Masaru NAKANO
Masaru NAKANO, Ph.D. Executive Advisor of SDM, Former professor, Graduate School of SDM, Keio University
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Biography
After obtaining a master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University in 1980, Masaru Nakano joined Toyota Central R&D Laboratories (1980-2008) and served as principal researcher before joining this graduate school in April 2008. Meantime, he obtained a Ph.D. in Production System Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1997 and then served as a lecturer at Nagoya Institute of Technology (1997-1999).
He was a visiting researcher at ETH Zurich in 2013.
Laboratory
Research Interests
- Lean and systems engineering
- Holistic methodology for business innovation
- Sustainable manufacturing
- Sustainable city design
- Energy security
- Global supply chain management
- Marketing and consumer research
- Flying Car