Members

Current members

Ryugo Mizuhiki

Second-year doctoral student

Membership: 2023-04 – Present
Research interests: Searches for electroweak supersymmetry
Master thesis: Firmware development and validation for the Level-1 endcap muon trigger at the High-Luminosity LHC-ATLAS experiment

Ryosuke Tanaka

First-year doctoral student

Membership: 2024-04 – Present
Research interests: Top quark mass
Master thesis: Improving the precision of the Level-1 endcap muon trigger through duplicate candidate removal for the High-Luminosity LHC-ATLAS experiment
Awards: Outstanding Poster Award, MSMI 2025 Area Meeting (Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A))ATLAS TDAQ Week 2026 Poster Award

Rintaro Yamaguchi

First-year doctoral student

Membership: 2024-04 – Present
Research interests: Search for leptoquarks
Master thesis: Transverse momentum estimation using transfer learning for the Level-1 muon trigger of the High-Luminosity LHC-ATLAS experiment
Awards: Special Award, 12th High Energy Physics Spring School 2024

Yosuke Kanki

Second-year master's student

Membership: 2025-04 – Present
Research interests: Muon trigger development
Awards: Outstanding Poster Award, MSMI 2026 Area Meeting (Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A))

Takumi Yano

First-year master's student

Membership: 2026-04 – Present
Research interests: Muon trigger development

Alumni

Keita Sakura
2024-04 – 2026-03 (Employed)
Master thesis
Improvement of the Level-1 trigger for slow-moving particles and development of validation methods for the High-Luminosity LHC-ATLAS experiment
Awards
JPS Student Presentation Award, 80th Annual Meeting (2025) Kobe University Outstanding Master Thesis Presentation Award (AY 2025)
Yuma Sano
2024-04 – 2026-03 (Employed)
Master thesis
Study of a muon trigger for closely spaced muon pairs in the High-Luminosity LHC-ATLAS experiment
Yui Murata
2023-04 – 2025-03 (Employed)
Master thesis
Development of a new high-level muon trigger method for the High-Luminosity LHC-ATLAS experiment
Awards
ATLAS TDAQ Week 2023 Poster Award Kobe University Outstanding Master Thesis Presentation Award (AY 2024)Outstanding Presentation Award, 12th Science Frontier Research Meeting (2023)
Koya Toji
2022-04 – 2024-03 (Employed)
Master thesis
Validation of the LAr calorimeter for improving the trigger for slow-moving particles in the LHC-ATLAS experiment
Tatsuya Nakamura
2021-04 – 2023-03 (Employed)
Master thesis
Optimization of the Level-1 muon trigger using machine learning for LHC-ATLAS Run 3
Awards
Kobe University Outstanding Master Thesis Presentation Award (AY 2022)
Seiya Marumoto
2021-04 – 2023-03 (Employed)
Master thesis
Development of a firmware development and validation framework using an FPGA accelerator card
Sota Abe
2020-04 – 2022-03 (Employed)
Master thesis
Proposal and performance evaluation of a deep learning-based trigger system for the High-Luminosity LHC-ATLAS experiment
Awards
JPS Student Presentation Award, Autumn Meeting 2021 Kobe University Outstanding Master Thesis Presentation Award (AY 2021)
Natsu Teramura
2020-04 – 2022-03 (Employed)
Master thesis
Performance improvement through detailed timing calibration of the endcap muon trigger detectors in the LHC-ATLAS experiment
Takahiro Shiomi
2019-04 – 2021-03 (Employed)
Master thesis
Development of the Level-1 muon trigger algorithm for Run 3 of the LHC-ATLAS experiment
Genichiro Sumi
2019-04 – 2021-03 (Employed)
Master thesis
Performance evaluation of a trigger for heavy long-lived charged particles in new physics searches at the LHC-ATLAS experiment
Keisuke Amimoto
2018-04 – 2020-03 (Employed)
Master thesis
Development of a monitoring system for the Level-1 muon trigger in the LHC-ATLAS experiment
Toshiki Yoshida
2017-04 – 2019-03 (Employed)
Master thesis
Improvement of the Level-1 muon trigger decision system for LHC-ATLAS Run 3

Career destinations

KYOCERA Corporation
Sandisk GK
Shimadzu Corporation
Sony Imaging Products & Solutions Inc.
DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
NEC Corporation
NEC Aerospace Systems, Ltd.
NEC Communication Systems, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd.
BrainPad Inc.
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Members

Current members

Ryugo Mizuhiki

Ryosuke Tanaka

Rintaro Yamaguchi

Yosuke Kanki

Takumi Yano

Alumni

Keita Sakura

Yuma Sano

Yui Murata

Koya Toji

Tatsuya Nakamura

Seiya Marumoto

Sota Abe

Natsu Teramura

Takahiro Shiomi

Genichiro Sumi

Keisuke Amimoto

Toshiki Yoshida

Career destinations