KANO Mitsunobu

Vice Executive Director at Okayama University/Professor at Faculty of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Okayama University/Member of Science Council of Japan/Member of Council for Science and Technology, MEXT/L-INSIGHT Advisory Board
MD, The University of Tokyo. PhD in Medicine, The University of Tokyo. Clinical training at St. Luke’s International Hospital. After working as a faculty member at the University of Tokyo, became a professor at Okayama University. Vice Executive Director in charge of promoting Okayama University’s efforts to help achieve SDGs. Dean of the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University. Experienced many positions including Science and Technology Co-Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Member of Science Council of Japan, Member of the Council for Science and Technology of MEXT, and other governmental officials.

INOUE Kosuke

Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University/L-INSIGHT fellow
Kosuke Inoue obtained his MD from the University of Tokyo in 2013. After working as a physician at National Center for Global Health and Medicine and Yokohama Rosai Hospital, he moved to U.S. to study at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and obtained PhD in epidemiology from UCLA in 2021. In the same year, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University. He is also engaged in medical care at the Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Kyoto University Hospital. He received NIH/NIDDK F99/K00 Award in 2020. From 2017 to 2022, he published 68 peer-reviewed papers (he is the lead/responsible author of 44 papers). His main research topic is the elucidation of causal mechanisms in clinical medicine using the method of causal inference and the evaluation of their heterogeneity caused by social background factors.

Activity Databased on Education and Research, Kyoto University:
https://kdb.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/profile_private/ja.9580935082bccbc5.html
Personal Website:
http://labusers.net/~kinoue/

Zenas Chao

Principal Investigator/Associate Professor at International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN), The University of Tokyo
Zenas Chao is fascinated by the human mind and the development of machines with human-like intelligence, and curious about the biological origins of free will, consciousness, and creativity. After graduating from college in Taiwan with a dual B.S. in Life Science and Chemistry, he attended Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States to study Biomedical Engineering. For his Ph.D., he grew neurons in petri dishes and connected them to robots demonstrating that a machine with an artificial organic brain can learn purposeful behavior. After graduation, he moved to Japan and held positions at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute as a Research Scientist, the National Institute for Physiological Sciences as an Assistant Professor, and Kyoto University as a Junior Associate Professor, to study how to decode brain signals from behaving humans and monkeys and enable the control of robots and computers by the brain. Now he is working as a Principal Investigator and Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN) at the University of Tokyo, using his research experience in silico, in vitro, and in vivo, to search for evidence of predictive coding and creative problem-solving.

Website:
https://ircn.jp/mission/people/zenas-c-chao

Jennifer Coates

Professor at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
Jennifer Coates is Professor of Japanese Studies at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield.From 2017 to 2022, assistant professor The HAKUBI Center for Advanced Research in Kyoto University(Graduate School of Letters). She is the author of Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945-1964 (Hong Kong University Press, 2016) and Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968: An Ethnographic Study (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), and co-editor of Japanese Visual Media: Politicizing the Screen (Routledge, 2021 with Ben-Ari, E.) and The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture (Routledge, 2019 with Fraser, L., and Pendleton, M.). Jennifer is a AHRC Innovation Scholar and recipient of the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Visual and Performing Arts.

FUJIWARA Ayano

Associate Professor at Faculty of Economics, Japan University of Economics BA, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo. PhD in Engineering, The Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. After working as an assistant professor at Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University and as a director of research at National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, MEXT, took her current post. Her main research themes include innovation study and analysis of the effect of job mobility.

https://researchmap.jp/fujiwaraayano
https://u-tokyo.academia.edu/FujiwaraAyano

ARAI Yasuyuki

Assistant Professor at Kyoto University Hospital/L-INSIGHT fellow
completed his doctoral degree in hematology and oncology at Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University. Subsequently engaged in immunology research for three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (USA). After returning to Japan, worked as a clinical fellow at Hematology and Oncology Department, Kyoto University Hospital. From 2018 Assistant Professor at Center for Research and Application of Cellular Therapy/Department of Clinical Laboratory (formerly Departments of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy), Kyoto University Hostpital. Works on the development and application of cell therapy, including hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.