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Tatsuya Suzuki, Professor
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The Suzuki Lab studies mobility, meaning vehicles, robots, and other moving systems, from the perspective of systems and control engineering. Keeping in mind the “coexistence of intelligent machines and humans,” which will be essential in the society of the future, the lab works on autonomous driving, driver assistance, and autonomous control of mobile robots. The lab also addresses social-system challenges such as transportation and energy management. It values a balance between theory and implementation, and is involved in many research projects and joint research with private companies.
Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Professor
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The Intelligent Robotics Lab conducts research and education aimed at developing intelligent robots that bring out people's creativity and potential. The lab studies robots that gently support human senses and actions in real-life settings such as daily living, welfare, medicine, and creative activities. By combining mechanical design, intelligent control, AI, human interfaces, and embodiment, the lab aims to build relationships in which robots and people create things together. The lab regards robots not as replacements for humans but as "partners" that help people act more freely and vividly.
Seiichi Hata, Professor
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The Hata Lab studies small machines such as MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) and medical devices from the perspectives of microfabrication, mechanical engineering, and materials. To efficiently find new materials for MEMS, the lab also works on materials synthesis using combinatorial techniques and on methods for evaluating materials. In recent years, the lab has also been working on materials evaluation and exploration using machine learning. The lab has many joint research projects with companies, other universities, and research institutes, and it actively sends its students abroad and accepts international students.
Jiro Kasahara, Professor
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The Kasahara Lab conducts basic research on detonation, a combustion wave that propagates at hypersonic speed, and applied research on using it in rocket engines and jet engines. Detonation is expected to make combustors and engines much smaller and higher-performing, and research on it is now active worldwide. In 2021, using a sounding rocket of the JAXA Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, the lab became the first in the world to succeed in a flight demonstration test of a detonation engine in space. In 2024, it also conducted a sounding rocket experiment with a liquid-fuel engine, and from fiscal year 2026 onward it will take on a third experiment.
Takashi Tomita, Professor
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The Tomita-Nakamura (Shin)-Tashiro Lab (Land Design Lab) studies design methods for creating a sustainable and resilient national land. The lab addresses challenges such as the risk of disasters from large earthquakes and climate change, population decline and aging, and aging infrastructure. It works with fields both inside and outside civil engineering, and places importance on identifying problems together with local residents and other stakeholders and turning solutions into reality. The lab conducts research in Japan and abroad, including Nagoya City, the Zenpukuji River in Tokyo, Nagano Prefecture, Chile, Thailand, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
Kiichiro Hayashi, Professor
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The Hayashi Lab evaluates impacts on energy and the environment, and conducts research to build a sustainable society. It focuses in particular on spatial evaluation of land use and the natural environment, and works to resolve issues related to renewable energy, ecosystem services, and the economy and society in an integrated way. The lab evaluates impacts at many scales, from small-scale field surveys to the global scale across countries. It takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines spatial analysis with GIS (geographic information systems), AI, drones, and field surveys.
Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Professor
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To make a convenient, comfortable society sustainable in terms of the environment and energy, the Morikawa-Yamamoto-Miwa Lab conducts research mainly from the perspective of transportation. The lab believes that future automobiles will not just run on roads but will be connected within information and energy networks, and will be expected to play a stronger role in society. Example research topics include automated driving, public transportation, mobility services such as car sharing, analysis of human travel behavior, safety and disaster prevention, and the use of big data. Prof. Yamamoto belongs to the Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability and Prof. Miwa belongs to the Institute of Innovation for Future Society, but the two operate as a single, integrated research unit.
Hirokazu Kato, Professor
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The Kato Lab (Regional Strategy Lab) conducts research on land use, cities, transportation, and the environment, with 'sustainability' and 'quality of life' as keywords. The lab applies the concept of life cycle assessment to social systems that place a heavy burden on the environment, such as travel behavior, car ownership, and logistics, and explores what an 'environmentally friendly activity' really is. The lab places great importance on fieldwork on site, and also works on maintaining local public transportation and developing evaluation methods that help in shaping urban strategies. To act as a bridge between the university and society, the lab is developing and putting into practice clinical environmental studies.
Anatoly Zinchenko, Associate Professor
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The Zinchenko Lab (Sustainable Materials Lab) researches how to turn waste plastics and biomass waste into materials with useful functions. Combining polymer and colloid science with environmental engineering, the lab uses cheap, abundant waste itself as the raw material and designs practical routes to turn it into materials. The results are materials you can hold in your hands: MOFs made from PET bottles to capture CO2, adsorbents for heavy metals made from crab shells, and soil stabilizers made from waste-derived polymers. The lab also carries out joint research with universities and companies in Japan and abroad, and Japanese and international students work together in English and Japanese.
Hiroto Shiraki, Associate Professor
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The Shiraki Lab studies energy system analysis for examining measures to curb climate change. The lab combines regional climate, patterns of energy use, and the costs of countermeasures in mathematical models for analysis. Based on measured data on household electricity consumption and questionnaire surveys, the lab also examines ways to promote household energy saving.
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