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Tomohisa Hayakawa, Associate Professor
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The Hayakawa Lab (DSL) studies the modeling and control of dynamical systems, which describe nonlinear phenomena that appear in the real world. Its subjects range widely: machines such as hard disks and bipedal robots, living systems such as automated anesthesia control for humans, finance, and multi-agent systems. Using tools from mathematics and information theory, the lab aims to discover the principles and laws behind systems and to present new ways of thinking about how to control them. Student research in fiscal 2025 includes vehicle dispatch for on-demand transportation, mixed passenger-and-freight transport that carries people and cargo in the same vehicle, and the dynamics of epileptic seizures.
Kenji Amaya, Professor
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The Amaya Lab studies a wide range of engineering problems, centered on inverse problems and electrochemical simulation. X-ray CT is often cited as a successful example of an inverse problem: it reconstructs images of cross-sections of the body from information measured outside the body. The lab works on medical imaging, inspection of optical devices, monitoring of corrosion in marine facilities, automotive painting, and diagnosis of cracks in structures. Some of its research is carried out in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, and some in cooperation with companies.
Yusuke Miyazaki, Associate Professor
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The Miyazaki Lab studies "human modeling": measuring human structure, motion, sensation, and sensibility, and turning them into computer models. Its approach is centered on methods from mechanical and systems engineering, combined with methods from medicine and informatics. The human models are used to evaluate the relationships among people, objects, and environments, extending into research on designing safe and comfortable products, environments, and services. Current work covers injury biomechanics, which investigates how injuries occur, as well as sports engineering, biomechanics of daily activities, and Kansei engineering.
Hidenori Kosaka, Professor
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The Kosaka Lab studies the complex combustion phenomena that occur inside engines. Based on that understanding, it aims to realize engines that are highly efficient and have a low environmental impact. Its research fields are engines, combustion engineering, and laser measurement.
Masaki Yamakita, Associate Professor
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The Yamakita Lab conducts research on controlling the motion of robots and other systems, based on control engineering. It covers a broad range, from expressing a system as a mathematical model to actually controlling it. The lab builds and tests real hardware: robots that perform horizontal-bar routines, a motorcycle that does not fall over even when stopped, and a robot that walks on two legs. It also studies components such as artificial muscles made from soft materials that bend with electricity.
Takashi Tomura, Associate Professor
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Tomura Lab studies antennas for satellites and wireless power transfer, electromagnetic field analysis, and wireless communication systems. For 6G communications, space communications, Earth observation, and sensing, the lab takes on the invention of new antennas and electromagnetic structures. It creates new antennas by combining electromagnetic field theory with mechanical engineering, such as origami structures, and with materials science. The lab aims to advance basic theory, experimental verification, and real-world applications in good balance.
Shigeru Nakagawa, Professor
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The Nakagawa Lab conducts research to realize next-generation computers using light-based technology (photonics). For quantum computers, the lab works on light sources that generate particles of light (photons) one by one at high speed, and on technology for manipulating ions with light. For AI, the lab studies optical resonators as AI hardware that assists CPU computation. The lab's motto is "Encouraging Failure": without fearing failure, it takes on problems that are important but difficult to achieve.
Safumi Suzuki, Professor
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The Suzuki Lab researches electronic devices that operate in the terahertz band, a range of electromagnetic waves with very high frequencies. Using nanostructures, the lab draws out the ultimate performance of semiconductors to build devices that operate at terahertz frequencies. The lab also works on terahertz radar using these devices, and on biological and medical applications. The lab aims to break through technological barriers and make terahertz applications a familiar part of everyday life.
Kotaro Kajikawa, Professor
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The Kajikawa Lab studies materials that control light and electromagnetic waves, along with methods for designing them. The lab works on cloaking, in which an object is covered with a special material to make it invisible, and on materials that absorb light and radio waves well even when thin. It also develops radiative cooling materials that cool objects without using electricity, and devices that generate power from the resulting temperature difference. Neural networks and genetic algorithms are used to design the materials.
Tomoyuki Miyamoto, Professor
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The Miyamoto Lab studies optical wireless power transmission (OWPT) systems, which send electricity to distant devices with beams of light, and the optical devices they require. Light from a source is received by a solar cell attached to the device and converted into electricity. By making power supply wireless, following communication, the lab aims to remove limits on where and when devices can be charged. It works on power supply in many settings, from IoT devices to drones, electric vehicles, and underwater equipment.
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