Staff

Risk and Resilience Core Studies


Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
ABE Genya
[HP Link]
agenya"at"jari.or.jp
Vehicle safety: interactions between human and advanced driver assistance systems, trust in automated driving systems, recognition, decision and implementation while driving.

Professor
ITOH Makoto
[HP Link]
itoh"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Systems safety: mutual trust and cooperation in human-machine systems, cognition, inference, and decision making under uncertainty or gray zone, perception and acceptance of risk.

Professor
SATO-ILIC Mika
[HP Link]
mika"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Multi-dimensional data analysis, statistics: clustering based on latent structure models for similarity data, fuzzy clustering, and multi-way data theory.

Professor
ENDO Yasunori
[HP Link]
endo"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Fundamentals and applications of the following methods based on soft computing technique: systems: machine learning including clustering, fuzzy inference and fuzzy control, and risk analysis of uncertain systems by methodology of functional analysis.

Professor
OZAKI Koken
[HP Link]
koken"at"gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp
Structural Equation Modeling, Test Theory, Multilevel Modeling, Survey Methodology, Improving the Quality of Web Surveys.

Professor
KURAHASHI Setsuya*+
[HP Link]
kurahashi.setsuya.gf"at"u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Social simulation, Evolutionary computing, Agent technology, Data mining, Skill extraction support system, Rec-ommender system.

Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
HIRAOKA Toshihiro
[HP Link]
hiraoka.toshihiro.ft"at"u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Human-machine systems and interfaces: design and evaluation of driver-assistance systems, support for self-initiated behavior change, and redesign of regional mobility systems.
Associate Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
OKABE Kohei
[HP Link]
okabe"at"s.jniosh.johas.go.jp
Risk Management: labor accident, safety design, collaborate robot, nursing care equipment.

Associate Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
KITAJIMA Sou
[HP Link]
skita"at"jari.or.jp
Risk recognition characteristics of traffic participants, Development of agent model based on human behavior analysis, Safety and fluidity evaluation of Automated Driving System

Associate Professor
KINO Yasunobu*+
[HP Link]
kino"at"mbaib.gsbs.tsukuba.ac.jp
Project Risk Management, Application Development, Social Systems Modeling and Design.
Associate Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
SATO Toshihisa
[HP Link]
toshihisa-sato"at"aist.go.jp
Science of driving pleasure, Cognitive and behavior characteristics of elderly drivers, and Ergonomic experiments of drivers with automated and advanced driver assistance systems.

Associate Professor
TAKAYASU Akitoshi
[HP Link]
takitoshi"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Verification methods for nonlinear mathematical models including mathematical models for environmental problems, Numerical analysis, Verified numerical computation.

Associate Professor
FURUKAWA Hiroshi
[HP Link]
furukawa.hiroshi.gu"at"u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Cognitive interface: human interface designs for human-machine collaboration, mental models in dynamic environment.

Associate Professor
BAN Masataka
[HP Link]
ban.masataka.fn"at"u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Marketing science, bayesian statistics, bayesian econometrics, measuring advertising effectiveness, competitive structure analysis.

Assistant Professor
SAITO Yuichi
[HP Link]
saito.yuichi.gt"at"u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Human-machine systems, cognitive systems science, systems safety and control, human-machine interface and interaction, and risk prediction and avoidance based on data analysis.

Assistant Professor
MISAKI Hiroumi
[HP Link]
hmisaki"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Statistics, econometrics and quantitative finance: high-frequency data analysis, volatility and covolatility of asset prices, financial risk management, state space models, and particle filters.

Assistant Professor
CUI zixin
[HP Link]
cui.zixin.gf"at"u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Interaction: Human Factors, Human-Machine Trust and Cooperation, User's Characteristics.

Information Systems and Security


Professor
OMOTE Kazumasa
[HP Link]
omote"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Information security: blockchain and cryptoasset security, advanced cyber-attack countermeasures, IoT security, applied cryptography, privacy-preserving data analysis.

Professor
TSUDA Kazuhiko*+
[HP Link]
tsuda"at"gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp
Database, Information Retrieval, Human Factors, Cognitive Science, Natural Language Processing, Computer Algorithm, Software Engineering.

Professor
NISHIDE Takashi
[HP Link]
nishide"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Information security: design of public key encryption, cryptographic protocol, privacy-enhancing technology, method for securing information systems.

Associate Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
SHIMAOKA Masaki
[HP Link]
shimaoka.masaki.ge"at"u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Information Security and Trust: PKI application(e-signature, authentication), Trust model of PKI, Social Trust of Information Infrastructure, ethics for security research.

