Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Chair for Graduate Education, Mechanical Engineering
Mentoring Plan
Address
2454 GGB
2350 Hayward, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: (734) 763-0036
Degrees
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992
B.Eng., SysInfo & Control, University of Tokyo, 1990
Research Interests
Computational design. Manufacturability-driven structural topology optimization. Multi-material, multi-process, multi-component structural topology optimization (M^3 TO). Computational optimal synthesis of structural assemblies. Physics-informed AI for structural and assembly optimization.
Research Areas
Biomechanics & Biosystems Engineering, Design, Energy, Mobility Automotive & Transportation
Honors & Awards
- Finalist for the Best Paper Award (first author: Emre Kazancioglu), Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, October 7-10, 2006
- Marquis Who's Who in the World, 2006
- Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2006-2008
- IESET Interdisciplinary Environmental Program Award (for a research proposal with Profs. Skerlos, Kikuchi and Papalambros), College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2001
- CAREER Award (Division of Design, Manufacture, and Industrial Innovation), National Science Foundation, 1999
Faculty Type
Tenured and Tenure-Track
Related News
Virtual Work: A new skill needed in a post-pandemic world
04/11/2022
Professor Kazu Saitou creates an environment where students learn the essential skills of manufacturing design but also new ones like virtual collaboration.
Saitou gives keynote talk at ASME IDETC/CIE
09/26/2018
His talk was titled "Obsessed with assembly: a bystander’s view of computational assembly design"
Saitou elected IEEE Fellow
11/29/2017
Saitou is recognized for contributions in computational assembly and disassembly design of mechanical products.
Saitou and Liu research published in Newswise
11/22/2017
Professor Kazu Saitou and ME PhD student Lixi Liu's study recommends replacing all incandescent and halogen light bulbs in your home now with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) or LEDs.
Three ME students receive 2016-2017 MICDE Fellowships
05/09/2016
Since 2014, MICDE has offered top-off fellowships to current and prospective students whose research project involves the use and advancement of scientific computing techniques and practices
Twelve ME Faculty Recognized for Prestigious Professional Society Awards in 2015
09/16/2015
ME Professor Saitou and ME PhD student Zhou win Innovative Design Component Award
04/28/2015
The team was awarded $10K for their submission to the Lightweighting Technologies Enabling Comprehensive Automotive Redesign (LITECAR) Challenge
Saitou wins 2015 ASME Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award
04/28/2015
The award is given to recognize the sustained meritorious contributions to the research to support design, manufacturing and the life cycle management decisions in product development
Park and Saitou achieve record accuracy in predicting protein structures
11/21/2014
Park and Saitou developed a statistical potential function that set the accuracy record in predicting protein structures.
NIH Grants $13.7 Million to Radiation Oncology Project in Collaboration with ME
06/13/2014
ME Professor Kazuhiro Saitou is a part of team that received a $13 million NIH P01 grant.
Saitou appointed Editor in Chief for IEEE Conference
04/07/2014
The Robotics and Automation Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers has appointed Kazuhiro Saitou as Editor in Chief for the Conference Editorial Board of the Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
Computer Code by Jihun Kim to be included in Elastix
04/07/2014
PhD student Jihun Kim wrote computer code that caught the eye of popular open software toolbox for medical image processing, Elastix. The code will prevent the unrealistic deformation in rigid bodies in deformable registration of medical diagnostic images
Kazu Saitou Elected ASME Fellow
11/08/2013
Kazu Saitou was recently elected ASME Fellow, the highest degree of distinction within the engineering society. His research has contributed greatly to the field of design optimization and assembly synthesis
Saitou Receives JSME Design & Systems Division Achievement Award
10/31/2011
The award was presented during the 21st Annual Meeting of the Design and Systems Division in Yamagata, Japan
Driven to Win
10/03/2011
On October 16th, the UM Solar Car Team will begin the World Solar Challenge--an 1800 mile race spanning across the Australian Outback
Built to Be Reclaimed
09/26/2011
When a plan for efficient disassembly is embedded in a design, a product leaves less trash and, perhaps, more profit
U-M researchers see the sun as solution to supplying fresh water
09/06/2011
While methods of turning salt water into fresh water are tried and true, two Mechanical Engineering researchers believe the sun offers a better way to power these processes
SCIP Funds Partnership between Saitou and POLY
02/24/2010
ME Professor Kazu Saitou's collaboration with Polyergic Infomatics is one of the pilot research partnerships made possible by the University's new Small Company Innovation Program.
Hulbert, Saitou Receive Outstanding Achievement Awards
12/11/2007