Shieru Suzuki
鈴木紫琉
Doctoral Program in Informatics, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba (2025-04 –)
Digital Nature Group
Human interface / haptics
I build machines that act on the body to help initiate human action, including interfaces that move the body through electrical stimulation.
Projects
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ChanceOperator
A system that induces non-self-initiated playing movements by electrical muscle stimulation and examines improvisers' responses and preparation
2024–2025
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ExudedVestibule
Enhancing cutaneous haptics at several body sites by synchronizing galvanic vestibular stimulation with wind
2022–2025
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BOS Airflow Visualization
Visualizing air-density changes around the body with background-oriented schlieren, and a real-time FPGA processing demo
2019–2021
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Noisy Object
A media apparatus that gives a physical object, by mechanical motion, the appearance of video noise
2019
Education
- Bachelor's, College of Media Arts, Science and Technology, School of Informatics, University of Tsukuba
- Entered Master's Program in Informatics, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba
- Completed Master's Program in Informatics
- Entered Doctoral Program in Informatics
Awards
- ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Student Research Competition, semi-finalist (top 16%)
- Dean's Award, School of Informatics, University of Tsukuba
- IDCAJ Chairman's Award, Innovative Technologies 2020, DCEXPO (Calmbots)
- Special Prize "Crazy", Innovative Technologies 2020, DCEXPO (Calmbots)
- Grand Prize, Sobo Award, University of Tsukuba
Intellectual property
- Invention disclosures: 4 (University of Tsukuba)
Funding & outreach
- JST BOOST (Next-Generation AI Talent Program), doctoral student support (JPMJBS2414)
- Executive committee, Digital Nature Group research support project (2023-10)
- Operations, Digital Nature Group 10th anniversary exhibition (2025-04)
Roles
- 2025-09 –Research Assistant, Kinetic Information Dynamics Research Group, Research Institute on Human and Societal Augmentation, AIST
- Teaching Assistant, Embodied Knowledge, University of Tsukuba
- 2023-08 – 09Research Assistant, R&D Center for Digital Nature, University of Tsukuba
- Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Programming A, University of Tsukuba
Memberships
- Japanese Society for Ecological Psychology, student member (2024-09 –)
- ACM, member
Contact
No email address is published.
Contact is accepted through the affiliation listed on ORCID.



