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Ryohei Morinaga, Associate Professor
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The Morinaga Lab studies methods for planning, designing, and nurturing cities and living environments so that humans and their environment can form the best possible relationship. Associate Professor Morinaga specializes in architectural planning and residential environment planning. The lab studies how living environments and community facilities can be shaped through collaboration among residents, users, and operators, and how community-based local stock can be put to use. The lab emphasizes developing the vision and imagination to balance soft and hard aspects, theory and practice, and analytical and integrative ability. Students work every day to acquire methods such as problem finding, field surveys, project proposals, dialogue-based design, and workshops.
Jiyoung Jung, Assistant Professor
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The Jung Lab investigates mutual-aid housing and collective housing systems around the world and proposes future ways of living. To address challenges in the housing environments of modern cities, the lab analyzes urban structures and systems in Japan and abroad and conducts repeated fieldwork on new forms of housing. Working with residents, private companies, and public institutions, the lab covers new collective housing and community development, as well as management, operation, and real estate–related systems. Going out to the sites of daily life to observe and experience problems firsthand is the lab's basic research stance.
Saikaku Toyokawa, Associate Professor
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Toyokawa Lab studies the history of past and present urban planning and large-scale redevelopment to explore the future that central Tokyo and Japan as a whole should envision. Its research focuses mainly on the 23 wards of Tokyo, the Tokyo metropolitan area, and regional core cities. Because the cities of several decades from now will be extensions of today's cities, the lab sorts out the path that cities have followed in order to bring the outline of the contemporary city into relief. The lab's motto is to read thoroughly, think thoroughly, and work hands-on.
Hiroyuki Usui, Professor
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Usui Lab (Urban Morphology Measurement and Analysis Lab) conducts research and education to measure, understand, and improve urban space. The lab was founded in April 2024 at Chiba Institute of Technology, and since April 2026 it has been carrying out research and education as a new lab at Chiba University. 'Measurement' refers to map-based measurement and surveying in GIS, 'understanding' to mathematical modeling and GIScience, and 'improvement' to policy and spatial design. Using urban planning, urban morphology, and spatial information science, the lab covers scales from buildings to sites, blocks, districts, and wide areas, with particular emphasis on 'form' and 'quantification.' Students' research topics are chosen according to their interest in cities and their intuitive awareness of problems.
Hiroyuki Yoshimura, Associate Professor
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Yoshimura Lab's main research themes are biometrics and optical information processing systems. Information communication that connects the various elements that make up a city is important, and to ensure its reliability and security, the lab studies biometric authentication and information security technologies. Focusing on fingerprints, the most widely used biometric today, the lab develops methods and devices that use laser light and lenses to verify identity quickly and with high accuracy. The lab also works on research toward building secure and reliable information communication environments, such as the encryption of image information.
Toru Sekiguchi, Associate Professor
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Sekiguchi Lab conducts research mainly on soils and building foundations to realize "safe, comfortable, and sustainable cities." The lab evaluates over wide areas how the ground shakes during earthquakes, predicts liquefaction damage, and considers countermeasures. It also studies environmental vibration transmitted through the ground by passing vehicles. The research combines field experiments, model experiments, and numerical analysis.
Gaochuang Cai, Associate Professor
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The Structural Engineering and Materials Lab (Cai Lab) builds its research on structural engineering, construction materials, and next-generation technologies such as AI. The lab evaluates how well structures maintain their performance under extreme loads such as major earthquakes and impacts, and optimizes their design. The lab also develops cement-based composite materials with a small environmental footprint, as well as advanced materials with added functions. The lab is also engaged in AI-based assessment of structural safety and integrity, and in structural diagnosis.
Yoshihisa Maruyama, Professor
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Maruyama Lab studies the safety of infrastructure facilities against natural disasters such as earthquakes. Using ground motion information and geographic information systems, the lab estimates what damage expressways and urban road networks would suffer in an earthquake. It also simulates road traffic flow after an earthquake, and conditions when people walk to work. The lab is also engaged in analysis that reads damage from actually acquired data, such as aerial photogrammetry.
Hironao Ogura, Professor
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The Ogura Lab studies the framework of a sustainable society that addresses resource, energy, and environmental problems. Specifically, it studies chemical heat pumps, which recycle heat using the energy of chemical reactions. Focusing on joint research among industry, government, and academia, the lab investigates a variety of high-efficiency thermal environment systems with the aim of putting them into practical use. Working with people from many fields inside and outside the university, the lab designs comfortable, energy-saving living environments.
Masumi Yamada, Professor
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The Bioprocess Chemistry Lab conducts research under the keywords bio, microtechnology, materials chemistry, and chemical engineering. The lab develops new technologies useful for regenerative medicine, diagnostics, drug discovery, and the synthesis of functional materials. It designs channels tens of micrometers wide and deep, and develops methods to sort cells and microparticles with precision. The lab also microfabricates materials such as hydrogels to create three-dimensional structures that resemble living tissue.
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