Our lab is a new lab which was founded in Apr 2005. Our lab is under the administration of the Graduate School of Information Science & Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, and Faculty of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University, which is a unique organization. Some explication is necessary here. Unlike other National Universities, Kyushu University has divided the previous “Graduate School” into the “Graduate School” and “Faculty”. Such change is a certain produce to adapt flexibly to the quick change of the times and keep a high level of education and research. However, the management of the Graduate School to which the teachers belong and the Faculty to which the students belong is nearly same with that of the previous Graduate School. As a result, our lab is under the administrations of both the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Systems Life Sciences. The Faculty of Systems Life Sciences is an interdisciplinary faculty whose aim is to train engineer with two majors. The teachers, who belong to the Graduate School of Science, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironment Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Mathematics, Graduate School of Engineering and Graduate School of Information Science & Electrical Engineering, are in charge of education. For this reason, the students who study in the Faculty of Systems Life Sciences can learn the knowledge of not only the life science but also engineering and information engineering. Thus, if you come to our lab, you can master the broad realm of the knowledge and technology of not only the information science but also the life science.

　There are two major research fields in our lab. One is brain function imaging which aims at the elucidation of human brain function; the other one is brain function modeling which is applied to various fields by constructing the model of brain activation. In details, we study in the fields of the measurements of brain function by EEG (ElectroEncephaloGraphy), MEG (Magnetoencephalography), MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), NIRS (Near-Infrared Spectroscope) and TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation), the development of measurement technology and the simulation of brain activation. The elucidation of the mechanism of brain function is one of foundations of life science, and it can be applied to almost all the fields. Have a deep understanding of brain information processing, and apply the research results to fields of life science, medicine, engineering and education is the purpose of our study.

　Since we are studying in an interdisciplinary domain, we take into account the collaboration of medicine, biology, pedagogy and psychology is important in our study.