Our Faculty
Kimihisa Ito
伊藤 公久
Professor, Dr Eng
Biography: Dr Eng, University of Tokyo (1983). Joined in 1996. Former Assistant Professor and Lecturer at Tohoku University, Associate Professor at Waseda University.
Research Areas: Mathematical Materials Engineering, High-Temperature Physical Chemistry
Courses: Applied Mathematics Experiments, Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics, Mathematical Structure of Materials
Books: Fundamentals of Material Science: Thermodynamics (2000), Kinetics (2003), Thermodynamic Data for Steelmaking (2010)
Toru Ohmoto
大本 亨
Professor, PhD
Biography: PhD, Tokyo Institute of Technology (1993). Joined in 2022. Former JSPS Fellow, Assistant/Associate Professor at Kagoshima University, Associate Professor/Professor at Hokkaido University.
Research Areas: Singularity Theory, Topology, Applied Geometry
Courses: Introduction to Set Theory and Topology A/B, Applied Topology, Applied Singularity Theory A/B
Takeshi Ogita
荻田 武史
Professor, PhD
Biography: PhD, Waseda University (2003). Joined in 2023. Former Research Associate, Assistant Professor, JST CREST Researcher at Waseda, Lecturer and Associate Professor at Tokyo Woman's Christian University.
Awards: Ono Azusa Memorial Academic Award (2003), JSIAM Paper Awards (2006, 2017, 2020), Best Author Award (2012), Achievement Award (2012), MEXT Young Scientists' Award (2015)
Research Areas: Numerical Analysis, Verified Numerical Computation
Courses: Numerical Computation, Advanced Numerical Analysis
Masahide Kashiwagi
柏木 雅英
Professor, Dr Eng
Biography: Dr Eng, Waseda University (1991). Joined in 1998. Former Associate Professor at Kyushu University.
Research Areas: Numerical Analysis
Courses: Programming Fundamentals, Numerical Computation, Advanced Numerical Analysis
Kousuke Kuto
久藤 衡介
Professor, PhD
Biography: PhD, Waseda University (2003). Joined in 2019. Former Research Associate at Waseda, Lecturer/Associate Professor at Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Associate Professor/Professor at University of Electro-Communications.
Research Areas:Nonlinear Differential Equations
Courses: Introduction to Fourier Analysis, Differential Equations and Mathematical Models, Mathematics of Nonlinear Phenomena
Books: Basic Mathematics Exercises for Science and Engineering (co-authored, Corona, 2015)
Yasutaka Shimizu
清水 泰隆
Professor, PhD
Biography: 1999年 東京大学理学部数学科卒業、東京大学大学院数理科学研究科修士課程修了、大阪大学大学院基礎工学研究科助手・助教・准教授、早稲田大学准教授を経て2014年より現職
Awards: Japan Statistical Society Excellence Award (2004), Ogawa Research Encouragement Award (2007), Japan Statistical Society Research Achievement Award (2025)
Research Areas: Statistical Inference Theory, Actuarial Mathematics
Courses: Introduction to Measure and Integration, Introduction to Probability and Statistics
Books: 保険数理と統計的推測（共立出版、2018年）、統計学への確率論、その先へ（内田老鶴圃、2018年）、統計学への漸近論、その先は（内田老鶴圃、2023年）、Asymptotic Statistics in Risk Theory (2021年, Springer)，ほか．
Daisuke Takahashi
高橋 大輔
Professor, Dr Eng
Biography: M Eng, The University of Tokyo (1985). Joined in 2001. Former Research Associate at The University of Tokyo, Lecturer/Associate Professor at Ryukoku University, Associate Professor at Waseda University.
Awards: JSIAM Achievement Award (2013)
Research Areas: Discrete Dynamical Systems
Courses: Introduction to Complex Function Theory, Mathematics of Solitons
Books: Difference and Ultradiscrete (co-author, Kyoritsu Publishing, 2003), Numerical Computation (Iwanami Shoten, 1996)
Hiroshi Toyoizumi
豊泉 洋
Professor, Dr Eng
Biography: M Eng, Waseda University (1989). PhD, Waseda University (1998). Joined in 2007. Former researcher at NTT Laboratories, Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley (1995), Lecturer at University of Aizu, Associate Professor at Waseda Business School.
