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1-33 Yayoi-cho Inage-ku
Chiba-shi Chiba 263-8522 Japan
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Akehara, Koda, Suda, Maeda and Matsushita presented at the 36th Biofrontier Lecture (https://www.jsme.or.jp/conference/biofrconf25/index.html) held at Hirosaki University on 12/6-7, 2025.
Kamimizu, Yamamoto gave presentations at The 9th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics/The 7th Australasian Conference on Computational Mechanics（ https://www.apcom2025.org ） held in Australia,Brisbane,from December 7-10,2025.
Kamimizu gave presentations at APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting 2025（ https://www.aps.org/events/2025/78th-dfd-annual-meeting） held in America,Houston,from November 18th 2025.
Yamamoto, Koeda, and Shimakawa gave presentations at the SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025 （ https://www.sebiology.org/events/seb-annual-conference-antwerp-2025.html ） held in Antwerp, Belgium,from July 9 to 11, 2025.
Kagawa, Yasuda, and Kasaii presented at the 37th Bioengineering Conference held at Keio University on 5/24/25/2025.（https://www.jsme.or.jp/conference/bioconf25/index.html）Kagawa received the Best Poster Award!
The annual graduation ceremonies for undergraduate and graduate students were held on March 23rd . Congratulations!
The paper published by Fukui was selected as Jornal Top Image.（https://www.nature.com/articles/s44182-025-00020-9）
Kamimizu, Yamamoto, Fukui, Mizutani, Hoshina, Koeda, Kouda, and Shimakawa presented at the 35th Biofrontier Lecture (https://www.jsme.or.jp/conference/biofrconf24/index.html) held at Yokohama National University on 12/14-15, 2024. Fukui, Yamamoto, Koeda, and Maeda received the Bio Frontier Young Scientist Outstanding Lecture Award!
Kamimizu, Fukui, and Yamamoto presented at ISABMEC 2024 (https://abmech.org/isabmec2024/index.html) held at Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand on 11/26-29/2024. Kamimizu received the Student Award!
Kamimizu, Fukui, and Yamamoto presented at ISABMEC 2024 (https://abmech.org/isabmec2024/index.html) held at Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand on 11/26-29/2024. Kamimizu received the Student Award!
Kamimizu, Fukui, and Yamamoto presented at ISABMEC 2024 (https://abmech.org/isabmec2024/index.html) held at Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand on 11/26-29/2024. Kamimizu received the Student Award!
Professor Hao Liu was elected as a member of Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ) on August 22, 2024.
Annual Meeting of JSFM was held in Forest Sendai on Sep. 25th to 27th (https://www2.nagare.or.jp/nenkai2024/). Wang, Yamamoto and Kamimizu presented their research in the conference.
ROBOMECH2024 was held in Utsunomiya on May 30th to June 2nd (https://robomech.org/2024/). Hoshina and Kagawa presented their research in the conference.
The 36th Bioengineering Symposium was held at Nagoya Institute of Technology on May 11th to 12th (https://www.jsme.or.jp/conference/bioconf24/). Wu, Tsunoda, Kouda, Yasuda, Kondou, Maeda and Akehara presented their research in the conference. Kondou won the Outstanding Student Poster Presentation! Congratulation!
The annual graduation ceremonies for undergraduate and graduate students were held on March 22nd . Congratulations!
34th Biofrontier Lecture was held at Yamaguchi University Tokiwa Campus on December 16th and 17th (https://www2.jsme.or.jp/infomail/index.php?action=infomail_display&source=list&mid=8680&branch_id_code=§or_id=090). Dy, Wu, Shizukuda, Yamamoto presented their research in the conference
International Congress on High-speed Imaging and Photonics was held at Kinki-University East-Osaka campus on December 13th to 15th(https://www2.jsme.or.jp/infomail/index.php?action=infomail_display&source=list&mid=8680&branch_id_code=§or_id=090). Fujii, Kanzaki presented their research in the conference
On 21-22 September, we held a seminar trip in Kusatsu Onsen, where B4 students gave their midterm presentations on the first day and enjoyed dinner and hot springs.On the second day, we went to the Gunma Museum of Natural History and learned about palaeontological skeletons and biodiversity.
The 35th Bioengineering Symposium was held in HITACHI Systems Hall Sendai on June 3rd to 4th (https://www.jsme.or.jp/conference/bioconf23/). Fukui, Kamimizu, Shizukuda and Miki presented their research in the conference.
