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Shimonishi Lab
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The lab connects the real and virtual worlds through next-generation communications and digital twins.
AboutAbout the lab
Hyper-realistic communication between people, and between people and things, beyond space and time.
The Shimonishi Lab researches technologies for building digital twins, which are digital copies of the real world, in real time and in any location.
The lab also works on estimating radio conditions for next-generation Beyond 5G / 6G communications and on optimizing distributed AI on edge clouds.
It covers the technologies involved in digital twins, from recognizing real-world objects, to collecting and generating data, to applications using the metaverse.
The lab belongs to the Advanced Network Environment Research Division of the D3 Center at Osaka University, and is a cooperating chair of the Department of Information Networking in the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology.
Key terms
- Digital twin
- A digital copy of the real world. Sometimes called "another real world"
- Beyond 5G / 6G
- New generations of communication technology that come after 5G
- Edge cloud
- A mechanism that processes data by combining computers located close to users with the cloud
- IP multicast
- A communication method that delivers the same data to multiple recipients at once
NewsLab news
A student's presentation received the Excellent Presentation Award at the IEICE Technical Committee on Information Networks (IN)
A student's talk received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the IEICE Technical Committee on Network Systems (NS)
ResearchResearch themes
Under the banner of hyper-realistic communication between people, and between people and things, beyond space and time, the lab researches technologies related to digital twins. Its work spans four areas: communication infrastructure, object recognition, data generation, and applications.
*Illustrative imageCommunication infrastructure supporting digital twins
Building digital twins at large scale and in real time requires advances in communication technology. For Beyond 5G / 6G communications, the lab researches techniques for estimating wireless radio conditions and for optimizing edge cloud systems in distributed AI.
*Illustrative imageProbabilistic digital twins that recognize objects
Creating a digital copy of the real world requires quickly and accurately recognizing objects in three-dimensional space. The lab researches techniques that use machine learning and graphical models to identify many objects and determine their 3D positions, as well as techniques that reflect the results in human behavior.
*Illustrative imageData generation for digital twins
Building digital twins in real time requires technologies that collect huge amounts of real-world data with low latency. The lab studies generating data while collecting it through stream processing, and collecting data efficiently without waste using IP multicast.
*Illustrative imageApplications of digital twins
Digital twins make it possible to communicate beyond space and time and to predict problems that may occur in the real world in the future. The lab researches and develops ways to do these comfortably through building and sharing metaverse spaces.
MembersFaculty
The Shimonishi Lab consists of faculty members, project researchers, concurrent and visiting faculty members, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- ProfessorHideyuki Shimonishi
- Project ProfessorMasahisa Kawashima
- Associate ProfessorYuichi Ohsita
- Project Assistant ProfessorTECHASARNTIKUL NATTAON
- Associate ProfessorDaichi Kominami
- Assistant ProfessorTatsuya Ootoshi
- Assistant ProfessorMasaaki Yamauchi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Ice Wireless Building 3G HSPA+ base station tower” Senator88 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Communication infrastructure supporting digital twins: “Leilão 5G ( )” Palácio do Planalto from Brasilia, Brasil / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Probabilistic digital twins that recognize objects: “Point-Cloud-to-BIM-Conversion-Process-for-Architectural-3D-Modeling-and-CAD Workflow” Matthewadams66 / CC0 (cropped)
- Data generation for digital twins: “The digital twin is an active model fed by real-time sensor data and running side by side with the actual grid. ( )” Oak Ridge National Laboratory / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Applications of digital twins: “Qplay” Autosys Industrial Solutions / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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