Master's Course

With the Aim of Advanced Science and Technology Education

The Graduate School of Science and Technology (Master's Course) considers education as the most important duty, and aims to nurture highly specialized engineers who can adapt themselves to the progress and diversity of science and technology. The course provides advanced science and technology education by considering the importance of the close connections between what is studied in the undergraduate and master's programs.

Course		Field of Research
Science and Technology	Mathematics and Physics	Mathematical Sciences Condensed Matter Physics Astrophysics Theoretical Particle Physics
	Frontier Materials Chemistry	Organic Chemistry Physical Chemistry Inorganic / Analytical Chemistry
	Global Environment and Disaster Prevention Sciences	Cosmology and Cosmic Ray Research Meteorology Hydrology Geology and Petrology Seismology
	Electronics and Information Technology	Electronics Engineering Electronics and Computer Engineering Information Engineering Computational Engineering and Science
	Mechanical Science and Engineering	Mechanical and Intelligent Material Systems Thermal Fluid Engineering of Various Systems Instrument and Control Engineering Medical System Engineering
	Sustainable Energy	Advanced Energy Materials Energy Conversion Engineering Wind and Ocean Energy Engineering Geothermal Engineering

Mathematical Sciences

Field of Research	Staff	Research Activities
Mathematical Sciences	EI, Hiromi	Ergodic Theory (Fractal, Quasi-periodic tiling)
	KON, Masamichi	Analysis of various types of optimal location problems, and construction of efficient algorithms for those problems
	SAKAKI, Makoto	Differential Geometry
	TACHIYA, Yohei	Transcendental Number Theory
	TSUTAYA, Kimitoshi	Partial Differential Equations, Applied Analysis
	NAGASE, Noriaki	Stochastic differential equations and stochastic control
	BETSUMIYA, Koichi	Algebraic Combinatorics, Coding Theory
	MORI, Shintaro	Stochastic process, Data science
Solid State Physics	GORYO, Jun	Theoretical condensed matter physics, mainly, superconductuvity...etc
	MIYANAGA, Takafumi	Condensed Matter Physics / Materials Science. Structural Dynamics (Phase Transitions, Chemical Reactions, Surface Processes, Nonequilibrium states) , XAFS / Synchrotron Radiation.
	TEZUKA, Yasuhisa	X-ray Spectroscopic Studies on Electronic State of Dielectrics and Strongly Correlated Materials.
	WATANABE, Takao	Single Crystal Growth and Physical Properties of Strongly Correlated Materials including High-Tc Cuprates. Exploration of New Functional Materials.
	AZUHATA, Takashi	Optical Properties of Semiconductors.
	ENTA, Yoshiharu	Atomic Structures, Electronic Structures, and Chemical Reactions on Semiconductor Surface/Interface.
	SUZUKI, Yuushi	Interface Science of Materials Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy Low-Dimensional Low-energy Physics.
	FUJIKAWA, Yasunori	Structural analysis and property measurement on surfaces, thin films and nanostructures by means of multi-probe STM
	MASUDA, Ryo	Study of local electronic/vibrational states of condensed matters through various probe beams, mainly Mössbauer spectroscopy
Astrophysics	ASADA, Hideki	Theoretical Astrophysics, especially General Relativity and Cosmology (Gravitational Lens, Gravitational Waves, Dark Matter, Dark Energy).
	SENDOUDA, Yuuiti	Theoretical physics, cosmology and gravity
	TAKAHASHI, Nobusuke	High Energy Cosmic Ray Physics by Computer Simulation and Large Area Air Shower Experiments.

