PEOPLE

Advanced Vehicle Research Division
Mobility Service Research Division
Social Impact Research Division
Affiliated Faculty
Visiting Faculty

Director

TANIKAWA, Shiro

Designated Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Business strategy, Industry-Academia-Government collaboration

Advanced Vehicle Research Division

Head of Division

SUZUKI, Tatsuya

Professor
Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering

Intelligence for mobility, Human-machine collaboration, Behavior modeling, Vehicle to Grid
ARIMA, Hiroshi

Professor
Graduate School of Medicine, Program in Integrated Medicine

Water balance
SUNADA, Shigeru

Professor
Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering

Flight dynamics, Aerodynamics
DOKI, Shinji

Professor
Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Information and Communication Engineering

Control, Modeling, Signal/information processing and its application for motor drive systems
HARA, Susumu

Professor
Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering

Dynamics and Control Engineering, Control Engineering, Intelligent Mechanics and Mechanical System, Man-Machine System, Aerospace Engineering
MIZUNO, Koji

Professor
Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering

Crash safety, Impact biomechanics
MIWA, Kazuhisa

Professor
Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences

Cognitive modeling, Cognitive psychology, Intelligent tutoring systems
YAMAMOTO, Masayoshi

Professor
Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Center for Integrated Research of Future Electronics

Power electronics
Chief of Strategic Planning and Management Office

AOKI, Hirofumi

Designated Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Human factors engineering, Human-Machine interaction, Mobility, Human space flight
AKAGI, Yasuhiro

Designated Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Automated driving systems
TANIGUCHI, Shunji

Designated Professor (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Traffic psychology, Media psychology
TERASAKI, Hiroko

Designated Professor (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Ophthalmology, Protective care for sensory disorders
YONEKAWA, Takashi

Designated Professor (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Automotive engineering, Vehicle dynamics, Driver characteristics
IMAOKA, Jun

Associate Professor
Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Center for Integrated Research of Future Electronics

Power electronics, Power magnetics, Electrification
IWAMOTO, Kunihiro

Associate Professor
Graduate School of Medicine, Program in Integrated Medicine

Psychiatry, Clinical Psychopharmacology, Sleep Medicine
OKUDA, Hiroyuki

Associate Professor
Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering

Human machine cooperation, Human behavior modeling, Planning and control of autonomous vehicle/robot, System control, Numerical optimization, Model predictive control
Deputy Head of Division

DEGUCHI, Daisuke

Associate Professor
Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Intelligent Systems

Image processing, Pattern recognition, Object detection, ITS
MATSUBAYASHI, Shota

Designated Associate Professor
Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences

Cognitive science, Cognitive modeling, Driving behavior
KOIDE_Naoshi

Designated Associate Professor (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society
SHIMAZAKI, Kan

Designated Associate Professor (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Cognitive psychology, Traffic psychology, Ergonomics
NAGIRI, Sueharu

Designated Associate Professor (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Driving simulator, Human machine interface
ONOUE, Takeshi

Lecturer of hospital
Nagoya University Hospital, Center for Postgraduate Clinical Training and Career Development

Internet of Things and lifestyle disease, Continuous glucose monitoring, Prevention of hypoglycemia
ABE, Eiji

Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Engineering, Materials Design Innovation Engineering

Material strength, Welding and joining, Metal forming
ITO, Rin

Designated Assistant Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Social psychology, Interpersonal psychology
NINOMIYA, Yuki

Designated Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences

Cognitive science, Experimental psychology, Curiosity
KATO, Hirotaka

Researcher
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Pattern recognition
OYAMA, Masaru

Researcher (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society
KISHI, Hiroshi

Researcher (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Human characteristics, Human factors, Cognition and driving ability
SHIMIZU, Masayuki

Researcher (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Environment recognition, Machine learning
SUSUKI, Yuto

Researcher (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society
TATEISHI, Sadayoshi

Researcher (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Auto drive
HASHIMOTO, Hitooki

Researcher (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society
HIRANO, Akio

Researcher (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Automotive engineering, Human engineering
MIZUNO, Hiroshi

Researcher (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Automotive engineering, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, Autonomous driving
USHIDA, Masashi

Researcher (cross appointment system)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Auto drive

Mobility Service Research Division

Deputy Executive Director & Head of Division

KAWAGUCHI, Nobuo

Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society / Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Information and Communication Engineering

Spatio-temporal information system, Ubiquitous sensing, Smart city
TAKEDA, Kazuya

Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society / Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Intelligent Systems

Signal processing for acoustic, speech, spoken language and behavior; Driving behavior model
NINOMIYA, Yoshiki

