Creating of new value from data

It becomes increasingly important to emerge additional value and produce new businesses and services in a growing momentum of big data analysis and utilization among the variety of field in this modern society. In April 2016, this center was founded as a data science educational research base in Japan.

In this center, we extract useful information from huge amounts of data, and focus on cutting-edge educational research activities relating to the data science to create new value, and furthermore we devote a social contribution and an educational development in various fields through collaboration with companies, local governments and inter –university.

Member

Director

Name Specialization Areas Research Keywords
Kaoru Fueda
(Professor)
Mathematical Statistics Statistical Modeling

Professors

Name Specialization Areas Research Keywords
Keisuke Asahara
(Assistant Professor)
Mathematical Physics Quantum Walk
Quantum Field Theory
Heiwa Date
(Associate Professor)
Family Sociology Social Survey
Tsuyoshi Esaki
(Associate Professor)
Informatics Bioinformatics
Cheminformatics
Pharmacokinetics
Takayuki Fujii
(Associate Professor)
Mathematical Statistics Stochastic Process
Change Point Analysis
Tomochika Fujisawa
(Assistant Professor)
EvolutionaryBiology  Evolutionary Genomics
Phylogenomics
Ryoji Fukaya
(Professor)
Strategic Decision-making Project Management
Business Development
Tetsuto Himeno
(Associate Professor)
Mathematical Statistics Multivariate Analysis
Kentarou Hori
(Assistant Professor)
Sociology Social Survey
Osamu Ichikawa
(Professor)
Informatics Speech Signal Processing
Automatic Speech Recognition
Masaaki Iiyama
(Professor)
Image Processing Image Recognition
Computer Vision
Tatsuyoshi Ikenoue
(Lecturer)
Health Informatics Big Data Analytics
Design of Clinical Research
Clinical Epidemiology
Takashi Imai
(Assistant Professor)
Mathematical Engineering Nonlinear Dynamics
Chaos Theory
Yu Ishikawa
(Assistant Professor)
Computer Science Biological Information Analysis
Brain-Machine Interface Technology
Koji Iwayama
(Associate Professor)
Informatics Nonlinear Time-series Analysis
Bioinformatics
Shizue Izumi
(Professor)
Statistical Science
Statistics Education
Study Design
Interactive Teaching
Akira Kawai
(Associate Professor)
Informatics Intelligent Transport System 
Mobile ad hoc
Network
Kaoru Kawamoto
(Professor)
Data Analysis for Decision-Making Data Science
Business Analytics
Shuji Kijima
(Professor)
Engineering Mathematics Theoretical Computer Science
Operations Research
Hidetoshi Matsui
(Associate Professor)
Statistical Science Statistical Modeling
Variable Selection
Hiroyasu Matsushima
(Associate Professor)
Computer Science Multi-Agent Simulation
Yu Matsubara
(Assistant Professor)
Disaster Science Social Survey
Qualitative Research
Action Research
Shingo Mitsui
(Assistant Professor)
Particle Physics Semiconductor Detector
Chisako Muramatsu
(Associate Professor)
Medical Image Processing Medical Imaging
Deep learning
Masao Nakagawa
(Assistant Professor)
Informatics Systems Engineering
Reliability Engineering
Hiroaki Nanjo
(Professor)
Informatics
Intelligent informatics
Spoken Language Processing
Natural Language Processing
Information Retrieval
Name Specialization Areas Research Keywords
Haruki Nishio
(Assistant Professor)
Plant ecology Bioinformatics
Time Series Analysis
Taichi Okumura
(Associate Professor)
Psychometics Single-case Research
Quasi-experiment
Takayuki Onojima
(Assistant Professor)
Brain Science Cognitive Neuroscience
Nonlinear Dynamics
Thong Pham
(Assistant Professor)
Statistical Science Statistical Network Analysis
Random Network Theory
Kunihiko Saito
(Professor)
Humanities Society
Informatics
Management Information System Development
Kenichi Satoh
(Professor)
Statistics Statistical data analysis
Multivariate analysis
Masaaki Sato
(Professor)
Official Statistics Statistical Survey
Social and Economic Statistics
Tomokazu Sato
(Professor)
Informatics Computer Vision
Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality
Yo Sheena
(Professor)
Mathematical Statistics Statistical Decision Theory
Multivariate Analysis
Shohei Shimizu
(Professor)
Machine Learning Statistical Causal Inference Reasoning
Tomoyuki Sugimoto
(Professor)
Statistical Science Computational Statistics
Masayoshi Takayanagi
(Associate Professor)
Physical Chemistry Molecular Simulation
Big Data Processing
Yusuke Tajima
(Assistant Professor)
Biomedical Informatics Sleep Stage Estimation
Hiroshi Takeuchi
(Assistant Professor)
Applied Mathematics Topological Data Analysis
Persistent Homology
Takuma Tanaka
(Associate Professor)
Neuroscience Information Processing of Brain, The Central Nervous System
Shunsuke Teraguchi
(Associate Professor)
Informatics Bioinformatics
Machine learning
Theoretical physics
Takaaki Umedu
(Associate Professor)
Informatics Intelligent Transportation System
Takayuki Yamaguchi
(Assistant Professor)
Applied Mathematics Dynamical Systems
Mathematiacal Model 
Xiaokang Zhou
(Associate Professor)
Informatics Ubiquitous Computing
Big Data
Cyber-Physical-Social Systems

