Laboratories and Professors

Professors Specialities Research Subjects

Nobuaki Ishii

System Engineering Management
Project Management,

Modeling & Simulation

1. Program & Project Management
2. Demand-to-Supply Management
3. Facility Planning

Jiahua Weng

 Social Systems Engineering,
Operations Management,
Production Management,
Production system,

1. Operations management for Engineer-to-order production
2. Decision support system development for mass customization
3. Global supply chain management
4. Design and management of Circular Supply Chain

Hideki Katagiri

Operations Research,
Systems Optimization,
Data Analysis

1. Soft computing approaches to optimization problems under uncertainty
2. Production and logistics systems optimization
3. Machine learning-based anomaly detection

Hiroto Kubotani

 Nonlinear Systems theory,
Complex Systems theory,
Statistical Science,
Sociophysics

1. Dynamical formation of quantum entanglement and its applications
2. Sociophysics
Masato Takanokura Human Factors & Ergonomics,
Human-centered Design,
Service Design
1. UX Design: Service & System Design to Improve User Experience
2. UI Design and Usabilty: System Design to Support Daily Activities for Elderly and Disabled Persons
3. Work & Product Design for Safety and Productivity
4. Consumer Engagement and Loyalty

Syuuji Hisamune

 Social Behavior Scienceļ¼Œ
Human-Centered Design,
Safety Health,
Industrial Psychology

1. Accident analyses and safety and reliability analyses of human-machine-system based on human factor approach
2.Developed the Work Improvement on Board (WIB) program by applying participatory action-oriented training (PAOT) methods
3. Field assessment for solving actual problem

Hirohisa Hirai

 Accounting,
Management,
Valuation,
Financial statement analysis

1. Value-relevance of accounting data
2. An empirical study of the relationship between human capital and firms' market value and financial performance

Kimitoshi Sato

 Operations Research
Service Science		 1. Pricing and revenue management
2. Supply chain management
3. Optimal inventory control
4. Real options
Mitsuhiro Matsumoto

Design Engineering,
Intelligent Mechanics,
Measurement Engineering

1. Scissors with equal displacement between pushing handles and cutting blades
2. Standing tape dispenser used in regardless of static friction coefficient and shape with mounting surface, installation site and length of tape
3. Drawing compasses for drawing circle by holding and pushing with one finger