Education

• Ph.D., UCLA (Feb 2024), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Advisor: Professor Kunihiko Taira

  • Major: Fluid Mechanics, Minor 1: Data Science and Machine Learning, Minor 2: Systems and Control

  • Thesis: Data-Driven Modeling and Control of Extreme Aerodynamic Flows: Super Resolution, Manifold Identification, and Phase-Amplitude Reduction [PDF] [Slides]

    • Committee Members: Kunihiko Taira (Chair, UCLA), Jeff Eldredge (UCLA), Mitchell Spearrin (UCLA), Jacob Bortnik (UCLA), and Steven L. Brunton (Univ. Washington) 

    • Outstanding Ph.D. Degree Award in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UCLA

• M. Eng., Keio University (Sep 2020), Science for Open and Environmental System

  • Advisor: Professor Koji Fukagata

  • Major: Applied and Computational Mechanics, Minor 1: Space and Environment Design Engineering, Minor 2: Science of Environment and Energy

  • Thesis: Space-Time Data Recovery of Fluid Flows using Machine Learning Based Super Resolution

    • Best Graduate Research Award (Fujiwara Award)

• B. Eng., Keio University (Mar 2018), Mechanical Engineering 

  • Advisor: Professor Koji Fukagata

  • Thesis: Proposal of a Turbulent Inflow Generator using Machine Learning

    • Best Bachelor Thesis Presentation Award

Appointments

• Jan 2025 - Present, Associate Professor (Aerospace Engineering), Tohoku University

• Apr 2025 - Present, Adjunct Professor (Institute of Fluid Science), Tohoku University

• Mar 2024 - Dec 2024, Postdoctoral Research Associate, UCLA

• Sep 2020 - Feb 2024, Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D. student), UCLA

• Sep 2020 - Aug 2021, Visiting Researcher, Keio University

• Apr 2018 - Sep 2020, Graduate Research Assistant (Master student), Keio University

• Jan 2019 - Aug 2019, Visiting Research Student, UCLA

• Aug 2018 - Dec 2018, Visiting Research Student, Florida State University

• Apr 2017 - Mar 2018, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Keio University

Awards/Scholarships

1. 2024 Outstanding Reviewer of Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Aug 2025 [Tohoku Mech] [Paper]

2. USNC/TAM National Academy of Sciences Travel Fellowship (ICTAM2024), Jun 2024

3. UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Outstanding Ph.D. Degree Award [Picture1] [Picture2] [link]

4. Amazon Fellow 2022: scholarship by the Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence organized by UCLA and Amazon [UCLA] [Amazon]

5. International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Grant, ICTAM 2020+1, Aug 2021.

6. Fujiwara Award (Best Graduate Research Award at Keio Univ.), Fujiwara Scholarship Foundation, Mar 2021.

7. Certificate of Merit for Thermal Engineering Best Paper in 2nd Pacific Rim Thermal Engineering Conference, (K. Fukami, Y. Nabae, K. Kawai, and K. Fukagata), Oct 2020. 

8. Keio University and Graduate school Shinzo-Koizumi scholarship 2020

9. Best Presentation Award, 17th Workshop on Turbulence Control, Tokyo, Japan, Nov 2019.

10. JSME Fluids Engineering Excellent Presentation Certificate of Merit, Nov 2019.

11. Best Bachelor Thesis Presentation Award, Keio University, Mar 2018.

12. Best Presentation Award, 12th Workshop on Turbulence Control, Tokyo, Japan, Jan 2018. 

13. Outstanding Performance Award of Independent Studies in Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Mar 2016.

Membership

1. Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers

2. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

3. American Physics Society

4. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

5. Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics

Organizer/Comittee

1. TSFP14 Advisory Committee

2. JSME subcommittee: Advanced measurements, simulations, and data science for digital twin in thermal and fluid engineering and their industrial applications (a research member)

3. JK-FLOW (Japan and Korea Fluid Mechanics Online Workshop)

Organizers: K. Fukami (Tohoku Univ.), S. Lee (Inha Univ.), A. Sciazko (Univ. Tokyo), J. Jeon (POSTECH), and H. Kim (Korea Univ.)

