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Mikio Sakai, Professor
Structures & Mechanics0 student voices
The Sakai Lab studies technology for reproducing industrial processes that handle powders (collections of fine particles and grains) on a computer. Its targets span a wide range of fields, including nuclear engineering, food, electronics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and resource recycling. Toward digital twins that replicate real processes inside a computer, the lab combines multiphysics simulation with AI. The computational models it has developed are incorporated into commercial software, and the lab also runs social collaboration courses with companies.
Yoshihiro Konno, Professor
Energy & Batteries0 student voices
The Konno Lab studies the sustainable development of seabed resources and the effective use of the seabed environment. The lab works on developing methane hydrate, which is expected to become a next-generation natural gas resource. It is also developing technology to store carbon dioxide by making use of the deep-sea seabed environment. Research is carried out through collaboration among industry, national research institutes, and universities.
Yasuhiro Kato, Professor
Environment & Sustainability0 student voices
The Kato-Nakamura-Yasukawa Lab studies Earth's resources, environment, and history. The lab discovered "rare-earth mud," deep-sea mud that contains abundant rare earth elements, and established that it exists in the waters around Minamitorishima Island. Faculty and students alike go on mine surveys and research cruises to collect rocks and minerals, and analyze them with their own hands. The lab aims to unravel how the Earth works and its history, and to use that knowledge to make society richer and more sustainable.
Shin Kajita, Professor
Energy & Batteries0 student voices
The Kajita Lab studies plasma with the aim of realizing nuclear fusion. Through experiments, the lab investigates how the plasma inside a fusion reactor acts on the materials of the reactor wall. The lab also works on developing methods for measuring plasma temperature and density. Applied research using metals and metal oxides whose surfaces have been processed with plasma is another of the lab's themes.
Hiroshi Okuda, Professor
Structures & Mechanics0 student voices
The Okuda-Matsunaga Lab conducts research in computational mechanics, using large-scale simulations on supercomputers to address challenges in manufacturing and society. The lab goes beyond computing physical phenomena. It develops simulators that also take society, people, and the global environment into account, so that scenarios for how artifacts function and are introduced can be reworked. The lab develops parallel finite element analysis software and studies fluid simulation using particle methods. The lab also conducts joint research with companies, aiming to develop technologies that are useful in industry.
Yukio Ohsawa, Professor
AI & Machine Learning0 student voices
The Ohsawa Lab studies how to design the whole of a business that uses data. Data is merely the result of observing events in the world from the surface, so the lab places importance on understanding the events, situations, and human behavior behind it. The lab has created methods of "chance discovery," which find from data the events and situations that matter when people decide how to act. Together with companies, the lab runs a Social Cooperation Program, and engages in research and education that develop the ability to put data to use in business.
Atsutake Kosuge, Associate Professor
Semiconductors & Electronic Devices0 student voices
The Kosuge Lab researches next-generation 3D chip integration technology and low-power circuit design technology for AI processing. While AI enriches society, it requires enormous computing resources, and rising power consumption has become a challenge. To solve this problem, the lab develops hardwired-logic processors modeled on the human cerebrum, as well as 3D packaging technology that stacks chips. The lab also uses AI in chip packaging technology, software, and semiconductor design, pursuing the full potential of semiconductors.
Imamura Taro, Professor
Space, Particle Physics & Aerospace0 student voices
The Imamura Lab (Aircraft Design Lab) studies the analysis and design of the shapes of aircraft and wings, based on aerodynamics. Aircraft are on the verge of a major change in their very form amid decarbonization and digitalization, with hydrogen aircraft, electric aircraft, and new wing shapes. The lab's research rests on three pillars: conceptual design tools for aircraft, its own original flow analysis programs, and the development of aerodynamic devices through wind tunnel testing. By combining theory, numerical analysis, and wind tunnel experiments, the lab aims to create highly practical design methods.
Koji Uenishi, Professor
Structures & Mechanics0 student voices
The Uenishi Lab studies how solid materials break under impact. The lab aims to understand the basic physical phenomenon of objects breaking under impact from a more fundamental standpoint. The research covers not only fracture in homogeneous materials, but also how waves and cracks propagate through heterogeneous materials that contain interfaces, and the effects that impact-induced fracture has on Earth and space environments. Together with research institutions in Japan and abroad, the lab uses high-speed digital video cameras and other equipment to film and analyze phenomena that are too fast to see with the naked eye.
Takeharu Sakai, Professor
Space, Particle Physics & Aerospace0 student voices
The Sakai Lab studies the high-temperature gas flows that form around spacecraft entering planetary atmospheres. Using both numerical analysis and experiments, the lab investigates the heat and aerodynamic forces that act on a flying vehicle. The lab aims to apply its findings to improve the design of spacecraft protection against heat and to explain the flight of meteoroids.
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