UTokyo–Cambridge Voices -Dialogue Series-｜ UTokyo-Cambridge Voices is a series of two-way dialogues between researchers of UTokyo and Cambridge on a specific aspect of their discipline

This seminar grows out of a series of discussion sessions facilitated by the University of Tokyo and Cambridge partnership programme – the scholars have been able to develop in-depth exchanges on human behaviour modelling and urban design, with a view to improve the research impacts on practical low carbon development. As Japan and the UK are leading low carbon development in complementary ways, this seminar aims to compare notes among the researchers, focusing on new initiatives that have emerged since the covid pandemic.

Venue: Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Engineering Building No.11, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo

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Speakers

Ying Jin

Professor of Architecture and Urbanism
Department of Architecture
University of Cambridge

Ying Jin is Director of the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies - a research centre that has more than 50 years of track record in interdisciplinary research on buildings, cities and the wider built environment - in the Dept of Architecture of Cambridge University. He leads the theoretical development and practical applications of city-scale computer models at the Martin Centre, and since 2011 he is the lead convenor of the biennial international symposia on applied urban modelling.

Hironori Kato

Professor
Graduate School of Engineering
The University of Tokyo

Prof. Hironori Kato is a full professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo since November 2013. His main research/teaching concerns are transportation planning and policy, transportation economics, transportation finance, and travel behavioral analysis.

Michal Gath-Morad

Assistant Professor
Department of Architecture
University of Cambridge

Dr. Michal Gath Morad is an Assistant Professor at University of Cambridge’s Department of Architecture, where she directs her own research group - Cambridge Cognitive Architecture. She is an architect holding a PhD in cognitive science, conducting research around three key themes: understanding how architecture impacts spatial cognition, translating behavioral findings into evidence-based design tools, and analyzing how evidence influences architects' cognition, design communication, and design outcomes. She is an honorary research associate at UCL’s Space Syntax Lab, a fellow and Director of Studies in Architecture at Peterhouse College in Cambridge, as well as a visiting lecturer at the Chair of Cognitive Science at ETH Zurich.

Daisuke Fukuda

Professor
Graduate School of Engineering
The University of Tokyo

Daisuke Fukuda is a professor in transportation studies at the University of Tokyo in the Department of Civil Engineering.
He joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) as a Research Associate in 2001 and was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2005 until 2019. While working at TIT. He has his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2004. He conducts research in travel behavior analysis and transportation economics.