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Eiji Hato, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban2 student voices
The Transportation, Urban and Land Studies Lab studies cities and transportation in fields such as transportation planning, urban planning, urban formation history, and urban design. The lab conducts fundamental research based on behavioral observation, mathematical methods, and analysis of historical records, targeting cities at various scales, such as streets and plazas, and stations and their surrounding towns. It aims to connect the results to the planning and design of actual urban spaces and to the implementation of traffic control systems and urban simulation. The lab places importance on its start-up lab seminar, where newly joined students learn programming and basic transportation theory, and on its lab seminar for reading papers together in turn.
Yoshihide Sekimoto, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Sekimoto-Nakai Lab studies urban information technology that is centered on people. The lab estimates the flow of people from data such as smartphone location data, and detects road deterioration using images and machine learning. It also designs mechanisms for how information flows across countries and regions, and works with citizens to run cities together. The lab places importance on an international perspective, and makes it a rule that students present at an international conference every year.
Takeshi Ishihara, Professor
Structures & Mechanics1 student voices
The Bridge and Wind Engineering Lab studies how infrastructure structures such as bridges interact with the wind. The lab works on performance evaluation and monitoring of structures, developing technologies to assess the seismic performance of long-span bridges and to examine the condition of roads and railway tracks. In wind engineering, the lab predicts wind over complex terrain and develops floating offshore wind power systems. The lab also holds bridge tours of bridges in Tokyo, in which third-year students of the Department of Civil Engineering take part.
Kenji Watanabe, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Soil Mechanics/Geotechnical Lab studies geotechnical engineering, which applies knowledge of mechanics, chemistry, and other fields to solve problems in the ground underfoot that supports daily life. The ground still holds many poorly understood phenomena, such as liquefaction, in which sandy ground behaves like a liquid during an earthquake. The lab puts great effort into soil testing: each student and researcher is responsible for one apparatus and carries out high-precision tests. Most of the apparatus are custom-made, and members work together when preparing model ground for shaking table tests.
Taikan Oki, Professor
Environment & Sustainability1 student voices
The Earth–Human Sphere Lab studies the global water cycle, the world's water resources, and adaptation to climate change. It names as its mission inheriting the disciplines of river hydrology and global water cycle system science and passing them on to the next generation. To help solve water problems in Japan and around the world, the lab advances its research through observation, modeling, and field surveys. It also aims to observe, model, and predict the principles that govern human behavior.
Yohei Sawada, Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Sawada Group (Mathematical Flood Disaster Science Research Group) conducts research to build a society resilient to disasters and the like. The lab observes and predicts the future of both natural phenomena, such as weather and the movement of water, and social phenomena, such as transportation and the economy. Based on those predictions, the lab aims to flexibly control social infrastructure. The lab explores mathematics that integrates computer simulation with field observation data, in order to get at the essence of phenomena in which nature and society interact.
Yu Nakai, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
Landscape Lab studies the design, planning, and history of land, cities, and structures through the lens of landscape. Through landscape, people sense the meaning and value of the environment in which they live. To create environments that foster rich connections between people and their surroundings, the lab explores the ways of thinking and the methods behind them. Alongside research published in papers, the lab also places importance on practice, including the design of urban spaces and civil engineering facilities and community development (machizukuri).
Takashi Oguchi, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
Oguchi Lab studies transportation in general, with a focus on road traffic. Under the banner of “the science of traffic flow,” the lab aims to solve road traffic problems such as congestion and environmental impact, and to realize more advanced road traffic. It takes a variety of approaches, including fundamental theory, analysis based on observational data, and case studies using simulation. Its research rests on three pillars: elucidating traffic phenomena, developing technologies to evaluate policy measures, and developing traffic management methods.
Muneyoshi Numada, Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
Numada Lab specializes in disaster prevention process engineering, studying decision-making processes during disasters and resilience management. The lab focuses on the challenges that government officials face at disaster response sites, and conducts its research in ways that stay close to the field. Building on engineering, it also draws on knowledge from psychology, economics, sociology, and medicine to address complex disaster risks. The lab operates the Disaster Management Training Center (DMTC), affiliated with the Institute of Industrial Science, and also provides specialized education in disaster management.
Tsuyoshi Ichimura, Professor
Structures & Mechanics0 student voices
The Ichimura-Lalith-Fujita Lab studies computational science and high-performance computing methods for solving problems in earthquake engineering and seismology. Using supercomputers, the lab calculates urban earthquake shaking and crustal deformation through large-scale simulations. The lab also works on incorporating artificial intelligence into physics simulations, and on simulations that reproduce evacuation and economic activity. The lab carries out joint research with research institutions and computer manufacturers in Japan and abroad.
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