Joint NSF-JST Workshops on Embodied AI for Science
Funding Organization
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) & U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date & Time:
| Day 1: Embodied AI | Japan: May 27th 8:00 - 11:00 US East: May 26th 19:00 – 22:00 |
Public Registration link for Zoom Webinar https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DOnfV5P5RE6L6ayIPlJNeQ |
| Day 2: PCLs* | Japan: May 29th 8:00 - 11:00 US East: May 28th 19:00 – 22:00 |
Public Registration link for Zoom Webinar https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uM1I3XqLSHCkNFUqxBHNZw |
* PCLs: Programmable Cloud Laboratories
Co-Chairs
| Name (alphabetical order) | Title & Affiliation | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Cosima Boswell-Koller | Assistant Vice President for Integrated Venture Development, The University of Alabama | (In preparation) |
| Kostas Bekris | Professor, Computer Science Department, Rutgers University Amazon Scholar, Amazon Robotics, Amazon.com Inc. | (In preparation) |
| Naonori Ueda | Deputy Director, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP) | (In preparation) |
| Tetsuya Ogata | Professor/Director, Institute for AI and Robotics, Future Robotics Organization, Waseda University | (In preparation) |
Timetable (applicable for both two days)
| Time (JST) | Time (EDT) | Duration | Activity / Session Segment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 8:15 | 19:00 - 19:15 | 15 min | Welcome by JST & NSF Leadership Introduction of Co-Chairs and Setting the stage Share link of Participant Bios |
| 8:15 - 8:30 | 19:15 - 19:30 | 15 min | 30 sec introductions by invited attendees |
| 8:30 - 8:45 | 19:30 - 19:45 | 15 min | Speaker 1 (USA) |
| 8:45 - 9:00 | 19:45 - 20:00 | 15 min | Speaker 2 (Japan) |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | 20:00 - 20:30 | 30 min | Panel Discussion – Topic 1 (Speakers 1 & 2 + 3-4 Panelists) |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | 20:30 - 20:45 | 15 min | 30 sec introductions by invited attendees |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | 20:45 - 21:00 | 15 min | Speaker 3 (Japan) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | 21:00 - 21:15 | 15 min | Speaker 4 (USA) |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | 21:15 - 21:45 | 30 min | Panel Discussion – Topic 2 (Speakers 3 & 4 + 3-4 Panelists) |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | 21:45 - 22:00 | 15 min | Wrap-up by Chairs |
Day 1: Embodied AI
<MC> Dr. Cosima Boswell-Koller
Session 1: Embodied AI “Engineering and Modeling of Soft Embodied Systems for Adaptive Intelligence”
<Facilitators> Prof. Kostas Bekris & Prof. Tetsuya Ogata
<Keynote Speakers>
| Name (presentation order) | Title & Affiliation | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Nancy Pollard | Professor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University | (In preparation) |
| Fumiya Iida | Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | (In preparation) |
<Panelists>
| Name (presentation order) | Title & Affiliation | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Allison Okamura | Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University | (In preparation) |
| Andrew Spielberg | Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, CMU – Founder & President at Morpho AI | (In preparation) |
| Yukiyasu Domae | Team Leader, Embodied AI Research Team at the Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST | (In preparation) |
| Kenjiro Tadakuma | Professor, Graduate School of Engineerin g Science, Osaka University | (In preparation) |
Session 2: Embodied AI “Cognitive Foundations of Human–Robot Interaction”
<Facilitators> Prof. Tetsuya Ogata & Prof. Kostas Bekris
<Keynote Speakers>
| Name (presentation order) | Title & Affiliation | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Tadahiro Taniguchi | Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University | (In preparation) |
| TBD(USA) |
<Panelists>
| Name (presentation order) | Title & Affiliation | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Smart, Bill | Professor, Oregon State University & Amazon Scholar with the Personal Robotics | (In preparation) |
| TBD | ||
| Emi Tamaki | CEO/ Professor, H2L, Inc./ Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University | (In preparation) |
| Takahiro Nozaki | Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology , Keio University | (In preparation) |
<Invited Attendees: JP>
| Name | Title & Affiliation | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Kouta Minamizawa | Professor, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University | (In preparation) |
| Taisuke Kobayashi | Assistant Professor, Principles of Informatics Research Division, National Institute of Informatics (NII) | (In preparation) |
| Shuhei Kurita | Assistant Professor, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division , National Institute of Informatics (NII) | (In preparation) |
| Sho Sakaino | Associate Professor, Faculty of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba | (In preparation) |
| Satoshi Funabashi | Lecturer, Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University | (In preparation) |
| Takato Horii | Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University | (In preparation) |
| Takamitsu Matsubara | Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) | (In preparation) |
| Kimitoshi Yamazaki | Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University | (In preparation) |
| Yuuya Nagata | Group Leader, Research Center for Macromolecules and Biomaterial, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) | (In preparation) |
| Kanako Harada | Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo | (In preparation) |
| Koichiro Yoshino | Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University | (In preparation) |
| Hiroyuki Nabae | Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering , Institute of Science Tokyo | (In preparation) |
<Invited Attendees: US>
| Name | Title & Affiliation | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Wendy Ju | Professor , Cornell | (In preparation) |