The 33th Biofrontier Symposium was held in Kobe University Rokkodai Second Campus on December 17th to 18th (https://www.jsme.or.jp/conference/biofrconf22/index.html). Many undergraduate, masters and doctoral students presented their research in the conference. Koeda won the Outstanding Youth Presentation Award! Congratulation!
The 34th Bioengineering Symposium was held in Fukuoka International Congress Center on June 25th to 26th (https://www.jsme.or.jp/conference/bioconf22/). Soga, Hoshina and Koeda presented their research in the conference. Koeda won the Outstanding Student Poster Presentation! Congratulation!
The ROBOMECH2022 in SAPPORO is held in Sapporo Convention Center on June 1st to 4th (https://robomech.org/2022/). Koizumi and Murayama presented their research in the conference.
The paper published by Xue et al. in the AIP journal Physics of Fluids has been selected as Editor's pick (featured) and AIP Scilight. Congratulations!
Information on the World's Top Scientists : Professor Liu Hao was selected as Top Scientists for 2022(Research.com) : https://research.com/scientists-rankings/engineering-and-technology/jp <https://research.com/scientists-rankings/engineering-and-technology/jp>
The annual graduation ceremonies for undergraduate and graduate students were held on March 23rd and 25th . Congratulations!
A paper by the international research team Professor Liu participated in was published in the February 3 issue of the scientific journal Nature, and also appeared on the cover of Nature.
The annual graduation ceremonies for undergraduate and graduate students were held on March 23rd and 25th . Congratulations!
Mr. Hara, Mr. Hidaka, Mr. Maezawa, and Mr. Yoshikawa presented their work at the 19th Nanohana Competition 2021, organized by the Institute for Academic Research and Innovation (IMO) of Chiba University. They also received a special award, the Futaba Electronics Memorial Foundation Award. Congratulations!
The annual graduation ceremonies for undergraduate and graduate students were held on March 23rd and 25th . Congratulations!
Mr. Koizumi (D1) was awarded the Excellent Presentation Award at the 5th Global Prominent Research Core Symposium. Congratulations!
At a lecture hosted by the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Mr. Murayama (D1) was awarded the "Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Young Excellent Lecture Fellow Award" given to members under the age of 26 who gave excellent lectures. Congratulations!
Assistant Professor Nakata of our lab and co-working team in the UK have been working to find out why mosquitoes are able to fly in the dark and avoid obstacles. The airflow caused by the flapping of the mosquitoes' wings was simulated by numerical calculations. As a result, the tactile sensitivity of mosquitoes would be about 30-40 mm away, which is nearly 10 times the distance of their body length. It turns out that mosquitoes are able to detect the obstacle by sensing the air fluctuation. Based on these findings, an international team of researchers has developed a drone to detect airflow fluctuations caused by propellers. The function was evaluated and demonstrated to be able to detect walls and floors as well as mosquitoes. (Aerodynamic imaging by mosquitoes inspires a surface detector for autonomous flying vehicles, Toshiyuki Nakata, Nathan Phillips, Patricio Simoes, Ian J Russell, Jorn A Cheney, Simon M Walker, Richard J Bomphrey, Science, 2020; 368, 6491, 634-637.DOI: DOI:https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6491/634
The annual graduation ceremonies for undergraduate and graduate students were held on March 23rd and 25th . Congratulations!
Exhibition on Bio-inspired engineering (http://igpr.chiba-u.jp/info/20191016.html) is held on the 1st floor of the Shoin Kaikan, Nishi-Chiba campus. The period is from 9:30 to 15:30 on weekdays from October 18 to November 15, 2019. *Opens specially from November 2 (Sat.) to 3 (Sun.), 9: 30-15: 30 during the university festival. Participation fee is free.
Center for Aerial Intelligent Vehicles was established with Prof. Liu as director. Prof. Nonami, Prof. Liu and Prof. Nakata gave a lecture at the symposium.
Almost all lab members joined the two-days seminar trip. On the first day we saw the Great Buddha in Kamakura. At the night, bachelor students made midterm presentation and we had a BBQ. On the second day we went to the Enoshima aquarium(https://www.enosui.com/en/).
The 32nd Computational Mechanics Lecture (CMD2019) （https://www.jsme.or.jp/cmd/conference/cmdconf19/）was held at Toyo University from September 16th to 18th.Tanaka(M2) presented his research at the conference.
Annual meeting of Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics 2019 was held in The University of Electro-Communications on September 13th, 14th, and 15th（http://www2.nagare.or.jp/nenkai2019/）. Murayama presented his research in the conference.