Visiting Professors

Name Specialization Areas Research Keywords Remarks
Masato Aida
(Specially Appointed Professor)
Official Statistics Data Editing Statistical Information Institute for Consulting and Analysis
Shinsuke Ito
(Specially Appointed Professor)
Economic Statistics Official Microdata, Microdata Analysis, Anonymization Chuo University
Kazunori Ogohara
(Specially Appointed Associate Professor)
Meteorology Meteorology, Semantic segmentation, Time series analysis Kyoto Sangyo University
Takaya Osato
(Specially Appointed Lecturer)
Statistical Science
Statistical Modeling
Company data Analysis
Data wrangling
TEIKOKU DATABANK, LTD.
Hideki Origasa
(Specially Appointed Professor)
Medical Statistics Clinical Traials, QOL, Clinical Epidemiology, Statistics Education Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Hirokazu Kato
(Distinguished Visiting Professor)
Transportation Planning
Environmental Evaluation
Low Carbon City Planning, Life Cycle Assessment, Regional Traffic Strategy Nagoya University
Shigeru Kawasaki
(Distinguished Visiting Professor)
Official Statistics
Economic Statistics
Economic Analysis
Sampling
International Statistics
Nihon University
Kazuo Kitahiro
(Distinguished Visiting Professor)
Quality Control Quality Control Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd. (technical advisor)
Hitoshi Koshiba
( Visiting Researcher)
Computer Engineering
Knowledge Science
Decision Support
SciREX (Science for REdesigning Science, Technology and Innovation Policy)
Data Analysis
Data Visualization
NISTEP senior research fellow
Hideki Komatsu
(Distinguished Visiting Lecturer)
Time Series Analysis View Communications
Reiji Konishi
( Visiting Researcher)
Marketing Marketing Science
Causal Inference
Eight Hundred, Inc.
Tsuyoshi Shirai
(Distinguished Visiting Professor)
Information Structure
Biology
Information Biology
Structural Biology
Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology
Kazumasa Jinbo
(Distinguished Visiting Professor)
Discrete mathematics
Statistical design of experiment
Economic Statistics
Statistical optimality
combinatorial design
Codes
Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Isao Takabe
(Specially Appointed Associate Professor)
Official Statistics
Statistical Science
Microdata
Data Linkage
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Masayuki Takayama
(Visiting Researcher)
STI Policy
Statistical Causal Inference
Statistical Causal Discovery
Condensed Matter Physics
LiNGAM
Computational Social Science
STI Policy
Photo-excited Non-equilibrium System
Low-temperature Physics
Electron-hole System
National Institute of Science and Technology Policy(NISTEP)
Sachiko Tanaka
(Specially Appointed Associate Professor)
Medical Statistics Medical Statistics
Clinical Trial / Epidemiology Study
Professor of Kyoto University
Shinichi Taniguchi
(Specially Appointed Professor)
Database Engineering
Information System Engineering
Database
Data Mining
Shiga University
Masayuki Terada
(Specially Appointed Professor)
Informatics Privacy-preserving Technologies
Differential Privacy
Big Data Analytics
Senior Manager / Security Principal NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Hirokazu Doi
(Specially Appointed Associate Professor)
Informatics Experimental Psychology
Cognitive Science
Kokushikan University
Yoshiaki Nakagawa
(Visiting Researcher)
Biology Ecology
Mathematical Biology
Waseda University
Ryo Nishide
(Visiting Researcher)
Information Engineering People-Flow Analysis
Mobile Communications
Network
Osaka Kyoiku University
Michinori Hatayama
(Distinguished Visiting Professor)
Geoinformatics Risk Communication
Disaster Management System
Disaster Prevention Research Institute Kyoto University
Yoshihisa Fujiwara
(Visiting Researcher)
Econophysics
Complex network science
Economic network
Marco economy
Corporate data analysis
University of Hyogo
Ibuki Hoshina
(Specially Appointed Associate Professor)
Statistical Modeling Computational Statistics Aoyama Gakuin University
Shuji Yokomizo
(Visiting Researcher)
Official Statistics Utilization of Statistical Data National Statistics Center
Eiji Yoshikawa
(Specially Appointed Professor)
Economics Economic Thought
Economic Philosophy
Kyoto Tachibana University

Advisory Board

Name
Kazuhito Ataka Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies / Senior Strategist of Z Holdings Corporation
Yutaka Kano Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
Genshiro Kitagawa President of Research Organization of Information and Systems
Tomoyuki Higuchi Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, CHUO University
Mutsumi Yoshino Doctor of Engineering, Quality Control Department, DENSO Corporation
Michiko Watanabe Professor, Faculty of Data Science, Rissho University