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29/03/2022
The Project Managers has been selected under the two New Moonshot Goals.
Adopted Project Managers for Moonshot R&D (Moonshot Goal 8,9)
(The below infomation regarding the selected projects is as of the application deadline. The PM's affliliation and project name are subject to change after elaboration.)
Moonshot Goal 8：Realization of a society safe from the threat of extreme winds and rains by controlling and modifying the weather by 2050.
| Project Manager (PM) | R&D Project |
|---|---|
| SAWADA Yohei Associate Professor, Institute of Engineering Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo |
Controlling weather-society coupling system based on social decision making |
| FUDEYASU Hironori Director, Typhoon Science and Technology Research Center, Institute of Advanced Sciences, Yokohama National University/ Professor, Faculty of Education, Yokohama National University |
Typhoon control research aiming for a safe and prosperous society |
| YAMAGUCHI Kosei Associate Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University |
Heavy rainfall control for living together with isolated-convective rainstorm and line-shaped rainbands |
| Project Manager (PM) | R&D Project |
|---|---|
| KOTSUKI Shunji Associate Professor, Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University |
Quantifying Weather Controllability and Mitigatable Flood Damage Based on Ensemble Weather Forecast |
| TAKAGAKI Naohisa Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hyogo |
Estimation and Control of Air-Sea Momentum and Heat Fluxes at Hurricane |
| NISHIZAWA Seiya Research Scientist, RIKEN Center for Computational Science |
Development of an atmospheric simulation model for probability estimation for local atmospheric phenomena |
| NONOMURA Taku Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University |
Sensor-Actuator Location Optimization and Nonorthogonal and Nonlinear Optimal Control Laws for Large-Degree-of-Freedom Fields |
| MORI Shuichi Principal Researcher, Center for Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Research (CCOAR) of Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) |
Development of unmanned marine observation vehicles essential for forecasting and monitoring of typhoon artificial control |
Moonshot Goal 9：Realization of a mentally healthy and dynamic society by increasing peace of mind and vitality by 2050.
| Project Manager (PM) | R&D Project |
|---|---|
| IMAMIZU Hiroshi Director, Cognitive Mechanisms Laboratories, ATR Brain Information Communication Research Laboratory Group |
Fusion of Buddhism, engineering, and brain science to enhance peace and mercy of the mind |
| TSUTSUI Ken-Ichiro Professor, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University |
Development of "At-will Translator" connecting various minds based on brain and body functions |
| HASIDA Koiti Group director, Center for Advanced Intelligence Program, RIKEN |
Freedom of Mind and Value Co-Creation through Decentralized Data Management |
| MATSUMOTO Kenji Professor, Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University |
Maximizing well-being and agency on the basis of interpersonal comparison of brain indicators |
| YAMADA Makiko Group Leader, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology |
Realization of a society where people can live a forward-looking life in the face of adversity |
| YAMAWAKI Shigeto Specially appointed professor, Director of Center for Brain, Mind and KANSEI Sciences Research, Hiroshima University |
Innovation for "Mental Capital" by Awareness Music |
| Project Manager (PM) | R&D Project |
|---|---|
| KIKUCHI Mitsuru Professor, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University |
Protecting children's intellectual curiosity and individuality to realize a dynamic society |
| KIDA Satoshi Professor, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
Understanding the cognitively regulatory basis of food value that controls feeding behaviors |
| TAKUMI Toru Professor, School of Medicine, Kobe University |
Brain science towards visualization and manipulation of the mind |
| TOMODA Akemi Director and Professor, Research Center for Child Mental Development, University of Fukui |
Breaking the intergenerational chain of child maltreatment through primordial prevention |
| NAKAMURA Toru Specially Appointed Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University |
Construction of an AIoT-based universal emotional state space and evaluation of well-being/ill-being states |
| HOSODA Chihiro Associate professor, Graduate school of information science, Tohoku university |
Child care commons : Proposing social infrastructure allowing others to substitute parental roles |
| MIYAZAKI Katsuhiko Senior Staff Scientist, Neural Computation Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University |
Elucidation of the mechanism of serotonin over optimism and pessimism |