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

Research Units and Research Groups

Submissions are invited for iConference 2024, co-hosted by Jilin University (China) and University of Tsukuba. Submission deadline for research papers is 17th September.

The iConference is an annual conference of the international iSchools organization and is open to all researchers and students. It is one of the top venues for research in information science and related fields. The hosts will be Jilin University and University of Tsukuba. On-site sessions will be held on 22-26 April 2024 at Jilin University and online sessions will be held on 15-18 April 2024. [Link]

Dr. Kai Nishikawa has been appointed as an Assistant Professoron on August 1st.

Final Presentation of Dissertation by Ms. LIU QIANXIU was held on July 3rd. [LINK]

The final lecture of Prof. Chieko Mizoue was held as follows.

Title: Tsukuba, Research and Me
Date and Time: March 17th, 2023 (Friday), 15:15~16:30
Venue: Kasuga Auditorium, University of Tsukuba (broadcast on Zoom)

Dr. Rumiko Tanaka (2021 Alumni) and Professor Emeritus Shin'ichi Nakayama received the 2022 Yoshida Award (Best Paper Award) from the Society of Computer Chemistry, Japan. This paper is part of Dr. Tanaka's dissertation, and was published in the Journal of Computer Chemistry, Japan. [Link]

The paper entitled “The Study on Structured Data for Chinese Poetry — Focus on Tang Poems” by Ms. Yan Cong and Associate Prof. Masao Takaku won the 20th Best Paper Award of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge. [Link]

Associate Prof. Yoichi Ochiai awarded the Young Scientists' Award of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for 2023. His interdisciplinary work on "Real-world oriented interaction research using holograms and wave control" has been recognized with the Young Scientists' Award. [Link]

The paper entitled "Technostress on Academic Librarians Working in Digital Scholarship during the Pandemic in Indonesia" by Dr. Rahmi (2019 Alumni) and Prof. Hideo Joho presented at the 24th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2022) won the Best Paper Award. [Link]

The paper entitled "The Variable Earth's Rotation in the 4th–7th Centuries" by Assistant Prof. Koji Murata et al. was introduced in KoKaNet (Kodomo no Kagaku) and other websites including Forbes.

Assistant Prof. Hiroyoshi Ito got University of Tsukuba Young Faculty Award.

On July 10-11, a delegation from the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China, visited institute of Library, Information and Media Science. [Link]

Associate Professor Jeng, Wei of the Department of Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University and one of his supervising students visited the laboratory of Associate Professor Masanori Koizumi as part of a research project and had a discussion with dean.

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).

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

Depager (NAKAI Lab)
A self extensible parser generator

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