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Cyber-Physical Computing Lab
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A lab that explores the computers of the future using new devices such as superconducting and quantum technologies.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the ideal form of future computers
The Cyber-Physical Computing Lab conducts research aimed at creating new computer architectures based on the integration of information science and electrical and electronic engineering.
The lab explores mechanisms that efficiently process, in the cyber world, the large volumes of data generated in the real world and feed the results back to the real world, as well as the future computers that support them.
In addition to computers that use new devices such as superconducting, quantum, and optical ones, the lab also studies secure computers and environmentally conscious computers.
Fourth-year undergraduates are mainly students in the CM/EC courses of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and students in the EE course can also set their own research topics.
Key terms
- Computer architecture
- The internal structure of a computer and the design principles behind it, linking semiconductors and circuits to software
- Quantum computer
- A form of information processing with the potential for performance that today's computers cannot achieve
- Optoelectronic computer
- A computer that combines optical devices with electronic circuits, aiming at systems specialized for applications such as AI processing
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The lab aims to create new computer architectures based on the integration of information science and electrical and electronic engineering, and to open up new applications that make use of overwhelming computing power. Its scope is broad, ranging from computers that use new devices such as superconducting, quantum, and optical ones to security, environmental considerations, embedded systems, and CPU and memory design.
*Illustrative imageSuperconducting computers
The lab aims to build a next-generation microprocessor that operates above 100 GHz, 30 to 50 times the operating frequency of today's state-of-the-art microprocessors. It has successfully demonstrated arithmetic circuits based on a new architecture, and is now working to develop them into a microprocessor, as well as researching ultra-high-speed AI processors that operate in a superconducting state.
*Illustrative imageQuantum computer design
Research on quantum computers is mostly at the device level, and the lab regards the architecture technology needed to build them as complete systems as an unexplored area. It therefore explores hybrid architectures that combine today's computers with quantum computers.
*Illustrative imageComputers that run on light
This research aims at computers that operate at the speed of light. Advances in silicon photonics and nanophotonics have made it possible to integrate large numbers of optical devices, and the lab aims to realize optoelectronic computers, including new accelerators specialized for applications such as AI processing.
*Illustrative imageHardware-based security
This research introduces security technologies into hardware such as CPUs in order to improve the security of IoT systems. The lab works on dynamic malware detection using machine learning, technology that safely shuts down functions so that damage does not spread even after an infection, and technology that conceals memory access information.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Cyber-Physical Computing Lab consist of faculty (Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors), academic researchers, staff, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKoji Inoue
- ProfessorMasao Hirokawa
- Associate ProfessorYusuke Matsunaga
- Associate ProfessorTeruo Tanimoto
- Associate ProfessorSatoshi Kawakami
- Associate ProfessorOlivia Chen
- Associate ProfessorIlkwon Byun
- Associate ProfessorShigeru Takano
- Assistant ProfessorYuting Zhao
- Assistant ProfessorTakeru Hidaka
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Superconducting Quantum-Limited Amplifier Chip in Navaho” OJB Quantum / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Superconducting computers: “Hero-64-pixel-array-superconducting-nanowire-single-photon-detector-b” NASA/JPL-Caltech; Text by Dr. Warren Holmes / Public domain (cropped)
- Quantum computer design: “6 Transmon Superconducting Quantum Processor without Cheesing 013” OJB Quantum / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Computers that run on light: “OPTICAL COMPUTER SLIDES - DPLA - 6ac1bbf61a81f15e3ceb0f288bc233a8” National Aeronautics and Space Administration. John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. 3/1/1999 / Public domain (cropped)
- Hardware-based security: “Smart-Card-Chip back” jailbird / CC BY-SA 3.0 de (cropped)
- Related lab (Information Systems Security Lab): “AI End-Scenario 1 Rogue Malware tamingtheaibeast” tamingtheaibeast.org / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (High Performance Computing Lab): “HPC Cluster at Kerala University” KannanVM / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Wireless Communications Lab): “MIMO with building” Claudeb / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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