Professor Minoru Nakazawa

Director, Information Technology and AI Research Institute
Director, AI Lab
Professor, Doctor of Engineering
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics and Engineering, Kanazawa Institute of Technology

Research Areas

Pattern recognition, robotics, and networks.

Biography

Year Position / Education
1987 Graduated from Komatsu Meihou High School, Ishikawa Prefecture
1991 B.E., Department of Information and Computer Engineering, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
1993 M.E., Information and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
1993 Researcher, Communication Network Systems Research Department, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
1996 Research Associate, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
1999 D.E., Information and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
1999 Lecturer, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
2002 Associate Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
2010 Associate Professor, Department of Information and Computer Engineering, College of Informatics, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
2011 Professor, Department of Information and Computer Engineering, College of Informatics, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
2012 Professor, Department of Information and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
2018 Professor, Department of Information and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
2025 Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics and Engineering, Kanazawa Institute of Technology

Message to Students

I value conversation with students and look forward to our seminar time in the laboratory more than anything else. In my classes as well, I continually look for ways to encourage students to speak and engage. Information engineering is a technology for the digital world, but I believe education also requires an essentially human, analog element.

Information engineering is now widely described as something every student should learn, though this has long been true. Students studying computer science need to go a step further. After many years as a faculty member in this field, I have learned that experience alone is not enough to discover what that next step should be. Let us think together and create it together.

Courses

  • Distributed Systems
  • Specialized Experiments and Exercises in Computer Science A
  • Project Design III (Nakazawa Laboratory)
  • Fundamentals of Innovation
  • Information and Communication Research
  • Advanced Topics in IoT
  • Advanced Global Innovation

This English page is based on the official faculty profile, last updated June 15, 2026.