MAENG Sungju

Affiliation

Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Official title

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

ORCID

0009-0004-8242-9106

Email

+B6:C<aHJC<?Ja;;XgcJaIHJ@J76a68a?E

Office

Laboratory for Cognitive Systems Science

Research fields

Human interface and interaction
Cognitive science

Research keywords

Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management
Air Traffic Control
Workload Assessment
Risk Assessment
Interactions between Humans and Systems
Human factors

Academic background

2022-04 -- 2025-09	University of Tsukuba Degree Programs in Systems and Information Engineering Doctoral Program in Risk and Resilience Engineering
2020-04 -- 2022-03	University of Tsukuba Degree Programs in Systems and Information Engineering Doctoral Program in Risk and Resilience Engineering
2010-03 -- 2016-02	Kookmin University School of Computer Science Computer Science

Degree

2025-09-25	the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering	University of Tsukuba
2022-03-25	the degree of Master of Engineering	University of Tsukuba
2016-02-24	Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering	Kookmin University

Refereed academic journal/Refereed international conference paper

• Exploring Virtual Reality for Drone Pilot Training: A Study on Japanese Certification Tasks with RealFlight
  Medina Juan Sebastian Ruiz; Maeng Sungju; Tu Nianzhi; ...
  Proceedings of the AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Design, Engineering, and Computing (AHFE 2025 Hawaii Edition), 2025-12
• Effects of Meditation or Walking as a Microbreak on Fatigue Recovery During Simulated Air Traffic Control Tasks
  Tu Nianzhi; Cui Zixin; MAENG Sungju; ITOH Makoto
  Industrial Health, 2026
• Effects of Threat Visibility and Geographic Knowledge on Attention Allocation During BVLOS Drone Operation: Using Gaze Transition Entropy
  MAENG Sungju; ITOH Makoto
  Proceedings of the AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Design, Engineering, and Computing (AHFE 2025 Hawaii Edition)/(199), 2025-12
• Evaluating Drone Operator Motor Skills: A Comparison Between Simulated and Real Environments
  Ruiz-Medina Juan Sebastián; Maeng Sungju; Tu Nianzhi; ...
  Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Aviation Psychology/pp.186-191, 2025-05
• Team Task Modeling on En-route Air Traffic Controllers with Communicative NGOMSL
  Maeng Sungju; Nishida Haruhi; Hirabayashi Hiroko; Imut...
  Proc. the 2024 International Workshop on ATM/CNS (IWAC2024)/2/pp.82-89, 2024-11
• A Study on Communication Modality in UATM System
  MAENG Sungju; ITOH Makoto
  Proc. International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT), 2024-07
• Analysis of Effect of Geographic Information on Decision-making Under Emergency Conditions During Beyond the Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Drone Operation
  Maeng Sungju; Tu Nianzi; Nishida Haruhi; ITOH Makoto
  次世代移動体技術誌/5(10)/pp.89-108, 2024-06
• The influence of different camera perspectives and display devices on Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) UAV operations
  Tu Nianzhi; Maeng Sungju; Itoh Makoto
  62nd Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)/pp.339-344, 2023-09
• Risk Analysis for Level 4 Drone Maneuvering: Safety in GPS Signal Loss
  MAENG Sungju; FUJINO Mitsuki; TU Nianzhi; ITOH Makoto
  The Proceedings of the 2021 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology (APISAT 2021)/2/pp.745-754, 2022-09
• Task Modeling in Air Traffic Control with Trajectorized en-Route Traffic Data Processing System
  Sungju MAENG; Makoto ITOH; Hiroko HIRABAYASHI; Atsushi...
  Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Aviation Psychology/pp.244-249, 2021-12

Other articles

• Effects of Threat Visibility and Geographic Knowledge on Attention Allocation During BVLOS Drone Operation: Using Gaze Transition Entropy
  MAENG Sungju; ITOH Makoto
  AHFE 2025 Hawaii International Conference on Human Factors in Design, Engineering, and Computing, 2025-12-08

Conference, etc.

• Exploring Virtual Reality for Drone Pilot Training: A Study on Japanese Certification Tasks with RealFlight
  Medina Juan Sebastian Ruiz; Maeng Sungju; Tu Nianzhi; ITO...
  Proceedings of the AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Design, Engineering, and Computing (AHFE 2025 Hawaii Edition)/2025-12
• Effects of Threat Visibility and Geographic Knowledge on Attention Allocation During BVLOS Drone Operation: Using Gaze Transition Entropy
  MAENG Sungju; ITOH Makoto
  AHFE 2025 Hawaii International Conference on Human Factors in Design, Engineering, and Computing/2025-12-08--2025-12-10
• Team Task Modeling on En-route Air Traffic Controllers with Communicative NGOMSL
  Maeng Sungju; Nishida Haruhi; Hirabayashi Hiroko; Imut...
  2024 International Workshop on ATM/CNS (IWAC2024)/2024-11-19--2024-11-20
• A Study on Communication Modality in UATM System
  MAENG Sungju; ITOH Makoto
  International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT)/2024-07
• Development of queries to evaluate team situation awareness in air traffic flow management
  NISHIDA Haruhi; MAENG Sungju; ITOH Makoto; HIRABAYASHI...
  61th Aircraft Symposium of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS)/2023-11-15--2023-11-17
• Classification of air traffic control sectors based on control instruction command data
  MAENG Sungju; ITOH Makoto; HIRABAYASHI Hiroko; MURATA ...
  59th Aircraft Symposium of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS)/2021-11-30--2021-12-02
• Risk Analysis for Level 4 Drone Maneuvering: Safety in GPS Signal Loss
  Sungju Maeng; Mitsuki Fujino; Nianzhi Tu; Makoto Itoh
  2021 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology (APISAT2021)/2021-11-15--2021-11-17
• Task Modeling in Air Traffic Control with Trajectorized en-Route Traffic Data Processing System
  Sungju MAENG; Makoto ITOH; Hiroko HIRABAYASHI; Atsushi...
  21st International Symposium on Aviation Psychology (ISAP2021)/2021-05-18--2021-05-21

(Last updated: 2026-04-20)