Akihiro Takahashi

Education

• Department of Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (April 1994-December 1996)

• Department of Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (April 1991-March 1994, Left without Bachelor’s degree for the postgraduate study) 

Qualification and degrees

• Professional Engineer in Civil Engineering (April 2009)

• Doctor of Engineering in Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (March 2002)
  (Dissertation title: Soil-pile interaction in liquefaction-induced lateral spreading of soils)

• Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (March 1996) 

Work experience

• Professor (October 2024-), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo

• Professor (December 2014-September 2024), Associate Professor (January 2008-November 2014), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

• Senior Researcher (July 2004-December 2007), Earthquake Disaster Prevention Research Group, Public Works Research Institute

• Post Doctoral Research Associate (August 2002-May 2004), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London

• Research Associate (December 1996-June 2004), Department of International Development Engineering/Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Advised PhDs

• A study on reinforcement of river levees with double steel sheet piles walls against overtopping (Yusuke Mochida, 2025, in Japanese)

• A study on seismic retrofitting methods for masonry train platforms (Satoshi Takisawa, 2024, in Japanese)

• A study on the hydraulic characteristics of alluvial sediments in river levee systems through field surveys and statistical analysis (Zhang Wenyue, 2024)

• Assessing the influence of geotechnical uncertainty on slope stability and tunneling-induced settlement (Hu Lihang, 2023)

• Development and practical application of lattice-frame-reinforced sheet method using mortar-filled-fabric hoses (Michitaka Okamoto, 2023, in Japanese)

• Experimental investigation on internal erosion and its impact on mechanical responses of gap-graded and well-graded sandy soils (Jitrakon Prasomsri, 2021)

• Study on monitoring method of old river bridge foundations by microtremor (Takenori Keyaki, 2021, in Japanese)

• Constitutive modeling of granular materials subjected to internal erosion (Wang Gang, 2021)

• Seismic retrofit for pile-supported bridge abutment subjected to liquefaction-induced lateral spreading (Partha Saha, 2020)

• Centrifuge modeling and reliability assessment of liquefaction mitigation techniques for shallow foundations (Ritesh Kumar, 2020)

• Performance of river levee reinforced with steel drainage pipes against flooding (Jenisha Singh, 2020)

• A study on elevated water levels in road embankments due to precipitation toward a proposal of screening method of vulnerable embankments (Hirohiko Kusaka, 2019, in Japanese)

• A study on evaluation of the coefficient of lateral subgrade reaction of piles and modeling of nonlinear characteristics at a wide range of displacement level (Taisuke Sanagawa, 2017, in Japanese)

• Study on reinforcing effects of steel pipes with blades on embankment slope (Masamichi Sawaishi [Thesis], 2017, in Japanese)

• Experimental investigation and microscopic observation on internal erosion of cohesionless soils (Mao Ouyang, 2016)

• An experimental study of seepage-induced transport of fines in embankments (Kazuki Horikoshi, 2015)

• A study on the flexibility of asphalt concrete facing based on the case of the Yashio dam during the 2011 Touhoku Earthquake (Tomoyuki Tsukada, 2015, in Japanese)

• Liquefaction-induced deformation of embankments on non-homogeneous foundation (Manika Maharjan, 2015)

• Investigation on internal erosion characteristics and its mechanical consequences for saturated non-cohesive soil (Lin Ke, 2014)

• A study on the method of determining priorities for investment in mitigation of rainfall-induced slope instability (Osamu Nunokawa, 2012, in Japanese) 

Publications

• List of publications is here.

• You can also check Researchmap or  ResearchGate. 

Contact

E-mail: takahashi.a.3a81(at)m.isct.ac.jp  (Replace (at) with @ when you email me.)