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

Research Units and Research Groups

The application guidelines for Master’s and Doctoral Programs in Informatics have been released. [Master's Program, Doctoral Program]

Final Presentation of Dissertation by Ms. Satoko Tanabe was held on June 12. [LINK]

Dr. Hiroyoshi Ito has been appointed as an Assistant Professor.

Final Presentation of Dissertation by Mr. Atsushi Otsuka was held on March 31.

Yuji Demura (Supervisor: Assistant Prof. Makoto Fujisawa, Associate Prof. Masahiko Mikawa), Assistant Prof. Makoto Fujisawa, and Associate Prof. Masahiko Mikawa received IIEEJ Distinguished Paper Award. The title is "Hair Deformation Simulation Based on Internal Chemical Bonds." [LINK]

Assistant Prof. Makoto Fujisawa and Associate Prof. Masahiko Mikawa received IIEEJ Distinguished Paper Award. The title is "Coastal Landform Generation Based on Particle Method and Mathematical Geography." [LINK]

Kazuki Otao (Supervisor: Prof. Tetsuji Satoh) was designated as a super creator in 2019 IPA Mitou Project. [LINK]

Inafuku Kazufumi (Supervisor: Prof. Tetsuji Satoh) received an online presentation award in DEIM2020. [LINK]

Prof. Atsuyuki Morishima has been named IPSJ Fellow. [LINK]

Masaki Kobayashi (Supervisor: Prof. Atsuyuki Morishima) received an online presentation award in DEIM2020. 

Daisuke Aritomo (Supervisor: Prof. Atsuyuki Morishima), Associate Prof. Chiemi Watanabe (Tsukuba University of Technology), Assistant Prof. Masaki Matsubara and Prof. Atsuyuki Morishima received a best paper award in iiWAS2019. The title is "A Privacy-Preserving Similarity Search Scheme over Encrypted Word Embeddings."

Assoiciate Prof. Yohei Seki received an Award for Development of International Standard for issueing ISO/IEC 30146: 2019 Information technology - Smart City ICT Indicators.

Hibiki Miyazawa (Supervisor: Prof. Yuzuru Hiraga) won the second place and an audience award in the second student presentation competition of the Piano Teachers' National Association of Japan. [LINK]

Masaki Kobayarhi (Supervisor: Prof. Atsuyuki Morishima) received an enterprize award in WebDB Forum 2019 (LIFULL award，FRONTEO award). [LINK]

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). 

Studies of Broadcast Media in Showa Era: Genealogy of "Flower" in Cultural Programs for Women by Prof. Tsuji (Izumi Shoin, 2018, 212p). 

An Introduction to Deep Learning by Associate Prof. Tezuka  (Asakura Publishing, 2018, 180p).

Depager (NAKAI Lab)
A self extensible parser generator

PTL2R (YU lab)
An open-source toolkit of learning-to-rank methods based on PyTorch