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Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo Trustworthy Assurance of AI Systems in the LLM Era Dr. Lei Ma is currently an associate professor with The University of Tokyo, as well as University of Alberta (with a shared appointment in part time from April 2023), leading Momentum Lab (website to be launched). Previously, he held the assistant professor position with Kyushu University from Jan. 2019, and was promoted to associate professor on April 2020. From April 2021, he joined University of Alberta and was honored to be selected as a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and a Fellow with Alberta Machine Intelligent Institute (Amii), under the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy. From April 2023,Read more

Professor, The University of Tokyo Toward Timely and Reliable Knowledge Control in Multimodal LLMs Prof. Nakayama has conducted extensive research in both computer vision and natural language processing. His expertise lies in multimodal deep learning, particularly in transparently linking various types of data, such as images and text, to perform recognition, understanding, and generation. Recently, he has been actively working on the development and application of multimodal large language models. To date, he has published over 40 papers at top-tier international conferences, such as ICLR and AAAI (Machine Learning/AI), CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV (Computer Vision), and ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL (Natural Language Processing), all ranked as CORE A*/A. In addition,Read more

Professor, The University of Tokyo Bring LLM to eHMI: toward continuous and bidirectional car-pedestrian interaction Takeo Igarashi is a Professor of Computer Science Department at The University of Tokyo. He received a Ph.D from the Department of Information Engineering at The University of Tokyo in 2000. He joined the Department of Computer Science as an assistant professor in 2002 and was promoted to a professor in 2011. His research interest is in user interfaces and interactive computer graphics in general. He is known for the development of a sketch-based modeling system (Teddy) and a multi-touch shape deformation method. He led a JST ERATO project and a JST CREST project asRead more

Courses Introduction to AlgorithmsSemester: 2019-current A1/A2 Place: Information Education Building, Komaba Campus Target: Undergraduate Real world information processingSemester: 2020-current, A1 Place Faculty of Science Bldg.1 (east) Room #340, Hongo campus Target: Undergraduate, Postgraduate Biography April. 2019 – current: Associate professor at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan (additional affiliation) Mobility Innovation Collaborative Research Organization (UTmobI) January. 2021 – current: Designated Associate professor at Center for Embedded Computing Systems, Nagoya University, Japan Feb. 2021 – Nov. 2021: Visiting professor, Aalto University Aug. 2013 – Mar. 2019: Project assistant professor at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan Jan. 2011 –Read more