioinformatics, Database development, Gene coexpression network, Transcriptome analysis, Brain, Hormone, Sex difference
Design and Analysis of Information Systems B08
  • Prof. Takehiro Ito    
  • Assoc. Prof. Jinhee Chun    

algorithm theory, combinatorial reconfiguration, computational geometry

Intelligent Robotics

Lab Professors / Keywords
Image Analysis B09
  • Prof. Takayuki Okatani      
  • Assis. Prof. Masanori Suganuma      
  • Assis. Prof. TABE JAMAAT GOLSA

computer vision, visual recognition, multi-view geometry, deep learning, artificial intelligence
Intelligent Control Systems B10
  • Prof. Koichi Hashimoto      
  • Assis. Prof. Naoya Chiba      

Visual Servo, High-Speed Vision, Robot, Image Processing, 3D Data Processing, System Biology

Acoustic Information

Lab Professors / Keywords
Acoustic Information B11
  • Prof. Shuichi Sakamoto      

Sound Localization, Multi-Modality, Auditory Display, Sound space

Visual Cognition and Systems

Lab Professors / Keywords
Visual Cognition and Systems B12
  • Assoc. Prof. Chia-huei Tseng    

Human vision, Attention, Implicit learning, Visual motion, Color, Brain imaging

Information Contents

Lab Professors / Keywords
Interactive Content Design B13
  • Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura    
  • Assoc. Prof. Kazuyuki Fujita      

Interactive Content, Human content interaction

Intgrated Fluid Informatics

Lab Professors / Keywords
Integrated Fluid Informatics B14
  • Prof. Jun Ishimoto      
  • Assis. Prof. Ippei Oshima      

Multiphase flow, Hydrogen energy, Atomization and spray

Software Construction

Lab Professors / Keywords
Software Construction B15

Fundamental Artificial Intelligence

Lab Professors / Keywords
Fundamental Artificial Intelligence B16
  • Prof. Jun Suzuki      
  • Assis. Prof. Reina Akama      

Artificial Intelligence, Learning Systems, Deep Learning, Generative AI, AI Foundation Models

Human-Social Information Sciences

Explore the relation of information, society and humanity

Laboratories by Specialized Subject Group

What changes would the information society bring? To begin with, what framework; spiritual, cognitive, or cultural, would information need be comprehended and propagated? What are the solutions to the social problems the information society inevitably poses? We, in Department of Human-Social Information Sciences, are striving to answer those questions in the form of interdisciplinary research and education. The members constituting our group are trained in wide range of subjects, including, cognitive psychology, philosophy, linguistics, sociology, media theory, regional sciences and civil engineering. Recently we have been engaged in reconstructive activities of the earthquake damage of 2011. In particular, our activities include recording and analysis of resident participation in the disaster affected area, opinion polls of the citizens of Sendai city, flows of the emergency goods, the traffic pattern of the post-disaster days. Those researches have been publicized in the Japanese mass media.

Human Information Science

Lab Professors / Keywords
Language and Information Science C01
  • Assoc. Prof. Itsumi Saito      

Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Human Learning and Memory C02
  • Assoc. Prof. Chihiro Hosoda      

neuroimaging, Individual difference, education, motivation,data science
Visual Cognition C03
  • Prof. Kazumichi Matsumiya (concurrently)      
  • Assoc. Prof. Yuichi Wada    
  • Assis. Prof. Ryo Saito      

human cognition, psychology of computer use
Philosophy of Human Information C04

phenomenological ontology, political philosophy, action and speech, love of the world
Text Structure and Linguistic Information C06
  • Prof. Yoshiki Ogawa      

morphosynyax, diachronic syntax, lexical semantics, psycholinguistics, corpus-based linguistics
Philosophy of Logical Analysis C17
  • Assoc. Prof. Hitoshi Omori      

dialetheism, non-classical logic, paraconsistent logic, many-valued logic, modal logic

Socio-Politico Information Science

Lab Professors / Keywords
Social Structure and Change C07
  • Prof. Naohito Tokugawa      
  • Prof. Aya Okada    
  • Assis. Prof. Yuqin ZHOU    
  • Assis. Prof. Yuxin ZHANG    

Social Structure, Interaction, Social Theory, Civil Society, Fieldwork
Political Informatics C08
  • Assoc. Prof. Kazunori Kawamura      
  • Assoc. Prof. Masataka Harada.      
  • Assis. Prof. LI XINHE      

e-democracy, election, e-voting, political trust, information policy, autocracies, political regime change

