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Yoshihiro Kawahara

Yoshihiro Kawahara

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Computer Science

D-Index
34
Citations
5578
World Ranking
12094
National Ranking
186

Overview

Yoshihiro Kawahara is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, cognitive neuroscience, and human-computer interaction.

Their research covers a range of topics including advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, wireless power transfer systems, energy harvesting in wireless networks, soft robotics and applications, modular robots and swarm intelligence, advanced materials and mechanics, and tactile and sensory interactions.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yoshihiro Kawahara include Takuya Sasatani, Koya Narumi, Ryuma Niiyama, Tung D. Ta, and Takuya Umedachi.

Kawahara has published in several key venues related to their disciplines. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE Pervasive Computing

Selected recent papers include:

  • Room-scale magnetoquasistatic wireless power transfer using a cavity-based multimode resonator, 2021, Nature Electronics
  • Liquid Pouch Motors: Printable Planar Actuators Driven by Liquid-to-Gas Phase Change for Shape-Changing Interfaces, 2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Hydrogel Glucose Sensor with In Vivo Stable Fluorescence Intensity Relying on Antioxidant Enzymes for Continuous Glucose Monitoring, 2020, iScience
  • PlushPal: Storytelling with Interactive Plush Toys and Machine Learning, 2021, Interaction Design and Children
  • Silver Tape, 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

Best Publications

  • Rice Annotation Project Database (RAP-DB): an integrative and interactive database for rice genomics.

    Hiroaki Sakai;Sung Shin Lee;Tsuyoshi Tanaka;Hisataka Numa

  • Instant inkjet circuits: lab-based inkjet printing to support rapid prototyping of UbiComp devices

    Yoshihiro Kawahara;Steve Hodges;Benjamin S. Cook;Cheng Zhang

  • Prototype implementation of ambient RF energy harvesting wireless sensor networks

    Hiroshi Nishimoto;Yoshihiro Kawahara;Tohru Asami

  • E-WEHP: A Batteryless Embedded Sensor-Platform Wirelessly Powered From Ambient Digital-TV Signals

    R. J. Vyas;B. B. Cook;Y. Kawahara;M. M. Tentzeris

  • Ambient RF Energy Harvesting Sensor Device With Capacitor-Leakage-Aware Duty Cycle Control

    Ryo Shigeta;Tatsuya Sasaki;Duong Minh Quan;Yoshihiro Kawahara

  • HASC Challenge: gathering large scale human activity corpus for the real-world activity understandings

    Nobuo Kawaguchi;Nobuhiro Ogawa;Yohei Iwasaki;Katsuhiko Kaji

  • PrintSense: a versatile sensing technique to support multimodal flexible surface interaction

    Nan-Wei Gong;Jürgen Steimle;Simon Olberding;Steve Hodges

  • Genome-Wide Transcriptome Analysis Reveals that Cadmium Stress Signaling Controls the Expression of Genes in Drought Stress Signal Pathways in Rice

    Youko Oono;Takayuki Yazawa;Yoshihiro Kawahara;Hiroyuki Kanamori

  • Circuit stickers: peel-and-stick construction of interactive electronic prototypes

    Steve Hodges;Nicolas Villar;Nicholas Chen;Tushar Chugh

  • Recognizing User Context Using Mobile Handsets with Acceleration Sensors

    Y. Kawahara;H. Kurasawa;H. Morikawa

  • TENOR: Database for Comprehensive mRNA-Seq Experiments in Rice

    Yoshihiro Kawahara;Youko Oono;Hironobu Wakimoto;Jun Ogata

  • A peer-to-peer message exchange scheme for large scale networked virtual environments

    Y. Kawahara;H. Morikawa;T. Aoyama

  • A battery-less, energy harvesting device for long range scavenging of wireless power from terrestrial TV broadcasts

    Rushi Vyas;Hiroshi Nishimoto;Manos Tentzeris;Yoshihiro Kawahara

  • Room-scale magnetoquasistatic wireless power transfer using a cavity-based multimode resonator

    Takuya Sasatani;Alanson P. Sample;Yoshihiro Kawahara

  • mRNA-Seq Reveals a Comprehensive Transcriptome Profile of Rice under Phosphate Stress

    Youko Oono;Yoshihiro Kawahara;Hiroyuki Kanamori;Hiroshi Mizuno

  • Low-Cost Inkjet-Printed Fully Passive RFID Tags for Calibration-Free Capacitive/Haptic Sensor Applications

    Sangkil Kim;Yoshihiro Kawahara;Apostolos Georgiadis;Ana Collado

  • Design and implementation of a sensor network node for ubiquitous computing environment

    Y. Kawahara;M. Minami;H. Morikawa;T. Aoyama

  • Dynablock: Dynamic 3D Printing for Instant and Reconstructable Shape Formation

    Ryo Suzuki;Junichi Yamaoka;Daniel Leithinger;Tom Yeh

  • Compressed sensing method for human activity sensing using mobile phone accelerometers

    Daito Akimura;Yoshihiro Kawahara;Tohru Asami

  • Kirigami Haptic Swatches: Design Methods for Cut-and-Fold Haptic Feedback Mechanisms

    Zekun Chang;Tung D. Ta;Koya Narumi;Heeju Kim

  • Building Functional Prototypes Using Conductive Inkjet Printing

    Yoshihiro Kawahara;Steve Hodges;Nan-Wei Gong;Simon Olberding

  • Electric phase-change actuator with inkjet printed flexible circuit for printable and integrated robot prototyping

    Kenichi Nakahara;Koya Narumi;Ryuma Niiyama;Yoshihiro Kawahara

  • Exploring Behaviors of Caterpillar-Like Soft Robots with a Central Pattern Generator-Based Controller and Reinforcement Learning.

    Matthew Ishige;Takuya Umedachi;Tadahiro Taniguchi;Yoshihiro Kawahara

Frequent Co-Authors

Takeshi Itoh
Takeshi Itoh Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Manos M. Tentzeris
Manos M. Tentzeris Georgia Institute of Technology
Takashi Matsumoto
Takashi Matsumoto Tokyo University of Agriculture
Makoto Takamiya
Makoto Takamiya University of Tokyo
Apostolos Georgiadis
Apostolos Georgiadis Heriot-Watt University
Junichiro Shiomi
Junichiro Shiomi University of Tokyo
Gregory D. Abowd
Gregory D. Abowd Northeastern University
Alanson P. Sample
Alanson P. Sample University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Takuji Sasaki
Takuji Sasaki Tokyo University of Agriculture
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Yasuo Kuniyoshi University of Tokyo

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