Biography

Professor Tomohiro Amemiya was born in Yamanashi, Japan, in 1979. He received BS and MS degrees in mechano-informatics from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology (biomedical information science) from Osaka University, Japan, in 2008.

From 2004 to 2019, he was a researcher at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, and was appointed a distinguished researcher in 2015. He was also an honorary research associate at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (UCL) from 2014 to 2015, concurrently. He joined The University of Tokyo, as an associate professor in 2019. Since 2023, he is a Professor with the Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, and the Vice Director of VR Center of The University of Tokyo since 2024. His research interests include haptic perception, tactile neural systems, sensory illusion and metaverse, virtual reality technologies, and human-computer interaction. He is a director of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ) and Human Interface Society (Japan). He has received several academic awards as the first author including the Young Researchers Award (VRSJ, 2004), the Outstanding Paper Award (VRSJ, 2005, 2014, and 2017), the Best Presentation Award (HIS, 2005, 2007, and 2019), the Best Paper Award in All SIG Meetings (HIS, 2009), the Best Paper Award in Human Communications Group (IEICE, 2009), the "Grand Prix" du Jury and VR Interfaces Award at the Laval Virtual International Awards (2007), and the Best Demonstration Award (Eurohaptics 2014). Also, he won awards, including the Best Paper Award (IEEE VSMM 2012), Best VR&AR Technology (ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2018) and Best Poster Award (IEEE ISMAR 2022) as a co-author.

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Funding

研究会委員等 / Commission members