Computer Science
Information Science and Technology is rapidly increasing its width and depth and having an increasingly important position in a fast growing highly information-oriented society.
Although Japan should take international activities suitable to a member of advanced countries, we are presently in a great want of advanced technicians and researchers in this field to do so. This graduate course (computer science) gives a good opportunity to study for students who wish to acquire deeper knowledge within the fields and undertake innovative and technologically advanced research, and aims at developing talented people who will directly concern the development of information science and technology or who will be leaders in it.
Students in this course can develop more flexible ways of thinking with creativity, as well as professional knowledge in their own special field, and are expected to be advanced and active technicians or researchers with global perspective in the future.
This graduate course consists of three chairs: communication engineering, image recognition, and computational engineering. Each chair includes 4 or 5 professor's laboratories. A student belongs to any professor's laboratory in any chair and studies on his research theme which his laboratory can cover. The curriculum recommends taking subjects of other chairs, as well as subjects of the chair which a student belongs to. Students can also participate in lectures of other majors.
Research activities of 14 professors in this graduate course for staying at the leading-edge of the fast growing computer science field include frequent conference presentations and publications in scientific journals in information technology or related fields.
There are master course and doctor course in this graduate course. People who have finished the graduate course, are supposed to find their positions in companies, institutes of higher education, or research organizations in information science and technology field or related fields, and also uncountable companies or organizations in other fields.
Communication and Network Engineering
Studies on Communication engineering of wireless, fiber and cabling systems; Research on network systems and the management system for multi-media data with high quality of service (QoS); Development of hardware physical layer with high-speed operation of Gbps, reliable packet synchronizer, error correcting coding, cipher coding and channel controlling; Studies on image processing and compression, and high-speed over-sampling AD converter; Research on distribution and infrastructure for digital information and on the modeling.
Image Recognition
High precision recognition of printed or handwritten characters, document analysis and recognition, computer aided programming; Computer vision for visual surveillance and mobile robotics; 3-D shape recovery and motion analysis, generation of virtualized image from real images for the mixed reality; Measurement and analysis of life information, development of human-perception-like sensing system, application of optical fiber; Study on motor learning and memory in the brain, and its application to engineering system.
Computational Engineering
Numerical Analysis, functional approximation, research and development of numerical methods for special functions; Research in computational geometry; Study on next generation CAD based on SPACE-MODEL; Numerical simulation and experiment of percolation system, development of numerical simulation system of cancer growth, simulation science, high performance computing (parallel and distributed); Symbolic computation; Study on lazy narrowing calculi for symbolic equation solving; Research in higher-order rewrite systems.