Garuda Fujii Research Laboratory

Received a grant from the TAKEUCHI Scholarship Foundation (2026, 12th term).

Received a Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) from JSPS.

Joined the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), as a Visiting Researcher.

Received funding through the Bilateral Joint Research Projects/Seminars (B) under the Open Partnership Joint Research Projects/Seminars program.

Awarded a grant from the Kajima Foundation through the Overseas Research Fellowship (Long-Term). (April 10–September 18, 2026)

Our paper on topology optimization of a thermal cloak for transient heat conduction was published in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, one of the leading journals in heat transfer (Impact Factor 2025: 5.8).

Delivered an invited talk at the 189th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Honolulu 2025).

Selected for the Stanford/Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists List – Single Recent Year. 

Our paper on accelerating CMA-ES-based topology optimization using an RBF-parameterized level set method was published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, one of the leading journals in computational mechanics (Impact Factor 2024: 7.3).

Delivered an invited talk at the JSME–KSME Joint Symposium on Computational Mechanics & CAE 2025 – 9th Meeting.

Delivered an invited lecture series (four 45-minute lectures) at the International Summer School of Fudan University (ISSF) on Statistical Physics and Thermal Metamaterials 2025, held at Fudan University.

Our paper on accelerating CMA-ES-based topology optimization using a B-spline-parameterized level set method was published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, one of the leading journals in computational mechanics (Impact Factor 2024: 7.3).

Recognized by ScholarGPS as the 21st-ranked scholar worldwide in the “Highly Ranked Scholar – Prior 5 Years” category for Topology (2024).

Our paper on topology optimization of a ITR-free thermal cloak was published in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, one of the leading journals in heat transfer (Impact Factor 2024: 5.0).

Our paper on accelerating CMA-ES-based topology optimization was featured in Shinshu University Research Highlights.

Received the 2024 JACM Young Investigator Award from the Japan Association for Computational Mechanics (JACM). 

Delivered an invited talk at the Shape Design Mathematics Symposium 2024, held at the University of Tokyo.

Delivered an invited talk at the KSME–JSME Joint Symposium on Computational Mechanics & CAE 2024.

Our paper on accelerating CMA-ES-based topology optimization was published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, one of the leading journals in computational mechanics (Impact Factor 2023: 7.2).

Professor Garuda Fujii’s press conference on receiving the MEXT Young Scientists’ Prize was featured in Shindai NOW.

Professor Garuda Fujii’s press conference on receiving the MEXT Young Scientists’ Prize was featured in the Shinano Mainichi Shimbun.

Our research on topology optimization of a source shifter for location camouflage of an acoustic source was featured on EurekAlert!, the science news platform operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the publisher of Science.

Received the 2023 MEXT Young Scientists’ Prize (Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan).

Promoted to Professor (Full) at Shinshu University.

Invited talk at the 12th Computational Mechanics Symposium (online).

Invited talk at 2022 International Conference on Thermodynamics and Thermal Metamaterials (ThermoMeta2022), which was held online.

Our research project was selected for the 2022 (8th) Research Grant from the TAKEUCHI Scholarship Foundation. The project period is from April 2022 to March 2023.

Our paper on the experimental demonstration of the thermal cloaking metastructure was published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, a leading journal in heat transfer (Impact Factor 2020: 5.584).

Our research on a biphysical cloak that renders an object invisible to electromagnetic waves of both polarizations and to acoustic waves was featured on EurekAlert!, the news platform of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the publisher of Science.

Our paper on a biphysical cloak that renders an object invisible to electromagnetic waves of both polarizations and to acoustic waves was published in Optics Express, a leading journal in optics and photonics (Impact Factor 2021: 3.894).

Our paper on the mechanical unfeelability concentrator was published in Applied Physics Letters, a leading journal in applied physics (Impact Factor 2020: 3.791).

Received the 2021 Frontier Achievement Award from the Design Engineering and Systems Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).

Our research on the acoustic cloak was featured on EurekAlert!, the news platform of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the publisher of Science. The research was also covered by several other science news outlets.

Topology-optimized thermal cloak-concentrator featured on AAAS’s EurekAlert! and other science news outlets.

Invited talk at 2020 International Conference on Thermodynamics and Thermal Metamaterials (ThermoMeta2020), held Online.

Received a grant from the TAKEUCHI Scholarship Foundation (2020, 6th term).

Received a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from JSPS.

Invited talk at the 42nd PIERS in Xiamen, held at Swiss Grand Xiamen.

Invited talk at the 21st Meeting of the JSIAM Research Activity Group on Mathematical Design. 

Invited talk at the 87th Symposium of the Society for Science on Form.

Promoted to Associate Professor at Shinshu University.

Received the Encouraging Achievement Award from the Design & Systems Division of JSME.

Received a Grant-in-Aid for Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) from JSPS.

Received a Grant-in-Aid for Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) from JSPS.

Received a Grant-in-Aid from the Casio Science Promotion Foundation.

Joined Shinshu University as an Assistant Professor.

My Ph.D. thesis was cited as Ref. 81 and featured in Fig. 4 of the Nature Photonics review article “Disordered Photonics” (2011).

Received a Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up from JSPS.

Received a research grant from the Mazda Foundation.

Joined Akita Prefectural University as an Assistant Professor.

Received a Doctor of Engineering degree from Nagoya University.