Japan, Australia & India Trilateral Collaboration Week: The Kyoto Roundtable FY2025 ― Commonalities and Strengths among Research Domains within Japan, Australia, and India（Thu 27 November 2025）

2025.10.25 Events/Seminars

Objective

The Kyoto Roundtable was established in FY2024 through the initiative of Kyoto University, together with scholars and researchers from Japan, Australia, and India (hereafter, AIJ), to promote collaborative research among these three nations. In FY2025, Kyoto University is hosting a week-long programme in conjunction with the new AIJ Seed Funding Initiative, designed to foster synergetic partnerships and encourage sustained academic engagement within the broader Indo-Pacific region.

This year’s Roundtable provides a platform for discussing and sharing key outputs related to ‘Commonalities and Strengths among Research Domains within AIJ’, with an emphasis on collaborator complementarity.

* This program is joint program of L-INSIGHT Career Program and Life as a Scholar “Your home and beyond”.

Information
27 Nov Program
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Information

Date & TimeThursday 27 November 2025｜9:00–17:00
VenueInternational Conference Hall III
Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall (2nd Floor)
Language– Parts I & II: English & Japanese (simultaneous interpretation available)
– Parts III & IV: English Only
Target ParticipantsGraduate students, postdocs, researchers, and research support personnel interested in international collaborations
Event FormatParts I & II: Hybrid (Onsite & Zoom) / Parts III & IV: Onsite only
Participation FeeFree (Pre-registration required)
Registrationhttps://forms.gle/1et2erfATcWKP316A

Registration Deadline: Wednesday 26 November 2025, 12:00 (JST)
Registration may close earlier once capacity has been reached.
ContactKyoto University Center for Enhancing Next-Generation Research
Email: admin-l-insight[a]mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
※Please replace [a] to @
Organizers
  • Program for the Development of Next-Generation Leading Scientists with Global Insight (L-INSIGHT), Kyoto University
  • Kyoto University Office of Research Acceleration (KURA)
  • Kyoto University Division of Graduate Studies (DoGS)
Collaborators
  • University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
  • Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
  • Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad)
  • The University of Melbourne
Official Support
  • Australian Embassy, Japan

※Entire Program Schedule

Tue 25 NovemberIndividual AIJ group meetings and workshops – Day 1
(Various locations across Kyoto University)
Wed 26 NovemberIndividual AIJ group meetings and workshops – Day 2
Preparation for the Kyoto Roundtable
(Various locations across Kyoto University)
Thu 27 NovemberThe Kyoto Roundtable
International Conference Hall III
Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall (2nd Floor)
※Please see below for detailed information
Fri 28 NovemberAIJ inter-group exchange and discussion
(Various locations across Kyoto University)
Related Link

Programme

9:00–9:30｜Registration / Coffee & Tea

9:30–9:40｜Opening Remarks

9:40–13:00｜Parts I & II: Presentations

01

Part I

9:40–11:15
  • Global Geopolitical Issues and International Relations
  • Innovation in Human Health

Chair: Kotaro Kataoka
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad)

Titles:

Comment:

Kinji Saito
Councilor, Global Marketing
Suzuki Motor Corporation

11:15-11:30｜Break

02

Part II

11:30–13:00
  • Innovation in Human Health
  • Cyber-Physical Systems

Chair: Jun Suzuki
Professor, Institute of Advanced Study, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Science (iCeMS)
Kyoto University

Titles:

Comment:

Norifumi Sugimoto
Senior General Manager
Government and Academic Collaboration Unit
Global Sales Strategy Department
Sales & Marketing Division
Shimadzu Corporation Tokyo Office

13:00–14:30｜Networking Lunch

(Complimentary for onsite participants)

14:30–17:00｜Parts III & IV: Discussions

14:30–14:45｜Icebreaking Session

03

Part III

14:45–16:00

Roundtable Discussion

  • What are the commonalities across the Japan-Australia-India cooperation?
  • What initiatives could be undertaken to promote cooperation among the groups?

Table A

Chair: Jun Suzuki (Kyoto University)

Table B

Chair: Akihiro Ogawa (The University of Melbourne)

Table C

Chair: Kotaro Kataoka (IIT

16:00–16:15｜Break

04

Part IV

16:15-17:00

Plenary Discussion

Participating Researchers

[*] = PI

Quad/AUKUS Indo-Pacific Security Framework and Japan-Australia-India International Industrial Policy Coordination: Defense Industrial Base, Offset Deals, and Food and Energy Security

A

Pradeep Taneja
Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies
Deputy Associate Dean International (India)
Faculty of Arts
The University of Melbourne

  • International Relations
  • Indian Ocean
  • Democracy

I

Eri Ikeda
Assistant Professor
Department of Management Studies
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

  • Business Cycles
  • Development
  • Macroeconomics

J

[*] Takeshi Sakade
Professor
Graduate School of Economics
Kyoto University

  • European & American Economic History
  • International Political Economy

Mapping India-Japan Scientific Collaboration and Extending to Australia: An Open Science and Geopolitical Lens

A

Muthupandian Ashokkumar
Professor
Director, Melbourne Global Centre – Delhi
Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor International (South Asia and Middle East)
The University of Melbourne

  • Ultrasonics
  • Sonochemistry

I

[*] Avinash Kumar
Post‑Doctoral Policy Fellow
DST Centre for Policy Research (DST-CPR)
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

  • Technology and Society
  • ICT
  • R&D Collaborations
  • Social Network Analysis

J

Chifumi Nishioka
Associate Professor
Institute for Information Management and Communication (IIMC)
Kyoto University

