Graduate Schools : Division of Electronics : Teaching Staff

Professor
UCHINO Takashi
Research : I am currently a Professor of electronics and intelligent systems with Tohoku Institute of Technology, where I am engaged in education and research on novel devices based on Si technology and nano materials including carbon nanotube and graphene. From 1989 to 2002, I worked for Hitachi Central Research Lab, where I was engaged in research and development of CMOS and Bipolar transistors for mainframe computers and high-end processors. From 2002 to 2011, I worked for University of Southampton, UK to explore post CMOS devices and photonic metamaterials. My current research interests are in new and innovative materials, device structures, and process technology which is compatible with current Si technology.

Professor
KASAI Shigenobu
Research : Development of Microbiochip We have utilized microfabrication technologies and localized chemical reactions at solid surfaces to fabricateintegratedbiochip and develop characterization methods. We are now going on to apply these biochips to environmental monitoring, health monitoring, diagnosis, drug screening, and order-made medical treatment.

KOBAYASHI Masaki

Professor
KOBAYASHI Masaki
Research : Study on the technique of ultraweak photon imaging and fluorescence tomography, and its application determining biological function of living body through visualization of gene expression and physiological activity with using reporter gene and quantum dots.
http://www.tohtech.ac.jp/~elecs/ca/kobayashilab_hp/index.html

TAGAWA Ikuya

Professor
TAGAWA Ikuya
Research :Hard Disk Drive（HDD）, used in Personal Computer and in Video Recorder, is now a central player of Data Center, and is the essential device for Big Data and for Artificial Intelligence. HDD capability has been progressed significantly with Perpendicular Magnetic Recording and Tunnel Magneto-Resistive sensor technologies. We are studying next generation technologies like Microwave Assist Magnetic Recording and Heat-Dot Magnetic Recording for further growth of HDD.

FUJITA Toyomi

Professor
FUJITA Toyomi
Research :My research interests include the development of robot visual functions based on the human visual scanpath, involving human vision control of eye movement sequences.
I have analyzed the scanpath and developed imageprocessing algorithms which showed effectiveness in predicting the scanpath based upon image kernels, the theory of signal detection and others.
In the next phase of my research I intend to continue my work in predicting the human visual scanpath and applying its technologies to robot vision so that a robot recognizes the action or intention of partner robots or human to accomplish effective cooperative work and smooth interface.

MARUYAMA Tsugito

Professor
MARUYAMA Tsugito
Research : Study of robot and mechatronics cooperative control and learning control： The purpose of our laboratory is to develop a robot supporting handicap persons and a robot to perform music. The main themes are to research technologies of interactive and cooperative control between human and robot and to research a learning control mechanism of sound creation.

MIYASHITA Tetsuya

Professor
MIYASHITA Tetsuya
Research : Electronic display devices used in the mobile phone, TV, PC, etc. make an important role as a manmachine-interface in recent information society. To supply more information deeply and quickly through the eyes, I have been focusing on liquid crystal devices for electronic displays, and researching on fundamental physics, new optical elements and 3D displays for future-oriented display systems.

ITO Masashi

Associate Professor
ITO Masashi
Research :My specialty is speech perception and acoustic signal processing. Based on psycho-acoustical experiments, I have proposed a perceptual model which integrates traditional formant-based model and whole-spectral model to explain various perceptual phenomena consistently. For speech analysis, a Local Vector Transform（LVT）has been proposed on the basis of sinusoidal representation of speech signals.
The method can be applied to high-quality speech conversion and time-variant transfer function estimation.

Associate Professor
SHIBATA Kenji
Research : Quantum dots are often called "artificial atoms" and show varieties of atom-like physics. Electrical manipulation and read-out of quantum mechanical states in single quantum dots and molecules is expected to bring about innovation in quantum information processing. I have been working on electron transport through single quantum dots by using metallic leads with nanogaps and exploring device applications of novel physics manifested in such systems.

Associate Professor
SUZUKI Ikuro
Research : To understand the function of brain and expand into drug discovery and regenerative medicine, we have developed the electrosensing techniques in human induced pluripotent stem cell derived neurons and 3-dimentional reconstructed techniques of biological tissues.

Associate Professor
NAKAYAMA Hidehisa
Research : Our research focuses on the information processing architecture in the sensor network environment. The goal of our research is secure data gathering platform supported by the intelligent ad-hoc network.

Associate Professor
MIZUNO Fumio
Research :We have been studying on wearable computing and devices for home health care and medical use.
Research topics are described blow.
1. Development of a wearable computing for vital signs monitoring
2. Study on a man-machine interface using biological signals
3. Study on a device providing independent views to both of eyes

KRASHIMA写真

Associate Professor
KARASHIMA Akihiro
Research : Experimental and modeling studies are performed focusing on the role of neuronal activities in sleep on development and maintenance of neuronal circuit. In addition, biomedical signals such as electroencephalogram and heart rate are recorded and analyzed to quantify daytime sleepiness and nocturnal sleep quality.

ONODERA Toshiyuki

Lecturer
ONODERA Toshiyuki
Research : Medical imaging instruments have dramatically improved modern medical technology. In this Lab., compound semiconductors characterized with high atomic number, high density and wide band-gay energy have been studied to realize gamma-ray detectors with high detection efficiency used for imaging devices such as X-ray CT and PET（Positron emission tomography）.