The Department of Information and Communication Sciences cultivates the ability to comprehend both people and society based on information, the creativity to develop the knowledge and experience accumulated by humans and society, and the ability to construct an information society where every human being can live safely. While providing learning the fundamentals of science and technology, students will focus on various specialties from key themes: Human Information, Communication Information, Social Information, and Mathematical Information. Based on “cross-disciplinary knowledge,” which is a fusion of science and engineering, we provide students with specialized education that equips them with the ability to open up the future while adapting to a wide range of fields. By acquiring cross-disciplinary knowledge, students can become not only people who can apply the latest information and communication technology and develop useful systems but also internationally active scientists and engineers as well as educators who can nurture the next generation.
Besides programming exercises in a computer room available to everyone, students learn in a wide variety of fields such as mathematics, ergonomics, civil engineering, and communication engineering. What’s more, they are trained to transcend the boundaries of IT engineers to help create information technology.
Students will take basic major courses from the Faculty of Science and Technology Common Subject Group to achieve “fundamental education” related to all aspects of science and engineering such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and informatics. The aim is to obtain “cross-disciplinary and flexible education” as part of their specialized education. Another feature is the emphasis on acquiring an interdisciplinary viewpoint based on natural science in collaboration with the human and social sciences. In the third and fourth years, students will select a specialized field of their interest from among four key themes for Department Specialized Courses. And they can still take courses from outside their selected streams. All students also take courses such as programming exercises, laboratory experiments on electric circuits and logical circuits, and mathematical exercises. By linking with the knowledge acquired in regular courses and solving problems, students can obtain the skills needed for practical situations.
as of 2026
*For further information on the courses, please refer to the Syllabus.
This course covers the theory underlying all information and communication systems such as the Internet and Mobile networks. Specifically, students will learn about information source coding and line coding, Fourier transformation and signal analysis, and noisy-channel coding theorem (Shannon limit).
This course introduces important techniques of machine learning used in business data analysis. Students will learn the theoretical mechanisms of machine learning, statistical programming software to analyze the results, and ways to apply the results of the analysis in actual business.
Students learn various image/video processing mechanisms related human and robot vision and their practical applications as well as actual programming exercises. The course also aims at acquiring intra-disciplinary knowledge based on the study of visual psychology and electronic sensors as well as the linkage with telecommunications and mathematics to learn the relationship between humans and information.
Galois theory, called the “flower of mathematics,” was born from the theory of solutions of equations. Students learn the basics of Galois theory, which is the foundation of various theories in modern mathematics and is also used in information mathematics through the theory of cryptography and codes.
This course covers not only the information processing and physical aspects of sound and speech, but also acoustics in general. Topics range from the auditory and speech organs to theories of sound production, microphone and speaker mechanisms, music and musical instruments, hall and room acoustics, and ultrasonics.
This course introduces students to the underlying technologies and concepts of the information system, including the types, forms, processing units, and components that should be considered when constructing an IT system. Students also gain further understanding of the functions of information systems, their evaluation, and forms of its development.
Curatorial Courses are also available.
To pursue the study of information science connected to human, communication, society and mathematics leveraging information theory, computer engineering, mathematics and biology as basic knowledge, and thereby cultivate a capacity for integrated and specialized analysis, synthesis and application of information employing interdisciplinary approaches.
To produce graduates capable of comprehending and accumulating information, knowledge and ideas developed by humans and society, and of advancing them through application to information technology contexts, in order to contribute to the creation of information structures, systems, and new information technologies that are useful to humans and society.
The Department of Information and Communication Sciences aims to foster human resources who can have an deep and integrated understanding of humans and society based on “information”, human resources who can accumulate the knowledge, wisdom and experience possessed by humans and society and compile visual information, and human resources with expertise in at least one of the following themes: human information, information communications, social information, mathematical information, and who can organically combine such expertise to return to humans and society. With a view to these aims, the department sets standards for the skills and knowledge students should acquire before graduation as described below. Those who have fulfilled the requirements and have passed the thesis defense will be awarded a diploma.
The Department of Information and Communication Sciences aims to foster the ability to analyze, integrate and develop information comprehensively and in a specialized manner, based on information sciences, communication engineering, mathematic sand biology, integrated learning of the information related fields of humans, communications, society and mathematics, with the perspective of integrating arts and sciences. In accordance with the diploma policy, the Department constructs its curriculum with courses aligned with the following purposes.
The Department of Information and Communication Sciences seeks human resources with a strong educational background, comprising an appreciation of culture and extensive knowledge as well as expertise regarding information that is utilized in various fields, who are able to integrate, apply and further develop such knowledge and expertise. We seek human resources who are eager to take a unique approach in establishing future society against the backdrop of science and technology and supporting fundamental studies as well as “multiple intelligence” constructed by integrating pieces of knowledge associated with humans and society:
Takayuki ARAI Professor
Takashi IROHARA Professor
Masakatsu OGAWA Professor
Tad GONSALVES Professor
Tomoharu SHIBUYA Professor
Eiko TAKAOKA Professor
Hiroshi TAKAHASHI Professor
Yasuhisa TAMURA Professor
Masao TSUZUKI Professor
Hiroshi TSUNOGAI Professor
Toshiki NAKASHIMA Professor
Maki NAKASUJI Professor
Takako NIIKURA Professor
Hitoshi HAYASHI Professor
Masaki BANDAI Professor
Ikuko YAIRI Professor
Kanako OSHIRO Associate Professor
Yusuke KAMEDA Associate Professor
Ryo KAWABATA Associate Professor
Yasushi GOMI Associate Professor
Chikayoshi SUMI Associate Professor
Fabien Benoit TRIHAN Associate Professor
Yuichiro MIYAMOTO Associate Professor
Haruka YAMASHITA Associate Professor
Takao YAMANAKA Associate Professor
Rina OH Assistant Professor by Special Appointment
Akitoshi KIMURA Assistant Professor
Satoshi GOTO Assistant Professor
Hitoshi HIRATA Assistant Professor
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