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

Research Units and Research Groups

Final Presentation of Dissertation by Ms. Takei Chizuko will be held on January 16th. [LINK]

Final Presentation of Dissertation by Mr. Imano Sosuke will be held on January 22th. [LINK]

Job Opportunities（Junior Assistant Professor）

Field：Informatics

Deadline:October 12,2025 （detailed Information）

Chinatsu Ozawa, Visiting Fellow Tatsuya Minagawa, Associate Prof. Yoichi Ochiai received the Best Paper Award in the NICOGRAPH 2025 for the paper entitled “Photographic Conviviality: A Synchronic and Symbiotic Photographic Experience through a Body Paint Workshop”. [Link]

Assistant Prof. Masaki Takeda and Yukako Murakami (Waseda Univ.) won the Best Paper Award at A-LIEP2025（The 12th Asia-Pacific Library and Information Education and Practice Conference）. The paper's title is "Factors Influencing the Formation of Adult Reading Habits ." [Link]

Associate Prof. Masao Takaku and Lecturer Jiro Kikkawa (Wakayama Univ.) won the Best Paper Award at TPDL 2025 (The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries). The paper's title is "How Retracted Article Persists on YouTube: Retraction Severity, Visibility, and Disclosure." [Link]

Haruki Fujimaki and Associate Professor Makoto P. Kato received the Best Oral and Best Poster Presentation Awards in the 18th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR-18 Conference). The title of the presentation is "KASYS at the NTCIR-18 SUSHI Task". [Link]

Assistant Prof. Hiroyoshi Ito's research was featured in the Ibaraki Shinbun. [Link]

Nao Tagai and Associate Professor Makoto P. Kato received the Best Poster Award in the 17th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM 2025). [Link]

Delegation from the Shanghai Library（including Director General Chen Chao）Visits the Kasuga Area of the University of Tsukuba. [Link]

Delegation from the School of Information Management, Nanjing University (including Dean and Professor Lei Pei) Visits the Kasuga Area of the University of Tsukuba. [Link]

Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning: Active learning and annotation for human-centered AI Translated by Assistant Prof. Ito et al. (Kyoritsu Shuppan, 2023, 428p).

Research on the Selection Tools used by Public Libraries in their Book Selection Practices by Tomomi Kinosita(Supervisor: Prof. Yuko Yoshida) (Jusonbo, 2022, 244p.).

Studies of Broadcast Media in Heisei Era by Prof. Tsuji (Izumi Shoin, 2022, 188p.).

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).

Depager (NAKAI Lab)
A self extensible parser generator

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