Architecture and Urban Design

Name Position Field Specialization Current focus of research Website
Taiki Saito
Professor Structure/Space
Design

Structural Engineering

Seismic Engineering

Countermeasures for long-period seismic activity in skyscrapers, development and diffusion of isolation and vibration control technology, and international technical cooperation To the web site
Shoji Nakazawa
Professor Structure/Space
Design
Structural Mechanics Buckling and vibration in steel, shell and spacial structures and isolation/vibration control, seismic resistance evaluation and seismic risk analysis of structures To the web site
Tomoya Matsui

Associate

Professor

Structure/Space
Design
Architectural Seismic Engineering Seismic performance evaluation of reinforced concrete structures and steel concrete composite structures, development of seismic retrofit technologies To the web site
Yuji Takiuchi
Assistant Professor Structure/Space
Design
Structural Mechanics Buckling and seismic response of shell and spatial structures, optimization of structural shapes and systems, digital construction To the web site
Shotaro Nakada
Assistant professor Structure/Space
Design
Structural Engineering Seismic repair and damage evaluation, Safety verification against to aftershock  
Shiro Matsushima
Professor Architecture/Installation
Design
Architectural Design
Management
Architectural design, design technology and building robotics, urban development and project management  
Masaki Tajima

Professor

Architecture/Installation
Design

Building Environmental Engineering

Mechanical Ventilation, Natural Ventilation, Low Energy Housing with Validated Effectiveness, Energy Conservation and Comfortable Indoor Environment To the web site
Yasuhiro Shimazaki

Associate Professor

Architecture/Installation
Design

Environmental Engineering

Thermal Ergonomics

Evaluation and design of indoor/outdoor thermal comfort, Measurement of thermo-physical properties, Ergonomics applications contributing to enhancing QOL (Quality Of Life) To the web site
Akihiro Mizutani

Associate Professor

Architecture/Installation
Design

Architectural Design

Urban Design

Architectural design, urban planning, computational design, morphological analysis of architecture and cities ホームページへ
Jihui Yuan

Assistant

Professor

Architecture/Installation
Design

Building Environmental Engineering

Building Thermal Environment

Research on diffuse and retro-reflective materials applied to building envelope for urban heat islands mitigation To the web site
Junichiro Asano
Professor Urban and Regional
Design
Urban Planning
Urban Design
Land use planning, land use control, urban design research, modern city planning history, city formation history To the web site
Haruka Ono
Associate Professor Urban and Regional
Design

Urban Planning
Territorial Design

International urban planning, urban planning history, city formation history, territorial design To the web site
Shiro Tsuboi

Assistant

Professor

Urban and Regional
Design
Urban Planning
Urban Design
Land use planning, utilization of underutilized/unutilized land, analysis of urban structure, visualization of future image To the web site
Yasuyuki Nakamori

Professor

(additional post)
(Institute of Liberal Arts and Science)

Urban and Regional
Design
Japanese literature, culture and
communication
  • Appeal of Vories Architecture, Edo-period carpentry, apprenticeship: the world of shrine carpentry, research into Shiko poetry composition and the Mino school, theory of martial arts
To the web site
Yukihiro Matsumoto

Professor

(additional post)
(Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute(EIIRIS))

Structure/Space
Design
Structural Engineering Buckling and seismic response of spatial structures, mechanical characteristics and design methods of FRP structures, structural health monitoring To the web site

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Urban and Regional Management

Name Position Field Specialization Current focus of research Website
Kinya Miura
Professor Disaster Prevention/Geosphere
Management
Geomechanics
Applied Mechanics
Ground and soil structure stablity and seismic resistant design, seabed stability and reaction to waves, ground water and earth environment analysis To the web site
Tatsuya Matsuda
Associate Professor Disaster Prevention/Geosphere
Management
Geomechanics
Applied Mechanics
Mechanical interactions of tsunami, ground and seabed structures, exploration of scour phenomenon through soil particulate, water and air dynamics  
Naoto Naito
Assistant Professor Disaster Prevention/Geosphere
Management
Geomechanics
Applied Mechanics
Impact behavior of granular materials / Deposition behavior of debris due to soil slope failure and rock slope failure / Microtremor monitoring of ground-structure interaction system  
Takanobu Inoue
Professor Environment/Hydrosphere
Management
Sanitary Engineering
Water Environment Protection Engineering
Dynamic analysis of water quality in natural water and water environment protection To the web site
Shigeru Kato
Professor Environment/Hydrosphere
Management

Coastal Engineering

Coastal Hydraulics

Sediment transport, coastal monitoring and management, beach change, coastal waves and current, coastal disaster mitigation To the web site
Kuriko Yokota
Associate Professor Environment/Hydrosphere
Management
Water Environment Engineering
Sanitary Engineering
Evaluation of transfer of nitrogenous compounds from farm fertilizers to streams and groundwater To the web site
Takayuki Tokairin
Lecturer Environment/Hydrosphere
Management
Atmospheric and thermal environment engineering
Agricultural environment
Environment prediction and evaluation in plant factories,Urban thermal environment research, Environmental meteorology  
Toyoda Masaya
Assistant Professor Environment/Hydrosphere
Management
Coastal Engineering, Meteorology Study on compound flood using atmospheric-ocean-river coupling model  
Nguyen Minh Ngoc
Assistant Professor Environment/Hydrosphere
Management
Water Environment Engineering Control of eutrophication, Nutrient analysis  
Hiroyuki Shibusawa
Professor Regional/Transportation
Management

Urban and Regional Economics

Regional Science
Industrial Policy

Disaster risk analysis focusing on regional economics, economic evaluation of future vehicle systems, urban system simulations, industrial analysis  
Nao Sugiki
Associate Professor Regional/Transportation
Management

Transportation Engineering

Infrastructure Planning

Landuse-transportation model, Landuse micro-simulation, Urban structure analysis, Compact city, Urban service demand estimation To the web site
Kojiro Matsuo
Associate Professor Regional/Transportation
Management

Transportation Engineering

Infrastructure Planning

Traffic safety management, Local public transport management, Transport big data analysis, Driving behavior analysis, Traffic simulation To the web site
Cui Mingji
Assistant Professor Regional/Transportation
Management

Disaster Economics
Social Engineering

Quantitative analysis of economic damage caused by disasters, Disaster recovery policy analysis, Tourism behavior analysis  
Kotaro Takayama
Professor (additional post)
(Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Environment
Hydrosphere Management
Advanced agricultural engineering, Instrumentation engineering for plant diagnosis

Environmental control in intelligent greenhouse and plant factory, measurement of plant biological information, plant diagnosis

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