Associate Professor Yoshiho IKEUCHI of the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) of the University of Tokyo gave a lecture from the UTokyo New York Office, along with Teruo FUJII, President of the University of Tokyo who joined the event online, and other invited speakers at UTokyo-IIS Seminar “Delivering the Vision – Closing the gap between academic research and society” held in a hybrid format on June 13, 2022, New York time.　

Associate Professor Ikeuchi is the research leader of the basic research project “Understanding human brain through constructing organoid circuit tissues” at the Institute for AI and Beyond.

For detail about the seminar, refer to the following URL:
https://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/3871/

UTokyo-IIS Bulletin Vol.10 covering the event published on September 1, 2022 :
https://issuu.com/utokyo-iis/docs/utokyo-iis_bulletin_vol10_web_220831/6

A research team including Professor Kenichi OHKI of the Institute for AI and Beyond, the Graduate School of Medicine and the International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN) of the University of Tokyo and Assistant Professor Tomonari MURAKAMI also of the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Tokyo has successfully elucidated a new mechanism of the brain by which a complex neural network, including interareal connections in the cerebral cortex, is efficiently formed during development. This is the first study investigating comprehensively how interareal connections among cortical and thalamic regions are formed during development.
　
This study is expected to be applied in the future to treatments for diseases such as congenital blindness and to circuit formation algorithms to improve an artificial intelligence.

The research result was published in the online edition of Nature on 3 August 2022 (UK time).

Professor Ohki and Assistant Professor Murakami are Project Leader and Researcher respectively in the Basic Research Project entitled “Development of next generation AI by modeling brain information ” at the Institute for AI and Beyond.

The full press release (in Japanese only) in PDF.
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/content/400193638.pdf

Related link: UTokyo HP
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/ja/press/
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00240.html

Abstract URL (Title: Modular strategy for the development of hierarchical networks in the mouse visual system)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05045-w

Professor Tatsuya HARADA of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology （RCAST）of the University of Tokyo was awarded the Science and Technology Award in the Science and Technology Promotion Category for the 2022 Commendation for Science and Technology from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) jointly with Professor Shinichi SATO of National Institute of Informatics (NII) and his research collaborators on April 20, 2022 for the contributions made by the “Medical Big-Data Cloud Platform and its application to AI automated diagnosis research”.

The "Commendation for Science and Technology from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology" is awarded to persons who have made outstanding achievements in research and development, promotion of understanding related to science and technology.

Professor Tatsuya HARADA is the Project Leader of the Basic Research (Advancement of Fundamental AI) project entitled "Automatic Learning of High Accurate Prediction Models from Limited Supervised Data" at the Institute for AI and Beyond of the University of Tokyo.

・MEXT Homepage: Selected the 2022 Commendation for Science and Technology (Awards for Science and Technology in Research Category) by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (only in Japanese).
https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/houdou/mext_00989.html
・Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo (only in Japanese):
https://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/news/release/20220408.html
・National Institute of Informatics (NII) News Release
https://www.nii.ac.jp/news/release/2022/0408.html

Professor Masashi SUGIYAMA, Sub-Leader of the Basic Research (Advancement of Fundamental AI) entitled "Automatic Learning of High Accurate Prediction Models from Limited Supervised Data" (Project Leader, Professor Tatsuya HARADA), was selected for the 2022 Commendation for Science and Technology (Awards for Science and Technology in Research Category) by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
The Award Ceremony will be held on April 20 at the auditorium of the Ministry.
The "Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology" is awarded to persons who have made outstanding achievements in research and development, promotion of understanding related to science and technology.

Awarded research:
Weakly Supervised Machine Learning for Building Reliable Artificial Intelligence

On 14th March 2022, Professor Eiji Saitoh, the leader of the Basic Research “Analysis of materials’ quantum properties using AI” received the Japan Academy Prize.

Japan Academy Prize
The Japan Academy Prizes is awarded to persons who have achieved notable research landmarks or who have authored particularly outstanding academic papers or books.

About awarded research
Pioneering Research on Physics of Spin Current

Related Links
Japan Academy: Recipients of the Imperial Prize, the Japan Academy Prizes and the Duke of Edinburgh Prize elected
https://www.japan-acad.go.jp/en/news/2022/031401.html

Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo:
【Awards and Commendations】Professor Eiji Saitoh, Department of Applied Physics, received Japan Academy Prize
https://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/foee/topics/setnws_202203161143454127410294.html

Associate Professor Kenji Tanaka's research development of a "Urban Simulator for the next generation utilizing AI digital technology" from the Institute for AI and Beyond's Applied Research (High-cycle Research) has been featured on DG Lab Haus, a media outlet that provides information on cutting-edge technologies. This article features interviews with Associate Professor Tanaka, Mr. Shinichi Matsuda, Senior Director, AI Strategy Office Technology Unit, SoftBank Corp., and Ryo Kunieda, Manager, AI Strategy Office.

Title: "Another Ebina City" in Virtual Space - Institute for AI and Beyond's "Urban Simulator for the next generation utilizing AI digital technology"
Media: DG Lab Haus
Article URL: https://media.dglab.com/2021/06/08-ebina-01/

Professor Masami Hagiya has been appointed as the new Director of the Institute for AI and Beyond as of April 1st, 2021.
In addition, Professor Taketoshi Mori and Mr. Tomomi Yamazaki were newly appointed as Senior Deputy Director and Deputy Director, respectively.

Director
Masami Hagiya, Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo　

Senior Deputy Director
Taketoshi Mori, Professor, Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Research Center, The University of Tokyo

Deputy Director
Tomomi Yamazak, Institute for aI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo


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The Inaugural Symposium of the Institute for AI and Beyond held on February 20 was introduced on the “Features” page in the "Daigaku Koho- Campus Magazine” (March 2021, No. 1544), UTokyo.

Japanese Only :
The University of Tokyo "University Press" March 2021 NO.1544 (2021.3.25)
The "Daigaku Koho- Campus Magazine” (March 2021, No. 1544 on March 25, 2021), UTokyo
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/gen03/kouhou/1544/index.html