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Hiroi U, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Urban Information and Safety Systems Lab conducts research on creating desirable cities and regions from the perspective of safety and security. Drawing on a wide range of available methods, including social surveys, mathematical approaches, consensus building, and information technology, the lab looks for hidden risks in cities. Based on a thorough understanding of human behavior, the lab proposes mechanisms for realizing desirable cities. The lab also collaborates with the Kato Lab at the Institute of Industrial Science.
Yukio Sadahiro, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Housing and Urban Analysis Lab studies matters related to housing and living, and phenomena that occur in cities. Focusing on the housing market, residents' attitudes, and the spatial characteristics of cities and how they change over time, the lab reveals new causal relationships and predicts urban change. Based on these results, the lab evaluates urban and housing policy and makes policy recommendations. The lab is made up of faculty members from the Graduate School of Engineering, the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, and the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, and undergraduate thesis students from the Department of Urban Engineering are supervised by all of the faculty members.
Naoto Nakajima, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
The Urban Design Lab undertakes a wide range of work, from fundamental research on urban space to research on methods. The lab aims to serve as a design center that is open to society and local communities, supporting community development through the accumulation of information and research. The lab considers its task to be the study of "public space", meaning physical space that citizens can share and social space in which citizens can act freely, and the development of methods to realize it. Working with communities across Japan, the lab proposes desirable futures for towns in the form of plans and designs for space and systems.
Hiroyuki Ogawa, Professor
Space, Particle Physics & Aerospace1 student voices
The Ogawa-Odagiri Lab studies spacecraft thermal control technology and the thermal design of systems. The role of a thermal control system is to keep onboard equipment at appropriate temperatures in the harsh thermal environment of space. Faculty members and research and development staff of the lab have been responsible for the thermal design of many spacecraft, including the Mercury exploration mission BepiColombo and the X-ray spectroscopic imaging satellite XRISM. A distinctive feature of the lab is its "real-world setting," where members can work consistently from basic research and applied research to the thermal design of actual projects.
Akira Oyama, Professor
Fluids & Heat1 student voices
The Oyama Lab studies aerodynamics and design in space engineering. Its main themes are airplanes and helicopters that fly in Mars's thin atmosphere, and the lab has also conducted flight tests of a Mars airplane using a high-altitude balloon. The lab also works on sample-return capsules, the flight of rockets launched from Mars, multi-objective design of rockets and spacecraft, and flow control. Students can conduct research directly connected to JAXA space science projects, and JAXA's supercomputers and wind tunnels are also available to them.
Takehisa Yairi, Professor
AI & Machine Learning1 student voices
The Yairi-Takeishi Lab (Intelligent Systems Engineering) conducts fundamental research on artificial intelligence in the broad sense, as well as research on its applications in fields such as aerospace. The lab pursues both research that explores "what intelligence is" and research that considers "how artificial intelligence can be put to use." Its wide range of machine learning and artificial intelligence topics includes research on detecting anomalies in data from satellites and other systems, and research on robot control. In addition to the topics introduced here, the lab welcomes research proposals based on free-thinking ideas.
Tomohiro Yokozeki, Professor
Structures & Mechanics1 student voices
The Yokozeki-Higuchi Lab studies structural mechanics related to aerospace. Its work centers on the mechanics of components and structures made of composite materials such as carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP), and it tackles fundamental problems in this area. The lab carries out both numerical analysis, such as the finite element method, and experiments using test specimens. It also works on structural elements and cryogenic fuel tanks intended for space transportation vehicles and future aircraft, as well as large, flexible space structures that use membranes.
Katsuhiro Nishinari, Professor
Structures & Mechanics1 student voices
The Nishinari Lab studies the mechanisms behind the many kinds of "jams" found in everyday life, from the perspectives of physics and engineering. Its subjects are not limited to cars on roads: they range widely, from crowds of people and ants to proteins inside cells and logistics. By combining experiments, observation, mathematical models, and computer simulation, the lab works to understand these phenomena and to find ways to control them. Through joint research with companies and public transport operators, the lab also works to resolve real-world congestion problems.
Susumu Teramoto, Professor
Fluids & Heat1 student voices
The Teramoto-Okamoto Lab studies heat and flow inside rocket engines and jet engines. The lab combines experiments with numerical analysis, in which flows are calculated on computers. It is a joint lab of the Teramoto Lab in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Graduate School of Engineering, and the Okamoto Lab in the Department of Advanced Energy, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences.
Kimiya Komurasaki, Professor
Space, Particle Physics & Aerospace1 student voices
The Komurasaki-Koizumi Lab studies new space propulsion systems that move satellites and rockets. Chemical rockets, which burn fuel, have a limitation: they can carry only a small payload into space. The lab therefore works on electric propulsion, which uses electric power to accelerate plasma, and beamed propulsion, which flies on microwave or laser energy transmitted from a distance. By combining diverse fields such as electromagnetic and optical energy, plasma acceleration, and wireless power transfer, the lab aims to create its own original technologies.
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