Characteristic:
I always think about making people’s life more free by using humanoid robotics.

Motto:
Where there is a will, there is a way

Favorite words:
Philosopher Georg Hegel said, “Things develop helically”.

Hobby:
Reading ,Driving

Role Model:
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (Russian aerospace engineer)

Profile:
• March 2005 – Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo Completed Doctoral Program in Advanced Interdisciplinary Engineering, Doctor (Engineering)
• April 2005 – Science and Technology Promotion Agency Strategic Creation Research Promotion Project Researcher
• April 2006 – Japan Science Foundation Robot Collaborative Research Laboratory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (JSPS) Special Researcher (PD)
During this time, from June 2006 to February 2008, a visiting researcher at Harvard University
• November 2008 – Lecturer, Department of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
• April 2009 -Postdoctoral Researcher at The French National Center for Scientific Research
• February 2010 – Tenure-track assistant professor ,Yamagata University Graduate School of Science and Engineering
• April 2013 – Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Yamagata University

Specialized field:
Robotics engineering

Assignment:
Social system · Soft matter robotics

Role Model:
あまり目立った特徴がありません。

Motto:
信用は得難く失い易い

Favorite words:
Take it easy.

Hobby:
イラスト，漫画執筆

Role Model:
頑張る人

Profile:
・2016年3月に中央大学大学院理工学研究科博士後期課程修了後、4月に現職に着任しました。空気圧ゴム人工筋肉というソフトアクチュエータをメインに研究してきましたが、機能性材料を使った新しいアクチュエータの開発や応用例の研究にも挑戦していきたいと考えています。

Specialized field:
Robotics engineering

Assignment:
Social system · Soft matter robotics

Characteristic:
serious

Motto:
It will be alright

Favorite words:
amiable face with warmhearted words

Hobby:
Moderate exercise, reading, community activities

Role Model:
Grandfather

Profile:
For more than ten years I moved to Yamagata University, Faculty of Humanities as a lecturer and have been a professor since 2015. I am consistently researching the international competition of banks.

Specialized field:
Multinational banking theory

Assignment:
Social system research

Characteristic:
A rough character which is sometimes good and sometimes bad

Motto:
once-in-a-lifetime encounter (hence it should be cherished as such)

Favorite words:
Tomorrow is another day.

Hobby:
Trekking, restaurant hunting , traveling

Role Model:
Rikinosuke Ishikawa

Profile:
Inside the major topic of developing regional industries, I am focusing on studying environments where SMEs are prone to innovation from the standpoint that local business leaders are SMEs. I have visited many SMEs in various parts of the country so far and conducting research by talking to the management. I have been in Yamagata University since fiscal year 2016 and I am currently conducting a survey on the actual conditions of SMEs in Yamagata Prefecture

Specialized field:
Small business theory, regional industry theory

Assignment:
Market survey of soft matter robotics and element technologies, proposal of social implementation scenario