| Malte F. Jung | Associate Professor, Cornell University | (In preparation) |
| Sonia Chernova | Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology | (In preparation) |
| Yiyue Luo | Assistant Professor, University of Washington | (In preparation) |
| Lining Yao | Professor, University of Delaware | (In preparation) |
| Brian Scassellati | Professor of Computer Science, Yale University | (In preparation) |
| Henny Admoni | Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University | (In preparation) |
| Bill Smart | Professor, Oregon State University | (In preparation) |
| Ken Nakagaki | Assistant Professor, University of Chicago | (In preparation) |
| Bradley Hayes | Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder | (In preparation) |
| Allison Okamura | Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford University | (In preparation) |
| Nikolaus Correll | Professor, University of Colorado | (In preparation) |
| Ram Vasudevan | Professor, University of Michigan | (In preparation) |
| Brooke Kennedy | Director of Human Resources, Persist AI | (In preparation) |
| Katherine Driggs-Campbell | Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | (In preparation) |
| Will Johnson | Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College | (In preparation) |
Day 2: Programmable Cloud Laboratories
<MC> Prof. Kostas Bekris
Session 3: Programmable Cloud Laboratories – "Solving Grand Global Challenges through PCL Integration: Accelerating Discovery at Scale"
<Facilitators> Dr. Cosima Boswell-Koller & Dr. Naonori Ueda
<Keynote Speakers>
| Name (presentation order) | Title & Affiliation | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Koichi Takahashi | Project Director, Advanced General Intelligence for Science (AGIS) Program, RIKEN | (In preparation) |
| Jon Hennek | Chief Revenue and Product Officer at Lila | (In preparation) |
<Panelists>
| Name (presentation order) | Title & Affiliation | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Javier Read de Alaniz | Full Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara Director, BioPACIFIC MIP | (In preparation) |
| TBD | ||
| Eiji Aramaki | Professor, Division of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) | (In preparation) |
| Kosuke Nakano | Staff Scientist, Center for Basic Research on Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) | (In preparation) |
Session 4: Programmable Cloud Laboratories – "The Lab as a Service (LaaS): Architecting Global Research Fabrics"
<Facilitators> Dr. Naonori Ueda & Dr. Cosima Boswell-Koller
<Keynote Speakers>
| Name (presentation order) | Title & Affiliation | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| James Zhou | Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of CS and EE. Stanford | (In preparation) |
| Kanako Harada | Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo | (In preparation) |
<Panelists>
| Name (presentation order) | Title & Affiliation | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Sudipta Sengupta | Vice President & Distinguished Scientist, Amazon | (In preparation) |
| TBD | ||
| Jun Sese | CEO, Humanome Lab, Inc. | (In preparation) |
| Genki Kanda | Professor, Laboratory of Robotic Science, Medical Research Institute, Institute of Science Tokyo | (In preparation) |
<Invited Attendees : JP>
| Name | Title & Affiliation | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Kenji Kamimoto | Professor, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University | (In preparation) |
| Shuto Hayashi | Associate Professor, Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo | (In preparation) |
| Yuuya Nagata | Group Leader, Research Center for Macromolecules and Biomaterial, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) | (In preparation) |
| Hirotoshi Mori | Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University | (In preparation) |
| Keiichi Inoue | Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo | (In preparation) |
| Jun Seita | Team Director, Lab for AI-driven Experimental Medicine, RIKEN | (In preparation) |
<Invited Attendees : US>
| Name | Title & Affiliation | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Spielberg | Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University | (In preparation) |
| Lilo Pozzo | Professor, University of Washington | (In preparation) |
| Alejandro Strachan | Reilly Professor of Materials Engineering, Purdue University | (In preparation) |
| Sterling Baird | Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University | (In preparation) |
| Mahshid Ahmadi | Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville | (In preparation) |
| Michael Shields | Professor, Johns Hopkins University | (In preparation) |
| Sergei Kalinin | Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville | (In preparation) |
| Joan Redwing | Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University | (In preparation) |
| Milad Abolhasani | Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University | (In preparation) |
| John Schlueter | Program Director, U.S. National Science Foundation | (In preparation) |
| Steven Moss | Science Policy Lead, Astera Institute | (In preparation) |
| Yan Zeng | Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University | (In preparation) |
| Chris Petzold | Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | (In preparation) |
| Hector Garcia Martin | Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab | (In preparation) |
| Eyhab Al-Masri | Associate Professor, University of Washington | (In preparation) |
| Philip Romero | Associate Professor, Duke University | (In preparation) |
| Olexandr Isayev | Carl and Amy Jones Professor of Chemistry, Carngie Mellon University | (In preparation) |
| Talia Moore | Assistant Professor, University of Michigan | (In preparation) |
| Frances Klimczak | Head of Government Partnerships, Lila Sciences, Inc. | (In preparation) |
| Douglas Densmore | Professor, Boston University | (In preparation) |
Contact
JST Department of Research Project (ARiSE group)
Email: arisewww [at] jst.go.jp (replace [at] to @)
