The 6thJapan-U.S.
Digital Innovation Hub
WorkshopJune 10th, 2019
University Hall at University of Tsukuba（Tsukuba Campus）

PROGRAM
The 6th Japan-U.S. Digital Innovation Hub Workshop:
Alliance for the Future of Digital Science
Date: June 10th, 2019 (Mon) 10:00-17:30 (Reception: 18:00-19:30)
Venue: University Hall at University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba Campus)
Organizer: Japanese University Consortium for Japan-U.S. Digital Innovation Hub
Co-organizer: JST, NEDO
Support from: MIC, MOFA, MEXT, METI, JIIA
10:00 Opening Remarks
Kyosuke Nagata, President, University of Tsukuba
Yoshiko Shirokizawa, Executive Director, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)Hiroaki Ishizuka, Chairman, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development
Organization (NEDO)
Hiroya Izumi, Deputy Director-General for ICT R&D and Cybersecurity Policy, Global
Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC)
Noriaki Abe, Senior Coordinator, Economic Policy Division, Economic Affairs Bureau,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA)
Opening Address by Other Guests
Session: Alliance for the New Age of Digital Science
10:20 Keynote Speech 1
Morley O. Stone, Senior Vice President for Research, The Ohio State University
10:35 Keynote Speech 2
Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, Vice President for Discovery Park, Purdue University
11:00 Panel Discussion: Alliance for the New Age of Digital Science
Panel Chair: Kyosuke Nagata, President, University of Tsukuba
Panel Co-Chair: Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, Vice President for Discovery Park, Purdue
University
Larry Nagahara, Associate Dean for Research, Johns Hopkins University
Charles Riordan, Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Innovation, University of
DelawareAnthony England, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Universityof Michigan -Dearborn
Gretchen Neisler, Vice Provost for International Affairs, University of Tennessee
Rajesh Zele, Professor-in-charge, IIT Bombay Research Park, Department of ElectricalEngineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
12:10-13:20 Lunch & Networking
12:50-13:10 Luncheon Speech
Teruo Kishi, Science and Technology Advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan
Session: Human Development for Social Innovation in Digital Era
13:20 Keynote Speech 3
Richard K. Miller, President, Olin College of Engineering
13:45 Panel Discussion: Human Development for Social Innovation in Digital Era
Panel Chair: David Manderscheid, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor, University ofTennessee, Knoxville
Panel Co-Chair: Akira Fujimaki, Trustee (Education and Academic Information
Infrastructure), Vice President, Nagoya University
David B. Williams, Executive Dean of the Professional Colleges and Dean of the College
of Engineering, The Ohio State University

Douglas Reeves, Associate Dean of Graduate and International Programs, College ofEngineering, North Carolina State University
B.L. (Rama) Ramakrishna, Director, Grand Challenges Scholars Program, United States
National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Takahiro Ueyama, Executive Member, Council for Science, Technology and Innovation,
Cabinet Office, Japan
14:55 Coffee BreakSession: Academia-Industry Cooperation and Japan-US Joint Research for AI/Cyber
15:15 Keynote Speech 4
Junichi Tsujii, Fellow and Director of Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST
15:40 Keynote Speech 5
Shoji Watanabe, Deputy Director-General, Industrial Technology Policy andEnvironmental Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
15:50 Presentation Session: Academia-Industry Cooperation and Japan-US Joint
Research for AI/Cyber
Chair: Seiichi Matsuo, President, Nagoya University
Hideaki Ozawa, COO/CTO, NTT Research, Inc.
Adam Isles, Principal, Chertoff Group, LLC
Yoshiko Shirokizawa, Executive Director, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)Hiroshi Oikawa, President, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development
Organization (NEDO)
Mitsuyuki Nakao, Dean of Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University;
Roger H. French, Kyocera Professor and Director of SDLE Research Center, Case
Western Reserve University
Tetsuya Sakurai, Director of C-AIR, University of Tsukuba; Nii Attoh-Okine, Director of
UD Cybersecurity Initiative, University of Delaware
Koichi Takeda, Director, Future Value Creation Center, Nagoya University; David B.
Williams, Executive Dean of the Professional Colleges and Dean of the College ofEngineering, The Ohio State University
Shinji Shimojo, Director of Cybermedia Center, Osaka University
Yuichi Kurita, Professor, Hiroshima University
17:10 Wrap up and Future initiatives
Chair: Shuzaburo Takeda, President, Takeda & Associates
Morley O. Stone, Senior Vice President for Research, The Ohio State University
Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, Vice President for Discovery Park, Purdue University
David Manderscheid, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor, University of Tennessee
Yasunori Kanaho, Vice President and Executive Director for Collaborative Research,
University of Tsukuba
Satoshi Watanabe, Senior Vice President, Hiroshima University
Hiroto Yasuura, Executive Vice President, Kyushu University
17:30 Transfer to the Hotel Grand Shinonome(488-1 Onozaki, Tsukuba)
18:00 Reception
Welcome address
Keisuke Isogai, Director-General, Research Promotion Bureau, Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
Shoji Watanabe, Deputy Director-General, Industrial Technology Policy andEnvironmental Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
Address by other Guests
19:30 Closing

