Lab for Innovative Infrastructure Systems

The annual Behavioral Modelling Summer School was held online from 12nd to 15th September. M1 and B4 students Mr. Ukai, Mr. Kimura, Mr. Sakurai, Ms. Tabuchi and Mr. Tabata had participated in this sommuer school.

The title of the summer school was “A Study of Transportation Model based on Personal Attributes in the Post-Pandemic Era”.
The study was based on the assumption that behavior patterns diversify after pandemic, even with the same economic attributes. We then proposed a model to extract new personal attributes from behavioral patterns.

We would like to thank the Hato Laboratory of the University of Tokyo for hosting us and our professors for their guidance.
Thank you very much!

During the summer vacation, we held a reading session of papers on ABM (Activity Based Model).

Volunteers, Ms. Ihoroi, Mr. Sakurai, Ms. Tabuchi, and Mr. Tabata presented papers on ADB, and we deepened our understanding by asking each other questions.

Thank you very much to Ms. Ihoroi for organizing this event and to Prof. Fukuda for his guidance!

Papers covered in the reading session:

Ms. Ihoroi, Mr.Kita, and Mr. Shimizu completed the master’s course and graduated.

I wish you all the best in your future endeavours.
Congratulations!

Mr. Yuto Shimizu, a second-year master’s student, was selected as the winner of the Student Research Encouragement Award of NTT Data Mathematical Systems Inc. for his master’s thesis entitled “Analysis of the Influence of Rainfall on the Increase of Train Delays in Urban Railways”.

The Student Research Encouragement Award is given by NTT DATA MATHEMATICAL SYSTEMS INC. to students for their outstanding research achievements in the mathematical sciences.

The award was featured on the Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Environmental and Civil Engineering web site and in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper.

Congratulations!

Reference articles:

NTTデータ数理システムのデータサイエンスツールで学生が社会課題に挑む

朝倉・福田研究室の清水裕斗さん(修士2年)の研究が、(株)NTTデータ数理システム「2020年度学生研究奨励賞 最優秀賞」を受賞

NTTデータ数理システム、2020年度「NTTデータ数理システム学生研究奨励賞」を決定

The 2020 graduation and master’s thesis presentations have ended successfully. The titles of each presentation are as follows.

Mr. Takao Dantsuji, a project researcher, received the 2020 Yoneya-Sasaki Award (dissertation category).

This award was established to recognize the achievements of the late Dr. Eiji Yoneya and Dr. Tsuna Sasaki, who were pioneers of traffic engineering and transportation planning in Japan.

Congratulations!

Reference article: https://www.issr-kyoto.or.jp/event/fund/award_2020.html

Mr. Takao Dantsuji, a project researcher, received the 2020 Yoshikawa-Yamaguchi Award.

The Yoshikawa-Yamaguchi Award was established to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Civil Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in order to recognize the achievements of Dr. Hideo Yoshikawa and Dr. Kashiwagi Yamaguchi, who made significant contributions to both education and research in the early years of the Department of Civil Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Congratulations!

Reference article (in Japanese): https://www.kuramae.ne.jp/kyuyu_awards/

Mr. Oka (Doctoral student) and Ms. Wang (Master student) completed their respective courses.

Congratulations! !

[2020/04/30]

Laboratory and basic seminars have started using Zoom.

The first lab seminar was held last week on 22nd April.
Ms. Tabuchi and Mr. Ukai, who are now M1 students, presented their graduation theses. The content of their thesis was as written in a previous article, but each of them has been further deepening their research during this spring break, as they are about to submit their theses.

And on 28th April, the first basic seminar was held.
Since it was difficult for all students to gather and work together due to the pandemic, this year’s basic seminar focused on mathematical optimization methods by reading the textbook designated by the professor.
In the first session, new M1 students, Mr. Sakurai and Mr. Kimura explained linear programming and nonlinear programming, respectively.
To be honest, I’m not very good at dealing with complicated mathematical formulas, so I had a hard time keeping up with what they were saying…
But, I think the professor set up a seminar on optimization as a basic seminar because there are a lot of people like that this year, so I’d like to understand the important points somehow. As I’m not in the department of mathematics, so I just need to be able to use it as a calculation method.

Next week the seminar will start on Zoom, what will it be like? 
I will still be at home after all, but I would like to adjust my daily live so that I can be in front of the PC in time for the start of the seminar.

[Mr. Kita]

[2020/04/16]

It’s been a while since my last post, and I am now a M2 student. I will be updating this page for a while in this academic year.
Due to the new coronavirus pandemic, all the tennis courts in my neighborhood are closed, I don’t go to university, and I do all my job hunting on my PC, so I have been living a reclusive life. It seems that I am better suited to a job that requires active physical use.

Today, we had a laboratory meeting on Zoom.

First of all, new members, (M1) Mr. Kimura and (M1) Mr. Sakurai, joined our lab.
Also, (B4 student) Mr. Tabata joined us from the University of Tokyo, where Prof. Fukuda recently moved to.

Mr. Tabata did not attend today’s meeting, so I have not met him yet, but I hope to meet him soon.

At today’s meeting, we decided on a schedule of activities for the lab together.
This year, in addition to the traditional lab seminar, we will have a basic seminar on optimization problems in April and May, and a paper reading seminar from June onward, in which each student will introduce a paper of his or her interest.
Due to a flurry of activity caused by the combination of the professor’s transfer and the delay in the start of the university due to COVID pandemic, we have not been able to work in the lab, but starting next week, we will conduct the seminar as before via Zoom!

[Kita]