Organizers
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Organizer 1
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Project Researcher, Sekimoto Lab, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Contact information: maedahi@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Hiroya Maeda is a Project Researcher at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. His current research topic is about road damage detection using image processing.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2789-4019
Organizer 2
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Visiting Researcher, Sekimoto Lab, The University of Tokyo, Japan;
Senior Research Fellow, IIT Roorkee, India
Contact information: deeksha@ct.iitr.ac.in
Deeksha Arya is a Ph.D. scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. She is currently working with the Sekimoto Lab, University of Tokyo to globalize the deep learning-based automatic road damage-detection models.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7948-5930
Organizer 3
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Associate Professor, Dr. Eng., Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
Contact information: sekimoto@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Dr. Yoshihide Sekimoto is an Associate professor of the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. He is burning enthusiasm to resolve social problems that become complicated by advanced spatial information processing. His study covers a wide range of topics, including prediction of mass people movement, urban planning support by fusion of various urban data, and construction of distribution infrastructure for social infrastructure data.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0305-7056
Organizer 4
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Professor & Head, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India.
Contact information: sanjay.ghosh@ce.iitr.ac.in
Dr. S. K. Ghosh is working as Professor(HAG) and Head of Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. The areas of his expertise include Digital Image processing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Land Surveying, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Machine learning, and GPS. For further information, please refer to this link.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7849-9313
Organizer 5
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Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
and Head, Centre for Transportation Systems, IIT Roorkee, India.
Contact information: durga.toshniwal@cs.iitr.ac.in
Dr. Durga Toshniwal is currently working as Head of the Centre for Transportation Systems and a Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Previously she worked as a Software Consultant in the United States for some years and then pursued her research in data mining. Some of the areas of her research interest are – Data Mining and Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Urban Computing, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Smart City. More details can be found here.
Organizer 6
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Project Lecturer, Ph.D., Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo
Contact information: tosseto@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Toshikazu Seto, Ph.D., is a Project Lecturer of Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo. His current research in GIScience focuses on participatory GIS, volunteered geographic information (VGI), and Open Source GIS technologies. His substantive research in political science focuses on open data policy and the effects of engagement of civic tech communities.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0281-1790
Organizer 7
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Assistant Professor, Dr.Eng., Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
Contact information: ksym@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Takehiro Kashiyama is an Assistant Professor of the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. He is interested in research about urban dynamics reproduction. His current research focuses on the creation of synthetic human mobility data in urban areas and the prediction of human behavior during a disaster.
Organizer 8
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Project Researcher, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
Contact information: homata@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Hiroshi Omata is a Project Researcher of the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. He has been working on software developments for more than a decade. He holds the specialization in digital signal processing of audio, web-based technology, and engagement of civic technology communities. He is leading in the civic technology communities and open data communities in Japan.