• Yuichi WASHIDA

  Professor in the Faculty of Commerce and Management, specializing in marketing and innovation studies. He graduated from the Faculty of Commerce and Management in 1991 and joined Hakuhodo, Inc. where he conducted consumer studies and technology dissemination research at the Innovation Laboratory. In 2003, he pursued research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his PhD from The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2008.

  

• Wataru UEHARA

  Professor at the Faculty of Commerce and Management, specializing in marketing and consumer behavior. He has conducted research on marketing organization of overseas subsidiaries and tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic. He received his PhD in Commerce and Management from Hitotsubashi University in 2008. He has served in his current position since 2012 after he worked at Musashino University.

  

• Tohru YOSHIOKA-KOBAYASHI

  Associate Professor at the Institute of Innovation Research, specializing in technology management, intellectual property management, and science and technology policy. He has conducted research on design development strategy and design team management. In 2007, he received his L.L.M from the Graduate School of Law at Osaka University. He joined Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc, where he conducted studies and research on innovation policy. In 2015, he received his PhD in Engineering from The University of Tokyo.

  

• Wenzhen XU

  Dr. Wenzhen Xu serves as Assistant professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration. He specializes in social psychology and persuasive communication through ICT (Persuasive Technology). He completed both the master's and doctoral courses in Developmental Psychological Sciences at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University (enrolled from 2013 to 2018, PhD in Psychology). In 2019, Dr. Xu joined KDDI Corporation and the KDDI Research, Inc., where he engaged in large-scale empirical research on behavioral change and fundamental research on AI understanding of human psychology. From 2016 to 2017, he was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been in his current position since 2023.

  

• Nanami FURUE

  Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration, specializing in new product development and marketing. She has conducted research on international comparison of idea creation and use of design thinking. She pursued research at the Center for Design Research, Stanford University in 2018. She received her PhD in Commerce and Management from Hitotsubashi University in 2019. She has served in her current position since 2023 after she worked at the Tokyo University of Science.

  

• Naohiro SHICHIJO

  Professor in the Faculty of Commerce and Management, specializing in data science with a focus on science and technology policy, future society, and materials. He is a graduate of the Department of Mathematics in the Faculty of Science at The University of Tokyo. In 2000, he received his PhD in engineering from The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering. He has served in his current position since 2020 after stints at The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS), National Institute of Science and Technology Policy under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and the Tokyo University of Technology.

  

• Haruaki FUKUDA

  His areas of expertise are cognitive science, computational neuroscience, and the psychology of vision. He has been engaged in research on the theory and neural basis of human decision-making since 2011 at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute and 2013 at The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has served in his current position since 2020. He received his PhD from The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2011.

  

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• Yukiko TAKAHASHI
• Ai HIGO
• Michiko HASEBE

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