Program Staffs

Program Supervisor,Directors,Commitee Chairs

Program Supervisor

Hidetoshi Sekiguchi

Tokyo Tech / Dean of the School of Materials and Chemical Technology / Department of Chemical Science and Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Chemical Processes using high energy density field

Program Coordinator/ Director

Takeo Yamaguchi

Tokyo Tech / Institute of Innovative Research / Department of Chemical Science and Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Systematic material design: from hydrogen and fuel cell materials to water treatment and bio-inspired membranes

Program Sub-coordinator / Committee of Education Chair

Kei Goto

Tokyo Tech / School of Science / Department of Chemistry / Professor

Research Field

Design and application of functionalized nano-sized organic molecules

Program Sub-coordinator / Committee of Admission and Examination Chair

Susumu Saito

Tokyo Tech / Tokyo Tech Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics(TAC-MI) / Institute Professor

Research Field

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

Program Sub-coordinator / Committee of Planning and Events Chair / Committee of Education member

Masakazu Sekijima

Tokyo Tech / School of Computing / Department of Computer Science / Associate Professor

Research Field

Machine Learning in Chemoinformatics and Materials Informatics

Program Sub-coordinator / Committee of Public Relations Chair / Committee of Education member

Yusuke Shimoyama

Tokyo Tech / School of Materials and Chemical Technology / Department of Chemical Science and Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Prediction of solubilities of pharmaceutical compound using molecular information

Program Sub-coordinator / Committee of Collaboration with Industry Chair

Masaki Azuma

Tokyo Tech / Institute of Innovative Research / Department of Materials Science and Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Search for new functional transition metal oxides and investigation of the mechanism

Program staffs from Tokyo Tech

Committee of Admission and Examination member

Takaaki Manaka

Tokyo Tech / School of Engineering / Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Organic Electronics, Organic Devices

Committee of Admission and Examination member

Kazushi Kinbara

Tokyo Tech / School of Life Science and Technology / Department of Life Science and Technology / Professor

Research Field

Development of water-soluble biofunctional materials

Committee of Planning and Events member / Committee of Education member

Yuta Suzuki

Tokyo Tech / Institute for Liberal Arts / Department of Social and Human Sciences (School of Environment and Society) / Associate Professor

Research Field

Educational Policy Research, Educational Practice Research

Committee of Education member

Reiko Saito

Tokyo Tech / School of Materials and Chemical Technology / Department of Chemical Science and Engineering / Associate Professor

Research Field

Development of novel organic-silica nanocomposites

Committee of Education member

Takayuki Aoki

Tokyo Tech / Global Scientific Information and Computing Center / Department of Mechanical Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Fluid and Material Simulations for Manufacturing Technology using Supercomputer

Committee of Education member

Fumiyasu Oba

Tokyo Tech / Institute of Innovative Research / Department of Materials Science and Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Understanding and design of semiconductors using first-principles calculations

Committee of Education member

Masahiro Miyauchi

Tokyo Tech / School of Materials and Chemical Technology / Department of Materials Science and Engineering / Professor

Research Field

photocatalyst, electrocatalyst, solar energy conversion, inorganic material

Committee of Education member

Hiroya Nakao

Tokyo Tech / School of Engineering / Department of Systems and Control Engineering / Professor

Research Field

nonlinear dynamics, stochastic processes, nonlinear oscillations

Committee of Education member

Takafumi Ueno

Tokyo Tech / School of Life Science and Technology / Department of Life Science and Technology / Professor

Research Field

bioinorganic chemistry, Artificial enzyme, biomaterial design

Committee of Education member / Committee of Collaboration with Industry member

Yoshinao Kobayashi

Tokyo Tech / Institute of Innovative Research / Department of Materials Science and Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Metallurgy for Metal Production Process and Nuclear Safety

Committee of Education member

Hideyuki Matsumoto

Tokyo Tech / School of Materials and Chemical Technology / Department of Chemical Science and Engineering / Associate Professor

Research Field

Process Systems, Chemical Reactor Engineering, Intelligent System

Committee of Education member / Committee of Planning and Events member

Masatoshi Tamura

Tokyo Tech / Institute for Liberal Arts / Professor

Research Field

English Literature

Committee of Education member

Atsushi Ishikawa

Tokyo Tech / School of Environment and Society / Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering / Associate Professor

