Why not go outside your own field of expertise sometimes and listen to ideas from other fields?
Proceeded to the doctoral course in order to advance my skills
In my master’s course, I was working on theoretical research on how to help robots avoid collisions. However, I could not answer my fundamental question, “What my research theory could be used for, and I could not envision what I wanted to do in the future. I thought I would proceed to the doctoral course to enhance my research skills and technical capabilities before concluding.
WISE-SSS has professors and companies involved in various fields. So, I was attracted to the fact that I could learn a wide range of content while pursuing my expertise. In addition, the abundant financial support, which was a cause of concern for me when entering a doctorial course, was a deciding factor in my decision to register.
New ideas are born from multi-disciplinary research
The Matching Workshop allows you to interact with private companies and research institutes. You have to present your research in a short time to people from other fields than your own. I have therefore developed the ability to give a compact and clear presentation. For instance, you tend to explain mathematical problems using formulas, but I made it visually easy to understand. Similarly, I explained the meaning of a mathematical formula in plain language. In the Intensive Practice for Interdisciplinary Research Planning, you have to come up with new research ideas by combining the thinking of other research areas. This was a very good training for me to come up with new ideas for my own research.
At WISE-SSS, it is very attractive to have many opportunities to talk to people from different fields. Of course, it is important to focus on your research, but looking back, I think it is also important to sometimes step away from your own research and listen to different people’s opinions.
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Yuya Okada
Born in Tokyo in 1996. Okada graduated from an undergraduate major, Department of Systems and Control Engineering, School of Engineering in 2020. Completed his master’s degree in Systems and Control Engineering Graduate Major, Department of Systems and Control Engineering, School of Engineering in 2022. He completed the doctoral course in the above-mentioned graduate major in 2025. PhD (Engineering). Currently, he works at TOKYU CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
