Faculty and Researchers

Informatics

An introduction to faculty staff members and laboratories in the Informatics.
Note: Information on the laboratories is current as of the 2026 academic year. There may be changes to this information in the 2027 academic year.

ABE Koji

Position
Professor
Laboratory
Laboratory for Media Informatics and Cognitive Science
Media Informatics, Pattern Recognition, Medical Image Processing, Computer Vision

Our goal is to build an intelligent computer that behaves like a human. We are engaged in research involving image and audio media on a variety of software systems that take into account human subjectivity, experience, and sensitivity.

IGUCHI Nobukazu

Position
Professor
Laboratory
Network Laboratory
Information NetworkNetwork operations management support system, Educational system and learning support system,

We develop network management and educational systems to support training of network engineers and network security engineers. We also conduct IoT System.

SUTO Hidetsugu

Position
Professor
Laboratory
System Design Laboratory
Media Informatics

TAGAWA Kiyoharu

Position
Professor
Laboratory
Mathematical Information Engineering Laboratory
Mathematical Information Engineering, Optimization Methods, Statistics

NAKANISHI Hideyuki

Position
Professor
Laboratory
Virtual Interaction Group
Virtual Reality, Human Interface

Working on improving the reality of videoconferencing, metaverses, and humanoids for transmitting social presence in online environments.

HABE Hitoshi

Position
Professor
Laboratory
Computer Vision Laboratory
Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition

We study techniques to process images captured by a camera and understand the things in the image and what is happening. We are working on analyzing human behavior from security cameras and the movement of animals in the wild, and we are tackling the development of fundamental technologies for computer vision.

HANDA Hisashi

Position
Professor
Laboratory
Computational Intelligence Research Group
Evolutionary Computation

Humans and biological life forms appropriately sift through information while achieving intelligent behavior. In this laboratory, we are researching efficient, high-performance learning and evolutionary algorithms inspired by nature and living organisms.

MOHRI Masami

Position
Professor
Laboratory
Information Security Laboratory
Information and Communication Engineering

OCHI Youji

Position
Associate Professor
Laboratory
Intelligent Educational Information System Laboratory
Educational Information Technology

This lab focuses on the research field known as e-learning, and conducts R&D on sensing technologies and systems to recognize behavior and actions in education and learning. We make full use of application technologies such as artificial intelligence, multi-media technology, and computer vision.

KATO Toru

Position
Associate Professor
Laboratory
Theory of Concurrent Computation Laboratory
Semantics for Concurrent Logic Programming Languages, Equivalence Relations for Process Algebras

We are investigating the development and safety of “software servants” (mobile agent systems). These application programs move autonomously on the Net to perform work such as gathering information and arranging schedules.

SHINOZAKI Takashi

Position
Associate Professor
Laboratory
Computational Neuroscience Laboratory
Computational Neuroscience

SUGIYAMA Osamu

Position
Associate Professor
Laboratory
Intelligent Behavior Informatics Laboratory
medical Informatics

TSUNODA Masateru

Position
Associate Professor
Laboratory
Software Engineering Laboratory
Software Engineering

The major goal of software engineering is to develop high-quality software. Major topics of our laboratory are human factors of software development, software reliability, and software productivity. We mainly adopt empirical software engineering approach.

HAMASUNA Yukihiro

Position
Associate Professor
Laboratory
Fundamentals of Intelligent Informatics Laboratory
Clustering Machine Learning Data Science

This laboratory is promoting greater sophistication in data analysis techniques, in particular, clustering, and is actively working on the development of new data analysis methods that will constitute useful tools for data mining, as well as their application.

Mizutani Kimihiro

Position
Associate Professor
Large scale information processing platform Large scale information processing method Virtual Network Infrastructure/Server Management

MIZOBUCHI Shoji

Position
Associate Professor
Laboratory
Natural Language Processing Laboratory
Natural Language Processing

This laboratory uses text data on the Web to gain important information from them. Based on this, we conduct research into technologies to search for needed information and make practical use of it.

MORIYA Sen

Position
Associate Professor
Laboratory
Dependable Computing Laboratory
Distributed Algorithms, Fault-tolerant Algorithms, Coding Theory

To enable computers to operate efficiently on network systems, we take a theoretical perspective to researching procedures to be used in communicating information. These technologies are regarded as crucial to modern society.

MORIYAMA Masamitsu

Position
Associate Professor
Laboratory
Electronic Commerce Laboratory
Service Computing

We research Web-based services used in e-commerce and B2B transactions. Our goal is to optimize work flow and business systems based on the concept of business process modeling.

YAMAMOTO Sho

Position
Associate Professor
Laboratory
Learning Engineering Laboratory
Learning Engineering

OTANI Masayuki

Position
Lecturer

FUKUTA Youji

Position
Lecturer
Information Security