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Akira Oiwa, Professor
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The Oiwa Lab (Quantum System Creation Group) studies new devices based on light, electrons, and spin. Centered on semiconductors, the lab works on quantum information processing that uses the quantum mechanical properties of electron spins and photons. Spintronics, which creates and combines new optical, electronic, and spin materials, is also a field of its research. The lab carries out everything from the fabrication and characterization of high-quality materials to precise quantum transport measurements, and aims to discover new phenomena.
Daichi Chiba, Professor
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The Interface Quantum Science Lab (Chiba Lab) studies spintronic devices and sensors. The lab develops flexible devices, strain sensors, and a scanner for inspecting rebar inside concrete. The lab was founded at the University of Tokyo in 2013 and moved to Research Division 1 of the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research at Osaka University in April 2019. With the move, the lab also took on a concurrent affiliation with the School of Engineering Science.
Tsuyoshi Sekitani, Professor
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The Advanced Electronic Devices Lab (Sekitani Lab) studies soft electronic devices made from organic materials. The research highly controls the molecular structure, electronic states, and physical properties of organic materials, and develops them into flexible electronics and photonics. The lab's motto is to learn everything from academic work rooted in basic sciences such as mathematics and physics to systems that contribute to real society. Students can be involved in a wide range of electronic device manufacturing, from materials synthesis, circuit design, fabrication processes, and integration to the evaluation of physical properties and characteristics.
Yuta Nakashima, Professor
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The Integrated Intelligent Media Lab (Nakashima Lab) conducts research to clarify whether artificial intelligence truly understands the meaning of images and videos. Believing that understanding the meaning of images and videos is deeply tied to their correspondence with natural language, the lab also works broadly on Vision and Language research that combines the two. The lab also conducts applied research that makes advanced use of images and videos by leveraging large language models and similar tools.
Shohei Shimizu, Professor
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The Intelligent Reasoning Lab (Shimizu Lab) is a data science and AI lab focused on causal discovery. It aims to make causal discovery a standard analytical method in scientific research and in industry and policy settings, building the foundation for a society where causal inference is used routinely. The lab works with researchers and practitioners from a wide range of fields, from the natural and social sciences to engineering and medicine. In particular, it develops new methodologies that can estimate causal relationships from observational data even in situations where interventional experiments are difficult.
Kazunori Komatani, Professor
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The Knowledge Science Lab (Komatani Lab) studies spoken dialogue systems that talk with people, using speech recognition and natural language processing technologies. The field has both an engineering side, writing programs to build systems, and a scientific side, asking what it means for a conversation to be mutually understood. Because it deals with the language that humans use, it also draws on insights from linguistics and social psychology. The lab regards building spoken dialogue systems that work in real environments as a difficult challenge, because errors in speech recognition are unavoidable.
Masaya Nogi, Professor
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The Natural Materials Functionalization Lab (Nogi Lab) studies new materials made with cellulose nanofibers. Cellulose nanofibers are extremely fine fibers contained in all plants on Earth. In 2008, the lab succeeded in making "transparent paper" from these fibers, and it is now developing new materials. The lab is located in the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN) at Osaka University, and its graduate students belong to the Division of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering.
Masanori Sakamoto, Professor
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The Sakamoto Lab (Metal-Organic Hybrid Materials Research Group) studies functional materials and energy conversion systems that use infrared light as light energy. Infrared light accounts for about 46% of solar energy, but no effective way to use it has been established in modern society. The lab takes on research themes that have not yet been realized, including its "research to turn cities into forests," which involves developing transparent solar cells that generate electricity from infrared light. Through collaboration with OPTMASS Inc., a startup spun out of the lab, students can also experience firsthand how cutting-edge research is put into practical use in society.
Tohru Sekino, Professor
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The Sekino Lab (Advanced Hard Materials Research Group) studies the structural design and control, from the nano to the macro scale, of materials centered on ceramics and metals. The lab creates bulk materials and nanomaterials that combine diverse functions, investigates their structures and fundamental physical properties and characteristics, and clarifies the mechanisms by which those properties arise. Through this research, the lab aims to create next-generation foundational materials that help solve important challenges facing society, and to put them to use.
Yuki Yamada, Professor
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The Yamada Lab (Energy and Environmental Materials Research Group) focuses on the flow of storing, converting, and using energy, and studies materials and technologies that help solve environmental problems. To make lithium-ion batteries higher-performing and safer, and to realize new secondary batteries that go beyond them, the lab develops new materials and reactions, centered on the electrolyte that carries ions between the positive and negative electrodes. For fuel cells, the lab develops electrode catalysts that reduce the amount of precious metals used. It also works on Power-to-X devices that use electricity to synthesize high-value-added substances. The lab also takes on establishing new theories that form the foundation of electrochemistry.
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