Professor Akinori Yamanaka　Dr. Eng.

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Akinori Yamanaka studied B.Eng. (2005) and M.Eng. (2006) in mechanical engineering and did PhD (2008) under the supervision of Prof. Yoshihiro Tomita in the field of computational solid mechanics, with particular emphasis on the phase-field modelling of phase transformation in steels, from Kobe University (Japan). During the PhD, he was awarded a very competitive grant from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science. After his PhD, he was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Mechano-Aerospace Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 2012, he joined the Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology as an associate professor. In 2015, he was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University (host: Prof. P. W. Voorhees). From 2017 to 2019, he was a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Materials Science (Tsukuba, Japan). In April 2021, he was promoted to a full professor and engaged in research and education in the Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.
He has received several awards from national and international organizations including the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) Young Engineers Award (2009), JSME Medal for Outstanding Paper (2010), ACM Gordon Bell Prize (2011), Japan Association for Computational Mechanics (JACM) Award for Young Investigators in Computational Mechanics (2019), Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity (JSTP) Best Paper Award (2021), JSTP Medal for Scientific/Technological Achievement (2021), JSME Computational Mechanics Achievement Award (2023) and the very prestigious “Young Scientists' Award”, commended for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2018).

Professional career

2023.04〜Present　Director of Joint Center for Sustainability Research and Implementation (JCSRI)
2022.04〜Present　Assistant to the President & Vice-Trustee
2021.04～Present　Full Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2020.06～2022.03　Research Advisor, Materials Technology Division, Railway Technical Research Institute
2017.04～2019.03　Guest Researcher, National Institute of Materials Science
2015.07～2015.09　Visiting Scholar, Northwestern University
2012.10～2021.03　Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2008.12～2012.09　Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2008.10～2008.11　Research Fellow (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
2007.04～2008.09　Research Fellow (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Education

2006.10～2008.09　Doctoral Course, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University
2005.04～2006.09　Master Course, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University
2001.04～2005.03　Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University

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Research Interest

Bayesian data assimilation
Phase-field modelling of microstructure evolutions in materials
Finite element analysis for structural analysis