Designated Professor (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Automated driving, SDV, Machine perception
KOMAMIZU, Takahiro

Associate Professor
Center for Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical and Data Science

Database, Open Data Management, Linked Open Data, Data integration, Natural language processing
YONEZAWA, Takuro

Associate Professor
Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Information and Communication Engineering

Internet of Realities
CARBALLO SEGURA, Alexander

Associate Professor
Gifu University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering

Autonomous robots, Autonomous vehicles, Computer vision, Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer engineering, Computer networks, LiDAR
KATAYAMA, Shin

Designated Assistant Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Ubiquitous computing, Affective computing
GUO, Jia

Designated Assistant Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Evolutionary computation, Neural networks, Swarm intelligence
WU, Wei

Designated Assistant Professor (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Combinatorial optimization, Scheduling, Robust optimization
NAKAYAMA, Kako

Designated Assistant Professor (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Feminist gerontology, Cultural sociology, Gender, Ageing, Senior theatre
KARLSSON, Robin

Researcher (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Neurosymbolic AI, Self-learning robotics, Agentic AI, Spatio-Semantic Environment Representation, Quantum AI
TAKAHASHI, Hideyuki

Researcher (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Global Research Institute for Mobility in Society

Affiliated Faculty

TAKASAKI, Haruo

Designated Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society

Economics of mobility, Information economics, Economics of privacy, Security and Data economy
KANAMORI, Hitoshi

Designated Professor (part-time)
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, HMI and Human Characteristics Research Division

Ergonomics, Human characteristics
TANAKA, Takahiro

Designated Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, HMI and Human Characteristics Research Division

Intelligent agent, User state estimation, HCI, HAI
YOSHIHARA, Yuki

Designated Associate Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, HMI and Human Characteristics Research Division
KARATAS, Nihan

Designated Assistant Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, HMI and Human Characteristics Research Division
YAMADA, Hideaki

Designated Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, ICT Infrastructure Lab for Future Society

Communication infrastructure, Cloud services, DevOps
SATO, Hitomi

Designated Associate Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, ICT Infrastructure Lab for Future Society
YOSHIKAWA, Tadashi

Designated Associate Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, TTDC Mobility Society Integrated Solutions Research Division

Measurement & Instrumentation control
BAN, Kazunori

Designated Associate Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, TTDC Mobility Society Integrated Solutions Research Division

Digital twin, Shared space simulation, Simulation
JIANG, Meilan

Designated Associate Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Fujitsu-Nagoya University Social Digital Twin Research Division

Travel behavior analysis, Traffic safety, Transportation planning
OGAI, Yusaku

Designated Assistant Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Fujitsu-Nagoya University Social Digital Twin Research Division

Modeling social interactions
KOMINE, Shigeki

Designated Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, DENSO Data-Driven Future Society Co-Creation Laboratory

Mobility society, R&D management, Collaboration/Open Innovation
TAKUMA, Shunsuke

Designated Lecturer
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Advanced Power Electronics Laboratory
SAWADA, Takashi

Designated Assistant Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Advanced Power Electronics Laboratory
ASAHI, Ryoji

Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Institute of Materials Innovation

Ab-initio calculation, Materials design, Materials informatics
HASEGAWA, Yasuhisa

Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Institute of Nano-Life-Systems / Graduate School of Engineering, Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering

Robotics, Assistive robot, Surgical robotics
NAKAMURA, Maki

Designated Associate Professor
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Research Center for Net-Zero Carbon Society

Visiting Faculty

AKAMATSU, Motoyuki

Visiting Professor
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Human Informatics and Interaction Research Institute (HIIRI)
ADACHI, Masahiro

Visiting Professor
AMP Consulting GK (LLC.)

Technology development management
ATSUMI, Masayasu

Visiting Professor
Soka University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Department of Information Systems Science

Intelligent informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning
ARAKI, Katsuhiko

Visiting Professor
ITS, IoT
ANDO, Akira

Visiting Professor
NIKKEN SEKKEI RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Transportation policy, Urban planning, Smart city policy
ISHIKAWA, Yoshifumi

Visiting Professor
Nanzan University, Faculty of Policy Studies, Department of Policy Studies

Urban environmental policy, Spatial economics, Policy evaluation
ICHIKAWA, Masao

Visiting Professor
University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Medicine

Community design & public health, Injury prevention & control, Global public health
ITO, Akira

Visiting Professor
Aichi Institute of Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Autonomous driving, Vehicle dynamics and control, Fault-tolerant control systems, Energy management systems
ITO, Dai

Visiting Professor
City of Nagoya, Housing and Urban Affairs Department
ITO, Miho