Research Areas:Applied Probability, Operations Research
Courses: Mathematics of Business and Probability, Applied Probability Model Theory
Momoko Hayamizu
早水 桃子
Associate Professor, MD, PhD
Biography: MD, The University of Tokyo (2010). PhD, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (2017). Joined in 2022. Former Assistant Professor at Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Lecturer at Waseda University.
Awards: Young Scientists’ Award, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) (2022), The 10th WASEDA e-Teaching Award (2022), The 9th Waseda e-Teaching Award Grand Award (2021), Best Presentation Award at the 2019 Joint Meeting of JSIAM Activity Groups (2019)
Research Areas: Discrete Mathematics, Discrete Algorithms, Theoretical and Computational Biology
Courses: Introduction to Discrete Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics for Life Sciences
Akihiko Hirata
平田 秋彦
Professor, PhD
Biography: PhD, Waseda University (2003). Joined in 2025. Former Assistant/Associate Professor at Osaka University and Tohoku University, Professor in Materials Science at Waseda University.
Awards: MEXT Award for Science and Technology (2020), Japan Institute of Metals Achievement Award (2020), Kazato Award (2020), Japan Institute of Metals Murakami Encouragement Award (2014), Japanese Society of Microscopy Encouragement Award (2012), Japan Institute of Metals Encouragement Award (2005)
Research Areas: Mathematical Materials Engineering, Amorphous Structure
Courses: Applied Mathematics Experiments, Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics, Mathematical Structure of Materials
Books: Basic Materials Science (co-author, Corona, 2020), Structural Analysis of Metallic Glasses with Computational Homology (co-author, Springer, 2016)
Toshiyasu Matsushima
松嶋敏泰
Professor, Dr Eng
Biography: M Eng, Waseda University (1980). Former researcher at NEC Corporation, Lecturer at Yokohama University of Commerce, Associate Professor/Professor in Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Engineering at Waseda University.
Research Areas:Information Theory and its Applications
Courses: Information Theory, Advanced Information Theory
Kenichi Maruno
丸野 健一
Professor, PhD
Biography: PhD, Kyushu University (1999). Joined in 2017. Former Special Assistant at Kyushu University, Assistant/Associate Professor at University of Texas-Pan American, Associate Professor at Waseda University.
Research Areas: Mathematical physics, nonlinear waves, applied integrable systems
Courses: Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations, Mathematical Physics, Mathematics of Solitons
Tsuyoshi Miezaki
三枝崎 剛
Professor, PhD
Biography: BS, Tokyo University of Science (2004). PhD, Kyushu University (2009). Joined in 2021. Former JSPS Fellow, Researcher at Tohoku University, Lecturer at Oita National College of Technology, Lecturer/Associate Professor at Yamagata University, Associate Professor at University of the Ryukyus.
Research Areas: Algebraic Combinatorics, especially Coding Theory and Related Algebraic/Discrete Structures
Courses: Basic Algebra, Applied Algebra, Algebraic Combinatorics
Jun Muramatsu
村松 純
Professor, PhD
Biography: MS, Nagoya University (1992). PhD, Nagoya University (1998). Joined in 2025. Former researcher at NTT Corporation (1992-2025).
Awards: IEICE Paper Award (2007), SITA Young Researcher Award (2003)
Research Areas: Information Theory
Courses: Introduction to Modern Mathematics, Advanced Information Theory
Books: Information Theory (IT Text) (co-author, Ohmsha, 2008)
Yan Liu
劉 言
Associate Professor, PhD
Biography: PhD, Waseda University (2015). Joined in 2022. Former Research Associate/Assistant Professor at Waseda University, Assistant Professor at Kyoto University, Lecturer at Waseda Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
Awards: Top Cited Article (Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Wiley, 2025), Highly Valued Associate Editor (Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, 2023), Japan Statistical Society Ogawa Research Encouragement Award (2021)
Research Areas: Mathematical Statistics, Computational Statistics, Time Series Analysis, Statistical Financial Engineering, Data Science
Courses: Foundations of Statistics A/B, Time Series Analysis
Books: Research Papers in Statistical Inference for Time Series and Related Models (co-editor, Springer, 2023), Empirical Likelihood and Quantile Methods for Time Series (co-author, Springer, 2018)