Profiles of Speakers

Panel Discussion: Alliance for the New Age of Digital Science
Panel Chair

Kyosuke Nagata
University of Tsukuba
President
1981-1984 Research Associate (Post-doctoral fellow), Department of
Biology and Cancer, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1984-1985 Research Fellow, Program in Biology and Virology,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute1985-1991 Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics,
National Institute of Genetics
1991-2001 Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2001-2004 Professor, Institute of Basic Medical Science, University ofTsukuba
2004-2010

Professor, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human

Sciences, University of Tsukuba
2011-2013 Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba
2013- President, University of Tsukuba
2014- Vice President, the Japan Association of National Universities
2014-2018 Member of Scientific Committee, Pharmaceuticals andMedical Devices Agency
2015- Member of Central Council for Education, Ministry of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
2017- Vice President, Central Council for Education, MEXT
2015- Chair of the University Committee of Japan’s Central Council
for Education, MEXT
2015- President, Japan University Accreditation association
2016- Member of Council for University Chartering and School
Juridical Person, MEXT
2017-2019 The Board Chair, U.S.-Japan Research Institute2017-2018 Member of Council for Cultural Affairs, MEXT
2018-

Chairperson, the Association of East Asian Research

Universities (AEARU)-1-

Presentation Session: Academia-Industry Cooperation and Japan-US Joint
Research for AI/Cyber
JST’s Digital Science Initiatives

Yoshiko Shirokizawa
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)Executive Director
Ms. Shirokizawa joined Japan Information Center for Science andTechnology (predecessor of JST) in 1987. She has managed various
projects, including the Center of Innovation (COI) Program, aiming at
the realization of a vibrant and sustainable society in the context ofJapan’s aging population. She was also engaged in the establishmentof JST’s National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC) that deals with
the integration, sharing and application of bioscience research data.
Since 2015, she has been serving as an Executive Director, responsible
for a wide range of activities, including international collaborative
programs, industry-academia collaborative programs, promotion
towards implementing the SDGs through science, technology andinnovation (STI for SDGs), etc.

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Morley O. Stone
The Ohio State University
Senior Vice President for Research
Morley O. Stone serves at the senior vice president for research at The
Ohio State University where he is responsible for the overall strategicplanning and infrastructure support for the university’s $864 million
annual basic and applied research program. An international leader inhuman performance and biomimetics, Dr. Stone brings more than 25
years of experience in research and development to this position.

Prior to joining Ohio State, he served as the chief technology officer at
the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. In that role, he oversaw more than $2.3
billion in science and technology programs and $2.5 billion inexternally funded projects in areas ranging from materials science tospace-based technologies. He has also served as chief scientist for
AFRL's Human Performance Wing and as a manager at the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, where he created programs in
bio-inspired sensors, robotics and more.

Throughout his career, he has built strong strategic researchcollaborations with academia, industry and government organizations
including Ohio State, the National Science Foundation, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Defense Health Agency.

Dr. Stone has published more than 90 peer-reviewed papers and bookchapters and holds more than a dozen patents and invention disclosures.
He earned a BS in biological sciences from Wright State University anda PhD in biochemistry from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Keynote Speech2, Panel discussion: Alliance for the New Age of Digital Science,
Wrap up and Future initiatives
The Era of Convergence: a Brief Introduction to Discovery Park at Purdue University

Tomás Díaz de la Rubia
Purdue University
Vice President for Discovery Park
Tomás Díaz de la Rubia is Purdue University's vice president for
Discovery Park. In this position, his responsibilities include building
upon Discovery Park's foundation of excellence, which has enabled
high-impact research that crosses traditional academic boundaries. He
works closely with faculty and deans to help catalyze Purdue's many
strengths and build on its legacy of interdisciplinary research with
global impact. Prior to Purdue, Tomás served as chief research officer
and deputy laboratory director for science and technology at theLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he was responsible
for the science and technology foundations of the laboratory’s $1.6
billion research program. Tomas is a member of the National
Academies Intelligence Community Studies Board; member of theBoard of Directors of the Civilian Research and Development
Foundation; member of the Editorial Board of Applied Physics
Reviews; fellow of the American Physical Society; fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science and served as
an elected member of the board of directors of the Materials ResearchSociety. Tomás has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles
and has co-edited several books and conference proceedings. He holds
a bachelor's degree and a doctorate in physics from The State
University of New York, Albany.

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Creating a Digital Science Alliance: A Hopkins Perspective

Larry A. Nagahara
Johns Hopkins University
Associate Dean for Research
Dr. Larry Nagahara is currently the Associate Dean for Research (ADR)
in the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) and Research Professor in
the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns
Hopkins University (JHU). Previously, he was the Associate Director
within the Division of Cancer Biology at National Cancer Institute(NCI)/National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he directed andcoordinated programs and research activities related to expanding therole of the physical sciences and engineering in cancer research. This
included the largest federally-funded program dedicated to theconvergence of physical and life sciences, namely the NCI’s PhysicalSciences–Oncology Initiative. In addition, Dr. Nagahara served as the
Nanotechnology Projects Manager for the NCI's Alliance for
Nanotechnology in Cancer program. Before joining NCI, Dr. Nagahara
was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Motorola and led
their nanosensor effort. He has published over 95 technical papers, 3
book chapters, and over 25 patents issued/filed in these fields. He is alsoa Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering(AIMBE), American Physical Society (APS), IEEE, Materials
Research Society (MRS), and a former member of Motorola's Scientific
Advisory Board.

