Research Units |

Field	Research Unit	Research Subject	Unit Director	Full-time Researcher （Except Unit Director）
social infrastructure	Unit on Climate Change	②Project for Comparison and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Inventories by Country Using GOSAT Series Observation Data ③Project on Enhancing Satellite-based Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimation Technology by GOSAT-GW and BTR preparation support for Mongolia	Masataka Watanabe, Institute Professor, RDI	Tomohiro Shishime Akihiro Oba Yoko Saito Kazuo　Kashida Mikio Sueno
	Coastal Digital Twin for Sustainability and Innovation Research Unit	Research on Digital Twins for Sustainability and Innovation in Coastal Areas	Taro Arikawa, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering	Tomoya Shibayama
	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
	Unit for Research and Application Solution of Water-Related Disaster Science and Information.		Tadashi Yamada, Institute Professor, RDI	Taichi Tebakari Shiori Terai
	Flooding in the lowland area of Tokyo		Daiki Hirakawa, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering	Atsushi IIZUKA Hideki Ohta Kunio Saitoh
	Water Safety & Emergency Medicine Research Unit		Tsutomu Komine, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering	Ippeita Dan Ryo Sagisaka Toshinori Ishikawa
	Water Safety Research Unit	Study on drowning prevention using advanced technology	Toshinori Ishikawa, Institute Professor, RDI	Ryo Shimada
	Project for Sustainable and Resilient River Basin Systems	Technical　Development of Sustainable River management	Shoji Fukuoka, Institute Professor, RDI	Kazuo Kashiyama Katsuhiro Goto Takahisa Gotoh Yoshiharu Takemura
	Real-time Flood Prediction R&D Unit	Research and Development of Real-Time Flood Prediction and River Flow Survey Methods under Climate Change	Tadashi Yamada, Institute Professor, RDI	－
social splanning, legal engineering	Infrastructure project of super-aged society Ⅱ	Research on mobility systems and inclusive design of transportation facilities in an aging society	Masayoshi Tanishita, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering	Tetsuo Akiyama Ryusuke TAKEUCHI Nao Niwa
social splanning, legal engineering	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
environmental preservation, sustainablity	Research unit for green and digital transformation of water and solid waste management		Hiroshi Yamamura, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering	Takayuki Kakuda Keiji Okuda
	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 Qing Ding
	Research unit for advanced urban drainage management		Hiroshi Yamamura, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering	Hiroaki Furumai	outline
big-data, AI, data science	AI/Data Science Social Implementation Laboratory Ⅱ		Toshinari Kamakura, Institute Professor, RDI	Junji Nakano Jun'ya Gotoh Mayura Takada Y-h. Taguchi Takeshi Toi Tomoyuki Higuchi Kosuke Okusa SAKAORI Fumitake Kota Ohno Yoshiki Kinoshita Aya Shinozaki
big-data, AI, data science	Engineering Development of Water Environment and Disaster Mitigation based on Data Science		Tadashi Yamada, Institute Professor, RDI	Taichi Tebakari Naoki Koyama
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
nano-material	Research Laboratory for Precise Control of Molecular Alignment		Ikeda Tomiki, Institute Professor, RDI	Kenji Katayama Tetsuji Dohi Ube Toru
robotics	Research Project on Human-Robot Physical Interaction in VR/AR		Taro Nakamura, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering	Rie Nishihama
robotics	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
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
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 Soichiro TANABE

Field	Research Unit	Research Subject	Unit Director	Full-time Researcher （Except Unit Director）
social infrastructure	Coastal Disaster Adaptation Research Laboratory	Research on Coastal Disaster Mitigation against Tsunami and Storm surge	Taro Arikawa, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering	－
social splanning, legal engineering	Infrastructure project of super-aged society		Masayoshi Tanishita, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering	Tetsuo Akiyama Ryusuke TAKEUCHI Nao Niwa
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
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 Noriko KATO

Field	Research Unit	Research Subject	Unit Director	Full-time Researcher （Except Unit Director）
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
social infrastructure	Flooding in Zero-sea-level area of Tokyo		Daiki Hirakawa, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering	Hideki Ohta Kunio Saitoh
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	Qing Ding
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
big-data, AI, data science	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
psychology, neuroscience	Saizeriya cognitive food science research unit		Ippeita Dan, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering	Yasushi Kyutoku

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