Simulation-based Digital Twin

酒井幹夫 教授

東京大学
大学院工学系研究科原子力国際専攻
工学部システム創成学科・Bコース

Prof. Mikio SAKAI

Brief CV   SCOPUS
Full Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering & Management, UTokyo
Visiting Professor, Imperial College London, UK
Chairperson, DEM10

■ 専門
粉体シミュレーション、マルチフィジックスシミュレーション、デジタルツイン、離散要素法、粒子法、固気混相流、固液混相流、固気液三相流

■ 社会連携講座（代表教員）
次世代粉体プロセスシステムのためのデジタルツイン基盤技術講座 (2023年8月～2026年7月)
次世代資源循環ソリューションのためのデジタルツイン基盤技術講座 (2024年8月～2027年7月)

■ 所属学会
日本原子力学会、 粉体工学会、 日本混相流学会、 化学工学会、 日本応用数理学会、 日本計算工学会、 日本粉体工業技術協会、 AIChE

Professor Mikio Sakai is a Full Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management at The University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 2006 and subsequently joined the university as an Assistant Professor in 2007. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and became a Full Professor in 2023. Professor Sakai has maintained long-standing international collaborations. He has held visiting appointments at Imperial College London since 2016, first as Visiting Reader from 2016 to 2023 and currently as Visiting Professor since 2023. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey from 2019 to 2025. His research focuses on the modeling and simulation of granular and multiphase flows, parallel computation, and data-driven methodologies, including AI-based surrogate modeling and data science approaches for powder and particle systems. He is internationally recognized as a leading expert in computational granular dynamics and has delivered numerous invited lectures at major international conferences. Professor Sakai's research excellence has been acknowledged through several prestigious awards, including the SCEJ Award for Outstanding Research Achievement from The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, the IP Award from the Information Center of Particle Technology, and the JACM Computational Mechanics Award from the Japan Association for Computational Mechanics. In addition to his research contributions, Professor Sakai plays a significant leadership role in the powder technology community. He served as Chairperson of the 10th International Conference on Discrete Element Methods. He is a Director of the Society of Powder Technology of Japan, Head of its Modeling and Simulation Division, and Chairperson of the AI Technical Committee of the Association of Powder Process Industry and Engineering, Japan. He currently serves as an Editor for Chemical Engineering Science and Granular Matter.