Hiroshi Yamakawa, Dr. Eng. is the Director of Dwango AI Laboratory, a Director and Vice Chief Editor of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, and a Fellow Researcher at the Brain Science Institute at Tamagawa University. He is specialized in AI, in particular, cognitive architecture, concept acquisition, neuro-computing, opinion collection. He is one of the founders of the Whole Brain Architecture Seminar and the SIG AGI in Japan.(Home Page)
Yutaka Matsuo, Ph.D, is an associate professor at Institute of Engineering Innovation, Center for Knowledge Structuring, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo since 2007. He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1997, 1999, and 2002. He joined National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) from 2002 to 2007. He got Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad in 2005 and stayed for two years at Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University. He received the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) Best Paper Award in 2002 and Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Nagao Special Researcher Award in 2008. He is an associate editor-in-chief at the editorial committee of JSAI. His major is web mining, artificial intelligence, and big data analysis.(Home Page)
Koichi Takahashi, Ph.D., is a principal investigator at RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center. He holds project associate professorship at Keio University Graduate school of Media and Governance, and an invited associate professorship at Osaka University Graduate school of Frontier Biosciences. He is also a visiting fellow at Dwango Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is the creator of the cell simulation software platform E-Cell System and the cognitive computing software platform called Brain-inspired Computing Architecture (BriCA).
Professor, Neural Computation Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
President of The Systems Biology Institute (SBI)
Director and Professor, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University
Professor of Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Takeshi Sato, Co-founder at Marketing Harvest Inc, and also a visiting member of Dwango AI Laboratory. He was in charge of the start-up development of a search engine and internet services at Advanced Software Lab. of Netyear Group Corporation in 2009. He founded Marketing Harvest Inc. He collaborated for launching the Whole Brain Architecture Seminars. He has been engaged in launching communities and start-ups as an expert of start-up development. Graduate of Department of Computer Science, Chiba Institute of Technology. Completed the course of User-centered Design at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology (Tokyo).
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