Visiting Professor
DENSO CORPORATION
ITO, Yoshito

Visiting Professor
Design On-site / Business Launch-out

Business Design, Project Design, Design Management, Design Strategy, Design Thinking
IWASE, Aiko

Visiting Professor
Tajimi Iwase Eye Clinic

Ophthalmology, Visual field, Glaucoma
OKUMA, Takashi

Visiting Professor
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technokogy (AIST), Human Augmentation Research Center (HARC)
OKUDA, Takaaki

Visiting Professor
Nanzan University, Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics

Management strategy, Transportation business, Regional strategy
OGURI, Koji

Visiting Professor
Aichi Prefectural University, School of Information Science and Technology

Biomedical engineering, Intelligent information processing, Intelligent transport systems
OZAKI, Nobuyuki

Visiting Professor
ITS/mobility-related research based on computer vision
KAJI, Katsuhiko

Visiting Professor
Aichi Institute of Technology, Faculty of Information Science, Department of Information Science
KATO, Shinpei

Visiting Professor
TIER IV, Inc. / University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology

Computer architectures and operating systems for embedded and real-time systems, Parallel and distributed systems
KATO, Tatsuya

Visiting Professor
Kasugai City
KITAOKA, Norihide

Visiting Professor
Toyohashi University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Speech information processing, Behavior signal processing, Multimodal interface
KURATA, Takeshi

Visiting Professor
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technokogy (AIST), Human Augmentation Research Center (HARC)

Indoor positioning, Service engineering, Assistive technology
KOHTAKE, Naohiko

Visiting Professor
Keio University, Graduate School of System Design and Management

Design thinking, Space-Scale IoT, Space system, Sports tech, Systems engineering, System thinking
KOBAYASHI, Hideyuki

Visiting Professor
SBI Graduate School

Product development, Target costing, Strategic management
SARVI, Majid

Visiting Professor
University of Melbourne, School of Engineering, Department of Infrastructure Engineering
TAKEUCHI, Hirotsugu

Visiting Professor
DENSO CORPORATION
TERAI, Hitoshi

Visiting Professor
Kindai University, Faculty of Humanity-Oriented Science and Engineering, Department of Information and Computer Science
TERATANI, Mehrdad

Visiting Professor
Aichi University of Technology, Department of Media Informatics

3D imaging systems, Immersive visual media, Intelligent video system, Informatics, 3D video compression
NAITO, Ayano

Visiting Professor
Aichi Institute of Technology, Faculty of Information Science, Department of Information Science

Mobile computing, Network technology, ITS
NAKAGAWA, Yuka

Visiting Professor
Nakagawa Law & Consulting / Chukyo University

Criminal procedure code, Criminal law, Automated vehicle
NAKANO, Mikio

Visiting Professor
C4A Research Institute, Inc.
NAMBA, Hideaki

Visiting Professor
ITS, V2X communication, Local 5G, Automotive engineering
NOBE, Tsuguo

Visiting Professor
Computer networks, Electric vehicles, Autonomous vehicles, Mobility as a Service, Global industry competition and strategy
HIRAYAMA, Takatsugu

Visiting Professor
University of Human Environments, Faculty of Human Environment, Department of Environmental Science

Image recognition, Human computer interaction
MAEKAWA, Makoto

Visiting Professor
MATSUMOTO, Chota

Visiting Professor
Kindai University, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Department of Medicine

Life sciences, Ophthalmology
YASUMOTO, Keiichi

Visiting Professor
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Science and Technology
AOKI, Shunsuke

Visiting Associate Professor
Turing Inc. / National Institute of Informatics / Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI

Autonomous driving, Cyber-Physical Systems, Distributed systems, Vehicular communications
ISHIGURO, Yoshio

Visiting Associate Professor
University of Tokyo, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies

Human computer interaction, Image processing, Signal processing
IWATSUKI, Yasuyori

Visiting Associate Professor
Matsuda & Partners

Criminal law, Investigation, Autonomous driving, Safety management, Compliance
OTA, Kohei

Visiting Associate Professor
Traffic Brain
KAZUMI, Atsushi

Visiting Associate Professor
TRUSCO Nakayama Corporation

Digital transformation, Information system, HR management
KANEKO, Hitoshi

Visiting Associate Professor
Japan Localization Institute

Localization, GPS, IMU, Automated driving, Automated drone flight, The Drone Act
KAMIYAMA, Takeshi

Visiting Associate Professor
Nagasaki University, School of Information and Data Sciences

