Faculty
Space Development Engineering
Toshihiro Kameda – Ph.D (North Carolina State Univ.), Associate Professor

Major | Solid mechanics, computational mechanics, mechanical engineering, civil engineering |
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Research | Computational mechanics which covers mechanical behavior of inelastic and / or inhomogeneous materials. Linking molecular dynamics with finite element method, inverse analysis of materials with unknown constitutive relation.
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Hajime Sakakita (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) – Dr. Eng (Nagoya Univ.), Professor

Major | Plasma physics and engineering |
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Research | Researches on medical, aerospace, energy and environmental applications using plasma technologies.
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Kohei Shimamura – Dr.Sci (Univ. Tokyo), Assistant Professor

Major | Aerospace engineering, Wireless power transfer |
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Research | High temperature hydrodynamics with plasma and its applied research. Examples include thermo-aerodynamic design of deep space planetary probes such as Hayabusa, advanced propulsion (microwave transmission, microwave rocket), etc.
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Hiroyuki Sugita (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) – Dr. Eng (Kyoto Univ.), Professor

Major | Thermal Engineering, Space Cryogenics |
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Research | Research on active thermal control devices and efficient space cryocoolers for innovative spacecrafts.
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Makihito Nishioka – Dr.Eng (Nagoya Univ.), Professor

Major | Combustion, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
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Research | Research on stabilities of fundamental laminar flames, new combustion methods for ultra lean premixed gas, and for ultra low grade fuel.
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Takayasu Fujino – Dr.Eng (Tokyo Inst. Tech.), Associate Professor

Major | Plasma engineering, magneto-electric hydro engineering, applied physics |
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Research | Research on Application of Magnetohydrodynamics and Plasmadynamics to Energy and Aerospace Engineering.
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Satoshi Matsumoto (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) – Dr.Eng (Toyo Univ.), Professor

Major | Thermo-Fluid dynamics, Space Engineering |
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Research | Study on thermo-fluid phenomena utilizing the International Space Station, Non-linear dynamics of levitating drop
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Tadahito Mizutani (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) – Dr. Sci (Univ. Tokyo), Associate Professor

Major | Spacecraft structural design, structural health monitoring, optical fiber measurement, composite material engineering |
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Research | Research on smart structure and structural health monitoring of spacecraft and spacecraft using precision measurement technology
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Shigeru Yokota – Ph.D.(Eng) (Univ. Tokyo), Associate Professor

Major | Space propulsion, Plasma engineering |
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Research | Advanced space propulsion systems, such as electric propulsion or laser propulsion.
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Energy and Environmentology
Hirohisa Aki – Ph. D(Eng) (Yokohama Nat. Univ.), Associate Professor

Major | Energy eystems engineering, Power systems, Systems engineering |
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Research | Power and energy systems: studies on demand-side oriented energy systems and development of integrated-distributed energy management systems.
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Masayoshi Ishida – Dr.Eng (Univ. Tsukuba), Professor

Major | Energy transfer engineering, electrical engineering |
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Research | Development of high voltage insulation technique at high temperatures and high output generation systems using fuel cells are being studied to improve efficiency on energy conversion and transmission.
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Tetsuya Kanagawa – Dr. Eng (Hokkaido Univ.), Assistant Professor

Major | Mathematical Fluid Dynamics |
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Research | Theoretical fluid physics, Nonlinear acoustics.
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Akiko Kaneko(Fujiwara) – Ph.D (Keio Univ.), Associate Professor

Major | Fluid engineering, multi-phase flow, mechanical engineering |
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Research | Study on multiphase flow based on the energy and environmental issue.
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Harumichi Kyotoh – Dr.Eng (Univ. Tsukuba), Professor

Major | Fluid mechanics, civil engineering |
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Research | Water quality improvement due to micro-bubbles. Micro‐bubble producing devise. Wind wave control by a resonator. Underwater sound generated by bubbles. Instability of a falling liquid curtain.
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Hiroyuki Sato (Japan Atomic Energy Agency) – Dr. Eng (Tokyo. Inst. Tech.), Associate Professor

Major | Nuclear system engineering, High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR), Nuclear Hydrogen Production |
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Research | Researches on HTGR hydrogen electricity cogeneration systems, especially, researches on HTGR renewable hybrid energy systems and safety evaluation technology for coupling a H2 plant to a nuclear reactor
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Biao Shen -Ph. D. (Eng.) (Shanghai Jiap Tong Univ., China), Assistant Professor

Major | Hear Transfer, Thermofluid Engineering |
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Research | Research and development of high-efficiency boiling surface design based on direct control of bubble nucleation and growth.
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Naoki Shirakawa -Dr.Eng (Univ. Tokyo), Associate Professor

Major | River engineering, civil engineering |
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Research | River basin management with engineering and socio-economic approaches. Environmental flow, environmental economics, decision making process.
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Hao-Shen Zhou (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) – Dr.Eng (Univ. Tokyo), Professor

Major | Solid physics, energy materials, storage batteries |
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Research | Development of storage battery technology
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Koji Dairaku – Dr.Eng (Univ. Tokyo), Associate Professor

Major | Hydrometeorology, Environmental Disaster Resilience |
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Research | Hydrometeorological hazard and risk information for climate change adaptation, Regional climate modelling, Probabilistic evaluation of multi-model ensemble simulations.
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Toru Takahashi – Dr.Eng (Univ. Tsukuba), Assistant Professor

Major | Power electronics, Electromagnetic field analysis |
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Research | Research on power conversion circuits.
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Satoshi Takewaka – Dr.Eng (Univ. Tsukuba), Professor

