Biography of Prof. Miyatake in English
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MIYATAKE, Masafumi / 宮武 昌史.icon Masafumi Miyatake (宮武昌史) enrolled at the University of Tokyo (東京大学) in 1990. His PhD supervisors are Prof. Satoru Sone (曽根悟: Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, Visiting Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University), Prof. Takafumi Koseki (古関隆章: Professor at the University of Tokyo). He received a PhD degree from the University of Tokyo in 1999. After that, he worked for Tokyo University of Science (東京理科大学) as a research associate for one year.
He joined Sophia University (上智大学) in 2000 and is now a professor and chair for the Department of Engineering & Applied Sciences (EAS) at the same university. He has managed the Transportation Electrification and Smartification lab (TESlab) and guided about 50 Master’s and a few PhD students. He is now for the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Division, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Sophia University.
He is a Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) member of the IIT at Comillas Pontifical University, Spain, and part-time lecturer at Chiba University (千葉大学), Japan. He was a visiting professor at Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland in 2008.
He is a senior member of IEE Japan (電気学会), a member of IEEE, and has served on many and various committee chairs and members and reviewers. In addition, he has participated in many steering/organizing committees for international conferences. Furthermore, he has contributed to some social activities, e.g., convenor of IEC TC9 MT62427 for revising an international standard, and a committee member for evaluating R&D projects of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT, 国土交通省), Japan.
His research interests include power conversion, energy management, application of renewable energy and energy storage, railway electrification, and smartification. He has been engaged in many projects with KAKENHI (科研費) Grants-in-Aid by JSPS.
He published about 120 journal and conference papers which have about 4400 citations in Google Scholar. Due to this considerable number of citations, he was listed in the top 2% of scientist in the world in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 by Elsevier and Stanford University. His representative papers with many citations are the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) with particle swarm optimization (PSO) and the train trajectory optimization with dynamic programming (DP). He is a pioneer of these fields, and many researchers have supported his work.