Research Field

Theoretical chemistry, Computational chemistry, Catalytic chemistry

Committee of Education member

Yoshitaka Tateyama

Tokyo Tech / Institute of Innovative Research / Department of Chemical Science and Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Computational science of energy and environmental materials

Committee of Admission and Examination member

Shuichi Murakami

Tokyo Tech / School of Science / Department of Physics / Professor

Research Field

Condensed Matter Theory and Model Calculation on Topological Materials

Committee of Admission and Examination member

Takanori Fukushima

Tokyo Tech / Institute of Innovative Research / Department of Chemical Science and Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Design and Synthesis of Functional Organic Molecules, Polymers, and Molecular Assemblies

Committee of Public Relations member

Toshio Kamiya

Tokyo Tech / Institute of Innovative Research / Department of Materials Science and Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Design, fabrication, characterization, and devices of novel inorganic electronic materials

Committee of Public Relations member

Juhasz Gergely Miklos

Tokyo Tech / School of Science / Department of Chemistry / Specially Appointed Associate Professor

Research Field

Computational Chemistry

Committee of Collaboration with Industry member

Atsushi Shishido

Tokyo Tech / Institute of Innovative Research / Department of Chemical Science and Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Functional Polymer Materials

Committee of Collaboration with Industry member

Shuichiro Hirai

Tokyo Tech / School of Engineering / Department of Mechanical Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Fuel cell, Lithium battery, All solid battery

Committee of Planning and Events member

Junko Morikawa

Tokyo Tech / School of Materials and Chemical Technology / Department of Materials Science and Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Practice on Measurement of Thermo-physical Properties (Target: Soft Material, etc.)

Committee of Planning and Events member

Takafumi Kanamori

Tokyo Tech / School of Computing / Department of Mathematical and Computing Science / Professor

Research Field

Statistical Theory and Algorithms for Machine Learning

Committee of Planning and Events member

Miki Saijo

Tokyo Tech / School of Environment and Society / Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Innovation, Knowledge management, Application of machine learning to social issues

Committee of Planning and Events member

Masamichi Shimosaka

Tokyo Tech / School of Computing / Department of Computer Science / Associate Professor

Research Field

ubiquitous computing and machine intelligence

Committee of Planning and Events member

Mina Okochi

Tokyo Tech / School of Materials and Chemical Technology / Department of Chemical Science and Engineering

Research Field

Innovation, Knowledge management, Application of machine learning to social issues

Committee of Planning and Events member

Masahiro Takinoue

Tokyo Tech / School of Computing / Department of Computer Science / Professor

Research Field

DNA nanotechnology, Artificial cell engineering, Biophysics

Committee of Planning and Events member

Teruaki Hayakawa

Tokyo Tech / School of Materials and Chemical Technology / Department of Materials Science and Engineering / Professor

Research Field

Research on the creation of organic and polymeric materials that support a smart society based on environmental energy-recycling

Committee of Education member / Committee of Admission and Examination member / Committee of Planning and Events member / Committee of Public Relations member / Committee of Collaboration with Industry member

Nobuaki Yasuo

Tokyo Tech / Tokyo Tech Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics/ Specially Appointed Associate Professor

Research Field

Computational drug discovery using molecular simulation and machine learning

Committee of Education member / Committee of Admission and Examination member / Committee of Planning and Events member / Committee of Public Relations member / Committee of Collaboration with Industry member

Kazuaki Kuwahata

Tokyo Tech / Tokyo Tech Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics/ Specially Appointed Associate Professor

Research Field

Understanding and application of nuclear quantum effects

General Advisor

Ryoji Kanno

Tokyo Tech / Institute of Innovative Research / Department of Chemical Science and Engineering / Institute Professor

Research Field

Material Design for Energy Conversion Materials and Study on Energy Storage Device

General Advisor

Hideo Hosono

Tokyo Tech / Materials Research Center for Element Strategy / Institute Professor

Research Field

Inorganic Materials Science

General Advisor

Keisuke Suzuki

Tokyo Tech / Institute of Innovative Research / Institute Professor

Research Field

Organic Synthesis

Committee of Public Relations and Collaboration with Industry Advisor

Taro Hitosugi

Tokyo Tech / School of Materials and Chemical Technology / Department of Chemical Science and Engineering / Specially Appointed Professor

Research Field

Oxides, hydrides, thin films interfaces, AI/robot-driven materials research

Cooperating Teaching Staff
Industry-Academia Collaboration Coordinator
Assistant Advisor

