Sze Yun Set

Project Professor
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST)
The University of Tokyo

Dr. Sze Y. Set is a Project Professor of Laser Photonics Sensing at the University of Tokyo (UTokyo). He received his B.Eng. 1st-class honours (1993) and Ph.D. (1998) from the Optoelectronics Research Centre, Southampton University, UK. He was a JSPS post-doctoral fellow at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), UTokyo, from 1998 to 2001. He was a Senior R&D Engineer at Micron Optics Inc., before he joined a UTokyo startup Alnair Labs Corp., where he served as the CEO and CTO from 2005 to 2015. He was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University Clare Hall and the Cambridge Graphene Centre from 2021-2022. His research areas include short-pulsed fiber lasers, carbon nanotube/graphene photonics, LIDAR, 3D laser imaging, bio-imaging, and optical sensing. He is the inventor of the Carbon-Nanotube Mode-locked laser in 2004, and he has contributed to over 250 international journal and conference publications and 12 granted patents. Prof. Set is a fellow of the OPTICA, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, and a Director of the Japan Society of Applied Physics.

Fumiya Iida

Professor of Robotics
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge

Fumiya Iida is a professor of robotics at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. He received his bachelor and master degrees in mechanical engineering at Tokyo University of Science (Japan, 1999), and Dr. sc. nat. in Informatics at University of Zurich (2006). In 2004 and 2005, he was also engaged in biomechanics research of human locomotion at Locomotion Laboratory, University of Jena (Germany). From 2006 to 2009, he worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA. In 2006, he was awarded the Fellowship for Prospective Researchers from the Swiss National Science Foundation, and in 2009, he was appointed as a Swiss National Science Foundation Professor for bio-inspired robotics at ETH Zurich. His research interests include biologically inspired robotics, embodied artificial intelligence, and biomechanics, and he has been involved in a number of research projects related to dynamic legged locomotion, navigation of autonomous robots, and human-machine interactions. He has so far published over forty publications in major robotics journals and conferences, and edited two books. Currently he serves on the editorial board of the Soft Robotics Journal, Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Bio-Inspired Robotics Section), and as a program committee member for international conferences and workshops. In addition, he has organized a few seminal meetings such as the International Conference of Embodied Intelligence, RoboSoft, and TAROS.

Andrea Ferrari

University of Cambridge

Yutaka Matsuo

Professor
Graduate School of Engineering
Department of Technology Management for Innovation
The University of Tokyo

Graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1997 and earned a Ph.D. in Engineering in 2002. He has held research positions at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and served as a visiting researcher at Stanford University. Since 2007, he has been an associate professor, and since 2019, a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Engineering. His research specializes in artificial intelligence, deep learning, and web mining. He has been the chairman of the Japan Deep Learning Association since 2017, an outside director for SoftBank Group Corporation since 2019, and since 2023, an expert member of the Council for achieving new capitalism and the chair of the AI strategy conference.

Satoru Takahashi

Professor
School of Engineering
The University of Tokyo

Shinji Yamashita

Professor
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST)
The University of Tokyo