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Lab Policy

Professors Sakata, Mori (joint appointment), Associate Professor Asatani, and Lecturer Nishimoto supervise all students together, so you receive the same guidance regardless of the advisor assignment.

We work with natural language processing including generative AI and LLM agents, deep learning, and complex network science. Our datasets span large-scale literature and patent databases, policy documents, corporate information such as M&A data, e-commerce reviews, and mobility data across the Kansai region.

Research themes include computational social science, science of science, innovation management, M&A studies, and methodological advances in NLP. Students are encouraged to pursue topics that genuinely interest them.

We actively support presentations at domestic and international conferences. In 2025, several members received awards at the Association for Natural Language Processing.

Workspace

After a major renovation in 2021 we now operate three student rooms across Engineering Buildings 3 and 8 on the Hongo campus. Multiple rooms are available to keep research comfortable and safe even under infection-control measures.

Computing Resources

Large-scale computation is essential for our data-intensive analyses and deep-learning models.

Our lab hosts GPU servers and high-memory machines (up to 1.5 TB RAM), providing a comfortable environment for experimentation.

We can also access national research institute clusters (AIST, RIKEN) and lend MacBooks or other laptops when needed.

Lab Visits

We recommend joining our regular seminars or reading groups when visiting the lab.

The seminar meets twice a month on Tuesdays (period 2, 10:25-12:10). Around five students present their progress while all members attend, so you can chat with them afterward in Room 202.

Reading groups meet every other week (the weeks without the seminar). Each participant gives a short overview of a paper (randoku) and one student presents a paper in depth (seidoku). These sessions showcase current topics and interests.

Current Reading Groups

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