Faculty

For the GIGA Program, we have assembled a team of faculty members who are world leaders in their fields.

Deans

KAMO, Tomoki
Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Policy Management

Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy, Comparative Politics, International Relations(East Asia)

ICHINOSE, Tomohiro
Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies

landscape ecology and planning, rural planning

KATO, Fumitoshi
Professor, Dean of the Graduate School of Media and Governance

Communication design; Facilitation; Communication and media studies; Qualitative research methods

Professors

AKIYAMA, Miki
Professor

Health Communication, Community Health, Public Health

AOYAMA, Atsushi
Associate Professor

“Neural Information Science, Brain Mapping, Sensory Integration, Bio-Signal Processing”

CHI, Vu Le Thao
Assistant Professor

Risk Behavior, Choices, Human Security, Narrative Approach, Development

FUJII, Shinya
Associate Professor

Music and Neuroscience (Neuromusic), Drums and Rhythm, Music Brain and Body, Motor Control and Learning in Music Performance, Music Perception and Cognition, Origin of Human Musicality, Beat Perception and Synchronization, Amusia and Beat-deafness, Auditory Feedback and Motor Rehabilitation

HAGINO, Tatsuya
Professor

Software Science (System Software, Web Technology)

HAMADA, Yoko
Professor, Former Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies

Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Infant Mental Health, School Mental Health

HASEBE, Yoko
Associate Professor

English Teaching Materials, Teaching Methodology, Distance Learning, Inter-Linguistic and Inter-Cultural Communication

HATTORI, Takashi
Professor

Computer Science

IBA, Takashi
Professor

Pattern Languages, Creativity, Complex Systems, Social Systems Theory

JIMBO, Ken
Professor

International Security, Security in the Asia-Pacific, Regionalism in East Asia, Japan’s Defense and Security Policy

KANIE, Norichika
Professor

International Relations, Earth System Governance

KATO, Takaaki
Associate Professor

Ergonomics, Sport Psychology, Motor Learning and Control

KOBAYASHI, Hiroto
Professor

Architecture, Urban and Rural Design

KOKURYO, Jiro
Professor

Management Information System

KOTOSAKA, Masahiro
Associate Professor

International Business, Internationalization Strategy, International Entrepreneurship

KUNIEDA, Mika
Assistant Professor

global health, wellbeing/me-byo, communication for development, individual and community level behavior change, health behavioral economics, Africa

KURODA, Hiroki
Professor

Developmental Biology

KUSUMOTO, Hiroyuki
Professor

Computer Network

KUWAHARA, Takeo
Professor

Marketing, Consumer Research

MATSUKAWA, Shohei
Associate Professor

Architectural Design, Algorithmic Design, Design Process Theory

MITSUGI, Jin
Professor

Wireless Communications, Computational Engineering

NAITO, Yasuhiro
Professor

Theoretical Biology

NAKAMURA, Osamu
Professor

Computer Science, Internet

NAKAMURO, Makiko
Professor

Economics of Education

NAKAZAWA, Jin
Professor

Distributed Systems, Middleware, Ubiquitous Computing, Computer Networks

NISHIKAWA, Hasumi
Assistant Professor

French Literature, French as a Foreign Language

OKI, Satoko
Associate Professor

Seismology, Disaster Information, Safety Education, Communication of Disaster Science

SAVAGE, Patrick
Associate Professor

Music, Psychology, Anthropology, Computer Science, Cultural Evolution, Digital Humanities

SUGIHARA, Yumi
Associate Professor

Japanese Language Education, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, Intercultural Education

TAKASHIO, Kazunori
Professor

Distributed Systems, Real-Time Systems, Mobile Computing, Ubiquitous Computing

TAKEDA, Keiji
Professor

Information Security (Intrusion Detection, Security Architecture, Software Security)

TANAKA, Hiroya
Professor

Design Tool, Design Machine, Personal Fabrication, Social Fabrication

THAMRIN, Achmad Husni
Project Assistant Professor

Internet Technology, Multicast Communications

TOMITA, Masaru
Professor

Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology

TRACE, Jonathan
Assistant Professor

Applied linguistics: language assessment, curriculum development, listening & speaking, and program evaluation

TSURUOKA, Michito
Associate Professor

International security; European politics; NATO; European integration; nuclear policy

Dean Tsuchiya

TSUCHIYA, Motohiro
Vice President, Professor

Cyber Security, International Relations, and Studies on Information Society

UEHARA, Keisuke
Associate Professor

Computer Networks

VAN METER, Rodney D.
Professor

Quantum Computing, Post-Moore’s Law Computer Architecture, Distributed Mass Storage Systems

WADA, Tatsuma
Professor

International Finance, Econometrics, Macroeconomics

WAKITA, Akira
Professor

Visualization, Geometric Modeling, Smart Material

WATANABE, Mitsuhiro
Professor

Health Science, Anti-Aging, Metabolic Disease, Naturopathic Medicine, Preventive Medicine

YAN, Wanglin
Professor

GIS, Urban and Regional Environments, Sustainability Science

In addition to the core teaching staff listed above, other members of the SFC faculty will be contributing their expertise to the GIGA Program: