Keynote Speakers

Our keynote speakers are internationally recognised experts who will share their knowledge and experience drawn from their expertise in vibration and related fields at APVC 2025.

Dr. Takahiro Tomioka

He has been a Professor at the Department of Vehicle and Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Meijo University since April 2024. After he received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Hokkaido University in 1995, he joined the Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) in Tokyo, known as the Shinkansen system's founding institute and one of the world's largest research institutes for railways. He belonged to the "Vehicle Structure Technology Division" of RTRI for almost 20 years until March 2017. He took the position of senior researcher and laboratory head of the Vehicle Noise and Vibration Lab for more than 10 years during his career at RTRI. From April 2017 to March 2024, he served as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Akita Prefectural University. His research interests are elastic vibrations of carbody relating to the riding comfort of railway vehicles, measuring, modeling, and reducing elastic vibrations in mechanical systems, vibration reduction using visco-elastic materials, and vibration and noise suppression using band-gap phenomena observed in periodic structures.