On April 1, 2020, 12 people from the participating institutions of our consortium have been appointed as faculty members of the Collaborative Graduate School at the University of Tsukuba.
They will give research guidance and classes at Master’s and Doctoral Programs in Risk and Resilience Engineering at the University of Tsukuba, and will be engaged in the human resource development with the specialized and practical knowledge and skills that they have cultivated at each institution.
(Titles omitted)
| Participating Institute | Job Title Name HP Link |
Field | Theme |
| Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) | Professor*
ABE Genya |
●Risk and Resilience Core Studies | 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) | Professor*
UCHIDA Nobuyuki |
●Risk and Resilience Core Studies | Human error analysis and traffic accident prevention, Safety evaluation for automated driving systems |
| National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan (JNIOSH) | Associate Professor**
OKABE Kohei |
●Risk and Resilience Core Studies | Risk Management: labor accident, safety design, collaborate robot, nursing care equipment |
| National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | Associate Professor**
SATO Toshihisa |
●Risk and Resilience Core Studies | Science of driving pleasure, Cognitive and behavior characteristics of elderly drivers, and Ergonomic experiments of drivers with automated and advanced driver assistance systems |
| Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. | Associate Professor**
SANAMI Shou |
●Risk and Resilience Core Studies | Machine Learning: Understanding and dealing with risks in application to actual problems |
| SECOM Co., LTD. | Associate Professor**
SHIMAOKA Masaki |
●Information Systems and Security | 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) | Professor*
USUDA Yuichiro |
●Urban Disaster Prevention and Social Resilience | Disaster Informatics, Disaster Dynamics, Cyber-Physical System for Disaster Resilience, Risk Communication, Decision Support |
| National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) | Professor*
SAKAI Naoki |
●Urban Disaster Prevention and Social Resilience | 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) | Professor*
FUJIWARA Hiroyuki |
●Urban Disaster Prevention and Social Resilience | 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) | Professor*
KATO Kazuhiko |
●Environmental and Energy Systems | Safety Management Measures and Evaluation Methods for Photovoltaic Power Plants |
| National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | Professor*
TAHARA Kiyotaka |
●Environmental and Energy Systems | Development of sustainability assessment based on life cycle thinking, inventory database, technology assessment |
| Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) | Professor*
YAMAMOTO Hiromi |
●Environmental and Energy Systems | Low carbon energy systems analysis, Evaluation of renewables and hydrogen technologies in energy systems |
Note: * Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
** Associate Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)