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Digital Research and Educational Partnerships with the University of Delaware

Charles Riordan
University of Delaware
Vice President for Research, Scholarship & Innovation
Charles G. Riordan serves as the University of Delaware’s Vice
President

forResearch,

Scholarship

andInnovation,

withresponsibility for advancing the research enterprise, including
oversight of seven research institutes, numerous core facilities anddeveloping public-private research partnerships to drive economic
development. Riordan is an inorganic chemist, whose laboratory has
been supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National
Science Foundation (NSF). His research interests include the rolesof metal ions in biology and metal-mediated transformations fordioxygen utilization.

Riordan previously served as Chair of the

Chemistry and Biochemistry Department and Vice Provost for
Graduate and Professional Education. Riordan received the
University's outstanding doctoral graduate advising and mentoringaward and served as chair of the University’s strategic planningsteering committee.
A recipient of a 1994 National Young Investigator Award from the
NSF, Riordan is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
and the American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS). He has served on the several editorial advisory boards.
Riordan received the 2014 Delaware Section Award from theAmerican Chemical Society. He earned his bachelor's degree at Holy
Cross, his Ph.D. at Texas A&M University and was a postdoctoral
fellow at the University of Chicago.

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Campus-Wide Cybersecurity Center for Education, Research, and Outreach

Anthony W England
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Dean, Engineering & Comp. Sci.
Anthony W (Tony) England is Dean, College of Engineering andComputer Science, University of Michigan-Dearborn, and Professorof Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College ofEngineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Tony earned his

Ph.D. in geophysics from M.I.T. in 1970. His research has spanned
microwave sensing of the Earth and planets.

He served as NASA

Scientist Astronaut from 1967 to 1972 and from 1979 to 1988. With
NASA, he graduated from Air Force Flight School, served as Mission
Scientist for Apollos 13 and 16, was co-investigator on the Apollo 17
Surface Electrical Properties Experiment, flew as Mission Specialist
Astronaut on Space Shuttle Challenger in 1985, and was Space Station
Program Scientist in 1987. He served as Research Geophysicist with
the U.S. Geological Survey from 1972 to 1979 where he participatedin and led geophysical parties in Antarctica, used ground penetratingradar to study glaciers in Washington State and Alaska, andparticipated in assessments of nuclear waste containment and the U.S.
Antarctic Treaty. Tony joined the University of Michigan-Ann Arborin 1988 and became Dean at UM-Dearborn in 2012.

He was amember of the National Research Council's Space Studies Board andis a Fellow of IEEE and the Electromagnetics Academy.

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Panel Discussion: Alliance for the New Age of Digital Science
Coalescing Institutional Strengths for Innovation and Impact

Gretchen Christianna Neisler
University of TennesseeVice Provost for International Affairs
As Vice Provost, Dr. Gretchen Neisler has served as the University ofTennessee's senior international officer since August 2018 and is
responsible for:


Working closely with the university community to leaddevelopment of the university's strategic global agenda to enhancethe engagement and impact of the University of Tennessee's work;Representing the university to external constituents, bothnationally and internationally; andOverseeing the Center for International Education, which
encompasses the offices of the Asia Platform for Engagement,
English Language Institute, International House, International
Support Services, and Programs Abroad.

She is an authority on faculty development and organizational structures
as they support global research efforts of scientists. She has publishedarticles on scientific networking, faculty development, organizationalchange in international higher education institutions. Most recently she
co-authored a book titled Success After Tenure: Supporting Mid-Career
Faculty.
Prior to her Vice Provost appointment, Gretchen Neisler served as
director of the Center for Global Connections in Food, Agriculture, andNatural Resources in the College of Agricultural and Natural Recourses
at Michigan State University. Neisler earned her PhD. at Michigan State
University in Higher Education Administration. She can be found on
Twitter at @Gretchen_n.

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Digital Science in India

Rajesh Zele
IIT Bombay, India
Professor in charge, IITB Research Park
Professor Rajesh Zele is the alumnus of IIT Bombay (B.Tech. 1989).
He joined IIT Bombay as a Professor in Electrical Engineering
Department after 22 years of industry experience. Before joining IIT,
Prof. Rajesh Zele was the Director at MaxLinear, developing the next
generation CMOS RF and Mixed-Signal SOCs for Digital Cable andSatellite Communications. Prof. Rajesh Zele has also served as theVice President of MindTree, leading the team for Bluetooth and shortrange wireless transceivers. He founded the startup Alereon
Semiconductors in Pune to develop ultra-wideband RF ICs for
Wireless USB products. Before Alereon, he was the Director ofEngineering at Zilker labs developing power management products.
He established Austin Design Center for the startup FET and managed
the technical team responsible for 10Gbps optical networking
products. Prof. Rajesh Zele has an extensive background in wirelesstransceivers at Motorola, where he was IC design manager for the
Talk-About radio platform. He has presented talks at various IEEE
conferences and symposiums. He has written over 20 papers, coauthored a book chapter and holds 8 US patents. Prof. Rajesh Zele hasreceived Ph.D. in ECE from Carnegie Mellon University, MSEE from
Oregon State University, and is also a Senior Member of IEEE.
Prof. Zele currently serves as the Professor-In-Charge for IIT Bombay
Research Park where industry members are invited to start their R &D operations on IITB campus to promote Industry-Academia
collaboration. He also serves as a board member for SINE, IIT
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Luncheon Speech
Science Diplomacy towards Digital Innovation

Teruo Kishi
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Science and Technology Advisor to the Minister for Foreign
Affairs of JapanHe has been working for over 40 years in the fields of materials scienceespecially fracture mechanics and nondestructive testing of metal,
ceramics and composite materials. Currently, he is serving as the
President of the “Innovative Structural Materials Association (ISMA)”
funded by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), which
promotes R&D mainly for materials used in automobiles. Until March
2019, he had been serving as the Program Director of a large national
research project on Structural Materials (SIP program) funded by the
Cabinet Office of Japan, which promotes R&D mainly for materials
used in aircrafts. In addition to his research activities, he has been
appointed to the first Science and Technology Advisor to the Ministerfor Foreign Affairs of Japan since September 2015 to bridge scienceand diplomacy.

