Civil Design and Engineering

Professor

Research Expertise / Risk management for disaster mitigation, Development of new geotechnical design and practice, Estimating behavior of the structure built on/in ground

Development of effective disaster prevention system and practice.

Associate Professor

Research Expertise / Plasma Physics, Numerical Simulation

Study of elementary processes in plasma physics using a particle-in-cell code.

Professor

Research Expertise / Urban planning, Transportation policy, Construction administration

Integrated transportation policy, urban infrastructure development and institutional design to realize improvement of the quality of life.

Professor

Research Expertise / Urban Environmental Design, Building Facilities Design, Energy Conservation

Environmental design, facility design and energy management. Energy demand and energy conservation of cities and buildings.

Professor

Research Expertise / Media Information and Communication Technology, Intelligent Transport System (ITS), Quality of Experience (QoE) using Brain Activity

Understanding crowd behavior from sensing proximity human behavior using multiview camera; bus location system for delivering service information and advertising information to bus stops, buses in service, and bus users.

Associate Professor

Research Expertise / Behavioral Disaster Management, Service and Information Science, Life Reconstruction Support

Action research about design of harmonious collaboration between human and ICT for effective personal and institutional behavior against disaster.

Associate Professor

Research Expertise / 1. Urban planning, Traffic engineering, Community participation

Public deliberation for sustainable public transport and paratransit system.

Professor

Research Expertise / Railway Legal System, such as Vertical Separation, Railway Engineering and Planning. Public Transport Policy, Project Knowledge of Social Infrastructure Development (especially Shinkansen)

The Study of Railway Future Vision and its Realization Policy for urban improvement, with a focus on Declining population, Inbound tourism, natural disasters (i.e. earthquakes), IoT, etc.

Professor

Research Expertise / Hydraulics, River Engineering, River Morpho-dynamics, CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)

Computational modeling on driftwood motions during flood in rivers. Disaster mitigation. Three-dimensional modeling of coherent structures of turbulence in open channel flows. Computations on river morpho-dynamics and river meandering. New efficient computational schemes for simulating large scale flood with inundation.

Associate Professor

Research Expertise / Geotechnical engineering, Concrete engineering, Design and maintenance of structures

Evaluation for characteristics of soil, materials and members; development of design and maintenance method of structures.

Professor

Research Expertise / Planning and design methodology for infrastructures, Urban landscape design, Public procurement system

Development of planning and design methodologies and social systems to create better urban environment.

Professor

Research Expertise / Transportation Policy, Urban Planning

Practical study for smart city and transportation, including a development of information and communication technology system and urban modeling.

Associate Professor

Research Expertise / Structural Mecanics & Engineering, Steel Structure

Rationalization and soundness evaluation of bolted joints of steel structural members. Development of new type of structure using Fiber Reinforced Polymer.

Associate Professor

Research Expertise / City Resources and Behavioral science, Walkable City Planning, Pedestrian-based Street Space Planning

Evaluation of urban streets as living spaces. Re-design of urban planning and urban transportation planning process.

Assistant Professor

Research Expertise / Geotechnical engineering, Soil mechanics, Earth reinforcement

Development of durable earth structure with reinforcements and development of technology to protect soils from disasters.

Assistant Professor

Research Expertise / Urban planning, Urban studies

Key research interests include the walkability of streets and public spaces, heritage-making in the sense of vernacular heritage types and public consultation in heritage conservation, and moreover, how walkability and heritage can be repurposed for urban planning and community design towards sustainable urban redevelopment.

Professor

Research Expertise / Industrial Design, Universal design

Capture the essence of things and convert it to what matches the needs of the times, between tradition and innovation.