  • Library/Information science
  • Humanistic/Social informatics

Diverse Human Perspectives on Wildlife: Insights from Indo-Pacific

A

Miri (Margaret) Raven
Associate Professor
Social Policy Research Centre
Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
UNSW Sydney

  • Nagoya Protocol
  • Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
  • Legal Geography

I

Rashmi Singh
Assistant Professor
Department of Liberal Arts
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

  • Environmental Justice
  • Complex Human-Wildlife Relationships
  • Global Climate Change and Adaptations

J

[*] Miho Saito
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS)
Kyoto University
L-INSIGHT Fellow (4th Cohort)

  • Animal Behavioral Ecology
  • Wildlife Conservation

Youth Climate Anxiety in Japan, Australia, and India: Cross-National Evidence and Pathways to Empowerment

A

Claire Leppold
Senior Research Fellow – Community Resilience
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
The University of Melbourne

  • Global Health
  • Public Health Policy
  • Disaster Epidemiology

A

Mai Tran
LecturerSchool of Medicine and Dentistry
Griffith University

  • Anxiety
  • Mental Health Diagnostics and the MindCare Hub

I

Upasona Ghosh
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneswar

  • Public Health
  • Climate Change and Health

J

[*] Ai Tashiro
Program-Specific Associate Professor
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies
Kyoto University
L-INSIGHT Fellow (5th Cohort)

  • Health Geography
  • Disaster Epidemiology

Civil Currents: Powering Indo-Pacific Disaster Resilience

A

[*] Akihiro Ogawa
Professor in Japanese Studies
Asia Institute
The University of Melbourne

  • Civil Society
  • Public Policy
  • Public Anthropology
  • Peach & Security
  • Action Research

A

Judit Kroo
Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies
Asia Institute
The University of Melbourne

  • Linguistic Anthropology
  • Post-Disaster Communities
  • Traditional Ecological Knowledges

I

S. Mohammed Irshad
Assistant Professor
Chairperson, Centre for Disasters and Development
Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)

  • Disaster Economics
  • Risk Economics
  • Political Economy of Development
  • Disaster Governance
  • History of Disasters

J

Chiho Ochiai
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies (GSGES) 
Kyoto University

  • Community-based Disaster Management
  • Disaster Recovery & Reconstruction with Community
  • Traditional Disaster Knowledge
  • Flood Evacuation
  • People’s Participation

Developing Healthcare Devices from Renewable Resources for Circular Economy

A

Gil Garnier
Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Director, Bioresource Processing Research Institute of Australia (BioPRIA)
Monash University

  • Bioactive Paper
  • Biorefinery
  • Industrial Water Treatment
  • Medical Diagnostics
  • Surface Engineering

I

Abhijit Bandyopadhyay
Professor, Head of Department of Polymer Science & Technology
Department of Polymer Science & Technology
University of Calcutta

  • Hyperbranched Nano Polymers for Industrial and Bioapplications
  • Polymer 3D Printing
  • Waste Water Treatment & Solid Waste Management
  • Green Polymer/Rubber Technology

J

[*] Kei Saito
Professor
Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (GSAIS)
Kyoto University

  • Green Polymers
  • Sustainable Chemistry

Evolving a Robust Framework for Integrating AI Diagnostics into National Health Systems

A

Arcot Sowmya
Professor
Head of School of Computer Science and Engineering
UNSW Sydney

  • Computer Vision
  • Medical Imaging
  • Remote Sensing Image Analysis

I

[*] Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Science

  • Speech/Biomedical/Image Processing
  • Sampling Theory
  • Neuromorphic Imaging
  • Inverse Problems in Computational Imaging
  • AI for Digital Healthcare

J

Kosuke Inoue
Professor
Graduate School of Medicine
Kyoto University
L-INSIGHT Fellow (2nd Cohort)

  • Epidemiology
  • Causal inference
  • Endocrinology

J

Yasuyuki Arai
Senior Lecturer
Director, Department of Cytotherapy
Kyoto University Hospital
L-INSIGHT Fellow (1st Cohort)

  • Hematology

J

Yugo Yamashita
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Medicine
Kyoto University
L-INSIGHT Fellow (4th Cohort)

  • Precision medicine
  • Genetic epidemiology
  • Cardiovascular medicine

J

Kazuhisa Kaneda, MD
Kyoto University Hospital

J

Yuichiro Mori, MD, MPH
Graduate School of Medicine
Kyoto University

India-Australia-Japan Critical Minerals Synergies Workshop

A

Mohan Yellishetty
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Monash University

  • Critical Minerals
  • Mining Engineering
  • Mine Rehabilitation
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Mine Waste Management

I

Narasimha Mangadoddy
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

  • Mineral Processing
  • Fluidization
  • Particulate Technology
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Energy
  • High Performance Computing (HPC)

J

[*] Benjamin C. McLellan
Professor
Graduate School of Energy Science
Kyoto University

  • Resources
  • Energy
  • Sustainability

International Collaborative Study on Joint Establishment of Biosignal-Based Framework for Listener Stress Analysis and Its Cross-Cultural Applications

I

Nagarajan Ganapathy
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

  • Affective Computing
  • Computer Vision
  • Internet of Medical Things
  • Edge Analytics
  • Wearable and Smart Sensors
  • Signal and Image Analytics
  • Big Data in Medicine
  • Drug Repurposing
  • Federated Learning

J

[*] Kana Eguchi
Senior Lecturer
Graduate School of Informatics
Kyoto University
L-INSIGHT Fellow (3rd Cohort)

  • Medical Engineering
  • Medical informatics
  • Human computer interaction
Related Fellows :
SAITO Miho TASHIRO Ai INOUE Kosuke ARAI Yasuyuki YAMASHITA Yugo EGUCHI Kana
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