2025 Funded Projects

AI-driven Digital Platform for Dynamic Management of Supply Chains of Perishable Goods

  • Juming Tang, University of Washington, Industrial & Systems Engineering
  • Marcos Neves, University of Tsukuba, Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • Tofael Ahamed, University of Tsukuba, Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences

Smartphone-based AI-powered Early Detection and Monitoring of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Older Adults

  • Tomoko Ito, University of Tsukuba, Institute of Medicine
  • Oleg Zaslavsky, University of Washington, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Informatics
  • Les Atlas, University of Washington, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Creating Mediator AI to Help Humans and Life-Support Robots Coexist in Aging Societies

  • Fumihide Tanaka, University of Tsukuba, Institute of Systems and Information Engineering
  • Maya Cakmak, University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
  • Youchan Yim, University of Tsukuba, Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Real-Time Adaptive AI for Sleep Diagnosis, Treatment and Therapy

  • Shun Nakajima, University of Tsukuba, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine
  • Shih-Chieh Hsu, University of Washington, Physics
  • Amy Orsborn, University of Washington, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering
  • Eli Shlizerman, University of Washington, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Applied Math
  • Scott Hauck, University of Washington, Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Kei Muroi, University of Tsukuba, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine
  • Shio Maeda, University of Tsukuba, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine
  • Hiroku Noma, University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences (doctoral student)
  • Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine

Scalable Training of Robotic Foundation Models from Video with Latent Actions

  • Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering
  • Dieter Fox, University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering
  • Joel Jang, University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering (PhD student)

Social Dynamics AI: Transforming Social Interaction with Self and Others through Human Augmentation Technologies

  • Kenji Suzuki, University of Tsukuba, Institute of Systems and Information Engineering
  • Anind K. Dey, University of Washington, Information School
  • Yasuyo Minagawa, University of Tsukuba (Visiting), Cognitive Neuroscience

Inferring Strategic Behavior to Ensure Trustworthy Multi-agent AI Systems

  • Natasha Jaques, University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering (Google DeepMind Research Scholar)
  • Max Kleiman-Weiner, University of Washington, Foster School of Business, and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
  • Lillian Ratliff, University of Washington, Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Simon Du, University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering
  • Kevin Jamieson, University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering

AI-Enabled Smart Nursing Care System: Advancing Patient Care through Intelligent Monitoring and Decision Support

  • Taiga Shibayama, University of Tsukuba, Institute of Medicine
  • Yoshiki Abe, University of Tsukuba, Institute of Medicine
  • Rie Kudoh, University of Tsukuba, Institute of Medicine
  • Atsumi Iikura, University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences