FIELD
Research Fields and Faculty Members
Members
Economics
Prof.Oleksandr MOVSHUK
Research guidance on related topics in econometrics.
Economics
Prof.Koji KARATO
Real estate price index analysis,urban and regional economic analysis, real estate market analysis in the fields of economic statistics and econometrics.
Sociology
Prof.Mayumi NAKAMURA
Professor Nakamura specializes in gender stratification and social research methods. She conducts quantitative and qualitative research on regional revitalization (地方創生）and related topics, such as low birth rates, the compact city policy, the introduction of the bullet train, and youth depopulation.
Information Science
Prof.Yuukou HORITA
Data acquisition and analysis toward the realization of smart cities in information communication engineering, perception information processing, human information science, and electric power engineering, and forest science.
Economics
Prof.Tetsushi HOMMA
The teaching of the theoretical and empirical analyses of the industrial organization of banking in the field of financial economics, industrial organization, and econometrics.
Economics
Prof.Michiyuki YAGI
Provide research supervision in environmental economics, focusing on environmental efficiency and productivity analysis and non-market valuation.
Meteorology
Prof.Kazuaki YASUNAGA
Provide research instructions on climate change and related severe weather disasters in the mid-latitudes and tropics.
Business Management
Prof.Kazunori YOKOYAMA
In operations research, provide research guidance on mathematical optimization and other related topics.
Solid Earth Geophysics
Prof.Tohru WATANABE
Research instructions will be given on physical properties of rocks to understand the Earth’s interior.
Transportation Planning
Associate Prof.Hiroto INOI
Impact assessments of the construction and maintenance of public transportation and behavior modification from automobiles to public transportation in civil engineering planning, traffic engineering, and urban planning.
Applied Meteorology
Associate Prof.Atsushi HAMADA
Provide research instructions on meteorological phenomena related to precipitation and clouds, with a focus on data analysis.
Information Science
Associate Prof.Takayuki HARUKI
Computational science, pre-disease science, and plasma physics.
Sustainable Design
Prof.Yuji HORI
Evaluations and improvements in architecture and cities, the reduction of environmental burdens and of energy consumption and transformation into renewable energies, etc. toward recycling society, etc. in environmental engineering and facility engineering.
Geology
Associate Prof.Ken-ichi YASUE
Regional disaster prevention and educational tourism in geomorphology and geology.
CAREER
Image of human resources to be trained
Human resources who can create new value based on multifaceted perspectives and cross-disciplinary academic knowledge
The Department of Science and Engineering and the Department of Social Sciences teach and research interdisciplinary theories and interdisciplinary applications and nurture human resources who can contribute to building a sustainable society. In particular, the Departments teach students the profundities of these fields in a manner that cultivates the deep academic knowledge, outstanding abilities, and ethical standards to take up positions that require a high level of expertise.
