TEEDDA Team Members

Team Structure

The core of our research lies on Terrestrial science and Energy demand science, which are important research areas in the cooperative distributed Energy Management System (EMS). Also, the study includes data interface to distribute various data required by other strongest teams in the EMS project.

The research is jointly conducted by Tokai Univ., JAXA-UTokyo^*1, Chiba Univ., Osaka Univ., IIS^*2, Tokyo Tech^*3 and NICT^*4. The principal investigator is Takashi Nakajima, a professor of Tokai University.

*1 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the University of Tokyo
*2 Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo
*3 Tokyo Institute of Technology
*4 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology


Tokai Univ. T.Y. Nakajima	JAXA-UTokyo T. Nakajima	Chiba Univ. H. Irie		Osaka Univ. Y. Shimoda	IIS Y. Iwafune	Tokyo Tech K. Hidaka		Tokai Univ. Y. Yamamoto	NICT Ken T. Murata

Members by Group (as of Feb 2020 / *: group leader)

Tokai Univ. Group

- To improve the estimation method of the satellite-based solar radiation;
- To analyze variation in the meteorological data;
- To develp the data interface

Name (HP)	Title	Organization	Publications
Takashi Nakajima * (T.Y. Nakajima)	Professor	Research and Information Center, Tokai University (TRIC) / School of Information Science and Technology	Research Results
Kohei Cho	Professor / Dean		(主な論文)
Yoshiro Yamamoto	Professor	TRIC / School of Science, Tokai University
Takahiro Takamatsu	Project Researcher	TRIC
Tomoo Ohno	Director-General	Data Processing Department, Meteorological Satellite Center, Japan Meteorological Agency
Hiroshi Kunimatsu	Head, Office of Data and Information Services	Observation Department, Japan Meteorological Agency
Hideyuki Suzuki	Professor	Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University	Publications
Graduate student member, Technical support staff [Former member] until Mar 2016: T. Kurino (Director of Satellite Program Division/JMA) [Former member] until Mar 2016: K. Bessho (Director of System Management/Meteorological Satellite Center, JMA) [Former member] until Mar 2017: T. Watanabe (Project researcher/TRIC) [Former member] until July 2018: Y. Shirai (Senior Coordinator for Satellite Systems/JMA)

JAXA-UTokyo Group

- To enhance the estimation system of the satellite-based solar radiation;
- To develop the assimilation method of cloud in global models;
- To construct the scenario data

Name (HP)	Title	Organization	Publications
Teruyuki Nakajima *	Adviser	Earth Observation Research Center (EORC), JAXA	Publications
Hideaki Takenaka	Invited Researcher
Chong SHI	Invited Researcher
Toshiro Inoue	Technical Staff
Taiyoh Sakashita		Weathernews Inc.
Makiko Hashimoto	Researcher	GOSAT-2 project team, JAXA
Kentaro Suzuki	Associate Professor	Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI), University of Tokyo	(出版物)
Junya Uchida	Project Researcher
Akiko Higurashi	Senior Researcher	National Institute for Environmental Studies	Research Result
Daisuke Abe	Director	Weathernews Inc.
Junji Ikai	Forecast Team Leader	Forecast center, Weathernews Inc.

Chiba Univ. Group

- To build the ground observation system for error-evaluation in the solar radiation data for EMS

Name (HP)	Title	Organization	Publications
Hitoshi Irie *	Associate Professor	Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University	Publications　Presentations
Alessandro Damiani	Research Assistant Professor
Atsushi Higuchi	Associate Professor
Pradeep Khatri	Educational Reseach Assistant	Tohoku University
Technical support staff [Former member] until Mar 2019: T. Takamura (Grand Fellow/CEReS)

Osaka Univ. Group

- To develop the energy demand models for cooperative distributed EMS

Name (HP)	Title	Organization	Publications
Yoshiyuki Shimoda *	Professor	Department of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Osaka University	(論文・著書リスト)
Yohei Yamaguchi	Associate Professor		(論文・著書リスト)
Graduate student members, Technical support staff [Former member] until Apr 2019: A. Matsuoka-Taniguchi (Research Assistant Professor/Osaka University)

IIS Group

- To construct the platform of demand data;
- To aim for HEMS implementation

Name (HP)	Title	Organization	Publications
Yumiko Iwafune *	Project Professor	Institute of Industrial Science(IIS), University of Tokyo	(学術雑誌論文) (学会口頭発表)
Kazuhiko Ogimoto	Project Professor	Institute of Industrial Science(IIS), University of Tokyo	(国際会議等)
Takashi Ikegami	Associate Professor	Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology	Publications
Yoshie Yagita	Project researcher	IIS, University of Tokyo
Masaki Imanaka	Assistant Profesor, Funded Research Devision	Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Nagoya University
Toshiaki Kawai	Project researcher	IIS, University of Tokyo
Yuko Mori	Project researcher	IIS, University of Tokyo
Technical support staff

Tokyo Tech Group

- To research and develop the consumer behavior models in EMS

Name (HP)	Title	Organization	Publications
Kazuyoshi Hidaka *	Professor	School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology	(論文・書籍) (講演・学会発表)
Masaharu Tsujimoto	Associate Professor		Publication List
Soichi Nishikiori	Industry Liaison Researcher
Keiji Aramaki	Executive Vice President	Institute of Systems, Infomation Technologies and Nanotechnologies
Hisaki Kawamoto	Industry Liaison Researcher	School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Shinji Amaha	Adult student (Doctoral)

NICT Group

- To visualize the meteorological and demand data;
- To construct the platform of EMS

Name (HP)	Title	Organization	Publications
Ken Takeshi Murata *	Research executive director	ICT Tesbed Research and Development, Social Innovation Unit, National Institute of Informationa and Communication Technology	(論文・著書) (講演・口頭発表)

Data Interface Subgroup (as of Feb 2020 / *: subgroup leader)

- To standardize the data the team calculates or obtains;
- To develop the data interface

Name (HP)	Subgroup	Organization
Yoshiro Yamamoto *	Data Interface Subgroup	Tokai Univ. Group
Ken Takeshi Murata	Data Interface Subgroup	NICT Group
Hideaki Takenaka	Terrestrial Science Subgroup	JAXA-UTokyo Group
Atsushi Higuchi	Terrestrial Science Subgroup	Chiba Univ. Group
Yohei Yamaguchi	Energy Damand Science Subgroup	Osaka Univ. Group
Takashi Nakajima	Team Leader	Tokai Univ. Group
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