Takahiko KUSAKABE Dr.Eng
He is a Data Analysis Director in Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc., and is President & CEO of Social Designers Base, Inc. He received the Dr.Eng. degree from Kobe University, Japan in 2010. From 2011 to 2016 he worked at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo as an Assistant Professor. From 2016 to 2021, he worked in the center for spatial information science at the University of Tokyo,and had an appointment of a project associate professor in school of engineering, in the University of Tokyo from 2022 to 2023.

His research interest is transportation engineering with emerging technologies. Much of his work has been focusing on the application and implementation of Bigdata, IoT (Internet of Things), and sensors to traffic and transportation observation and surveys. And incorporating with transportation simulation, applications of these technologies in mobility data platforms, MaaS (Mobility as a Service), and urban mobility design have been explored.