The 37th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (Https://ac.rsj-web.org/2019/program.html) was held at Waseda University from September 3rd to 7th. Koizumi presented his research at the conference.
The 30th Biofrontier symposium is held in Kirishima Kokusai Hotel on July 19th and 20th（https://www.jsme.or.jp/conference/bioconf19/）. Tanaka presented his research in the conference.
The invited talk from Dr. Chang-kwon Kang in university of Alabama concentrated on "Marsbees－Bioinspired Flight Vehicles for Mars Exploration".
The invited talk from professor Rajat Mittal in Johns Hopkins University concentrated on "From Beating Hearts to Fluttering Wings: Flow Physics and Computation at the Intersection of Mechanics and Bioengineering".
The ROBOMECH2019 in HIROSHIMA is held in International Conference Center Hiroshima on June 5th to 8th（http://robomech.org/2019/）. Ishibashi, Koizumi and Murayama presented their research in the conference.
The Ventral Business Laboratory in Chiba University held the Nanohana Competition on December 15th（http://www.vbl.chiba-u.jp/competition/index.html）. Ishibashi participated the competition and won the Special Award, what exciting news it is!
The Robosoft conference 2019 is held in Korea Soul. Koizumi and Murayama gave poster presentations during the conference.
New members joined our lab, a warm welcome for all!
The annual graduation ceremonies for undergraduate and graduate students were held on March 22nd and 26th . Congratulations!
The Kanto Branch 25th Conference is held in the Chiba Institute of Technology on March 18th and 19th（https://www.jsme.or.jp/conference/ktconf19/）. Koizumi ad Shimbo presented their research in the conference.
The first International workshop in Bioinspired Flight Systems is held on March 13th in Chiba Campus（http://igpr.chiba-u.jp/global/info/20190311.html）. Dr. Sanjay Sane( National Centre for Biological Sciences, India), Dr. Xinyan Deng(Purdue University, USA), Dr. Pakpong Chirarattananon (The City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Dr. Hidetoshi Takahashi (The University of Tokyo) were invited by professor Hao Liu in Chiba University to give talks on the Bioinspired Flight System topic. This gives everyone a world wide view on this topic.
The Robosoft conference 2019 is held in Korea Soul. Koizumi and Murayama gave poster presentations during the conference.
New members joined our lab, a warm welcome for all!
The annual graduation ceremonies for undergraduate and graduate students were held on March 22nd and 26th . Congratulations!
The Kanto Branch 25th Conference is held in the Chiba Institute of Technology on March 18th and 19th（https://www.jsme.or.jp/conference/ktconf19/）. Koizumi ad Shimbo presented their research in the conference.
The first International workshop in Bioinspired Flight Systems is held on March 13th in Chiba Campus（http://igpr.chiba-u.jp/global/info/20190311.html）. Dr. Sanjay Sane( National Centre for Biological Sciences, India), Dr. Xinyan Deng(Purdue University, USA), Dr. Pakpong Chirarattananon (The City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Dr. Hidetoshi Takahashi (The University of Tokyo) were invited by professor Hao Liu in Chiba University to give talks on the Bioinspired Flight System topic. This gives everyone a world wide view on this topic.
The 8th Hyper Interdisciplinary Conference is held in Bellesalle Shinjuku Grand Conference Center on March 8th and 9th（https://hic.lne.st/conference/hic2019/）. Assistant professor Nakata, and three students Ishibashi, Koizumi and Murayama participated in this conference.Jan. 30th, Feb. 12th and 15th separately. All sessions got good comments. For all of you, you have done a great job! And congratulations for your graduation!
Doctoral, master, undergraduate students’ graduation defense were held in Chiba University on Jan. 30th, Feb. 12th and 15th separately. All sessions got good comments. For all of you, you have done a great job! And congratulations for your graduation!
For information on Sakura Science exchange program between Chiba University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, please refer to the following link for detailed information. （https://ssp.jst.go.jp/CN/report2018/vol19.html）
The 31st Bio-engineering symposium was held in Fukushima. Ikeda, Yoshinaga, Shimbo and Tanaka gave a talk separately. And, Nakata won the 27th Seiguchi Prize. Congratulations for him!
The 31st CMD conference was held in Tokushima, assistant professor Nakata, and Xu presented about their results in the conference （https://www.jsme.or.jp/cmd/conference/cmdconf18/index.html）
Visitors from Southwest Jiaotong University（SWJTU） visited our lab.
Global Prominent Symposium for Supporting Young Researchers was held in Chiba University. Xu gave a poster presentation in the symposium.
