Members

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Doctor course

Master course

学類生 (B4)

Previous members' thesis 

Master

Program in Policy and Planning Sciences (MPPS)

• Public discourse toward older drivers on social media in Japan

• Effectiveness of information dissemination methods in emergency situations: SNS data analysis and virtual scenario simulation

• Collective enthusiasm and fan involvement in Japanese professional baseball

• The identification of acknowledged scholars and their interdisciplinarity

• Empirical studies on user-generated content and behavior of Southeast Asia community

• Visualizing the relationship between media coverage of elderly drivers and public opinion on the Web

• Exploring the relationship of emotion in social media and real-world activities

• Real-world analysis from web data using machine learning

• Analysis of SNS information spreading by data assimilation simulation

• Quantitative evaluation of research front using Altmetrics

• Composition analysis of competitive relationships using inter-firm complaint networks

• Estimation of the traffic accidents locations using machine learning

• Information spreading on SNS during disasters: A case analysis of Joso City

Program in Service Engineering (MSE)

• Text mining of the University of Tsukuba syllabus using Bloom's Taxonomy

• Collective memory recall using Wikipedia data

• Estimating viewing flow between categories using internet TV viewing log

• Analysis of the Japanese atmosphere during COVID-19 through SNS

• A decay model of collective memory using the Wikipedia page views

• An empirical study about introduction of the face recognition systems in a nursery school

• Analysis of information spreading from a police on Twitter: Focusing on network structure and user locations

• Detecting fake news in SNS using linguistic features

• Analysis of trend duration in online media

Bachelor

• Viewership analysis of animation content on streaming services

• Scholarly connections and interdisciplinarity through acknowledgments

• Analysis of open-ended responses from the 2022 JACSIS survey and their relationship to respondents' attributes

• Detecting chances in football using dynamic network markers

• Sentiment analysis using emojis in a childcare support Q&A service

• Visualization of public mood and specific issues against elderly drivers

• A Study of park use under the COVID-19 crisis using SNS posts

• A study of enthusiasm in Japanese professional baseball league focusing on postings to opposing teams

• Analysis of SNS postings about parks under the influence of COVID-19

• Relationship of burstiness of door opening/closing and busyness in a nursery school

• Analysis of the number of ball touches in junior soccer

• Social media analysis of enthusiasm in Japanese professional baseball league

• An empirical study on networks consisting of authors and persons mentioned in their acknowledgements

• Early detection of penalty area intrusion using dynamic network biomarkers

• Cross-correlation analysis of the number of overnight stays in each country by prefecture and Wikipedia page views

• Analysis of sprinting in soccer goal scenes

• Analysis of content on the Facebook page of the graduate school, University of Tsukuba

• A mathematical model of language policy -A case study of the revision of the Joyo Kanji table

Alumni

Doctor

Makoto Takeuchi / March 2024 (DPPS)

Master

Miyuki Murayama / March 2025 (MSE)

Soichi Kitajima / March 2025 (MSE)

Akito Nakanishi / March 2025 (MPPS)

Daiki Naito / March 2024 (MSE)

Suzuka Matsumoto / March 2024 (MSE)

Naofumi Otomo / March 2024 (MPPS)

Reona Nakamura / March 2024 (MPPS)

Keigo Kusumegi / March 2023 (MPPS / Awarded by the President of University of Tsukuba)

Chung Ming  Hui / March 2023 (MPPS)

Naoki Igarashi / March 2022 (MSE / Awarded by MSE leader)

Roujing Zhang /  March 2022 (MSE)

Ryo Azuma / March 2022 (MPPS)

Zijing Li / March 2022 (MPPS)

Takashi Amagai  / September 2021 (MPPS)

Tsubasa Asano / March 2021 (MSE)

Ren Chohira /  March 2021 (MPPS)

Daiki Teruenuma / March 2020 (MSE)

Gakuto Watanabe / March 2020 (MSE)

Kentaro Iwanaga / March 2020 (MPPS)

Nagi Moriya / March 2020 (MPPS) *co-supervised by Prof. Kito at University of Tsukuba

Kenji Sato / March 2018 (MPPS)

Misato Mogi / March 2017 (MPPS)

Bachelor

Minatsu Yamanouchi / March 2025

Yu Miura / March 2025

Haruki Numata / March 2025

Syota Takeuchi / March 2024

Haruki Takagi / March 2024

Ryo Hanaoka / March 2022

Chika Namiki / March 2021

Mitsuya Asaka / March 2021

Sherk Muhammad / March 2020

Shunji Otsuka / September 2019

Shota Tamaki / March 2019

Masaharu Miura /  March 2018

Yuta Tsunoi / March 2017

Daichi Okamoto /  September 2016

Michimasa Kanno / March 2016

Major universities which students enrolled before Sano Laboratory

Kyoto University / Osaka University / Aoyama Gauin University / Tokyo University of Science / Tsuda University / Beihang University / University of Sussex / Yokohama national University / Kyushu Institute of Technology/ Nigata University / Chuo University / Ritsumeikan University