Associate Professor
HOSHIKAWA Naoto
[HP Link]
hoshikawa"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Network System, Service Computing, Security Infrastructure, DX

Associate Professor
YOSHIDA Mitsuo*+
[HP Link]
mitsuo"at"gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp
Computational Social Science, Web Informatics, Social Media Analysis, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing.

Assistant Professor
TAKAHASHI Taisei
[HP Link]
takahashi.taisei.fw"at"u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Information Security: Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Tamper-proof Hardware Devices, Cryptographic Protocols.

Urban Disaster Prevention and Social Resilience


Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
USUDA Yuichiro
[HP Link]
usuda.yuichiro.fu"at"u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Disaster Informatics, Disaster Dynamics, Cyber-Physical System for Disaster Resilience, Risk Communication, Decision Support.

Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
SAKAI Naoki
[HP Link]
sakai.naoki.gm"at"u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Geotechnical engineering, Landslides, Heavy rainfall-induced disaster, Model tests, IoT/AI, Satellite and remote sensing data, Disaster risk, TDA(Trans-disciplinary approach).

Professor
SUZUKI Tsutomu
[HP Link]
tsutomu"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Location analysis and risk in urban planning: locational and spatial modeling of urban facilities, transportation networks, infrastructures, public services, urban growth and uncertainties.

Professor
TANIGUCHI Ayako
[HP Link]
taniguchi"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Urban transport planning, Attitude and behavioral modification, Public acceptance, Risk communication, Mobility management.

Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
FUJIWARA Hiroyuki
[HP Link]
fujiwara"at"bosai.go.jp
Seismic hazard and risk assessment, Numerical simulation, Strong motion prediction, Subsurface structure Modeling, Real-time earthquake damage estimation system.

Associate Professor
UMEMOTO Michitaka
[HP Link]
umemoto"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Countermeasures against infrequent risk in urban and regional area: Evacuation planning, Disaster information, Regionals' countermeasures against nuclear disaster, Perception of disaster risk.

Assistant Professor
KINOSHITA Youhei
[HP Link]
ykinoshita"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Space Geodesy (e.g. using SAR and GNSS), Crustal deformation, Satellite remote sensing, MaaS application

Environmental and Energy Systems


Professor
OKAJIMA Keiichi
[HP Link]
okajima"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
New energy systems: LCA evaluation and reliability analysis of energy systems with new energy devices such as photovoltaic cell and fuel cell systems.

Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
KATO Kazuhiko
kato.kazuhiko.fu"at"u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Safety Management Measures and Evaluation Methods for Photovoltaic Power Plants.

Professor
SHOJI Gaku*
[HP Link]
gshoji"at"kz.tsukuba.ac.jp
Structural safety and system reliability assessment for critical lifeline infrastructures such as transportation networks, utilities, and communication networks in view of seismic and tsunami risks, and mathematical model-ing of public cognition against functional impairment of critical infrastructures during an event.

Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
TAHARA Kiyotaka
[HP Link]
tahara.kiyotaka.fn"at"u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Development of sustainability assessment based on life cycle thinking, inventory database, technology assessment.

Professor
HATANO Yuko
[HP Link]
hatano"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Fate and transport of pollutants in the natural environment. Remediation; adsorption; molecular dynamics simulations.

Associate Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
ZUSHI Yasuyuki
[HP Link]
zushi.yasuyuki.fu"at"u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Chemical risk assessment, Environmental dynamics of chemicals, Nontarget analysis of environmental chemicals, Data processing of nontarget analytical data.

Associate Professor
SUZUKI Kengo
[HP Link]
kengo"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Energy system: model analysis of electricity and heat supply system including renewable energy and micro-CHP; education and research of energy system by using gaming simulation

Associate Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
UENO Tsuyoshi
[HP Link]
ueno.tsuyoshi.gb"at"u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Energy Demand Analysis, Energy-Saving.

Associate Professor (Collaborative Graduate School Program)
HIENUKI Shunichi
[HP Link]
hienuki.shunichi.gw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Input-Output Analysis (IOA), Energy Technology and System Evaluation, Integrated Technology Assessment (TA) focusing on Comprehensive Social Risks

Assistant Professor
AKIMOTO Yutaro
[HP Link]
akimoto"at"risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Non-invasive measurement and evaluation methods of fuel cell, Resilience power system, Energy analysis of new generation societies and vehicles
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