Kataoka Laboratory
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Staff & Students

Meet the faculty and students of Kataoka Laboratory, and our past graduates.

Staff

Teacher

Tomoya Kataoka
photo: Yasuhide Joju
Name
Tomoya Kataoka
Position
Associate Professor
Birthplace
Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan
Education
Tokushima University (Bachelor, 2006), Toyohashi University of Technology (Ph.D, 2014)
Work
Chubu Regional Development Bureau, MLIT (2006-2007), National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, MLIT (2007-2016), Tokyo University of Science (2016-2020), Ehime University (2021-current)
Research Area
Hydrology, Coastal Oceanography
Research Achievement
ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus, Researchgate
SNS
Twitter, Instagram

Technical Assistant

Name: Tomoko Nishimoto

Student

Students

Master (M2)

Yota Iga

Master (M1)

Reo Tanaka

Bachelor (B4)

Karen Okino Yuka Kanda
OB / OG

Alumni

FY2025 Graduation
Yuga Kubo Chiharu Kakuto Shota Kuramoto Haruma Shimizu Konomi Shiraishi Hiroki Morioke
FY2024 Graduation
Hiroto Oe (Master) Shin Yunho Taiki Asayama Haruhiko Otori Shunsuke Komoda Yoshiki Takata Kanta Yano
FY2023 Graduation
Yota Iga Kyosuke Takaoka Soichiro Nozawa Tomohiro Miyake Seiichi Yamamoto
FY2022 Graduation
Ryosuke Ikezumi Hiroto Oe Kouhei Oishi Atsushi Takaue Toi Matsuura
FY2021 Graduation
Aimi Iwaki Sora Uetake Takaaki Takuwa Soushi Takenaka
Message

A Message from the Faculty

To Prospective International Students

Kataoka Laboratory started in January 2021 within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ehime University. We warmly welcome international students who are interested in marine plastic pollution, coastal oceanography, and remote sensing, and who want to combine field work with data-driven, informatics-based research approaches.

Our laboratory collaborates with universities and research institutes in Japan and overseas (for example, Wageningen University in the Netherlands), and we have hosted students and short-term visitors from a number of countries. Research themes are chosen individually, matched to each student's own interests within our ongoing projects, and our approach combines hands-on outdoor observation with data analysis, image processing and AI, and, for some themes, careful laboratory chemical analysis.

If you are considering studying in Japan, we encourage you to look into the Japanese government's MEXT (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship and other funding opportunities, which are introduced together with practical information on applications, visas and student life on the Study in Japan official website.

If you are interested in joining our laboratory as a graduate or research student, please feel free to contact Prof. Kataoka directly by email (see our Contact page) with a brief self-introduction and your research interests. We look forward to hearing from you.

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