Venue: Learning Theater, FUKUTAKE Hall, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo
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Moderator
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.
Speakers
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
Professor of Nanotechnology
University of Cambridge
Andrea Ferrari is Professor of nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He founded and directs the Cambridge Graphene Centre and the EPSRC Layered Materials Research Foundry. He co-Chairs the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in 2D Materials for Tomorrow, the University of Cambridge Strategic Research Initiative in Quantum and Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Society (QAMSS), and the Graphene Flagship Coordination Panel of the Innovative Advanced Materials for Europe (IAM4EU) Partnership. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, The European Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, and he received numerous awards, such as the Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation, the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, the Marie Curie Excellence Award, the Philip Leverhulme Prize, The EU-40 Materials Prize.
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
Professor Takahashi received his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University, Japan, in 1995 and 2002, respectively, and became an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) in 2003. After becoming a professor in 2013, he was affiliated with the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology for nine years, and is currently a professor in the Department of Precision Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering, UTokyo. In parallel, he was appointed as a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto (UToronto), Canada, in 2011.
His research interests include cutting-edge advanced optical engineering technologies such as nano-in-process measurement, nanoscale metrology, and nano/microfabrication using advanced optics based not only on far-field optics but also on localized photon energy, such as evanescent light and near-field light.
Throughout his career, he has delivered over 50 invited talks, received more than 30 academic awards, and actively engaged in academic association management. He has played leadership roles in both domestic academic societies, including serving as an Executive Director of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE), and international academic societies, including serving as a Board Member of the Asian Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (ASPEN) and on the editorial boards of the International Society for NanoManufacturing (ISNM) and the International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing (IJPEM).
He is a member of various academic societies, including the Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ), the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), the Japan Society for Abrasive Technology (JSAT), the American Society for Precision Engineering (ASPE), and the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (euspen). He is also a Fellow of JSPE, ISNM, and the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP).
Shinji Yamashita
Professor
Graduate School of Engineering
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST)
The University of Tokyo
Shinji Yamashita is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems (EEIS), Graduate School of Engineering, and a Professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo. He received the degree of Doctor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1993. He was appointed a Research Associate in 1991, a lecturer in 1994, an Associate Professor in 1998, and a Professor in 2009, at the University of Tokyo. From 1996 to 1998, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Optoelectronics Research Center (ORC), University of Southampton, U.K. He has been engaged in research of coherent optical fiber communications, optical fiber amplifiers and lasers. His current interest is in active and passive fiber devices for optical fiber communications and sensors. He has published and presented over 500 refereed papers in the field. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE), and the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP).