In autumn 2021, UTokyo-IIS and Continental Japan announced the four winners of the first Continental UTokyo-IIS Global Engineering Fellowship. The grant is provided by Continental Japan to IIS graduate students who hope to make the world a better place to live through their research.

Professor Umeno looks into how materials deform and fracture in nano- and microworld with simple computer programs he devises

Project Professor Sekimoto develops first nationwide pseudodata of how people move around in Japan for the post-COVID-19 world

Associate Professor Sakai turns vegetables and fruit waste into strong building materials that can be eaten in emergencies