Kentaro WADA, Ph.D. (Information Sciences)
CONTACT
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
3F1211, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, JAPAN
Tel: +81-29-853-3614,
Email: wadaken [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Traffic management and control, Transportation network equilibrium, Traffic flow, Intelligent transportation systems
POSITIONS
Apr. 1st, 2019 - Present: Associate Professor, Institute of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba.
Transportation System Science (TSS) Laboratory (PI)
Jul. 1st, 2019 - Present: Research Fellow, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo.
Apr. 1st, 2014 - Mar. 31st, 2019: Assistant Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo.
Traffic Engineering Laboratory (PI: Prof. Oguchi), Advanced Mobility Research Center (ITS Center)
Mobility Innovation Collaborative Research Organization (UTmobI) (Jul. 1st, 2018 - Mar. 31st, 2019)
Apr. 1st, 2013 - Mar. 31st, 2014: Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University.
International and Intermodal Transportation Laboratory (PI: Prof. Kuwahara)
Apr. 1st, 2011 - Mar. 31st, 2013: Research Fellow (DC2), The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
POSITIONS (VISITING)
Jan. 20th, 2017 - Jan. 19th, 2018: Visiting Assistant Research Scholar, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Irvine.
(Host Researcher: Prof. Wenlong Jin)
Sep. 24th, 2015 - Oct. 26th, 2015: Visiting Fellow, School of Civil Engineering and the Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology.
Smart Transport Research Centre (Host Researcher: Prof. Edward Chung)
GRANTS (PI ONLY) & AWARDS
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Grant Number: 23K17799, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, FY2023–FY2024.
JSTE Best Paper Award, Japan Society of Traffic Engineers, 2023
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant Number: 23H01524, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, FY2023–FY2026.
Young Faculty Award, University of Tsukuba, 2022
Young Researcher Best Paper Award, Japan Society of Traffic Engineers, 2021
Young Researcher Best Paper Award, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, 2019
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant Number: 19K04637, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, FY2019–FY2022.
Overseas Scholarship, The Kajima Foundation, FY2015.
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Grant Number: 16K18163, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, FY2016–FY2018.
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Grant Number: 26820207, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, FY2014–FY2015.
Kometani Sasaki Prize (Outstanding PhD Thesis Award), Institute of Systems Science Research, 2013.
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Grant Number: 11J07829, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, FY2011–FY2012.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Information Sciences). March 2013, Tohoku Univeristy.
Thesis: Distributed and dynamic traffic congestion controls without requiring demand forecasting: Tradable network permits and its implementation mechanisms
Supervisor: Prof. Takashi Akamatsu
Master of Information Science. March 2010, Tohoku Univeristy.
Thesis: Auction mechanisms for implementing tradable network permit markets (in Japanese)
Bachelor of Engineering. March 2008, Tohoku Univeristy.
Thesis: Informationally efficient mechanisms for mitigating both queuing congestion and flow congestion (in Japanese)