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Yuji Matsuda, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Matsuda Lab studies the housing and living environments of people often called "minorities," such as people with disabilities and older adults. Through surveys, the lab clarifies what these people need and how those needs should be reflected in architecture. Its work covers living environments for people with disabilities, community life of older adults, walking environments for people with visual impairments, universal design, and more.
Unno Satoshi, Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Unno Lab studies the history of Japanese architecture based on surviving buildings, documentary sources, and excavated remains. The focus is timber architecture from the prehistoric period to the modern era, and the scope also includes East Asia, which shares the same wooden-building culture. Through measured surveys of old buildings and assessments of their value, the lab also works to preserve them as cultural heritage for future generations and to put them to use. Students are not bound by the professor's own field, and pursue research on themes that match their individual interests.
Kaori Fujita, Professor
Structures & Mechanics1 student voices
The Fujita Lab studies the structural characteristics of traditional timber architecture, particularly its strength against earthquakes (seismic resistance). The lab uses documents to investigate the damage historic timber buildings have suffered and their repair histories, and conducts field surveys of buildings in Japan and overseas. It also continues structural monitoring, measuring vibrations at five-story pagodas, gates, main halls of temples, and other buildings to keep track of their condition. The lab also takes part in joint research with overseas universities, such as a survey of wooden churches in Norway.
Shinichi Sakamoto, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
Sakamoto Lab studies the sound environments of cities and architecture. Research proceeds in stages: predicting and measuring how sound propagates, reproducing sound in the laboratory, and evaluating how people perceive it. Activities center on experiments in acoustic laboratories such as anechoic chambers, and on measurements at real sites such as concert halls, railway stations, and roads. The sounds studied range from the reverberation of concert halls to everyday noise.
Tetsuya Sakuma, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
Sakuma Lab (Environmental Acoustics Lab) studies the living environments of buildings and cities, with a particular focus on the sound environment. The lab examines how to predict and evaluate sound environments and how to design and control them, from both the physical side and the psychological and physiological side of human perception. It addresses issues such as architectural acoustics, noise and vibration, communication, and soundscapes, including their social and cultural aspects. The lab has a semi-anechoic room and a visual environment laboratory at Hongo Campus, and an anechoic room and an outdoor acoustic test building at Kashiwa Campus.
Masayuki Mae, Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
Mae Lab (Maelab) researches the component technologies and design methods needed to decarbonize housing. Its goal is a society where everyone, anywhere in Japan, can live healthy, comfortable lives without worrying about electricity bills. The lab's research rests on three pillars: experiments in facilities such as a rooftop test building, field measurements in actual homes across the country, and simulation, with particular emphasis on field measurements. The lab also supports the design of eco-houses that are actually built, placing great importance on a hands-on, on-site approach.
Tatsuya Itoi, Associate Professor
Structures & Mechanics1 student voices
The Itoi Lab conducts research on assessing and managing the risk of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The lab develops methodologies for evaluating building performance, assessing disaster risk across entire cities, and predicting and evaluating natural phenomena that cause damage (hazards), such as earthquake ground motion and tsunamis. Its research combines simulation, probability and statistics, and machine learning using big data. Project Associate Professor Koyama of the Social Cooperation Program "Next-Generation Numerical Simulation for Construction," and the students of the Koyama Lab, are also members of the lab.
Koichi Kusunoki, Professor
Structures & Mechanics1 student voices
The Kusunoki-Maida Lab mainly studies the behavior of reinforced concrete buildings during earthquakes through experiments and analysis. The lab conducts experiments in which force is applied to structural members such as columns and beams, as well as experiments in which an entire building is shaken to examine how it moves. For its research on structural health monitoring, the lab measures and records the vibrations of actual buildings in a variety of regions. It is an international lab that brings together researchers not only from Japan but from many different countries.
Fumiya Iida, Professor
Robotics & Control1 student voices
The Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) studies the design principles of intelligent, adaptive robots by learning from the basic mechanisms of living organisms. At the core of its research is the idea of "embodied intelligence": intelligence resides not only in the brain but also in the body. The lab works on soft robotics, which builds robots from soft materials, and on dexterous robot hands that move like human hands. In addition to the University of Cambridge in the UK, the lab now has a base at the University of Tokyo.
Kouhei Tsumoto, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
Tsumoto Lab studies how biomolecules such as proteins bind to one another. Using a variety of pairings as subjects, including antibodies and antigens and receptors and the molecules that bind to them, the lab investigates the strength of binding and the mechanisms by which molecules select their partners. The lab combines experiments such as methods that measure heat exchange (calorimetry) and crystal structure analysis with computational calculations in its analyses. Based on the findings, the lab takes on the design of proteins and small molecules, aiming at applications in medicine and materials.
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