Prof. Inoue’s research project received a FY2021 experimental research grant. Below is an article published in Denki Shimbun on March 29, 2022.
Prof. Inoue’s research project received a FY2021 experimental research grant. Below is an article published in Denki Shimbun on March 29, 2022.
Prof. Inoue gave an invited lecture and participated in a panel discussion with Dr. Ohji (Kobe Univ.) and Dr. Onishi (AIST) at the large-scale event Mirai Bosai 2022 held at Kobe University. There was an in-depth discussion about how society would be affected by COVID-19 and how new technologies such as simulation would play a role in the post-COVID 19 era.
Prof. Inoue published a new research paper “Has COVID-19 Permanently Changed Online Consumption Behavior?” (Co-authored with Prof. Todo of Waseda University)
We examined how Japanese consumer behavior changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic based on all long-term purchase data from Yahoo Shopping data. Many say “The COVID-19 pandemic has changed what consumers buy.”, but the results of this study clearly refuted those predictions. Although people made panic purchases in quantity at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, we found that after the second and third waves, people’s purchases returned to the purchasing patterns they had before the outbreak of COVID-19. We also found that there was also little qualitative change in purchasing during the two-years of the pandemic.
Prof. Inoue’s research paper “Hot-spot analysis of Covid-19 infection using mobile-phone location data”, (co-authored with Yu Kimura, Tatsunori Seki, Satoshi Miyata, Yusuke Arai, Toshiki Murata, Hiroyasu Inoue, and Nobuyasu Ito) was selected for the Best Paper Award at an international symposium, the Artificial Life and Robotics 2022.
Prof. Inoue made two presentations at an international symposium, Artificial Life and Robotics 2022.
One is on a research paper “Hot-spot analysis of Covid-19 infection using mobile-phone location data”. (Co-authored with Yu Kimura, Tatsunori Seki, Satoshi Miyata, Yusuke Arai, Toshiki Murata, Hiroyasu Inoue, and Nobuyasu Ito)
The other presentation was made on “Toward a simulation of business-establishment supply chains”. (Single authored)
The symposium was held online, but the two presentations were well-received and spurred lively discussions.
Prof. Inoue gave an invited lecture at the Institute for Policy Science, University of Hyogo.
The topic was “Economic Simulation of COVID-19 Disaster Based on Large-Scale Data”.
Prof. Inoue explained why the social and economic simulations were interesting and talked about their importance to the general audience, especially students. If you are interested, please watch the video of Prof. Inoue’s lecture.
Prof. Inoue paid a courtesy visit to Minister Suematsu, Minister of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. During the visit, the 10 researchers chosen for the 2021 NISTEP had a passionate long discussion on Japan’s policy in the field of science and technology with Minister Suematsu. The discussion was followed by an awarding ceremony for the 10 researchers.
Prof. Inoue was selected for the title of “NISTEP Researchers 2021” by the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP). Established in 1988 as MEXT’s research institute to engage in the Japanese government’s science and technology policy planning process, NISTEP has been awarding 10 researchers who made an outstanding contribution to the advancement in science and technology since 2005. Prof. Shinya Yamanaka and Prof. Hiroshi Amano, the Nobel Prize winners, are among the previous awardees.
Prior to the awarding ceremony, the press conference was held on our campus.
Posted by Kaori Inoue.
Hiroyasu Inoue gave a presentation at the November meeting of the Harima Industry–Academia Exchange group. His talk discussed estimating the economic effects of COVID-19 through large-scale supply chain simulation.
