【Research Area 】　Area of Informatics (Number of Faculty: 17)

Name	English Name	Position	Research Field	Department in the Master's Course
程 京徳	Cheng, Jingde	Professor	Computer Science	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: Software engineering: Persistent computing systems and their applications; Knowledge engineering: Discovery oriented and evolutionary knowledge processing; Information security engineering: Anticipatory reasoning-reacting systems and their applications.
橋口 博樹	Hashiguchi, Hiroki	Lecturer	Mathematical Informatics	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: Research on the mathematical foundations of statistics. I am applying this to computer engineering in the fields of data analysis, information retrieval, and quality control and management.
堀山 貴史	Horiyama, Takashi	Associate Professor	Computer Science	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: Design methodology of algorithms and computational complexity theory. Especially on the theoretical aspect of approximation algorithms, randomized algorithms, online algorithms with incomplete information, and algorithmic mechanism design.
池口 徹	Ikeguchi, Tohru	Professor	Mathematical Informatics	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: Nonlinear Mathematical Engineering, Nonlinear Dynamical System and Chaos, Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, Meta-heuristic Algorithms for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems, Neuroscience, Complex Network Theory and its Applictions.
川崎 洋	Kawasaki, Hiroshi	Associate Professor (Information Technology Center)	Media Informatics	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: Research on the active three dimensional measurement of an object through self-calibration and the acquisition of the surface properties and their analysis, further the realistic rendering of the object using these techniques.
小柴 健史	Koshiba, Takeshi	Associate Professor	Computer Science	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: Cryptology, quantum computation, computational complexity theory, pseudo-random numbers. My research concerns the algorithmic (and complexity theoretic) aspect of cryptographic techniques and pseudo-random number generators, which are basic techniques for information security systems.
久野 義徳	Kuno, Yoshinori	Professor	Media Informatics	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: Using visual information processing (computer vision) as the basic technology, I am conducting research on human interface and intelligent robots. I am collaborating with specialists from other fields, especially the social sciences, in the investigation of human-robot communication.
前川 仁	Maekawa, Hitoshi	Professor	Media Informatics	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: In the field of intelligent robotics, my research is on the perception of environmental information and object detection/tracking through active vision and sonar sensors, and the motion planning based on it. As applications of computer vision, I am performing actual data processing of baseball pitching and batting data for sports scene, and analyzing movement during the percussion instrument performance.
三島 健稔	Mishima, Taketoshi	Professor	Mathematical Informatics	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: Pattern recognition and its applications (evaluation of protein crystallization, extraction of characteristics and extent of biological tissues, security systems), learning theory, natural language processing.
大澤 裕	Ohsawa, Yutaka	Professor	Computer Science	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: I am conducting reseach on geographic information systems, spatio-temporal information management, multidimensional data management structures.
重原 孝臣	Shigehara, Takaomi	Professor (Information Technology Center)	Mathematical Informatics	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: My current interests are numerical analysis and high-performance computing. In particular, I am investigating various questions arising in numerical linear algebra from a mathematical point of view. This includes design of algorithms, their improvement and their accurate and fast implementation.
島村 徹也	Shimamura, Tetsuya	Professor	Media Informatics	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: My research concerns digital signal processing, speech information processing, communication systems, circuits and systems, and is applicable to processing speech in a noisy environment, and robust wireless communications, which tolerate fading, etc.
山田 敏規	Yamada, Toshinori	Associate Professor	Computer Science	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: Graphs and networks, discrete algorithms, parallel and VLSI computation. Fundamental research into the development of fault tolerant technology for multi-process systems and efficient operation of networks.
吉田 紀彦	Yoshida, Norihiko	Professor	Computer Science	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: Research on system design methodology, computer networks including the Internet, and distributed artificial intelligence; especially focusing on formal system design from abstract specification, adaptive and dynamic networks, and distributed sensing.
吉川 宣一	Yoshikawa, Nobukazu	Associate Professor	Media Informatics	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: I am conducting research on information photonics, three-dimensional profilometry and object recognition, digital holography, and optical information systems based on the spatio-temporal characteristic of optical wavefront.
吉浦 紀晃	Yoshiura, Noriaki	Associate Professor	Computer Science	Information and Computer Sciences
Specialty: My research is concerned with applied logic including modal, temporal and relevant logics, formal methods for software or specification verification, and computer network security or management.