The government of Japan, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency, provided support for the development of the new campus of IIT Hyderabad in the form of design work for six complexes. This work was done by experts from #UTokyo_IIS. The work commenced in 2011 and was completed earlier this year.

In recent years, gaze estimation technology, which interprets the direction of a person’s gaze from camera images, has made significant progress and is anticipated to be applied in various fields, such as autonomous driving, robotics, and medical applications. However, a significant challenge has been the bias in the training data necessary for AI to learn gaze estimation. For instance, many existing research datasets are collected in university laboratories, predominantly featuring student participants, resulting in a significant age bias.

Patches seem to be all the rage these days. There are birth control patches, nicotine patches, and transdermal medicinal patches, just to name a few. Now, a team of researchers led by Beomjoon Kim at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo have developed a patch of needles connected to a paper sensor for diagnosing conditions such as prediabetes. Luckily, this patch doesn't multiply the pain and discomfort of a single hypodermic needle. In fact, these microneedles are painless and biodegradable.

Fujitsu-led industry-academia consortium commences development of world's first disinformation countermeasure platform.

In April 2024, we interviewed Lecturer Yuki Tokumoto and Professor Kazuo Goda of Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, and published articles introducing their respective research in June and July. This time, we are treating our readers to a cross-talk featuring Tokumoto and Goda. What did Tokumoto and Goda, two researchers involved in the completely different fields of solid state physics and computers, learn about the other’s work and what were their respective impressions? Join us for their in-depth and energetic dialogue.

Typically speaking, computers use a combination of hardware and software to operate. Connecting these two elements is the system software. System software is an unseen element that supports the computer at its core. Professor Kazuo Goda, of Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, considers himself a computer lover down to his very core. Over his many years working with computers, Professor Goda found himself drawn to the workings of system software, and has dedicated himself to research activities in that field. System software developed by Professor Goda today serves a major role in various fields, including health care and social infrastructure. We spoke with Professor Goda about how system software operates and what he sees as the future of computers.

We have prepared introductory and advanced articles to introduce our research in an easy-to-understand manner to middle and high-school students and the general public. The website aims to serve as a "platform for dialogue" between society and #UTokyo_IIS by allowing visitors to post their expectations, anxious concerns, and free comments on the articles. Why don't you think about the future of the latest engineering research and send your opinions to the researchers?Updated on the first Friday of every month!

Solids can be divided into three groups depending on their structure. Crystalline solids have atoms that have a periodic arrangement. Amorphous solids have atoms that are arranged with no definite form. And, lastly, quasicrystals, which differ from either of these two groups. Among these, we have only come to know about the existence of quasicrystals relatively recently, and their properties are still not well known. While researching a quasicrystal categorized as van der Waals layered quasicrystals, Yuki Tokumoto, Lecturer at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, discovered that the quasicrystal have superconductivity. We spoke with Tokumoto about the meaning of this world’s-first discovery and expectations for future development.