Organizers
Yusuke Kajihara
Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Science
The University of Tokyo
Dr Yusuke Kajihara is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. He is a member of DLX Design Lab. His research interests include dissimilar joining, passive nanoscale imaging, and terahertz measurements.
http://www.snom.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index_e.html
Robert Phaal
Director of Research
Institute for Manufacturing
University of Cambridge
Dr Robert Phaal is based in the Department for Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He conducts research in the area of strategic technology management, with a particular interest in the development of practical management tools in technology-intensive firms. He is a chartered engineer, with a PhD in computational mechanics.
Links: [ https://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/people/rp108/ ]
Yusuke Kishita
Associate Professor School of Engineering The University of Tokyo
Dr Yusuke Kishita is Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo. He was Visiting Academic Fellow at University of Cambridge (December 2019-February 2020). His research interests include scenario design for sustainable futures, circular economy, roadmap design, and backcasting. He holds PhD in mechanical engineering from Osaka University, Japan.
Links: [ http://www.susdesign.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kishitalab/index_en.html ]
Speakers
Tomonari Yashiro
Professor, Institute of Industrial Science
The University of Tokyo
Tomonari Yashiro is a professor of the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. He was the Director General, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo in 2009-2012. His research background is in building engineering and he has been committed to developing research on the sustainable built environment since the 1990s. He currently aims to facilitate the human-centric introduction of the Internet of Things (IoT) to the built environment.
Ajith Parlikad
Professor, Institute for Manufacturing
University of Cambridge
Ajith Parlikad is Professor of Asset Management at Cambridge University Engineering Department. He leads a research team focused on examining how data and digital technologies can be exploited to improve resilience of complex industrial and infrastructure systems. Prof Parlikad is the Scientific Secretary of the IFAC Working Group on Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Services and Technology and sits on the editorial board of Reliability Engineering and System Safety.