Student report Four students from our laboratory participated in the 31st International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 2026), held at B-Con Plaza in Beppu, Oita, and online on January 21–23, 2026: first-year master’s student Rikuto Ito and second-year master’s students Rintaro Karashima, Misato Fukui, and Junhyon Chae. All four successfully delivered their presentations...
Misato Fukui, a second-year master’s student, received the Academic Research Award from the Hokkaido Branch of the Information Processing Society of Japan at the Hokkaido Symposium on Information Processing 2025, held on October 18, 2025. This was the highest distinction among the symposium’s awards, recognizing the quality of her research. Congratulations!
Student report Four students from our laboratory attended the Hokkaido Symposium on Information Processing 2025 at Muroran Institute of Technology in Muroran, Hokkaido, on October 18, 2025: first-year master’s student Rikuto Ito and second-year master’s students Rintaro Karashima, Misato Fukui, and Junhyon Chae.
After the spring semester ended, our laboratory held a summer gathering and welcomed two students who had been admitted through the recommendation-based admissions process for the 2025 academic year.
Our laboratory began the 2024 academic year on April 4, welcoming new students. With more members joining us, the laboratory is becoming an even livelier place.
Hiroyasu Inoue appeared on BS TV Tokyo’s Nikkei News Plus 9 on March 11, 2024. He discussed his research estimating the economic effects of a Nankai Trough earthquake.
Rintaro Karashima, a fourth-year undergraduate student, presented at the 19th Network Ecology Symposium. His presentation examined the evaluation of Japanese corporations using a knowledge complexity index. Presenting research outside the university while still an undergraduate is a commendable achievement.
Comments by Hiroyasu Inoue appeared on the front page of Nikkei, discussing the economic damage caused by disasters and ways to reduce it. Related article / information
