Invited Speaker---Dr. Yoshifumi Nishida


Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

Biography: Yoshifumi Nishida is a Team Leader of Living Intelligence Research Team at the Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC) of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. He received a PhD from the Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 1998. In 1998, he joined Intelligent System Division of Electrotechnical Laboratory at AIST of the ministry of international trade and industry (MITI), Japan. In 2001, he joined Digital Human Laboratory. In 2003, he joined the Digital Human Research Center (DHRC) of AIST. He is also a Prime Senior Research Scientist at AIST from 2013. His research interests include human behavior sensing, human behavior modeling, injury prevention engineering, and social participation support. He is a member of the Robotics Society of Japan, and the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence. He received the best paper awards from the Robotics Society of Japan, the Japan Ergonomics Society, and the Information Processing Society of Japan.

Speech Title: Living Safety for Diversity in the Era of IoT and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract: Today it has become more necessary to address the physical and cognitive changes faced by children, elderly and disabled persons, and to ensure their safe livings and maintain active social participation levels. The society for this diversity should be redesigned into such one that is resilient to human living function changes. Recent artificial intelligence technology and internet of things technology allow us to systematically collect and analyze living data fragmented into multiple institutes and other living spaces. The Artificial Intelligence Research Center of AIST is developing the living intelligence technology that collects data from individuals with a wide variety of living functions and individualizes necessary interventions for them by networking multiple living laboratories located in local communities.