Professor Hiroyuki Umemuro, Assistant Professor Mayu Koike and their research team has selected for the DLab Challenge Advanced 2023

June 8, 2023

The research team of Professor Hiroyuki Umemuro (Principal Investigator) , Assistant Professor Mayu Koike and others has been selected for the DLab Challenge Advanced 2023.

Tokyo Tech's Laboratory for Design of Social Innovation Global Networks (DLab) has selected research teams for DLab research grants for the academic year 2023. Two research teams have been awarded with the newly launched "DLab Challenge Advanced 2023." One team has received "DLab Challenge 2023", and two teams were selected as one-year trial grants. A ceremony was held on April 6 to present the award letters to the successful applicants. This is the fourth cohort of research teams to receive the grant after its launch in academic year 2020.

DLab Research Grant 2023 recipients (front left) Assoc. Prof. Manzhos, Assoc. Prof. Ehara, Assoc. Prof. Kato, Prof. Ueda, Prof. Umemuro, (back left) DLab Director Isao Satoh, Assoc. Prof. Hata, DLab Assoc. Director Naoto Ohtake

The DLab Challenge Research Grant supports research connected to the realization of the future image and scenarios created by DLab, and research that contributes to the creation of new disciplines required to realize this image. The grant also aims to help individual researchers discover the links between their own research and the future of society, conduct research with a backcasting approach, and heighten awareness of the societal impact of their research.

In addition, the DLab Challenge Advanced was launched this year, targeting research that is directly focused on realizing visions of future image and scenarios. This grant allows professors to become representative members, and supports research that aims to obtain competitive funding for "vision-driven backcasting" approaches that may lead to the establishment of a research center in the future.

For more information, see Tokyo Tech News.

Proposals and recipients

DLab Challenge Advanced

Youth Sanctuary: Cooperative metaverse platform to support self-enhance of youth

Prof. Hiroyuki Umemuro, Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics, School of Engineering

Prof. Kenji Saito, Health Support Center

Assoc. Prof. Shoichi Hasegawa, Institute of Innovative Research

Assoc. Prof. Sanae Akaba , Institute for Liberal Arts

Asst. Prof. Mayu Koike, Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics, School of Engineering

*Prof. Takeo Fujiwara, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

*Jr. Assoc. Prof. Yukako Tani, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Professor Hiroyuki Umemuro

Professor Hiroyuki Umemuro's Comment

While there are hundreds of researchers at Tokyo Tech who create technologies, there have been still few empirical studies on what kind of technologies should be created, how they should be designed, and how they should be used for the wellbeing of people. We believe that the acceptance of this proposal is a small but important step toward convergence science 3.0 of Tokyo Tech. We will do our best to produce outputs.

Note: Principal investigator followed by joint researchers, *Collaborators

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