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Keynote Speech 3
Educating Engineers Who Will Create a Better World in the Digital Era

Richard K. Miller
Olin College of Engineering
President
Richard K. Miller was appointed President (and first employee) of Olin
College of Engineering in 1999.

Previously, he served as Dean ofEngineering at the University of Iowa; Associate Dean of Engineering
at USC in Los Angeles; and faculty member at UCSB in Santa Barbara.
An elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and National Academy ofInventors, he received the Brock International Prize in Education(2017) and the NAE Gordon Prize (2013). Miller served as Chair of
the National Academies Board on Higher Education and Workforce(BHEW) and Chair of the Engineering Advisory Committee of the
National Science Foundation. He has also served on advisory boardsfor Harvard University, Stanford University, the NAE, NAS, and the
U.S. Military Academy at West Point, among others.

A former

consultant to the World Bank in the establishment of new universities
in developing countries, he is a frequent speaker on engineering
education.

Miller received the 2002 Distinguished Engineering

Alumnus Award from the University of California at Davis, where heearned his B.S. He earned his M.S. from MIT and Ph.D. from the
California Institute of Technology, where he received the 2014 Caltech
Distinguished Alumni Award.

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Panel Discussion: Human Development for Social Innovation in Digital Era
Wrap up and Future initiatives

David C. Manderscheid
University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleProvost and Senior Vice Chancellor
Dr. Manderscheid has served as the provost and senior vice chancellor
for the University of Tennessee, Knoxville since July 2018. Prior to
his appointment Dr. Manderscheid served as the executive dean of theCollege of Arts and Sciences and vice provost for arts and sciences at
the Ohio State University where he also served as lead dean for theuniversity’s translational data analytics initiative. Before joining Ohio
State, he was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the Universityof Nebraska-Lincoln from 2007-2013.

He also served as a faculty

member at the University of Iowa where he rose through the ranks tochair of the Department of Mathematics.

Dr. Manderscheid is an internationally recognized mathematician. He
received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Michigan State
University, and his PhD in mathematics from Yale University. He has
held appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, theMathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkley, California, and the
University of Paris.

His work in representation theory withapplications to number theory has been widely published.

He hasreceived support from the National Science Foundation, the National
Security Agency, and the US Department of Education, in addition tonumerous teaching awards.

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Panel Discussion: Human Development for Social Innovation in Digital Era
Digital-Related Education in Nagoya Univ.

Akira Fujimaki
Nagoya University
Trustee(Education and Academic Information Infrastructure),
Vice President
Akira Fujimaki is the Trustee in charge of education and academic
information infrastructure from 2019, where he has served as a Vice
President of Nagoya University and the Director of Information &Communications since 2018. He received his B. Eng. Degree and M.
Eng, Degree from Tohoku University in 1982 and 1984, respectively,
where he also received his Ph.D. degree in 1987. He joined the Japan
Society for the Promotion of Science as a Research Fellow from 1986
to 1987 and from 1987 to 1988 he attended the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley as a Visiting Researcher. His career at Nagoya
University began with a position as Research Associate at the Schoolof Engineering from 1988 to 1992, and was followed by a position asa Lecturer from 1992 to 1993 and an Assistant Professor from 1994 to
1997. He served as an Assistant Professor of the Graduate School ofEngineering from 1997 to 2004, and was appointed to the position ofProfessor from 2004 to 2019. In 2010, he joined the University
administration upon his appointment to Presidential Advisor, a post heheld until 2015, and since then has served as a Vice Trustee from 2015
to 2018.

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Panel Discussion: Human Development for Social Innovation in Digital Era

David B. Williams, PhD, ScD
Executive Dean of the Professional Colleges
Dean of The College of Engineering at The Ohio State
University
The Executive Dean represents seven colleges, which educate 27,000
students, on senior university councils.

Williams was the President of the University of Alabama in Huntsvillefrom 2007-2011. He served on the boards of the Tennessee Valley
Corridor, The Huntsville Chamber of Commerce, the Alabama
Innovation Council and the Alabama Business Council. Before
Huntsville, Williams was VP of Research at Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, PA where he was on the Board of the Ben Franklin
Technology Partnership and the Life Sciences Greenhouse.
Williams holds B.A., M.A., Ph.D., and Sc.D. degrees from the
University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of six professional societies,(co) author or editor of 13 textbooks and conference proceedings and(co) author of 450 publications on electron microscopy studies ofmaterials.

A visiting professor at Manchester University, he has

given 300 invited talks in 30 countries.