4. IUTAM Symposium, GA22-04: Machine Learning in Diverse Fluid Mechanics (a local executive committee member), May 2025

5. 3rd Data-Driven Fluid Dynamics Workshop, Mar 2025

Organizers: K. Taira (UCLA), T. Nonomura (Nagoya Univ.), K. Fukami (Tohoku Univ.), K. Fujii (Tokyo Univ. Sci.), K. Fukagata (Keio Univ.), S. L. Brunton (Univ. Washington), and M. Hemati (Univ. Minnesota)

6. SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE23), Mini-symposium ``Reduced-complexity models for fluid flows," Mar 2023

Organizers: K. Fukami (UCLA), S. T. M. Dawson (Illinois Tech.), and K. Taira (UCLA)

7. SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS22), Mini-symposium ``Data-driven analysis and modeling of unsteady flows," Sep 2022

Organizers: K. Fukami (UCLA), M. Hickner (Univ. of Washington), K. Taira (UCLA), and S. L. Brunton (Univ. of Washington)

Comittee at Tohoku University 

1. Working group on Design and Drawing II in the Division of Mechanical Engineering at Tohoku University (Apr 2025 - Present)

2. Public relations committee in the Division of Mechanical Engineering at Tohoku University (Apr 2025 - Present)

Grants and Contracts

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

1. [Active] Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, “Designing super-quick control strategies of unsteady flows based on nonlinear phase-amplitude machine learning," Number 25K23418 [Project Achievements]

   • PI, 2025/7/31-2027/3/31, ¥ 2,600,000

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

2. [Active] MEXT Coordination Funds for Promoting AeroSpace Utilization, “Japan-originated compactification project for nonlinear aerodynamic phenomena with an ultra-high degree of freedom," Number J000959 [Project Achievements]

   • PI, 2025/10/1-2028/3/31, ¥ 40,400,000

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

3. [Active] JST PRESTO, “Establishing a low-rank manifold village toward mathematic prediction and control of unsteady flows," Number JPMJPR25KA  [Project Achievements]

   • PI, 2025/10/1-2029/3/31, ¥ 39,000,000

Referee

Publications

1. Acta Mechanica Sinica

2. Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics

3. Aerospace Science and Technology

4. AIAA Journal

5. AIMS Mathematics

6. AIP Advances

7. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

8. APL Machine Learning

9. Applied Mathematical Modelling

10. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering

11. Building and Environment

12. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

13. Chemical Engineering Science

14. Cogent Engineering

15. Communications Engineering

16. Communications in Computational Physics

17. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

18. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

19. Computer Physics Communications

20. Computers and Fluids

21. Data-Centric Engineering

22. Electronics Letters

23. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

24. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics

25. Engineering Computations

26. Engineering with Computers

27. European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids

28. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

29. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion

30. Frontiers in Physics

31. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering

32. Geo-spatial Information Science

33. IEEE Access

34. IEEE Control Systems Letters

35. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

36. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

37. IEEE Photonics Journal

38. IET Image Processing

39. IET Signal Processing

40. Imaging Science Journal

41. International Journal of Aeroacoustics

42. International Journal of Aerospace Engineering

43. International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics

44. International Journal of Computational Methods

45. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow

46. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

47. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

48. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics

49. International Journal of Production Research

50. Journal of Aerospace Information Systems

51. Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics

52. Journal of Chemometrics

53. Journal of Computational Design and Engineering

54. Journal of Computational Physics

55. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

56. Journal of Fluid Engineering

57. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

58. Journal of Fluid Science and Technology

59. Journal of Marine Science and Application

60. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

61. Journal of Turbulence

62. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A

63. Measurement Science and Technology

64. Mechanical Research Communications

65. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

66. Nature Communications

67. Nature Computational Science

68. Nature Machine Intelligence

69. Newton

70. Nonlinear Dynamics

71. Nuclear Science and Techniques

72. Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

73. Ocean Engineering

74. Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering

75. Peer J Computer Science

76. Petroleum Science and Technology

77. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

78. Physical Review Fluids

79. Physical Review Letters

80. Physical Review Research

81. Physics of Fluids

82. Proceedings of the Royal Society A

83. Scientific Reports

84. Soft Computing

85. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics

86. Wind Energy

Conferences

1. 2019 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Information Processing and Cloud Computing (AIIPCC2019)

2. 3rd International Conference on Material Strength and Applied Mechanics (MSAM 2020)

3. NeurIPS 2021 workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences

4. NeurIPS 2022 workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences

5. NeurIPS 2023 workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences

6. ICML 2023 workshop on Synergy of Scientific and Machine Learning Modeling

7. NeurIPS 2024 workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences

8. NeurIPS 2025 workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences

Services (Ph.D./M.S./M.Eng. Committee)

Thesis Committee (*: chair, †: work defended)

• Ph.D. degree:

  • 2026 Yuto Nakamura (Aerospace Engineering), Tohoku University

• M.S./M.Eng. degree:

  • 2026 Daichi Yamashita (Aerospace Engineering), Tohoku University

  • 2026 Takehiro Shigekiyo (Aerospace Engineering), Tohoku University

  • 2026 Lefert Jonas (Applied Information Sciences), Tohoku University