[1] Takashi Yabe graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1973 and immediately became a research associate.
After getting doctor degree of engineering, he moved to Osaka University as an associate professor and then returned to Tokyo Tech.
His specialties are theoretical and experimental studies of interactions between laser light and substances.
He has established a venture business called Electra to realize the magnesium-based society using "solar-pumped laser", and currently serves as its CEO.
He has developed the "CIP Method"[2] that can realistically replicate phenomena that are difficult to simulate such as collisions of objects and waves at the liquid–gas interface.