Scholar
Masayuki Ohzeki
Google Scholar ID: BTwzDDwAAAAJ
Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,450
H-index
25
i10-index
46
Publications
20
Co-authors
54
list available
Contact
No contact links provided.
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Tejima Seiichi Memorial Prize for Doctoral Dissertation (2009)
- Young Scientist Award, Japan Physical Society (Domain 11, 2012)
- Young Scientists’ Prize, Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT (2016)
- GTC Japan 2016 Social Innovation Award (2016)
- IT Engineer Book Grand Prize and two Special Jury Awards (2018)
- Funai Academic Prize (2019)
- RIEC Award, Tohoku University (2019)
- Distinguished Researcher, Tohoku University (2022)
- KDDI Award Grand Prize (2023)
- Selected for Japan’s Cabinet Office SIP Phase III program (2023)
- Published papers including 'Spatio-temporal reconstruction of substance dynamics using compressed sensing...' and 'Kernel-based framework to estimate deformations of pneumothorax lung...'
- Led public educational initiatives such as QA4U and QC4U, enabling remote hands-on quantum computing learning
Research Experience
- Industrial Liaison Researcher, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Oct 2008)
- Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (May 2010)
- Project Researcher, Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome (Apr 2011)
- Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University (Oct 2016)
- Associate Professor (cross-appointed), Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Oct 2018)
- Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University (Jan 2021)
- Professor (cross-appointed), Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Jan 2021)
- Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Apr 2022)
- Professor, Department of Physics, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Apr 2024)
- Professor, Department of Physics, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Science (Oct 2024, due to institutional reorganization)
- Professor (cross-appointed), Semiconductor and Digital Research and Education Institute, Kumamoto University (Jul 2025)
- Concurrent appointment at Office of the President/Provost, Tohoku University (May 2021)
- Concurrent appointments at Untapped Scale Data Analytics Center and Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University (Jan 2022)
Background
- Research field: Information Statistical Mechanics, focusing on qualitative phase transitions emerging from collective behavior of many components
- Applies statistical mechanics to information science to explore emergent phenomena
- Views doctoral research as a way of life—emphasizing seeing, walking, and understanding the world through one’s own eyes, feet, and hands
- Currently Professor at the Department of Physics, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Science; also holds professorships at Tohoku University and Kumamoto University
- Founder and CEO of Sigma-i Co., Ltd.