Mobile computing, Information sensing, Data science, Distributed system
KAWANO, Naoko

Visiting Associate Professor
Osaka Metropolitan University, Graduate School of Sustainable System Sciences

Clinical psychology, Clinical geropsychology, Cognitive aging, Mental disorders and cognitive impairment
KUWAHARA, Masahiro

Visiting Associate Professor
Toyota Motor Corporation, Connected Advanced Development Division

Mobility services (MaaS), Simulation and data analysis
SATO, Masaaki

Visiting Associate Professor
Tokai University, School of Tourism Department of Tourism / Keio University, Graduate School of Media and Governance

Computer networking, Network mobility, Internet ITS (probe/floating car)
SUZUKI, Hidekazu

Visiting Associate Professor
Meijo University, Faculty of Information Engineering, Department of Information Engineering
TATEMATSU, Kazuma

Visiting Associate Professor
DING, Ming

Visiting Associate Professor
Robot control, Human-Robotics Interaction, Human modeling, Autonomous driving
HIRABAYASHI, Yuji

Visiting Associate Professor
Value Glow
HIROI, Kei

Visiting Associate Professor
Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute

Disaster management system, Disaster info. spatial-temporal analysis
FUKUMOTO, Tohru

Visiting Associate Professor
I.D.Net. Co., Ltd.

Brand strategy, Product planning, Marketing strategy, Mobility design, Visionary design
MISHINA, Makoto

Visiting Associate Professor
Cyvision Ltd.
MEGURO, Junichi

Visiting Associate Professor
Meijo University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Mechatronics Engineering

Positioning, Localization, GNSS, Map generation
MORITA, Taketo

Visiting Associate Professor
MATSUDA & PARTNERS

Act on the protection of personal information, Legal affairs for AI, data and autonomous car
YAMASHITA, Yuji

Visiting Associate Professor
Iwata Sogo Law Office
YAMAMOTO, Issei

Visiting Associate Professor
TURING Inc.

Machine learning
WATANABE, Shigemitsu

Visiting Associate Professor
Frameworx Co., Ltd.

Intelligent logistics system, Robotics
ASAI, Yasushi
Personal mobility service business
ITO, Katsunori
EV-AICHI Co., Ltd.

Automated driving, ITS, Mobility service
KATSUNO, Toshiyasu
Aichi High School of Technology and Engineering, Advanced Course

System safety for automated driving, Preview sensing system
SATO, Kenya

(Designated Professor (part-time) of Graduate School of Informatics, Center for Embedded Computing Systems)
Doshisha University, Graduate School of Science and Engineering / Mobility Research Center

Computer network, Distributed systems, Cooperative automated driving
TATEMATSU, Hideki
Oriental Consultants Co., Ltd.
NOOMWONGS, Nuksit
Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Smart Mobility Research Center

Vehicle dynamics and control, Road safety
HATTORI, Mitsuhiro
EV-AICHI Co., Ltd.

Automated driving, ITS, Mobility service
HIKASA, Chie
Shinshu University, School of Medicine

Medical law, Medical and transportation , AI and law
FUKUDA, Hideyuki
Cisco Systems G.K.

Wifi, LPWA, 5G, IoT, Security, Multi-factor authentication, Visualization and automation, STEAM
HOMMARU, Katsuya
Hyogo Bender Engineering Co., Ltd.

GIS, Autonomous vehicle, Computer science, Broadcasting technology
MASAKI, Rika
Aichi Prefectural Assembly
MATSUI, Hiroshi
Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

Data utilization methodology in business, Visualization of clinical communication, Quantitative evaluation of corporate competitiveness
MATSUI, Yuki
Oriental Consultants Co., Ltd.
MATSUMOTO, Hiroyuki
ASTERONE Co. Ltd.

CASE, IoT, Micro-mobility, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan
MUROZUMI, Junichi
Methodology for utilizing AI technology in business management, Management and IT strategies in the digital age, Platform theory
YANAI, Masashi
SEKISUI EUROPE B.V.
YANO, Honami
Joshibi University of Art and Design

Animation, Queer/Gender representation
YAMAGISHI, Misako
Toyota Transportation Research Institute

Aging psychology, Gerontechnology, Human factor
YAMAGUCHI, Rumiko
room-y innovations

Industry-Academia-Government collaboration, Management strategy, Regional development
LE, Anh Son
Phenikaa Research and Technology Institute / Phenikaa University

ADAS, Robotics, Autonomous vehicle, AI, IoT

Advanced Vehicle Research Division

Mobility Service Research Division

Social Impact Research Division

Affiliated Faculty

Visiting Faculty