On April 1, 2019, the following 11 people from our Consortium Participating Organization have been appointed as visiting faculty at the University of Tsukuba. They will give research guidance and classes at the Department of Risk Engineering at the University of Tsukuba, and will implement the specialized and practical knowledge and techniques that have been cultivated at each institution in human resource development.
(Titles omitted)
| Participating Institute | Job Title Name HP Link |
Field | Theme |
| Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) | Visiting Professor ABE Genya HP Link |
Total Risk Management | Vehicle safety: interactions between human and advanced driver assistance systems, trust in automated driving systems, recognition, decision and implementation while driving |
| Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) | Visiting Professor UCHIDA Nobuyuki HP Link |
Total Risk Management | Human error analysis and traffic accident prevention, Safety evaluation for automated driving systems |
| National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan (JNIOSH) | Visiting Associate Professor OKABE Kohei HP Link |
Total Risk Management | Risk Management: labor accident, safety design, collaborate robot, nursing care equipment |
| National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | Visiting Associate Professor SATO Toshihisa HP Link |
Total Risk Management | Science of driving pleasure, Cognitive and behavior characteristics of elderly drivers, and Ergonomic experiments of drivers with automated and advanced driver assistance systems |
| SECOM Co., LTD. | Visiting Associate Professor SHIMAOKA Masaki HP Link |
Cyber Risk | Information Security and Trust: PKI application(e-signature, authentication), Trust model of PKI, Social Trust of Information Infrastructure, ethical process for security research |
| National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) | Visiting Professor USUDA Yuichiro HP Link |
Urban Risk | Disaster Informatics, Disaster Dynamics, Cyber-Physical System for Disaster Resilience, Risk Communication, Decision Support |
| National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) | Visiting Professor SAKAI Naoki HP Link |
Urban Risk | Geotechnical engineering, Landslides, Heavy rainfall-induced disaster, Model tests, IoT/AI, Satellite and remote sensing data, Disaster risk, TDA(Trans-disciplinary approach) |
| National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) | Visiting Professor FUJIWARA Hiroyuki HP Link |
Urban Risk | Seismic hazard and risk assessment, Numerical simulation, Strong motion prediction, Subsurface structure Modeling, Real-time earthquake damage estimation system |
| National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | Visiting Professor KATO Kazuhiko HP Link |
Environmental and Energy System Risk | Safety Management Measures and Evaluation Methods for Photovoltaic Power Plants |
| National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | Visiting Professor TAHARA Kiyotaka HP Link |
Environmental and Energy System Risk | Development of sustainability assessment based on life cycle thinking, inventory database, technology assessment |
| Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) | Visiting Professor YAMAMOTO Hiromi HP Link |
Environmental and Energy System Risk | Low carbon energy systems analysis, Evaluation of renewables and hydrogen technologies in energy systems |