PROFILE

Dr. Hirofumi Aoki has been interested in human-machine-environment interaction in such areas as mechanical/automobile engineering, aeronautics/astronautics, and architectural/city planning. He received B.Eng. from Waseda University, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology. During his Ph.D. course, he visited for one year at the Psychology Department, the University of California, Davis as a MEXT scholar.

From 2004 till 2007, he studied at the Man-Vehicle Laboratory, MIT as a postdoctoral associate as well as postdoctoral fellow of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute. From 2007, he worked at Toyota Motor Corporation, where he did research with NHTSA using the world largest driving simulator in TMC’s Higashi-fuji Technical Center, plan and develop the advanced driver assistance system (ADAS). One of his inventions has been released from Lexus IS in 2013.

After 6 years’ experience in industry, he moved back to academia as an associate professor at the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department, Nagoya University, Japan. From 2014 Dr. Aoki is a professor at the Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University.

He serves as a vice research leader of Nagoya COI (Center of Innovation) program and a theme leader of Human Machine Harmonization System Consortium of OPERA program, both funded by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).