Tohoku Gakuin University

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Faculty of Engineering Department of Information Technology

Recruitment stopped in April 2023

For all students enrolled in faculties and departments that will cease accepting new students, we will ensure that they maintain their affiliation with their chosen department and the educational environment there until graduation. We, the faculty and staff, will also fulfill our responsibility to provide support for their student life, career paths, and job placement.

Faculty Introduction

Teacher Profiles

KATO, Kazuo Professor (Bioelectronics)

KATO, Kazuo Associate Professor

degree Ph.D. (Engineering)
Specialty Bioelectronic measurement, etc.
Affiliated academic societies Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Japan Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, Magnetics Society of Japan, Japan Society for Biomagnetism
others Hobbies: Volleyball, table tennis, skiing (a little bit of each)
Subjects Taught Electrical and Electronic Engineering Experiments I & II, Electrical Circuit Theory Exercises II, Basic Electrical and Electronic Measurement, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic Engineering Seminar, Graduation Research I & II, etc.
■Research Themes

Research on electronic measurement and biosignal processing targeting living organisms

■Career
March 1989 (Heisei 1) Graduated from Akita Prefectural Akita High School
March 1993 (Heisei 5) Graduated from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Mining Engineering, Akita University.
March 1998 (Heisei 10) Hokkaido Graduate Schools Graduate School of Engineering Doctoral Program
Completed a degree in Systems and Information Engineering.
Doctor of Engineering, Hokkaido University
April 1998 (Heisei 10) Joined Takenaka Corporation
April 2006 (Heisei 18) Lecturer, Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Tohoku Gakuin University
April 2009 (Heisei 21) Associate Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Tohoku Gakuin University
April 2014 (Heisei 26) Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Tohoku Gakuin University
■Accomplishments
Academic paper
  • S. Yabukami, K. Kato, T. Ozawa, N. Kobayashi and KI Arai: “Coplanar Line Thin Film Sensor and Measurement of MCG without Magnetic Shielding”, J. Magn. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 38, pp.25-28 (2014)
  • Tomoshi Yasukawa, Kazuo Kato, Kazunori Suzuki, and Atsuo Ishikawa: "Event-related potentials during cognitive task performance in a fluctuating background sound environment," Transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Vol. 134, No. 2, pp. 277-285 (2014)
  • Shin Yabugami, Kazuo Kato, Tetsuya Ozawa, Nobuyoshi Kobayashi, Kenichi Arai: "Multipoint Measurement of Cardiac Magnetic Fields Using Transmission Line Type Thin Film Sensors", Transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Vol.133, No.6, pp.372-375 (2013)
  • K. Kato, O. Miura, A. Shikoda, T. Kuroki, A. Ishikawa, T. Kobayashi: “Event-related potentials affected by spatial frequencies of background visual pattern during a cognitive task”, IEEJ Trans, Vol.8, pp.483-488 (2013)
  • Kazuo Kato, Arimitsu Shikoda, Megumi Nishida, Tomohiro Kuroki, Atsuo Ishikawa, Tetsuo Kobayashi: "Study on the structural characteristics of images that induce gaze behavior", Transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Vol.31, No.1, pp.175-181 (2011)