Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of TsukubaiSchool

Research Units and Research Groups

Dr. KIM SunKyoung has been appointed as an Assistant Professoron on December 1st.

Final Presentation of Dissertation by Ms. Koko Yutaka was held on October 22. [LINK]

Dr. ONO Haruki has been appointed as an Assistant Professor on September 1st.

Prof. Atsuyuki Morishima has been elected as the next Asia Pacific Regional Chair of iSchools, an international consortium of informatics graduate schools at research universities around the world. iSchools was established in 2005 to promote informatics research. The iSchools was established in 2005 to promote informatics research. iSchools currently has 122 member universities around the world, including the University of North Carolina, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Pittsburgh, and 35 universities from the Asia Pacific region. The University of Tsukuba has been a member since 2012.[Link]

Dr. Tomoko Tanabe(Supervisor: Prof. Chieko Mizoue) a former PhD student, published a book "The Effectiveness of Library Evaluation : Empirical Analysis Based on the Theory of Evaluation Influence" based on her PhD work.This book received the Japan Society for Library and Information Science Award.[Link]

Akihisa Shitara's (Supervisor: Associate Prof. Yoichi Ochiai) research project "See-Through Captions" won the highest award in Japan in the James Dyson Award 2021.[Link]

The Asahi Shimbun EduA (August 8, 2021) and the web version (https://www.asahi.com/edua/article/14404307) introduced Maeshiro Lab. and Prof. Maeshiro's research and research policy.

Master student Chihiro Sato (Supervisor: Associate Prof. Masao Takaku) received the Best Student Presentation Award at the 29th Annual Meeting of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge. The title is "A Visualization Method of Browsing History to Support Reflection on Information Gathering Behavior"[Link]

Junior Assistant Prof. Jiro Kikkawa, Associate Prof. Masao Takaku, and Prof. Fuyuki Yoshikane received the Commemorating Best Paper Award 2021 of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge. The title is "Analyses of Wikipedia Editors Adding Bibliographic References based on DOI Links."[Link]

Assistant Prof. Hiroyoshi Ito received the Best Paper Award in DEIM2021.［Link］

Masaki Kobayashi (Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies), Associate Prof. Kei Wakabayashi, and Prof. Atsuyuki Morishima received the Excellent Paper Award in DEIM2021.［Link］

Masaki Kobayashi (Supervisor·Co-Researcher: Prof. Atsuyuki Morishima, Associate Prof. Kei Wakabayashi) received Student Online Presentation Award in DEIM2021. 

Associate Prof. Masaki Matsubara received a research award at the 26th JSAI SIGAM. The title is "The influence of the content and its arrangement of cooking recipes on the burden on the writer and the utility of the reader"[Link]

Cybercrime Strategy by  Assistant Prof. Takara et al.(Seibundoh,2021,356p)

Visual Archive Studies by Prof. Tsuji (Daigaku Kyoiku Shuppan, 2020, 172p.).

Crowdsourcing Makes the Impossible Possible by Prof. Morishima (Kyoritsu Shuppan, 2020, 200p.).

Eigenvalue Analysis and Singular Value Decomposition by Prof. Hasegawa (Maruzen Publishing, 2019, 214p).

An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning by Associate Prof. Tezuka  (Asakura Publishing, 2019, 220p).

Public Libraries in Finland: The Reason for the Breakthrough by Prof. Yoshida, Assistant Prof. Koizumi and Ms. Sakata-Henttonen (Shinhyoron Publishing Inc., 2019, 260p).  

The Endeavors of Dutch Public Libraries: The Reason for Paid Membership by Prof. Yoshida (Shinhyoron Publishing Inc., 2018, 254p). 

Depager (NAKAI Lab)
A self extensible parser generator

PT-Ranking (YU lab)
An open-source toolkit of learning-to-rank methods based on PyTorch