See below to learn more about our student participants in the 2025-2026 TOMODACHI-Dow Women’s Leadership and Research Program!
Rion Akatsuka
Home Country: Japan
University: Keio University
Major: Physics
School Year: Junior
Host Advisor: Junichiro Kono
Host Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Poster: "Intersubband Plasmon Resonances in Single Chirality Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes with Gating"
Tamaki Hayashi
Home Country: Japan
University: University of Tokyo
Major: Civil Engineering
School Year: Sophomore
Host Advisor: Noemi Vergopolan
Host Department: Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Poster: "How did the land surface model predict July 2025 Central Texas Floods?: Comparison with satellite data"
Misaki Horiba
Home Country: Japan
University: Nara Women's University
Major: Computer Science
School Year: Junior
Host Advisor: Guha Balakrishnan
Host Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Poster: "Bias Analysis of Diffusion-Based Virtual Try-On Model"
Rina Kubota
Home Country: Japan
University: Kyoto University
Major: Pharmaceutical Sciences
School Year: Sophomore
Host Advisor: Han Xiao
Host Department: Bioengineering
Poster: "Identifying Cadherin 11 and α11β1 as Potential Targets for Antibody-ASO Conjugate Therapy in Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type V"
Fu Kuroda
Home Country: Japan
University: Sophia University
Major: Information and Communication Sciences
School Year: Sophomore
Host Advisor: Lydia Kavraki
Host Department: Computer Science
Poster: "Identifying Conformational States of TCR CDR3 Loops from MD Simulations Using EnGens"
Ayaha Motomochi
Home Country: Japan
University: University of Tokyo
Major: Mechano-Informatics
School Year: Junior
Host Advisor: Marcia O'Malley
Host Department: Mechanical Engineering
Poster: "Characterizing the Dynamic Performance of Piezo Actuators for Haptic Wearables"
Rina Nakajima
Home Country: Japan
University: Kyoto University
Major: Engineering
School Year: Junior
Host Advisor: Ashutosh Sabharwal
Host Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Poster: "Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) Imaging at mmWave"
Nozomi Onishi
Home Country: Japan
University: Osaka University
Major: Biotechnology
School Year: Junior
Host Advisor: Isaac Hilton
Host Department:
Bioengineering
Poster: "CRISPR-Based Epigenome Editing for Gene Regulation"
Manae Saito
Home Country: Japan
University: Tohoku University
Major: Pharmaceutical Sciences
School Year: Junior
Host Advisor: James Chappell
Host Department: BioSciences
Poster: "Engineering OmpA for Surface Display"
Aoi Sugimoto
Home Country: Japan
University: Keio University
Major: Environment and Information Studies (Neuroscience)
School Year: Junior
Host Advisor: Jerzy Szablowski
Host Department: Bioengineering
Poster: "Blood-Based Neuronal Monitoring Toward Early Detection of Parkinson’s Disease"