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Information and Communication Software Lab
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A lab that builds platforms for collecting, analyzing, and managing research data.
AboutAbout the lab
Building a platform to collect, protect, and make use of research data
The lab studies “data platforms” for collecting, analyzing, and managing the large volumes of data generated by research.
A relatively young lab, it serves as the Data Platform Research Division of the Cyberscience Center at Tohoku University.
The lab develops an environment for the long-term storage, management, and use of big data from inside and outside the university, so that researchers pursuing data-driven research can use it with confidence.
At the graduate level, the lab takes part as a cooperating chair in the Graduate School of Information Sciences, and at the undergraduate level it accepts students from the Department of Electrical, Information and Physics Engineering in the School of Engineering.
Key terms
- Data lake
- A system that collects and stores large volumes of data in various formats as they are.
- Deep learning
- A machine learning method that uses multilayer neural networks to learn features automatically from data.
- Research data management
- The practice of handling data obtained through research, including its storage, organization, and publication.
NewsLab news
A paper by Professor Nakamura and colleagues is published in IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems
A paper by Professor Nakamura and colleagues is published in Journal of Information Processing
A paper by Professor Nakamura and colleagues is published in Gakujutsu Joho Shori Kenkyu (a Japanese journal on academic information processing)
Press release on “Tohoku University Research Data Lake IZUMI,” developed by Professor Nakamura and colleagues
“White Paper for Storage Beginners,” to which Professor Nakamura contributed, is published by SNIA
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to contribute to society, including academia and industry, through research on data platforms. Its research is divided into three areas: a platform for collecting and storing data, a platform for analyzing data, and a platform for managing research data.
*Illustrative imageA data lake platform for storing large-scale data
The lab studies a data lake platform that can collect and store large-scale data, with high resolution and great diversity, produced by instruments such as the detectors at the next-generation synchrotron radiation facility (NanoTerasu) and cryo-electron microscopes.
*Illustrative imageA data analysis platform that lets researchers focus on analysis
The lab studies a platform that lets researchers focus on analysis, without being troubled by data size or storage location, when they analyze big data collected in a data lake using the latest methods such as deep learning.
*Illustrative imageResearch data management for both offense and defense
The lab studies a platform that makes it possible to combine two sides of research data management: the “offense” of accelerating research through open science and open data, and the “defense” of presenting accurate evidence when research misconduct is alleged.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty, master's and undergraduate students, JYPE students, and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakaki Nakamura
- Project Associate ProfessorSatoshi Munakata
- Associate ProfessorToru Abe
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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: “DHL Netherlands local site computer room server racks - IMG 3297” Jemimus / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- A data lake platform for storing large-scale data: “Electron microscope Mamut at the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Science in Brno (9)” Akademie věd České republiky / Czech Academy of Science / CC BY-SA 3.0 cz (cropped)
- A data analysis platform that lets researchers focus on analysis: “CSIRO ScienceImage 11313 The CSIRO GPU cluster at the data centre” division, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Research data management for both offense and defense: “Virginia Tech - data center” Christopher Bowns / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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