MASASHI KONYO

TOHOKU UNIVERSITY

Graduate School of Information Sciences

Professor

About

Masashi Konyo is a Professor at the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, where he leads the Embodied Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory. His research focuses on haptic interfaces, tactile sensing, virtual reality, and disaster response robotics. He received the Young Scientists’ Prize from the Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT and the Kisoi Motohiro Award, both in 2015 and actively contributes to advancing the field of human-machine interaction.  He is a member of the IEEE. 

Research Disciplines 

Robotics, Haptics