Frontier Materials Chemistry

Field of Research	Staff	Research Activities
Organic Chemistry	ITO, Shunji	Study on the Creation of Novel Functional Organic Materials Using Advanced Synthetic Methodologies.
	KAWAKAMI, Jun	Design, Synthesis and Application of Novel Fluorescent Chemosensor for Ion and Molecule Recognition.
	TAKEUCHI, Daisuke	Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Synthesis and Function of Polymers with Novel Structures
	YOSHIZAWA, Atsushi	Molecular Design for Novel Functional Liquid Crystals.
	HAGIHARA, Masaki	Development of functional biomolecules with potential applications in energy, environment, and biomedical fields
Physical Chemistry	ABE, Toshiyuki	Development of Visible-Light-Induced Photoenergy Conversion System on the Basis of Design and Fabriation of Organic Photodevices.
	MIYAMOTO, Ryo	Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and Ab Initio Calculation of Transition Metal and Rare-Earth Metal Complexes: Molecular Structure, Electronic and Spin Structure
	SAGISAKA, Masanobu	Development of Novel Functional Molecular Assemblies and Their Application
	YAMAZAKI, Shohei	Theoretical Study of Chemical Reactions Using High-Level Quantum Chemical Calculations
	KUREHA, Takuma	Evaluation of physical properties and design of polymeric materials using light scattering and spectroscopy
Inorganic / Analytical Chemistry	OKAZAKI, Masaaki	Synthesis and Functionality of Redox-Responsive Transition-Metal Complexes and Clusters
	MASUNO, Atsunobu	Syntheses, physical properies, and structure analyses of functional glasses and ceramics prepared by a levitation technique
	KITAGAWA, Fumihiko	Development of Integrated High Performance Separation and High Sensitive Detection Systems Based on Microscale Electrophoresis
	NODA, Kaori
	OHTA, Shun	Green Catalytic Transformations with Magnesium as an Energy Source

Global Environment and Disaster Prevention Sciences

Field of Research	Staff	Research Activities
Cosmology and Cosmic Ray Research	KASAI, Masumi	Cosmology, Inhomogeneous Universe, Gravitational Lensing
	ICHIMURA, Masakatsu	Cosmic Ray Acceleration and Propagation Mechanisms
	TAKAHASHI, Ryuichi	Cosmology, Dark Energy, Gravitational Lens, Gravitational Waves
Meteorology	YATAGAI, Akiyo
Meteorology	ISHIDA, Sachinobu	Land-atmosphere Interaction, Local Meteorology, Heat, Water and Carbon Cycle
Hydrology	OKAZAKI, Atsushi	Data assimilation, Hydrometeorological prediction, Global warming impact assessment, Paleoclimate reconstruction
Geology and Petrology	ORIHASHI, Yuji	Studies of igneous petrology, radioisotope chronology, geology and earth dynamics.
	NEMOTO, Naoki	Assessment of Marine Environment and Reconstruction of Paleoenvironment based on Foraminifer
	SASAKI, Minoru	Geology and Petrology of Arc Volcanoes
	HORIUCHI, Kazuho	Paleoclimatology, Geochronology, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Ice Core, Sediments, Tree Rings, Relation between Celestial Phenomena and Global Climate
Seismology	MAEDA, Takuto	Theoretical and computational studies on seismic and tsunami wave propagation, estimations of heterogeneous earth structure and earthquake rupture process based on seismogram records, and development of real-time tsunami forecasting method
Seismology	TAKANO, Tomoya	Studies on temporal changes of elastic properties in the Earth's structure.

Electronics and Information Technology

Field of Research	Staff	Research Activities
Electronics Engineering	IMAI, Masashi	Research and Development of Next-generation Asynchronous Circuits and System-on-Chips based on Network-on-Chip for Dependable Computer Systems
	KANAMOTO, Toshiki	Research on Semiconductor Device Modeling and Application of Semiconductors to Embedded Systems
	KUROKAWA, Atsushi	Research on the high-performance and high-reliability design technology (such as low-power, low-EMC, variation-aware high-quality communications, etc.) of semiconductor integrated circuits
	KOBAYASHI, Yasuyuki	Research on Green Devices based on Semiconductors
	NAKAZAWA, Hideki	Heteroepitaxy, Preparation of Semiconductor Thin Films Using Plasma Processes, Structure and Properties of Functional Thin Films of Carbon and Related Materials and Their Applications
	WATANABE, Ryosuke	Research on Photovoltaics and Surface Devices; Surface Modification and Treatment to Improve the Functionality of the Devices
Electronics and Computer Engineering	ICHIJO, Kenji	Multiprocessor Systems, Reconfigurable Systems, Computer Networks, Wavelet Analysis and its Applications
Electronics and Computer Engineering	NARITA, Akiko	Dynamic Load Balancing for Multi-processor System, Embedded System Software, Computer Network
Information Engineering	ONOGUCHI, Kazunori	Computer Vision and Image Processing
	ZENIYA, Tsutomu	Medical Image Processing and Computed Tomography
	TAMBA, Sumio	Data Analysis with Remote Sensing and GIS, Database System
	MIZUTA, Satoshi	Genome Informatics and Development of the Algorithms Used Therein
Computational Engineering and Science	TANEDA, Akito	Soft Computing, Evolutionary Algorithm, Nucleic Acid Sequence Analysis, Nanomaterials Simulation
Computational Engineering and Science	OKAZAKI, Isao	Computation Methodology for Electronic States of Biomolecules

