Researcher in Robotics / Biomechanics
2026-05-15: Accepted to IEEE RA-L.
2026-03-14: Selected for the Yamaha Motor Foundation for Sports, Sports Challenge Grant.
2025-10-01: Appointed as Project Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo.
2025-09-05: Received the 4th Young Researcher Presentation Award from the Robotics Society of Japan.
Yuta Shimane
Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology
- Professional Experience -
Sep 2025 - Present: Project Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo [UTokyo] [Lab]
2024 - 2025: Research Technical Assistant, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
2021: Research Assistant for Doctoral Students, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
2018 - 2021: Part-time Researcher, Image Processing Research Team, RIKEN
- Education -
2025: Ph.D., Department of Mechano-Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
2021: M.Eng., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science
2019: B.Eng., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science
- Academic Memberships -
The Robotics Society of Japan / The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2025: The 4th Young Researcher Presentation Award, The Robotics Society of Japan [URL]
2024: The 5th Outstanding Research and Technology Award, The Robotics Society of Japan [URL]
2019: Best Presentation Award, Symposium of the Division of Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences, Research Institute for Science and Technology
2019: Young Excellent Presentation Fellow Award, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers [URL]
Yuta Shimane and Ko Yamamoto, "Simulation of Adaptive Running with Flexible Sports Prosthesis using Reinforcement Learning of Hybrid-link System", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 11(7), pp. 8172-8179, 2026. [DOI] [arXiv]
Kim, Sunghee, Yuta Shimane, Taiki Ishigaki, and Ko Yamamoto, “Dynamics Computation of Soft-Rigid Hybrid-Link System and Its Application to Motion Analysis of an Athlete Wearing Sport Prosthesis." Advanced Robotics 40 (4): pp. 197–211, 2026. [DOI] [arXiv]
Yuta Shimane, Taiki Ishigaki, Sunghee Kim and Ko Yamamoto, "Viscoelasticity Estimation of Sports Prosthesis by Energy-minimizing Inverse Kinematics and Its Validation by Forward Dynamics", Advanced Robotics, 38 (21), pp. 1515–1527, 2024. [DOI] [arXiv]
Yuta Shimane, Taiki Ishigaki, Sunghee Kim, Yosuke Ikegami, and Ko Yamamoto, "Application of Piece-wise Constant Strain Model to Flexible Deformation Calculation of Sports Prosthesis and Stiffness Estimation", Proceedings of 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,pp.12758-12763, 2022. [DOI]
Sunghee Kim, Taiki Ishigaki, Yuta Shimane, Yosuke Ikegami, and Ko Yamamoto, "Inverse Kinematics of Hybrid Multi-link System and its Application to Motion Capture for Athlete Wearing Sports Prosthesis", Proceedings of 2022 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp.837-842, 2022. [DOI]
Yuta Shimane, Hiroshi Takemura, Hidekazu Kaneko, Ko Ayusawa, Yuki Tsujimura, Masaaki Mochimaru, Hideo Yokota and Satoshi Oota, "Development of a whole-body skeletal model of a rat based on anatomical landmarks for detailed motion analysis", Proceedings of the 41st International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, ThPOS-34.26, 2019. [Program] [PDF]
2026-2027: Yamaha Motor Foundation for Sports, Sports Challenge Grant [URL]
2022-2025: JST Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation (SPRING)