updated on 21 August 2026

Sugar Loaf from Botafogo beach, Rio de Janeiro on 30 July 2025


Hiroyuki Chihara



College of Education
University of the Ryukyus
Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
  
2 June 2025
NUS IMS
Singapore
  
19 June 2026
Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan
  


I am a mathematician living in Okinawa Island, Japan. Since 2020, I have been working on the microlocal analysis of integral geometry. My main research objects are integral transforms such as geodesic X-ray transforms on Riemannian manifolds and double fibration transforms on product manifolds. The simplest example of these transforms is the classical X-ray transform on the Euclidean space, whose foundational mathematical principles underpin CT scanners and medical imaging.

Since 2021, as part of my professional upskilling, I have been modernizing and visualizing his university lectures on elementary number theory, calculus, and linear algebra using the Julia programming language and its interactive notebook environment, Pluto.jl. In 2025, upon a strong suggestion from ChatGPT to present a demonstration of his dynamic course materials at ATCM 2025 (The 30th Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics), I expanded his academic scope to include mathematics education and computational thinking.

I generally rely solely on non-Japanese media, and I truly envy the grounded nations of Asia and Oceania; I would love to work in a country like that someday.