[Artificial Intelligence] Year Started : 2021

Michiaki Hamada

AI aptamer drug discovery project

Grant No.：JPMJCR21F1

Research Director

Michiaki Hamada

Professor
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Waseda University

Collaborator

Tatsuo Adachi	General Manager Discovery Research Department Ribomic Inc
Kaku Goto	Project Senior Assistant Professor Institute of Medical Science The University of Tokyo

Outline

In order to dramatically shorten the drug discovery period for RNA aptamers, which are attracting attention as next-generation new drugs that can replace low-molecular-weight compounds, we will establish “AI aptamer drug discovery” by integrating aptamer drug discovery experiments with RNA informatics and artificial intelligence technologies.

Takahiro Hara

Persona Model Transfer Techniques for Activity Prediction of Users in Heterogeneous Domains

Grant No.：JPMJCR21F2

Research Director

Takahiro Hara

Professor
Graduate School of Information Science anｄ Technology
Osaka University

Collaborator

Chihiro Ono	Director Human-Centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc.
Nobuo Kawaguchi	Professor Institute of Innovation for Future Society Nagoya University

Outline

This project aims to make a good use of persona models constructed in different domains (e.g., service providers and data owners), and develop techniques for transferring user activity prediction models between domains. The effectiveness of the persona models and techniques developed in this project will be verified through large scale field experiments (with a few million users). We will also plan to modify and extend our models and techniques according to the experimental results and apply them to real services.