Professor Sumiko Miyata
Visiting Scholar
Institute of Science Tokyo
Sumiko Miyata is an associate professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo and a visiting academic at Loughborough University (August 2025–August 2026). Her areas of expertise include network control and information security, with a focus on the optimization of complex communication systems using queueing theory and game theory models. She boasts an outstanding academic record and high research productivity.
In the past year alone, she has published three papers in the Q1-ranked IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. The quality of her research was further recognized in 2025 through the receipt of the prestigious IEICE Best Tutorial Paper Award and the Caterpillar Award. Her career to date includes contributing to a £1.5 million national research project in Japan, as well as securing multiple competitive research grants as Principal Investigator (PI), including a £100,000 project. Currently, her research activities at Loughborough University are supported by several prestigious grants totalling approximately £50,000. At Loughborough University, she is hosted by Professor Ashleigh Filtness in the School of Design, Creative Arts (SDCA) and collaborates with Professor Andrew Morris in the same school, as well as Dr Yasir Ali from the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering.
This partnership has already yielded two co-authored international conference papers, including a presentation at the IEEE ICC, a premier conference in the field of networking. While maintaining this high standard of research output, she is also a devoted mother of two children, successfully balancing her academic career with the joys and challenges of parenting.