Mechanical Science and Engineering

Field of Research	Staff	Research Activities
Mechanical and Intelligent Material Systems	SASAGAWA, Kazuhiko	Development of functional and reliability evaluation method of micro- and nano-material systems, Biomechanical study on functional evaluation of medical and welfare devices
	SATO, Hiroyuki	Deformation characteristics of crystalline materials at high temperatures. Strengthening, processing and life prediction of high performance structural materials.
	FUJISAKI, Kazuhiro	Mechanical science of micro-nano structure of materials Mechanical properties of biological tissue Biomechanical design for human life
	MINETA, Takahiro	Improvement in mechanical properties of structural metallic materials based on structure control
Thermal Fluid Engineering of Various Systems	TORIKAI, Hiroyuki	Science of firefighting and combustion engineering
	MURATA, Hiroyuki	Study on gas-solid flow and fuel cell
	OKABE, Takahiro	Study of heat transfer phenomena in biological tissues Accurate measurement of thermophysical properties and its application to medical diagnosis
	SHIROTA, Minori
	MIYAGAWA, Taimei	Study of computational biological fluid dynamics
Instrument and Control Engineering	IMANISHI, Etsujiro	Performance prediction of dynamics and robotization on construction machinery
	NAKAMURA, Masayuki	Intelligent information processing in sensing and control systems using machine learning and optimization
	IWATANI, Yasushi	Vision-based robot control
	SAITO, Hiroyuki	Seismoelectric effect, Acoustic logging, Geometric correction of satellite images, Retrieval of synthetic aperture radar images.
	TAKEI, Toshinobu
Medical System Engineering	OKA, Kazuhiko	Optical metrology and its biomedical application, Optical polarimetry, Optical manipulation
	SAGAWA, Koichi	Body-mounted biomechanical analysis system Quantitative evaluation of sense
	HANADA, Yasutaka	Laser processing, µ-TAS, Biophotonic measurement
	HOSHINO, Takayuki
	MORIWAKI, Takeshi	Biomechanics of cardiovascular tissue Development of measurement instrument for medical device design
	YANO, Tetsuya	Study on the Computer-Aided Design and Assessment of Cardiovascular Devices
	CHEN, Xiaoshuai	Surgical simulator, Virtual reality (VR), Biomechanics, Numerical calculation

Sustainable Energy

Field of Research	Staff	Research Activities
Advanced Energy Materials	ITAKA, Kenji	Semiconductor-based advanced energy materials (e.g. solar cells, thermoelectrics, capacitors).
	IM, Hojun	Development and applications of next-generation solar energy materials
	CHISAKA, Mitsuharu	Study on energy storage/conversion materials for electrochemical devices
Energy Conversion Engineering	KOBAYASHI, Fumihisa	Developments of the energy conversion process from plant and/or animal biomass and bioprocess using novel microorganism in order to keep the environment
	SASAKI, Kazuya	Research on devices and materials for energy conversion and resource recovery
	MATSUSHITA, Yohsuke	Fluid flow, heat amd mass transfer analysis with chemical reactions for energy conversion processes
	YOSHIDA, Akihiro	Developing novel catalysts and systems for biomass conversion, energy storage and lowering energy consumption of current processes
Ocean Energy Engineering	KUBOTA, Takeshi	Power conversion device, magnetic sensors / actuators and energy utilization by their devices.
Geothermal Engineering	IOKA, Seiichiro	Hydrology and geochemistry of geothermal systems.
Geothermal Engineering	WAKASA, Sachi	Geothermo-morphology, Remote Sensing, in situ Cosmogenic Nuclide dating