List of Tokyo Institute of Technology people
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This is a list of notable graduates and faculty members of the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan.
- Naoto Kan – alumni, 94th Prime Minister of Japan (2010-2011)[1]
- Yukio Hatoyama – former assistant professor, 93rd Prime Minister of Japan (2009–2010)[2]
- Tadamichi Yamamoto - alumni, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan
Sciences
- Yoshinori Ohsumi – professor, Nobel laureate (Medicine, 2016)
- Hideki Shirakawa (BSc 1961, PhD 1966) – alumni, Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 2000)[3]
- Pailin Chuchottaworn – alumni, former CEO and president of PTT, founder and chairman of Kamnoetvidya Science Academy[4][5][6]
- Toshikazu Sunada – alumni, mathematician who contributed to various fields in geometry, including spectral geometry, Reinhardt domain, Ihara zeta function, and periodic graph)[citation needed]
- Sada Orihara - alumni, the first woman to attend[7]
- Michiko Togo - alumni, woman engineer[8]
Engineering
- Toshitada Doi – alumni, robot Aibo pioneer, co-inventor of compact disc
- Nobutaro Hara – alumni, model railway builder whose collection is displayed at the Hara Model Railway Museum[9]
- Shōji Hayashi – alumni, architect, chairman of Japan Institute of Architects[10]
- Shigeo Hirose – alumni, pioneer of robotics technology[citation needed]
- Junichi Iijima – alumni, Professor of the Department of Industrial Management and Engineering
- Satoru Iwata – alumni, former game developer at HAL Laboratories; former CEO of Nintendo[11]
- Heitaro Nakajima – alumni, digital audio pioneer
- Julia Nesheiwat - alumni, America's 10th Homeland Security Advisor[12]
- Hiroshi Takahashi – alumni, architect[13]
- Jiro Tanaka – alumni, aircraft and automotive engineer[14][15][16]