Mary Inabaprofessor Appointment granted in April 2025

(university) degree

PhD (Science)

field of research

Algorithms and architecture

Research Keywords

high-speed network massively parallel computer clustering algorithm SAT Solva. data prefetch

Research

I have worked on algorithms, network communications and computer architectures, and have been involved in several large projects, doing research in various fields of curiosity, such as the development of SAT solvers and massively parallel computers, and collaborations for first-principles calculations in physics and cell search engines in chemistry. Listing my past work, it may seem haphazard at first glance, but I think I have been consistent in that I have focused on "how to get computers to work efficiently" in all of them, including research on optimisation problems, high-speed data transfer, supercomputer development and prefetching.

Possible graduation research topics

  • Research on increasing the efficiency of long-distance communication.
  • Research on discrete optimisation problems and their applications.
  • Research on geometric clustering methods and their applications.
  • Research on speeding up, parallelisation and applications of SAT solvers.
  • Research on puzzle generation and human-friendly difficulty adjustment methods.
  • Research and development of rehabilitation support devices using music games.

Student-proposed themes will also be adopted if they can be shaped into a thesis, so don't hesitate to ask for advice.

Hobbies, skills and likes

People to admire: Midori Ito, Kimiko Date, Seiji Ozawa, Mizuki Oura, Han Takehara, Kojiro Yoshikawa.

Message to candidates and students

After graduating from the Faculty of Engineering with a degree in architecture, I worked for a consulting company and then moved to Ricoh's software division, where I developed device drivers, etc. While there, I wanted to seriously study the basics of information science, such as operating systems and algorithms. I think that my second university life, in which I studied hard and came into contact with research work side by side with students more than a year younger than me, was one of the most sparkling days of my life. I hope that you too will be highly motivated, enjoy learning, enjoy research and live a meaningful university life.