Cooperating Teaching Staff / General Advisor

Masahiro Susa

Tokyo Tech / School of Materials and Chemical Technology / Professor
Cooperating Teaching Staff

Manabu Ihara

Tokyo Tech / School of Materials and Chemical Technology / Professor
Cooperating Teaching Staff

Takumi Ohashi

Tokyo Tech / School of Environment and Society / Associate Professor
Industry-Academia Collaboration Coordinator

Kazuaki Suzuki

Tokyo Tech / Tokyo Tech Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics / Specially Appointed Expert
General Advisor

Yuji Wada

Tokyo Tech / Professor Emeritus
Assistant Advisor

Akira Yamaguchi

Tokyo Tech / School of Materials and Chemical Technology / Assistant Professor

Program staffs from outside-Tokyo Tech

Visiting Professor

Masahiko Demura

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

Research Field

Data scientific and systems approaches in structural materials

Visiting Associate Professor

Kenji Nagata

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

Research Field

Bayesian estimation, Materials informatics, Spectral analysis

Visiting Professor

Takashi Miyake

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Research Field

Condensed Matter Theory, Computational Materials Science, First-Principles Calculations

Oversea advisor

J. M. van Ruitenbeek

Leiden University / Kamerlingh OnnesLaboratorium / Professor
Oversea advisor

Peter Grutter

McGill University / Physics Department / Professor
Oversea advisor

Hans-Jurgen Butt

Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research / Professor
Oversea advisor

Sergei Kazarian

Imperial College London / Department of Chemical Engineering / Professor
Oversea advisor

Christopher Kemper Ober

Cornell University / Department of Materials Science and Engineering / Professor
Oversea advisor

Christel Laberty-Robert

Sorbonne University / Department of Chemistry / Professor
Oversea advisor

Xu-Ming Xie

Tsinghua University / Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering / Professor
Oversea advisor

Liu Wei

Beijing Normal University / Faculty of Psychology / Associate Professor
Oversea advisor

Natt Leelawat

Chulalongkorn University / Department of Industrial Engineering / Associate Professor
Oversea advisor

Michael M Gromiha

Indian Institute of Technology Madras / Department of Biotechnology / Professor

Tetsuo Munakata

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Advisor from industry

Kazuhiro Doi

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Advisor from industry

Takeshi Aoyagi

ASAHI KASEI CORPORATION
Advisor from industry

Yoshiki Matsuoka

SUMITOMO CHEMICAL Co., Ltd.
Advisor from industry

Tohru Setoyama

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
Advisor from industry

Masataka Yahagi

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
Advisor from industry

Isao Yamashita

TOSOH CORPORATION
Advisor from industry

Tetsuya Hattori

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
Advisor from industry

Yutaka Shiraishi

MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
Advisor from industry

Yasushi Enokido

TDK Corporation
Advisor from industry

Isao Yamagami

Resonac Corporation
Advisor from industry

Yoshihiko Oda

JFE Steel Corporation
Advisor from industry

Yasuharu Hosono

Toshiba Corporation
Advisor from industry

Nobuyuki Matsuzawa

Panasonic Industry Co., Ltd.
Advisor from industry

Eiji Shidoji

AGC Inc.
Advisor from industry

Kazuhiro Satou

Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.
Advisor from industry

Yuki Ono

ZEON CORPORATION
Advisor from industry

Yoshifumi Fukui

KANEKA CORPORATION
Advisor from industry

Hideki Shimoi

Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
Advisor from industry

Toyohiko Tazawa

JEOL Ltd.
Advisor from industry

Yoshiki Iwazaki

TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
Advisor from industry

Kazuo Kuwahara

Kao Corporation
Advisor from industry

Yosuke Harada

Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
Advisor from industry

Yasuo Komoda

MITSUI MINING&SMELTING CO., LTD.
Advisor from industry

Shingo Soukawa

NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
Advisor from industry

Hideyuki Ishida

KYOCERA Corporation
Advisor from industry

Yasuyuki Okimura 

Niterra Co., Ltd.
Advisor from industry

Kinya Ozawa

Seiko Epson Corporation
Advisor from industry

Shinji Uemoto

TODA KOGYO CORP.
Advisor from industry

Ryo Sakai

NIPPON KAYAKU CO., LTD.
Advisor from industry

Tetsuya Noguchi

AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
Advisor from industry

Masaaki Kurihara

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd

Contact Address Tokyo Institute of Technology TAC-MI Office
tac-mi[at]jim.titech.ac.jp