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Human Development in the Digital Era

Douglas Reeves
North Carolina State University
Associate Dean, College of Engineering
Douglas Reeves is Associate Dean of Graduate and International
Programs in the College of Engineering at NC State, with responsibility
for programs that educate over 3000 engineering graduate students.

He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State
University, and is Professor of Computer Science, also at N.C. State.
His research specialty is cybersecurity, particularly network security.

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Grand Challenges Scholars Program

Rama Ramakrishna
Grand Challenge Scholars Program Network, US National
Academy of Engineering
DirectorDr. Ramakrishna received his Ph.D. in solid state science from theIndian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1982 and joined the faculty
at Arizona State University in 1985. From 2011–16 he was the Diane
and Gary Tooker Professor of Materials Science and Engineering until
his transition to emeritus professor in 2016. He is dedicated to preparing
engineers that have not only the necessary technical skills but also thecross-disciplinary knowledge, entrepreneurial spirit, global perspective,
and sense of mission needed to meet the challenges facing humankind
in the 21st century.
The research questions that he investigated lie at the crossroads of
biology and materials. This lab designed biosensors and silicon-bio
hybrid devices with applications from mining, electronics, and health todefense.
In 2013, he served as a senior science and technology advisor to the
Office of the Secretary of State. As a Jefferson Science Fellow, hehelped guide US international relations through the lens of “engineering
for sustainable development” and provided intellectual, technical, andstrategic leadership on policies and priorities.
Since January 2017, he has been at the National Academy ofEngineering in Washington D.C. as the Director of the Grand
Challenges Scholars Program Network.

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CSTI’s integrated Innovation Strategy for AI-ready Human Resource Development

Takahiro Ueyama
Cabinet Office
Executive Member,Council for Science, Technology andInnovation
Takahiro Ueyama
Takahiro Ueyama, born in Osaka in 1958. Completed a Ph.D. at theHistory Department at Stanford University after finishing the Graduate
Program at the Faculty of Economics, Osaka University. He has taught
at the Faculty of Economics, Sophie University (1998-2012) serving as
its Dean from 2010-2012. After being Professor at the Faculty of Policy
Management, Shonan Fujisawa Campus, Keio University (until 2015),
and Vice President at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies(2015-16), he is currently Executive Member of the Council for
Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office of Japanese
Government.Publications include Akademikku kyapitarizumu o koete(Beyond Academic Capitalism), which was awarded the YomiuriYoshino Sakuzo Prize in 2010.

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Keynote Speech 4
Industrial Partnerships in Deployment of AI in Society

Junichi Tsujii
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science andTechnology (AIST)
AIST Fellow & Director of Artificial Intelligence ResearchCenter (AIRC)
Prof. Tsujii is a Japanese computer scientist specializing in natural
language processing and text mining, particularly in the field of
biology and bioinformatics.
He graduated from Kyoto University Graduate School in 1973,
obtaining a PhD in engineering. He became Associate Professor at
Kyoto University in 1973, Professor at Manchester University in 1988,
Professor at Tokyo University Graduate School in 1995, and Principal
Researcher for Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing) in 2011 before
taking on his current position as Director of AIRC in 2015 and Fellowof AIST in 2017.
He still holds a Professorship at Manchester University.

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Keynote Speech 5
Expectation to US-Japan Digital Innovation HUB

Shoji Watanabe
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Deputy Director General, Industrial Technology Policy andEnvironmental Bureau
1988

Master of Engineering, University of Tokyo

1990

Joined Ministry of International Trade and Industry (METI)

2008- Director, New & Renewable Energy Division
2011-

Director, Housing Industry Ceramics Building Materials

Division
2012- Director, R&D Division
2015- Director, Software Industry Division
Director, National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy
for Cybersecurity
2016- Director, Information Policy Division
2018- Deputy Director General,
Industrial Technology Policy and Environmental Bureau

FY2006-FY2007
Special Appointment Professor,
International Research and Education Institute for Integrated Medical
Science, Tokyo Women's Medical University

FY2007
Guest Professor, Kumamoto University- 19 -

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Research for AI/Cyber
Chair

Seiichi Matsuo
Nagoya University
President
Seiichi Matsuo is currently the President of Nagoya University(2015~ ), where he received his PhD in Nephrology in 1981. He was a
Visiting Research Fellow at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York(1981~1982) and the State University of New York at Buffalo(1982~1984), and served as the Head of the Nephrology Division at
Chubu Rousai Hospital in Nagoya (1984~1986). He began his careerat Nagoya University as an Instructor (1986) at the School of
Medicine, and eventually became a professor at the Graduate Schoolof Medicine (2004~2015). After becoming a professor, he became
actively involved in the executive functions of the university, serving
as the Vice President of Nagoya University (2009~2015) and as the
Director of various Nagoya University affiliated institutes such as the
Nagoya University Hospital (2007~2013), the Center for Preventive
Medical Engineering (2011~2015), the Headquarters for IndustryAcademia-Government Collaboration (2012~2015), and the Instituteof Innovation for Future Society (2014~2015).

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Research for AI/Cyber
NTT Research Inc.: US based Invention & Innovation Hub of NTT Groups for Basic Research.

Hideaki Ozawa
NTT Research Inc.
COO/CTO
Hideaki Ozawa is the COO/CTO of NTT Research Inc.

He is incharge of corporate and technology strategy at NTT Research Inc.
Prior he oversees research and development of new technologies
about Environmental Recognition system, such as image recognition,
speech recognition language media recognition etc., Artificial
Intelligence for human machine interaction etc, as VP, Head of MediaIntelligence Laboratories at NTT from 2015 to 2018.

