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IWASAKI Mitsunobu

Position: Professor
Laboratory: Laboratory of Inorganic Materials Chemistry

Inorganic Materials Chemistry

We make full use of environmentally friendly methods to fabricate artificial bone that enables fracture patients to live their lives as comfortably as possible. We are also actively involved in creating markers that enable the detection of even single cancer cells and colorants that change hue depending on the viewing angle.

OTSUKA Teppei

Position: Professor
Laboratory: Advanced Energy Environment Application Laboratory

Materials science for energy, Science and technology for hydrogen isotopes, Transport phenomena of elements in materials, Irradiation effects on materials

The research interests are safety confinement, storage and handling of hydrogen isotopes and radioactive elements in materials. Experiments and simulation on transport phenomena of elements in materials and interactions of radiation and materials are conducted.

OKADA Masaaki

Position: Professor
Laboratory: Landscape & Heritage Study Laboratory

Landscape Engineering, History of Civil Engineering, Industrial Heritage, Heritage Studies

Research on landscape evaluation and history of civil engineering. We embrace the concept of using landscapes near to us as community assets in doing design. We start with familiar places, and identify issues and research ways to resolve them.

KOMINAMI Hiroshi

Position: Professor
Laboratory: Surface Design Chemistry Laboratory

Physical Chemistry, Catalytic Chemistry

Catalysts are what control chemical reactions. This laboratory develops intelligent catalysts to enable more effective resource utilization and allow full use of natural energy sources and waste materials. In addition, we also conduct research on earth-friendly chemical reactions such as energy conversion and environmental cleanup.

TAKEMOTO Yasuhiko

Position: Professor
Laboratory: Industrial Management Engineering

Industrial Management Engineering, Quality Management, Operational Research, Applied Statistics

Industrial Management is a activity of achieving efficiency, rationalization, and optimization in production systems. This laboratory researches and develops some methods of Industrial Management based on data science and ICT.

NAKANO Hitoshi

Position: Professor
Laboratory: Laser Engineering Laboratory

Laser Engineering

We are actively conducting research related to laser and electrical energy control, for example, development of new lasers, new functional materials by laser treatment, laser peening, and development of fast high-voltage switch using power semiconductors.

NISHIYABU Kazuaki

Position: Professor
Laboratory: Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory

Machining, Composites Manufacturing, Micro/Nano Power Fabrication Process

How do we effectively utilize advanced materials to boost the capabilities, performance, and environmental adaptability of components used in products such as aircraft and automobiles? We research processing methods that form the essential foundations of manufacturing. In particular, we are developing methods and equipment for manufacturing composite materials that combine metal, polymer, and ceramic. We make materials and machines myself, and explore the importance of "Connecting with different things".

HARADA Takashi

Position: Professor
Laboratory: Precision Mechanical Engineering Laboratory

Parallel Mechanisms, Precision Machinery, Machine Kinematics, Mechanics

Ichiro Suzuki, the Major League player who continues to smash hits even though his circumstances have changed, is the precision machinery of the baseball world. We conduct research, aiming to achieve machinery like Ichiro—machines that do the job reliably even when operating environments and circumstances change.

HANDA Hisashi

Position: Professor
Laboratory: Computational Intelligence Research Group

Evolutionary Computation

Humans and biological life forms appropriately sift through information while achieving intelligent behavior. In this laboratory, we are researching efficient, high-performance learning and evolutionary algorithms inspired by nature and living organisms.

BUNNO Teruyuki

Position: Professor

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Theory of Entrepreneurial Venture Development

We conduct research related to the creation of innovative new products and services that will bring greater convenience to our lives from the perspective of small- and medium-sized entrepreneurial start-up companies.

MATSUTANI Takaomi

Position: Professor
Laboratory: Material Processing Laboratory

Material Science, Material Process Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering

We develop new materials to create new electronic components and also develop technologies to fabricate them easily. We also develop new analytical techniques using these new materials, such as atmospheric analysis and observation of catalyst reactions.

KASHIWAO Tomoaki

Position: Associate Professor
Laboratory: Soft Computing and Optical Design Laboratory

LED Packaging, Soft Computing, Control Theory

My research interests include LED packaging optimal design based on ray-tracing simulation and machine learning, and big-data analysis of a railway telemeter system.

KAWASHITA Norihito

Position: Associate Professor
Laboratory: Computational Life Science

Computational Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Protein-protein interaction, Infections, Molecular Design, Drug Resistance, Molecular Evolution

We aim to elucidate various phenomena in the life sciences, including molecular evolution, drug susceptibility, and protein-protein interactions, using computational chemistry and bioinformatics that utilize computers and supercomputer.

MORIYAMA Masamitsu

Position: Associate Professor
Laboratory: Electronic Commerce Laboratory

Service Computing

We research Web-based services used in e-commerce and B2B transactions. Our goal is to optimize work flow and business systems based on the concept of business process modeling.

HASHIMOTO Tomohisa

Position: Lecturer
Laboratory: CAE Analysis and Design Laboratory

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluid Engineering, Computer-Aided Engineering

We study on the computer simulations of the flow, which is called Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and especially develop the software for analyzing the flow and heat conduction related to the filling, packing and cooling stages in the plastic injection molding..