Yasuaki Monnai
Associate Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan
E-mail: monnai(at)star.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Address: 3-512 Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology Building 3, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904 Japan
Research Topics
I am interested in conducting research and development for wireless cybernetic front-end that surrounds people between the physical world and the information world. Specifically, we utilize the properties of terahertz waves that exist at the boundary of light and radio waves to implement non-contact biological measurements and ultra-high-speed wireless communication, thereby constructing interfaces that connect the physical information space inside and outside the human body. Through this, we aim to support and enhance cognitive behavior without interfering with people’s physical and social activities.
Instead of relying on specific know-how, we encourage questioning the assumptions of existing knowledge while ideating, analyzing and designing them using distributed constant system theory and computers, and implementing and experimenting with them by moving our hands and feet. If you are interested, please feel free to contact us.
We frequently receive inquiries about the relationship between “information somatics” and “terahertz technology”, which we are working on in the Inami/Monnai Laboratory. Thus, we explain the concept more in detail here.
CV
- Assoc. Prof., Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo (2021-)
- Assoc. Prof., Dept. Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Keio University (2020-2021)
- Assist. Prof., Dept. Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Keio University (2015-2020)
- Project Assist. Prof., Dept. Complexity Science and Engineering, University of Tokyo (2013-2015)
- Project Assist. Prof., Dept. Creative Informatics, University of Tokyo (2013)
- Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo (2013)
- Guest Researcher, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany (2012)
- Guest Scientist, University of Kassel, Germany (2010 – 2011)
- Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (2010 – 2013)
- Master of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo (2010)
- Bachelor of Engineering, University of Tokyo (2008)