Shumpei Takinami This page introduces students' life and their messages in the Ph.D. Program in Humanics, University of Tsukuba.

The program to pursue my dreamt research

I guess everyone has his or her own opinion about "disease," but I think I have more of a researcher's desire to know what it is than a medical practitioner's desire to cure it.
I have worn glasses since I was 3 years old. I was nearsighted and needed glasses, which caused me to feel glare more easily than others and to have difficulty with ball games.
Because I have had more inconveniences than others, I have wondered what it means to see. How can we see better? I became interested in visual health.
However, my specialty is programming, which has little to do with vision, and I did not delve deeply into this subject during undergraduate.
When I thought about my future career path, I decided that I wanted to do research on visual health, which was my true interest, while making use of my strengths.
That is when I came across the Ph.D. Program in Humanics. In this program, you can designate two specialists in two different fields as your mentors while receiving financial support. I chose an ophthalmologist as my main mentor and the second mentor who specializes in deep learning applications to medicine.
It is a challenge to merge two fields and do something new and meaningful. However, I believe that Humanics has the environment to make this happen.
I still have a way to go, but I would like to pursue my dreamt research in the future.