Held in mechanical engineering department, the invited talk from professor Junqian Zhang in Shanghai University concentrated on Mechano-electrochemical coupling and degradations of lithium-ion batteries.
In the ImPACT TRC meeting, Nakata presented our lab’s results on silent propeller on drone together with undergraduate student lab member Hirose.
The 29th Biofrontier symposium was held in Chiba University. （refer to the link: https://www.jsme.or.jp/conference/bioconf18/index.html ） Assistant professor Toshiyuki Nakata delivered an invited talk. Lab member of graduate students from master course : Ishibashi, Koizumi, Murayama, Yuzawa, as well as Doctoral course students: Fujiwara, Chen, Wang, Xu presented their research results in the symposium.
A group of visitors including vice president of National Yunlin University of Science & Technology came to our lab for a lab tour.
This year, two students in doctoral course successfully graduated, Dr. Ikeda and Dr. Miyazaki. Farewell party was held in Arigato Pub. We wish both doctors a bright future. Hope you flap as well as an owl and swim as fast as a shark in your future career!
Almost all lab members joined the two-days seminar trip which is held in Chiba prefecture. The first afternoon, researcher Yamazaki guided us around Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, which was established in 1932. This institution has aboundant specimens for birds, around a half （47.2% updated in 2018）of the species around the world . （http://www.yamashina.or.jp/hp/english/index.html） Bachelor students presented their mid-term graduation thesis at night. The other day, we had a trip around the famous aquarium : Kamogawa Seaworld （http://www.kamogawa-seaworld.jp/） . It was a fantastic tour!
Around 50 high school students participated in Liu Lab's lab tour on Open Campus day. Master students and bachelor students in our lab guided the tour. If you have interest in our lab, please join us!
Dr. Ikeda and Dr. Miyazaki presented their graduation thesis today at Chiba University. Prof. Liu, Prof. Tanaka, Prof. Hashimoto, Prof. Ota participated in the presentation. Both of the presentations are higly rated by professors.
JSPS Japanese-German Symposium at Frankfurt, German has been succefully held. Professor Liu gave an invited talk with the topic ' Robustness Strategies for Bio-inspired Flying Robot', for detailed information about the symposium, please visit the following link : https://www.jsps-bonn.de/ja/event-information/symposium/2244/ , for Prof. Liu's abstract download, visit the following link https://www.jsps-bonn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/CV_Abstract_LIU.pdf , for presentation slides, visit the following link: https://www.jsps-bonn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/LIU.compressed.pdf
H. Liu, Passive mechanisms in bio-inspired flight systems: flexibility and robustness. Workshop on Fluid-Structure Interaction, Canberra, Australia, May 7-9, 2018.
H. Liu, Lessen from Insects: Robustness Strategies for Bio-inspired Flying Robots. Biomimetics: Learning from Nature for an Innovative Future, JSPS Japanese-German Symposium, Frankfurt, German, April 19-21, 2018.
Kobayashi, Makita, Hirose, Harada, Yoshida, Joto, six new members joined Liu-Lab. Warm welcome to you all!
In total, about 50 B3 students attended the tour around Liu Lab. Prof. Liu and Assitant Professor Nakata gave presentations to the students. And lab members guided the students around our lab. We are looking forward to your joining in our lab!
To Ueyama, Ueda, Akiyama, Warmest congratulations on your graduation! We look forward to your sucess in your careers!
Rao Chen won the Premier Prize for 2018 ISBE Bionic Innovation Competition. The innivation titled "Owl's leading-edge serrations hold a key to achieve silent flight ". For detailed information, refer to this link: http://www.isbe-online.org/?ui=english&mod=info&act=view&id=3233
Warmest congratulations on your graduation! To Yuzawa, Koizumi, Ishibashi, Murayama, Tanaka, Shimbo.
In Feb. 13th and 16th, presentation of graduation thesis was held. Thank you for your support !!
・A paper by Dr.Miyoshi was published in JBSE
・A paper by Dr.Yamguchi was published in JFCMV
・A paper by Dr.Matsuura was published in ICVTS
・A paper by Dr.Chen was published in B&B
・A paper by Dr.Zhang was published in JBE
There was a seminar camp in Hakuba in Nagano and Tomioka in Gunma from 28th to 29th August. Everyone in the 4th grade was very nice at the interim reporting meeting!! This picture is a group photo at the tennis court!!
Dr. Hui Tang from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University visited Liu lab and gave a wonderful presentation about the active control of flow separation and vortex-induced vibration !!
Rao Chen's paper was published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics!! Check this paper in http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3190/aa7013/meta