Panelists & Speakers

Yudai Honma

Professional Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo

Sessions: Session 9

Biography

Dr. Yudai Honma is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Center for Social Complex Systems at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo. He specializes in mathematical modeling, operations research, and interdisciplinary approaches to urban and architectural planning, transportation, and sustainable mobility systems. His research focuses on optimizing Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer (DWPT) systems and advancing electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure strategies to promote sustainable urban mobility. He earned his Ph.D. in 2007 from Keio University and served as a Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University from 2017 to 2018, where he conducted research on strategic planning for EV infrastructure development. Dr. Honma's work has been published in renowned journals, including Transportation Research Part C and International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. He has also contributed to policy development through roles at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and the Financial Services Agency (FSA). He is a Senior Member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and serves as an Associate Editor for Computational Urban Science. Currently, Dr. Honma collaborates with DENSO to advance DWPT, driving forward scalable and sustainable solutions for urban transportation networks.