Research Units
Active Research Units (as of October, 2023)
| Field | Research Unit | Research Subject | Unit Director | Full-time Researcher （Except Unit Director） |
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| social infrastructure | Unit on Climate Change | ①Project on Enhancing Satellite-based Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimation Technology for Mongolia ②Project for Comparison and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Inventories by Country Using GOSAT Series Observation Data |
Masataka Watanabe, Institute Professor, RDI |
Tomohiro Shishime Akihiro Oba Yoko Saito Kazuo Kashida |
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| Coastal Disaster Adaptation Research Laboratory | Research on Coastal Disaster Mitigation against Tsunami and Storm surge | Taro Arikawa, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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| Summarization Unit of Geo-environmental Research | Assessment and maintenance of existing structures due to ground deformation and vibration | Daiki Hirakawa, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Takeshi Ishii Kunio Saitoh Kenji Ishihara |
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| Unit for Research and Application Solution of Water-Related Disaster Science and Information. | Tadashi Yamada, Institute Professor, RDI |
Toshinari Kamakura Taichi Tebakari Shiori Terai |
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| Flooding in the lowland area of Tokyo | Daiki Hirakawa, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Hideki Ohta Kunio Saitoh |
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| Water Safety & Emergency Medicine Research Unit | Tsutomu Komine, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Ippeita Dan Ryo Sagisaka Toshinori Ishikawa |
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| Project for Sustainable and Resilient River Basin Systems | Technical Development of Sustainable River management | Shoji Fukuoka, Institute Professor, RDI |
Kazuo Kashiyama Takahisa Gotoh Yoshiharu Takemura Yuya Takakuwa Katsuhiro Goto |
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| social splanning, legal engineering |
Infrastructure project of super-aged society | Masayoshi Tanishita, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Tetsuo Akiyama Ryusuke TAKEUCHI Nao Niwa |
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| The Research Unit for Blueprinting the Best Utilization Scheme of "TRUSTS" in the Super-Aged Society | Makoto Arai, Institute Professor, RDI |
Kenichiro Endo Hiroki Hachiya |
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| environmental preservation, sustainablity | Research unit for Sustainable water and solid waste management | Hiroshi Yamamura, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Takayuki Kakuda Qing Ding Keiji Okuda |
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| Research unit for industrial applications of microalgae | R&D for the production of biofuels from microalgae | Hiroshi Yamamura, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Shigeaki Harayama Yuki Kasai |
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| Research unit for advanced urban drainage management | Hiroshi Yamamura, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Hiroaki Furumai Kyu-Hyun Park |
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| big-data, AI, data science |
AI/Data Science Social Implementation Laboratory Ⅱ | Toshinari Kamakura, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Junji Nakano Jun'ya Gotoh Mayura Takada Y-h. Taguchi Takeshi Toi Tomoyuki Higuchi Kosuke Okusa SAKAORI Fumitake Kota Ohno Yoshiki Kinoshita Aya Shinozaki |
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| Engineering Development of Water Environment and Disaster Mitigation based on Data Science | Tadashi Yamada, Institute Professor, RDI |
Toshinari Kamakura Taichi Tebakari Naoki Koyama |
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| psychology, neuroscience | Saizeriya cognitive food value research unit | Ippeita Dan, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Yasushi Kyutoku | ||
| Translational Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit | Translational research in applied cognitive neuroscience | Ippeita Dan, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Yasushi Kyutoku | ||
| Research Unit for Lifespan Development and Harmonious society | Cognitive Brain Research to Promote Cognitive Diversity in Lifespan Development | Masami K Yamaguchi, Professor, Faculty of Letters |
Kenkichi Takase Ippeita Dan Akira Midorikawa |
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| nano-material | Research Laboratory for Precise Control of Molecular Alignment | Ikeda Tomiki, Institute Professor, RDI |
Kenji Katayama Tetsuji Dohi Ube Toru |
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| robotics | Research Project on Human-Robot Physical Interaction in VR/AR | Taro Nakamura, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Manabu Okui Rie Nishihama |
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| Research and Development Unit for Evolutionary Intelligent Swarm Robot | Evolutionary Swarm Intelligence for Collaborative Construction Scheme in Lunar Future Town | Yasuharu Kunii, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Y-h. TAGUCHI Mihoko Niitsuma Kosuke Sakamoto Yamato Suzuki |
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| information and communication | Information Security in the New Normal Environment | Jinhui Chao, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Nobuyuki Sato Shigeo Tsujii Masao Yamasawa Nobuharu Suzuki |
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| kansei/affective engineering | Smart Sound Design Research Unit | Establishment of feature extraction and evaluation methods for appropriate sound quality | Takeshi Toi, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Toshikazu Kato Mihoko Niitsuma Akira Midorikawa |
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| Policy Science | Research unit for research and survey on fostering safety and security think tanks | Research and survey on fostering safety and security think tanks | Hiroyuki Ohnuki, Professor, Chuo Law School |
Masatake Saito Toshikazu Kato Hiroko Shoji Masayoshi Tanishita Hidetsugu Nanba Kota Ohno Satoshi Fukuda Mitsuru Yamashina Hisashi Kawai Nobuyuki Sato Shinya Tsuchida Yasushi Kyutoku |
Past Research Units (active until March, 2022)
| Field | Research Unit | Research Subject | Unit Director | Full-time Researcher （Except Unit Director） |
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| social infrastructure | Geo-environmental Research Unit | Impact assessment and maintenance of an existing structure for deformation and vibration of ground | Daiki Hirakawa, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Takeshi Ishii Kenji Ishihara |
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| Flooding in Zero-sea-level area of Tokyo | Daiki Hirakawa, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Hideki Ohta Kunio Saitoh |
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| environmental preservation, sustainablity | Application of Full-scale Cultivation and Harvesting of Microalgae for Bio-jet-fuel production | Hiroshi Yamamura, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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| big-data, AI, data science |
AI/Data Science Social Implementation Laboratory | Toshinari Kamakura, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Jun'ya Gotoh Y-h. Taguchi Takeshi Toi Junji Nakano Tomoyuki Higuchi SAKAORI Fumitake Kota Ohno Aya Shinozaki Yoshiki Kinoshita Soichiro Tanabe |
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| Laboratory of Lifestyle-related Disease Prevention System |
Toshinari Kamakura, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Mari Ito | |||
| psychology, neuroscience | Developmental cultural differences on face and body expression | Masami K Yamaguchi, Professor, Faculty of Letters |
Ippeita Dan | ||
| Saizeriya cognitive food science research unit | Ippeita Dan, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Yasushi Kyutoku |