Dr. Ozawa has about 15years experience for the web service andbusiness. As general manager of Smart Navigation division at NTT
Resonant, he overseas technology based web services, Web search formobile, Multimedia search service, Mobile cloud service, Interactive
Digital map, Local search service, Tele health service etc.
Furthermore, as General Manager of IT development division at
Walkerplus.com, he launched a major Japanese local portal service,
Walkerplus.com, with Kadokawa Shoten publishing Co., LTD, JCB
CO., LTD. and 8 companies at 2000.

Prior to that, he is worked at NTT Human Interface Labs and NTT
Cyber Solution Labs. He researches and develop multimedia databasesystem which is incorporated physical book functions as seniorresearch engineer.

He received a Ph. D, M. Eng and B. Eng, from Department of ElectricalEngineering at Keio University- 21 -

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Academia-Industry Cooperation and Japan-US Joint Research for AI/Cyber

Adam Isles
The Chertoff Group LLC
Principal
Adam Isles is a Principal at the Chertoff Group, where he helps clientsbuild programs to manage security risk. Adam has worked with clientsin a number of industries – including financial services, utilities, retail,technology, and transportation sectors.

He was the principal drafter

for the firm’s security risk management methodology, which wasapproved by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for SAFETY
Act designation in 2017.
Previously, Adam served as the Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

At DHS, he coordinatedpolicy decisions, including on technology standards, regulations andbusiness rules, for numerous border, travel security, criticalinfrastructure protection and cybersecurity programs.
Before joining DHS, Adam served at the U.S. Department of Justice,where he started his legal career as a trial attorney in the Criminal
Division in 1997. From 2002-2003, he was a Director of International
Economic Affairs at the National Security Council, where he managedpreparations for the 2002 G8 Summit.

From 1998-2001, he was also

secretary of the G8 Hig h-tech Crime Experts Group.

Adam is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
and also holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in history
from Yale University.

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Presentation Session: Academia-Industry Cooperation and Japan-US Joint
Research for AI/Cyber
NEDO’s activities to promote U.S. - Japan university cooperation on digital technologies

Hiroshi Oikawa
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development
Organization (NEDO)
President
2018 President, NEDO
2017 Deputy Director-General, Manufacturing Industries Bureau
2016 Director for Technology Affairs and Advanced Capacity
Building
Strategy
2015 Director, Technical Regulations, Standards and Conformity
Assessment Policy Division2014 Director General, Technology Strategy Center, New Energy andIndustrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
2012 Director, Non-Ferrous Metals Division, METI2009 Director, Petroleum Refining Division, ANRE
2006 GM, London Office, JOGMEC (Japan Oil, Gas and Metals
National
Corporation; an affiliate of METI)
1989 Joined Mining Division, Agency of Natural Resource and Energy(ANRE), Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now known as
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Research for AI/Cyber
Computer-Guided Molecular Evolution of Protein

Mitsuyuki Nakao
Tohoku University
Dean of Graduate School of Information Sciences
Mitsuyuki Nakao (S’82–M’84) was born in Yamaguchi prefecture,
Japan, in 1956. He received the Dr.Eng. degree in 1984 from the
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. Currently, he is a Professor of
Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University. Since
2018, he has been a dean of Graduate School of Information Sciences.
Now he is an executive director of International Joint Graduate
Program focused on Data Science. His current research interests
include modeling of biological rhythms, biosignal interpretation, andsystems biology.

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Research for AI/Cyber

Roger H. French
Case Western Reserve University, Kyocera Professor
Roger H. French is the Kyocera Professor in the Dept. of Materials
Science and Eng. in the Case School of Engineering, with secondary
appointments in Macromolecular Science, Computer and Data
Sciences, Biomedical Eng. and Physics at Case Western Reserve
University (CWRU) in Cleveland Ohio, since August 2010.
He is director of the SDLE Research Center, focused on data scienceand analytics. He is the faculty director of the CWRU Applied Data
Science Program
Before this he was in Central Research at the DuPont Co. in
Wilmington, Delaware since 1985 and was Adjunct Prof. of Materials
Science at the Univ. of Penn. since 1996.
He received his B. S. in Materials Science from Cornell University, and
his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Prof. R. L.
Coble.
French's materials research focuses on optical properties and electronic
structure of polymers, ceramics, optical and biomolecular materials.
These determine the vdW interactions driving wetting and mesoscaleassembly of CNTs, proteins and DNA.
His energy research focuses on lifetime and degradation science. Usinga Hadoop/Hbase/Spark-based data science and analytics environment
he studies the spatio-temporal evolution of complex systems. This
allows multi-factor real-world data, integrated with lab-based datasets,
to identify mechanisms and pathways activated over lifetime.
His work has produced 28 issued patents, 5 active filings and more than
140 journal and 110 proceedings papers.

