Kodai Kitagawa（北川 広大）
(Ph.D. in Engineering)

Institution

Mechanical and Medical Engineering Course,  

Department of Industrial Systems Engineering, 

National Institute of Technology, Hachinohe College 

(Assistant Professor)

Website: (English/日本語)

E-mail: kitagawakitagawa156(at mark)gmail.com

Member

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBS) 

• The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)

• Society of Physical Therapy Science (SPTS)

Research Interest

• Biomedical Engineering

• Electrical and Electronic Engineering

• Rehabilitation Engineering

• Assistive Technology

• Physical Therapy

• Occupational Health

Keyｗords

• Wearable Sensing

• Patient Handling

• Lower Back Pain

• Falling Prevention

• Gait Analysis

Awards

• Best Oral Presentation Award, International Conference on Computational Methods in Engineering and Health Sciences 2025  (ICCMEH-2025) , 2025.

• Reward for Industry-Academia Collaboration, National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), 2024.

• Excellent Poster Award: Outstanding  Prize,  2023 IEEE 12th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (IEEE GCCE 2023), 2023.

• Excellent Poster Award, Joint Conference of Aomori Health and Welfare Society and  Japan Academy of  Human Care Science, 2022.

• Excellent Paper Award for On-site Poster Presentation: 1st Prize,  IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (IEEE LifeTech 2021), 2021.

• Excellent Presentation Award (Co-author), Japan Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Kyushu Okinawa Branch, 2020.

• Valedictorian of Graduates in Master and Bachelor Students, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2019.

• Best Presentation Award for Master's Thesis, Department of Human Intelligence Systems, Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2019.

• Best Paper Award, 21st International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (21ICMMB-2018), 2018.

• Student Presentation Award, Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) Kyushu Branch, 2017.

• Best Graduation Research Award, Advanced Course of Electronic and Information Systems Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kushiro College, 2017.

Education

• Ph.D. Mar. 2022, Department of  Life Science and Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology.

• Master of Engineering. Mar. 2019, Department of Human Intelligence Systems, Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology.

• Bachelor of Engineering. Mar. 2017, Advanced Course of Electronic and Information Systems Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kushiro College.

• Associate of Engineering.Mar. 2015, Department of Electronic Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kushiro College.