Socio-Economic Information Science

Lab Professors / Keywords
Socio-Economic Analysis of Urban System C09
  • Prof. Dao-Zhi Zeng      
  • Assoc. Prof. Ryo Itoh      
  • Assis. Prof. Yang Zhang    

Spatial economics, Industrial agglomeration, Globalization, Equilibrium, International trade, Urban economics, Game theory, Policy analysis
Regional Econometric Analysis C10
  • Assoc. Prof. Naoya Fujiwara      

complex networks, nonlinear science, spatial information science, mathematical engineering

Infrastructure Planning

Lab Professors / Keywords
Transportation and Geographic Information Science C11
  • Prof. Takamasa Iryo      
  • Assoc. Prof. Ryo Inoue      

Transport Network Analysis, Transport Big-data, Traffic Simulation, GIScience, Spatial Statistical Analysis
Regional and Urban Planning C12
  • Prof. Tatsuhito Kono      
  • Assoc. Prof. Junya Fukumoto    
  • Senior Assis. Prof. Mariko Nakagawa    

Project evaluation, Urban/regional planning process and policy, Urban/transport planning
Road Transportation and Traffic C13
  • Prof. Takashi Akamatsu      
  • Assoc. Prof. Yusuke Hara      

transportation planning, spatial economic systems, infrastructure, system optimization, mathematical programming, equilibrium problems, data science for urban transportation system, travel behavior analysis, mechanism design

Media and Information Science

Lab Professors / Keywords
Media and Culture C14
  • Assoc. Prof. Naoko Morita    
  • Assoc. Prof. Kuniko Sakata      
  • Assis. Prof. Le Wang    
  • Assis. Prof. Sachiko Handa    

Media, Communication, Representation, Media Contents, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Disaster Information
Media and Information Literacy C15
  • Assoc. Prof. Toru Nagahama      

Information Literacy, Media Literacy, Media Education, ICT and Information Education, ICT-based Education, Online Education, Learning Analytics

Cognitive Psychology of Communication

Lab Professors / Keywords
Cognitive Psychology of Communication C16
  • Prof. Toshiaki Muramoto      

language comprehension, text comprehension, learning and memory, instructional design, education for disaster prevention

Applied Information Sciences

Tackle real problems by research from hard and soft aspects

Laboratories by Specialized Subject Group

Our department was established with the goal of education and research for the sake of constructing practical systems reflecting the complex realities, at the same time taking into account the diversity of human and social factors. As our ubiquitous information society evolves, we are investigating information technology for humans cohabiting with the natural world, robotics, fluid system information sciences, life information sciences, cognitive information sciences, health information sciences at the high academic standard. At the same time we continue to aim for resolutions of variety of practical issues enlisting the methods from information technology, statistical sciences, and to pursue progressive forms of education and research from both hard and soft aspects.

Information and Applied Technology

Lab Professors / Keywords
Physical Fluctuomatics D01
  • Prof. Kazuyuki Tanaka      
  • Assis. Prof. Manaka Okuyama      

Sparse Modeling, Machine Learning, Bayesian Optimization, Optimization Problem, Quantum Annealing, Quantum Computation
Information Technology D02
  • Prof. Nei Kato      
  • Assoc. Prof. Yuichi Kawamoto      
  • Assis. Prof. Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues      
  • Assis. Prof. SHIKHAR      
  • Assis. Prof. GUO QI    

Information Communication Network, Network Design, Network Protocol, Satellite, Cellular, Sensor, Ad Hoc, Wireless, Optical, Resilient Network, Internet of Tings, Machine to Machine, Big data, Intelligent Transport Systems, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, 6G, IRS

Information and Applied Technology

Lab Professors / Keywords
Human-Robot Informatics D03
  • Prof. Satoshi Tadokoro      
  • Assoc. Prof. Masashi Konyo      

Disaster Response Robotics, Environment Recognition, Autonomous Driving, Haptics, Virtual Reality, Mechanism

Applied Informatics for Human and Life Sciences

Lab Professors / Keywords
Systems Bioinformatics D04
  • Prof. Kengo Kinoshita      
  • Assoc. Prof. Hafumi Nishi      
  • Assis. Prof. Hayato Anzawa    
  • Assoc. Prof. Takeshi Kawabata    
  • Assis. Prof. Tomoko Hamabata      