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Presentation Session: Academia-Industry Cooperation and Japan-US Joint
Research for AI/Cyber
Data collaboration for distributed data analytics infrastructure

Tetsuya Sakurai
University of Tsukuba
Director of Center for Artificial Intelligence Research
Tetsuya Sakurai is the Director of Center for Artificial Intelligence
Research (C-AIR) and a Professor of Department of Computer Scienceat the University of Tsukuba. He is also a visiting senior researcher of
RIKEN Center for Computational Science, a visiting professor at theOpen University of Japan, and CEO of MathDesign, Co., Ltd. During
2014-2016 he was the Director of Office for Strategies of R&D, andfrom 2011 to 2015 he was the Dean of College of Information Scienceat the University of Tsukuba. He received his Ph.D. in engineeringfrom Nagoya University in 1992. His main research interests focus ondeveloping high performance algorithms for numerical computations
and their applications for large-scale simulation, data analysis, andmachine learning. He is a member of the Japan Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics, the Mathematical Society of Japan,
Information Processing Society of Japan, Society for Industrial andApplied Mathematics (SIAM), and the Institute of Electrical andElectronics Engineers (IEEE). He was awarded the 2018's
Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in his
research of high-performance eigenvalue solvers.

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Research for AI/ Cyber
NEDO Report- Federated Learning and HealthNii Attoh-Okine
University of Delaware
Director of UD Cyber Security Initiative
Nii O. Attoh-Okine, Ph.D., P.E., F. ASCE, Dr. Attoh-Okine is a Senior
IEEE Member; Founding Associate Editor for ASCE/ASME Journal of
Risk and Uncertainty Analysis; Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; andthe Interim Academic Director of the University of Delaware
Cybersecurity Initiative. Over the last couple of years, Dr. Attoh-Okine
authored two books which are defining the direction of research acrossdisciplines: a) Resilience Engineering: Models and Analysis[Cambridge Press 2016] and b) Big Data and Differential Privacy inRailway Track Engineering [John Wiley 2017]. He served as an
Associate Editor on the following ASCE Journals: a) ASCE Journal of
Infrastructure Systems; b) ASCE Journal of Computing; c) ASCE
Journal of Bridge Engineering; d) ASCE Journal of Pipeline Systems
Engineering and Practice. He is currently working with researchers
from the United States and Japan on Blockchain applications to Society
5.0. Dr. Attoh-Okine’s areas of research include: cyber resilience of
critical infrastructure, data science application in railway engineeringand graphical probability models.

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Research for AI/Cyber
NEDO Project: Explainable AI for Decision Basis

Koichi Takeda
Nagoya University
Professor
Koichi Takeda joined IBM Research - Tokyo in 1983 and worked
mainly on natural language processing (NLP) research. He led thecommercialization activities of machine translation, insight discovery
from biomedical literature, clinical pathway discovery from electronic
medical records, and text analytics for a broad-range of industrial
domains. He was a member of the core team for developing IBM’s
question-answering system Watson during 2007-2011. He received
PhD degree in Informatics from the Graduate School of Informatics,
Kyoto University in 2010.
He has been appointed to Director and Professor of the Future Value
Creation Research Center (FVCRC), Graduate School of Informatics,
Nagoya University since April 2017. His main role is to promoteresearch activities in Informatics, in particular, by assisting global
research collaboration between Nagoya University and visiting
researchers around the world. He also leads the core research unit in
FVCRC for innovative problem solving and value creation for thesociety by embracing artificial intelligence and natural language
processing techniques.

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Research for AI/Cyber
Research and Development of Empathetic Intelligence Technology for Personal Interaction

Shinji Shimojo
Osaka University Cybermedia Center
Director and Professor
Current research work is focusing on Internet Architecture of IoT, HPC
system using SDN (Software Defined System). He is a founding
Member of a long term collaboration on grid middleware andapplications, Pragma and had been hosted UCSD students in PRIME
program. Won the Osaka Science Prize in 2005. Received the Ministerof Internal Affairs and Communications Award in 2016 for his
contribution to the technological advancement and utilization
promotion about network technology. Member of IEEE and IEICE, and
IPSJ fellow.

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Presentation Session: Academia-Industry Cooperation and Japan-US Joint
Research for AI/Cyber
Smart society for enjoying long healthy life - Developing AI smart coaching technology thatfacilitates voluntary skill-up for elderlies -Yuichi Kurita
Hiroshima University
Professor
Yuichi Kurita received a B.E. degree from Osaka University in 2000,
and M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in information science from Nara Instituteof Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan in 2002 and 2004,
respectively. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Research Associate with the
Graduate School of Engineering at Hiroshima University, Japan. From2007 to 2011, he was an Assistant Professor with the Graduate Schoolof Information Science at NAIST. During 2010-2011, he was a visiting
scholar in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia
Institute of Technology, USA. Since 2011, he has joined the Graduate
School of Engineering at Hiroshima University as an Associate
Professor, and is a Professor from 2018. He is also appointed to theAssistant to President by Special Appointment, and Special Assistantto the Dean (International Collaborative Research) from 2018. He has
also worked as a researcher in JST PRESTO from 2011. His researchinterests include physical human-robot interaction (pHRI), humanaugmentation, haptics, and medical engineering.

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Wrap up and Future initiatives
Chair

Shuzaburo Takeda
Takeda & Associates
President
Shuzaburo Takeda is President of Takeda and Associates. He

had

served as Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology (MEXT) until August, 2017. He has several
hats in Japan and the United States. He is Special Advisor to the
President, Tsukuba University. He is Senior Advisor to the President,
Nagoya University. And he is Management Advisor to RIKEN. Also,in U.S., he is Senior Advisor to the Ohio State University. Also, he is
Presidential Council Member of the Olin College of Engineering, andMember of the IACA Washington Univ. in St. Louis. Dr. Takeda has
been intimately involved in the Japan-US relationship for 40 years andfor decades had been a close advisor to the late Howard H. Baker(Senator, Former US Ambassador to Japan). In recent years, he has
been promoting collaboration between universities and research
institutions in Japan and the United States, especially in Digital
Innovation Area. He has received 2018 Distinguished Alumni
Achievement Award from the Ohio State University where he earned
his Ph.D. in physics.

