Prof. Yen-Wei Chen
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
 

Biography: Yen-Wei Chen received the B.E. degree in 1985 from Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan, the M.E. degree in 1987, and the D.E. degree in 1990, both from Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan. He was a research fellow with the Institute for Laser Technology, Osaka, from 1991 to 1994. From Oct. 1994 to Mar. 2004, he was an associate Professor and a professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univ. of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. He is currently a professor with the college of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He is the founder and the first director of Center of Advanced ICT for Medicine and Healthcare, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. Since April 2024, he has been a Foreign Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan.
His research interests include medical image analysis, computer vision and computational intelligence. He has published more than 300 research papers in a number of leading journals and leading conferences including IEEE Trans. Image Processing, IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, CVPR, ICCV, MICCAI. He has received many distinguished awards including ICPR2012 Best Scientific Paper Award, 2014 JAMIT Best Paper Award. He is/was a leader of numerous national and industrial research projects. In recent years, Professor Yen-Wei Chen has consistently been ranked among the world’s top 2% of scientists, both for the most recent year and over his entire career, according to the Stanford/Elsevier rankings.

 

Prof. Ari Aharari
Sojo University, Kumamoto, Japan
 

Biography: He received M.E. and PhD in Industrial Science and Technology Engineering and Robotics from Niigata University and Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan in 2004 and 2007, respectively. In 2004, he joined GMD-JAPAN as a Research Assistant. He was Research Scientist and Coordinator at FAIS- Robotics Development Support Office from 2004 to 2007. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at Waseda University, Japan from 2007 to 2008. He served as a Senior Researcher of Fukuoka IST involved in the Japan Cluster Project from 2008 to 2010. In 2010, he became an Assistant Professor at the faculty of Informatics of Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science. Since 2012, he has been Associate Professor at the department of Computer and Information Science, Sojo University, Japan. He is currently professor at the department of Computer and Information Science, Sojo University, Japan.
His research interests are IoT, Robotics, IT Agriculture, Image Processing and Data Analysis (Big Data) and their applications. He is a member of IEEE (Robotics and Automation Society), RSJ (Robotics Society of Japan), IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers), IIEEJ (Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan).