December 13 (Tue.) 15:10-16:10 Health & Security
Chair
OGATA Tetsuya
Former Associate Director, WIAS/Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
Research Field：Intelligent robotics
Tetsuya Ogata received the B.S., M.S., and D.E. degrees in mechanical engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1993, 1995, and 2000, respectively. He was a Research Associate with Waseda University from 1999 to 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Research Scientist with the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. From 2003 to 2012, he was an Associate Professor with the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Since 2012, he has been a Professor with the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University. From 2009 to 2015, he was a JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) PREST Researcher. From 2017, he is a Joint-appointed Fellow with the Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo. He served as director of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ) from 2014 to 2015 and of the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) from 2016 to 2018. He is currently a member of director board of Japan Deep Learning Association (JDLA) from 2017, and a director of Institute of AI and Robotics, Waseda University from 2020. His current research interests include deep learning for robot motion control, human–robot interaction, and dynamics of human–robot mutual adaptation.
Speakers
SOMA Takuya
WIAS Alumnus, Associate Professor, The Hakubi Project, Kyoto University
Research Field：Geography
Born in Hino City, Tokyo. PhD in Agricultural Science. After graduating from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and Waseda University (Graduate school of Letters, Arts, and Sciences), he engaged in long-term fieldwork in Bayan-Ulgii and Xovd provinces in western Mongolia. His early career started as a visiting researcher at University of Kassel (the Department of Ecology Agricultural Science), then as an assistant professor at Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies (Waseda University), and Tsukuba University. He specializes in human geography, ecological anthropology, animal behavior, and Human-Animal Interactions (HAI) with a focus on agro-pastoral societies across the Altai Mountains, Central Eurasia to the Himalayas.
DEMATAGODA Udith
Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University
Research Field：Theories of literary criticism
Originally from Scotland, I’m a modernist literature scholar, and previosuly held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship between 2017 and 2020 at the University of Konstanz’s institute for advanced study – the Zukunftskolleg. I took my PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow in 2016. My current research focuses on the relationship between technology, masculinity, and fascism within English and European Modernist narratives. I am currently completing a book on these themes which examines work by Wyndham Lewis, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Louis Ferdinand Céline, Gottfried Benn, and Julius Evola – amongst others. Previously, I wrote on Vladimir Nabokov and politics. My first monograph ‘Vladimir Nabokov and the Ideological Aesthetic’, was published in September 2017. I am also editor of a volume of the Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis, ‘Left Wings Over Europe’, forthcoming through Oxford University Press. Main Areas of Research include ideology and aesthetics in relation to works of 20th century English and European literature, modernist fiction and poetry, theories of the avant-garde, literary and critical theory. I currently serve on the Executive Committee of the British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS).
BERTOGG Ariane
Postdoctoral Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz
Research Field：Life course
Ariane Bertogg received her PhD from the University of Zürich in 2017. In her dissertation, she looked at intergenerational relationships in young adulthood, based on a Swiss longitudinal study (TREE – Transitions from Education to Employment). From 2017 until March 2020, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at the University of Konstanz, working in a DFG-funded project.
Currently she is holding a Zukunftskolleg Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Konstanz.
KAKUI, Yasutaka
Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University
Research Field：Heredity/Genome Dynamics
Yasutaka Kakui is Assistant Professor in the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) at Waseda University. He has received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in The Francis Crick Institute in London, UK before joining WIAS. His research focuses on chromosome structures in cell division and sexual reproduction, aiming to the contribution to fertility treatments through understanding a molecular basis behind.