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Wrap up and Future initiatives

Yasunori Kanaho
University of Tsukuba
Vice President and Executive Director for Collaborative
Research
Headquarters for International Industry-University Collaboration wasestablished in 2014 to strengthen relationships among university,
industry and governmental institutes. This organization’s role includes:
1. facilitating technology transfer which leads to social and economic
innovations to make a social contribution through research findingsof the University of Tsukuba;
2. obtaining more international utilization of intellectual properties bymaking improvements of their assessment;
3. promoting cooperative researches with private enterprises as one of
the most important means of technology transfer;
4. supporting university spin-offs by facilitating technologicalincubation and transfer;
5. promoting university-industry-governmental institutes cooperation
within Tsukuba Science City and strengthening community
relationships with local public organizations such as Ibaraki
Prefecture, Tsukuba City and so forth;
6. accumulating knowledge and skills as to intellectual properties,
technology transfer and university spin-offs, nurturing humanresources and seeking to transfer those knowledge and skills to otheruniversities.

We continuously make exertions to improve the organization of ouroffice and to promote university-industry-governmental institutes
cooperative activities in order to make more contribution to theprogress of industry and society through transferring excellent researchfindings of the University of Tsukuba to the general public.

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Wrap up and Future initiatives

Satoshi P. Watanabe
Hiroshima University
Senior Vice President
Satoshi P. Watanabe holds a joint professorship at the School ofInformatics & Data Science and the Research Institute for Higher
Education, and also serves as Senior Vice President for University
Strategy at Hiroshima University.

Satoshi contributed to various

public policy research initiatives, working as a biostatistician for theCity of New York’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and asa senior research scientist at the Washington, DC-based think-tank,American Institutes for Research, authoring publications for the U.S.
Congress, US Department of Education, the White House Initiative on
Educational Excellence for Hispanics, as well as the World Bank.
Satoshi received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in the City of
New York with emphases on labor economics, economics of education,
and applied econometrics, after obtaining M.A. (economics), M.Ed.
(international/comparative education), M.A. (statistics) at Columbia.
Satoshi also attended the Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting Schoolof Engineering as an applied mathematics major. Satoshi was also avisiting scholar at the Center for Studies in Higher Education(Goldman School of Public Policy), University of California, Berkeley
in 2011-2012, and is currently a fellow at the Center for Organizational
Research and Design (CORD), Arizona State University.

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Wrap up and Future initiatives

Hiroto Yasuura
Kyushu University
Executive Vice President
Dr. Hiroto Yasuura is an Executive Vice President of Kyushu
University since 2008. He is also serving as Chief Information Officer(CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Kyushu
University. Dr. Yasuura received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees incomputer science from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1976, 1978,
and 1983 respectively. He was an associate professor in Kyoto
University and moved to Kyushu University in 1991 as a Professor of
Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Yasuura was the research director of Silicon-Sea-Belt Fukuoka
Project from 2001, to build up a research-industry R&D cluster on LSI
design and fablication. More than 250 semiconductor relatedcompanies are moved or established in Fukuoka area in the last 20
years. He is also one of founders of ISIT (Institute of Systems,
Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies, established in 1995),
which is founded by Fukuoka city for promoting ICT industry. He
served as the director of Experimental Center for Social System
Technologies in Fukuoka and now is serving as the director general of
Fukuoka Asian Urban Research Center. In accademic activities, Dr.
Yasuura served as Technical Program Chair and General Chair of
ICCAD at U.S. in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He served as a Vice
President of IEEE CAS Society. He was also the General Chair of ASPDAC 2003 and the Steering Committee Chair of ASP-DAC from 2004
to 2014. He is a fellow of IEEE, IEICE and IPSJ. From 2011 to 2017,he was a member of Science Council of Japan. He also worked forrevolution of higer education by ICT. He established AXIES(Academic eXchange for Information Environment and Strategy) in2011 and served as the first president of AXIES. He also one offounders of JMOOC and is now vice president.

Under his strong

leadership, Kyushu University has completed BYOD in 2017 and is
now promoting Learning Analytics for improvement of its
environment of Education.

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Christopher J. WestNC State University
Practicum Manager
Dr. Christopher West, as Practicum Manager at NC State University’s
Institute for Advanced Analytics, annually guides 24 Masters of Sciencein Analytics student teams through their 8-month practicum project (180projects since 2012) experience producing analytics based results forsponsoring

corporate,

governmental,

andnon-profit

organizations. Prior to coming to the Institute in 2012, Dr. West retired
from the U.S. Air Force as an engineering officer with over 21 years ofexperience in leadership positions both stateside and in deployedlocations. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Management from Old
Dominion University in 2006, MS in Engineering Management from the
Air Force Institute of Technology in 1996, and his BS in ElectricalEngineering from Auburn University in 1998

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Japan-U.S.
Digital Innovation Hub
WorkshopJapan-U.S. Digital Innovation Hub Workshop