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Atsuko Takamatsu, Professor
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The Takamatsu Lab uses mathematics and physics to investigate the mechanisms of biological phenomena that cannot be understood from genetic information alone. The lab regards life as a system that behaves dynamically, and believes that, in addition to information about its parts, it is necessary to understand how that system operates. The lab aims to understand, through both experiments and theory, the dynamics that arise when components come together and interact with one another. The subjects differ from theme to theme, but they all share the approach of understanding biological phenomena from a mathematical standpoint.
Ryo Mizuuchi, Associate Professor
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The Mizuuchi Lab seeks to answer the question of how life began by experimentally recreating the process through which life arises from simple, nonliving molecules. Drawing on evolutionary biology, biophysics, and synthetic biology, the lab works on developing and evolving self-replicating molecular systems and protocell models. In the course of this work, the lab also develops a variety of biotechnologies. It is a new lab, established in 2023.
Hiroko Bannai, Professor
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The Bannai Lab aims to elucidate how the brain works and how neurological diseases develop, using nanoscale biological information on the structure, function, and dynamics of the protein molecules that make up living organisms. The brain, which processes enormous amounts of information, is often compared to a computer, but a major difference is that the proteins and lipids that make up the brain are constantly replaced throughout life. The lab asks how the brain's structure is maintained while its components are replaced, and how it can still carry out higher functions such as memory, learning, and thought. Under the banner of "nanoscale biology," the lab aims to connect biology, semiconductor nanotechnology, medicine, and informatics.
Toshiki Makimoto, Professor
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The Makimoto Lab researches semiconductor devices and materials using cutting-edge techniques such as MBE (molecular beam epitaxy). Semiconductor engineering is a core field of electronics, built on semiconductor physics, material properties, and semiconductor nanotechnology. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the lab aims to create technologies that will support the information society of the future. The lab is divided into a GaAs (gallium arsenide) team and a new materials team, each carrying out its own research.
Takahiko Takahiko, Professor
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The Takahiko Lab researches devices that generate ultrasound and their applications in medical engineering. Ultrasound is sound with a frequency too high for humans to hear, and it is strongly excited at the natural frequency of a piezoelectric material. Using piezoelectric thin films, the lab develops sensors that detect disease markers, elements that measure the viscosity of droplets, and high-resolution ultrasonic probes. The lab aims to carry out research and make things that are truly useful.
Ryo Watanabe, Professor
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The Watanabe Lab studies control: making real-world systems such as aircraft, automobiles, ships, and manufacturing equipment move as intended, using computers and electronic devices. Control is one of the foundational technologies supporting modern society and daily life. It is highly versatile and is applied in a wide range of fields. The lab works on mathematical modeling that enables "good control," on developing model-based control methods, and on applying them to real-world systems. Control engineering is often thought of as a mathematical field that deals only with mechanical and electrical systems, but the professor writes that this is not the whole picture.
Shigeru Fujimura, Professor
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The Fujimura Lab studies next-generation production information systems for use on the manufacturing floor. Its central theme is production scheduling, which dynamically decides what to make, when, in what quantity, and how to make and sell it. Using real corporate problems as case studies, the lab examines how information such as orders, inventory, and progress should flow. It also studies how systems themselves are built, using software development techniques and agent technology.
Takayuki Furuzuki, Professor
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The Furuzuki Lab studies computational intelligence, which imitates the mechanisms of living things, and its applications. It works with neural networks, fuzzy systems, genetic algorithms, and more, and in recent years has put particular effort into deep learning. Its central interest is how to apply these techniques to tasks such as prediction, classification, clustering, and optimization. Applications are wide-ranging, including pattern recognition, system identification and control, data mining, and financial analysis.
Mizuho Iwaihara, Professor
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The Iwaihara Lab studies query languages and query processing, building on databases that store and efficiently share information. Because information on the internet is growing rapidly and becoming more diverse, the lab develops databases and web information systems that can cope with this. It applies fundamentals such as algorithms, graph theory, and logic to system development, and also considers new ways of sharing information from a societal perspective. It also emphasizes security and privacy protection techniques for sharing databases safely.
Seiichiro Kamata, Professor
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The Kamata Lab studies image information processing and pattern recognition, from fundamentals to applications. Recently, it has focused in particular on research into image compression and biometrics. The lab focuses on space-filling curves, a type of curve from mathematical analysis, and develops image processing algorithms that use their properties and puts them to practical use. Its goal is to find methods that outperform current international standards such as JPEG and MPEG.
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