Major | Coastal engineering, environmental engineering, civil engineering |
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Research | Remote sensing, field survey and numerical modeling on coastal environments.
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Masatoshi Denda (Public Works Research Institute) – Dr.Eng (Nagoya Univ.), Associate Professor

Major | River engineering and environmental studies |
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Research | Research on river ecosystem modeling and future prediction of river ecosystem.
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Hideaki Monji – Dr.Eng (Univ. Tsukuba), Professor

Major | Multi-phase flow engineering, Thermo-fluid engineering |
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Research | Study on characteristics of dispersed two-phase flow : phase distribution of bubbly flow, separation process by centrifugal force for solid-liquid two-phase flow.
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Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency) – Dr. Eng (Kyushu Univ.), Professor

Major | Thermo-fluid engineering, two-phase flow analysis |
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Research | Development of analytical methods for two-phase flow in terms of thermal design of nuclear plant system
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Disaster Control
Takehiko Asai – Ph.D. (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Assistant Professor

Major | Structural control |
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Research | Smart structural control system, self-powered vibration control with energy harvesting technologies.
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Daigoro Isobe – Dr.Eng (Univ. Tokyo), Professor

Major | Computational mechanics, structural engineering, robotics |
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Research | Numerical and experimental studies on impact and collapse problems of structures, Parallel control of robotic mechanisms considering dynamics and structural strength, Application of computational mechanics and structural engineering essence to robotics.
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Toshiyuki Kanakubo – Dr.Eng (Univ. Tsukuba), Professor

Major | Civil engineering, structual engineering, anti-earthquake engineering |
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Research | Research on seismic behavior of large scale structures. Concrete structures using FRP or high performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composites, development of isolating and controlling techniques for earthquake motions.
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Gaku Shoji – Dr.Eng (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.), Professor

Major | Risk engineering, structual reliability engineering |
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Research | Structural safety and system reliability assessment for critical lifeline infrastructures such as transportation networks, utilities, and communication networks in view of seismic and tsunami risks, and mathematical modeling of public cognition against functional impairment of critical infrastructures during an event.
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Mayuko Nishio – Dr.Eng (Univ. Tokyo), Associate Professor

Major | Structural engineering, Applied mechanics, Civil engineering |
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Research | Structural health monitoring (SHM), structural dynamics, seismic analysis, data assimilation, and machine learning.
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Takashi Matsushima -Dr.Eng (Univ. Tokyo), Professor

Major | Soil engineering, granular engineering |
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Research | Micro-mechanics of granular and powder materials. Mechanics of liquefaction and debris flow.
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Naoto Mitsume – Dr.Eng (Univ. Tokyo), Assistant Professor

Major | Computational mechanics, Continuum mechanics |
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Research | Development of coupled models and analysis systems for simulation of multi-physics phenomena, Multi-physics simulation for solving real-world problems.
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Akira Yasojima -Dr.Eng (Univ. Tsukuba), Associate Professor

Major | Civil engineering, structual engineering, anti-earthquake engineering |
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Research | Reseach on seismic performance and disaster prevention technology of reinforced concrete structure and structural material with environmental issues, maintenance and recycle technology.
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Kyosuke Yamamoto -Dr.Eng (Kyoto Univ.), Assistant Professor

Major | Structure engineering |
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Research | SHM(Structure Health Monitoring), Structural design.
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Multi-Scale Solid Materials Engineering
Kazuhiro Enami – Dr.Eng (Univ. Tokyo), Associate Professor
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Masamichi Kawai – Dr.Eng (Univ. Nagoya), Professor

Major | Composite materials and structures, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, energy structure engineering |
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Research | Experimental studies of the deformation, strength and durability (creep, fatigue) of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer matrix composites in aerospace and new energy structures, and of the inelasticity and damage of high temperature materials in gas turbine engine systems, together with investigations into their engineering modeling and application to numerical design analysis
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Yuichi Shintaku – Ph. D. (Eng.) (Tohoku Univ.), Assistant Professor

Major | Computational mechanics, material engineering, fracture mechanics |
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Research | Numerical and experimental study on fracture mechanism of materials and its application for structure evaluation
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Yoshihisa Harada (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) – Dr.Eng(Nagoya Univ.), Professor

Major | Materials Science, Damage Evaluation |
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Research | Research and development of materials reliability performance based on damage evaluation for structural and processing components such as electric power plants or transportation.
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Akihiro Matsuda – Dr.Eng (Univ. Tsukuba), Associate Professor

Major | Polymer engineering, mechanical engineering, computational engineering |
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Research | Thermodynamic coupled simulation of mechanical-thermal-chemical properties of vulcanized rubber to evaluate sealing performance and aging behavior of O-rings or rubber-seals. Large deformation analysis of laminated rubber bearings and metal dampers for seismic isolation.
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Tetsuya Matsuda – Dr.Eng (Univ. Nagoya), Associate Professor

Major | Solid mechanics, computational mechanics |
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Research | Study of multi-scale simulation techniques. Evaluation of properties of solids which consist of microscopic structures using homogenization theory/FEM.
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Naoki Morita – Dr. Env. (Univ. Tokyo), Assistant Professor

Major | Computational mechanics, Solid mechanics, High performance computing |
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Research | A study on the strength evaluation method of structures using multi-scale simulation. Development of analysis systems and parallel computing libraries for numerical simulation.
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Administrative Staff
Yuko Sugiura
Office | 3F300 |
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Tel | +81-29-853-5059 |
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Kazue Yoshinuma
Office | 3F300 |
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Tel | +81-29-853-5203 |
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