Genome, Gene, Protein, Brain Science, Personalized Medicine
Biomodeling D05

Applied Informatics for Human and Life Sciences

Lab Professors / Keywords
Cognitive Psychology D06
  • Prof. Kazumichi Matsumiya      

Human behavior, Psychophysics, Embodied cognition

Applied Intelligence Software

Lab Professors / Keywords
Applied Intelligence Software D07
  • Prof. Takaki Nakamura      
  • Assoc. Prof. Toru Abe      

Data Platforms, Storage Systems, Human-Harmonic Information Communication Infrastructure, Cyber-Physical System, Cyber-Real Space Integration, Intelligent Image Processing

Information Network Systems

Lab Professors / Keywords
Information Network Systems D08
  • Prof. Takuo Suganuma      
  • Assoc. Prof. Hideaki Goto    

Information network systems, Information security

Flow System Informatics

Lab Professors / Keywords
Flow System Informatics D09
  • Prof. Yuji Hattori      
  • Assoc. Prof. Makoto Hirota      

computational fluid dynamics, turbulence, vortex dynamics, fluid dynamics by mathematical approach, hydrodynamic stability, magnetohydrodynamics

Brain Function Integration

Lab Professors / Keywords
Brain-Function Integrated System D10
  • Prof. Yoshihiko Horio      

Brainmorphic computing, Brain-inspired integrated circuit system, Information processing through complex dynamics, Conscious and sub-conscious processes, Complex system, Chaos, Nonlinear LSI

Health Informatics

Lab Professors / Keywords
Health Informatics D11
  • Prof. Yoshitaka Kinouchi    
  • Prof. Chihiro Ito    
  • Assoc. Prof. Jun Inoue      
  • Assoc. Prof. Shunsuke Tatebe    
  • Assis. Prof. Hiroki Kita    

inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, atherosclerosis, psychiatric disorders, susceptibility gene, epigenetics, biomarker,congenital heart disease

Advanced Applied Data Science

Lab Professors / Keywords
Advanced Applied Data Science D13
  • Prof. Motoki Shiga      
  • Prof. Kazunori Yamada    
  • Assis. Prof. Shun Kodate      
  • Assis. Prof. Koki Kitai    

data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, materials informatics, bioinformatics

Tough Cyberphysical AI

Lab Professors / Keywords
Tough Cyberphysical AI D14
  • Prof. Kazunori Ohno      
  • Assoc. Prof. Yoshito Okada      

tough robotics, cyber physical, tough AI

Cryptographic Protocols

Lab Professors / Keywords
Cryptographic Protocols D15
  • Prof. Takaaki Mizuki      

Card-based cryptography, cryptology, information security

Statistical Science for Complex systems

Lab Professors / Keywords
Statistical Science of Complex Systems D16
  • Prof. Atsushi Yoshimoto  
  • Assoc. Prof. Fumikazu Miwakeichi  
  • Assoc. Prof. Shinsuke Koyama    

Spatio-temporal analysis, Time Series Analysis, Stochastic Control Analysis, Resource Growth Analysis, Neural data analysis

Colaborative Laboratories

Joint Research Group for Quantum Computing

Lab Professors / Keywords
Joint Research Group for Quantum Computing
  • Prof. Masayuki Ohzeki (concurrently)     
  • Assis. Prof. Masaru Hitomi
  • Assoc. Prof. Takako Mashiko
  • Assoc. Prof. Masaru Sakamoto

Quantum Computing, Quantum Annealing, Combinatorial Optimization, Quantum Machine learning, Quantum Many-body System, Quantum Chemistry

Promotion Office

International Liaison Office

Lab Professors / Keywords
International Liaison Office
  • Prof. Kazuyuki Tanaka       
  • Prof. Kazunori Yamada(concurrently)    
  • Assoc. Prof.Yuda Emi      
  • Assis. Prof. Kazuto Takao(concurrently)  
  • Assis. Prof. Mohammad Samy Baladram    
  • Assis. Prof. Siwalee Choilek   
  • Assis. Prof. Michael Ryan Zielewski

 

Education Section for Practical IT

Lab Professors / Keywords
Education Section for Practical IT
  • Prof. Kazuyuki Tanaka (concurrently)      
  • Assoc. Prof. Akiko Takahashi
  • Assoc. Prof. Satoru Izumi  
  • Assoc. Prof. Atsushi Koike  

 

Research Planning Office

Lab Professors / Keywords
Research Planning Office
  • Prof. Koichi Hashimoto (concurrently)      
  • Assis. Prof. Kazuto Takao  

 
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