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I joined the panel discussion, “Japan’s Research Renaissance: Strategies for Global Impact,” at the Asia Society Japan Center’s Asia Society Policy Salon Tokyo. We discussed strategies for strengthening the global impact of Japan’s research ecosystem and practical approaches to enable more breakthrough innovation. Date & Time: November 26, 2025 Location: Asia Society Japan (International House of Japan,…

The research project led by Professor Tanaka at Nagoya Institute of Technology, in which I participate as a Co-PI, has been selected for JST CREST funding. 研究概要 本研究は、脳波を含むマルチモーダル計測に基づく技能抽出、および人とAIが一つのロボットを協調操作する身体融合を介したインタラクティブな学習を通じ、技能者からロボットへ高度技能をインストールする身体融合学習基盤の創出を目的とします。技能者に特有の感覚運動情報と人ーAI身体相互モデルを明らかにし、これらを実装した学習アーキテクチャを構築、教示データの質や成功率の向上を示し、複数の高度技能を実現します。

I was featured on the VR Summit 2025 speaker lineup as an online speaker, representing Cybernetic Humanity Studio. The summit takes place in Bochum, Germany, with the main conference on Oct 20–21, 2025

Date: October 25–26, 2025Location: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), Tokyo Following our June and July public experiment, we will run the public experiment again at Miraikan.Link-Miraikan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation) AI “clone” science communicatorWe will run a public experiment at Miraikan featuring an AI “clone” science communicator—an AI agent…

Date: Friday, October 17, 2025, 16:00–17:30Location: OIST Lab 5 D03 Atrium, OIST I served as a featured speaker at OIST Innovation’s Career Talk, sharing my path across research and entrepreneurship and introducing my work.

Exhibition period: September 1–28, 2025 (9:00–17:00)Venue: OIST Tunnel Gallery, Okinawa We successfully presented the immersive sound exhibition “Nature Resonance, Urban Echoes,” exploring how contrasting soundscapes—natural environments and urban noise—shape perception and behavior. The installation combined a multi-speaker 3D audio system with synchronized visuals, creating a public-space experiment that observed how sound and scene influence movement…

I gave a talk at an event of IMLEX — Imaging and Light in Extended Reality, an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s programme coordinated by the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). The session was held at UEF School of Computing, Joensuu Campus (Science Park). About IMLEX: A multidisciplinary master’s program linking imaging, lighting, and computer science…

I have been named General Co-Chair of the Augmented Humans 2026 (AHs’26) International Conference, to be held March 16–19, 2026, at the OIST Conference Center in Okinawa, Japan. Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference 2026

I was featured in the following article. Nature Career Feature: Can creativity in science be learnt? These researchers think so Shunichi Kasahara, a computer scientist at Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo and at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, thinks that creativity in research is “the ability to observe, iterate and extract…

I co-organized NII Shonan Meeting No.216, “Human-Computer-Interfaces × Neuroscience,” held at Shonan Village Center on June 23–26, 2025. The workshop brought together researchers across HCI and neuroscience to explore how insights from brain and body science can accelerate the design of next-generation interfaces—spanning neuro-interfaces, sensing/actuation, input-output bandwidth, and sense of agency.