Yasunori Yamada

Yasunori Yamada is a Senior Research Scientist and technical lead for the Digital Health group, IBM Research - Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in Information Science & Technology from the University of Tokyo and joined IBM in 2015. His research interests include computational neuroscience, embodied intelligence, cognitive science, behavioral science, AI/ML, and digital health.

Awards

• Academic & Scientific Recognition

  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Digital Health, 2025 (first-author paper: “Toward a foundation model for healthcare applications on single-camera gait analysis”)
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Digital Health, 2023 (co-authored paper: “An automated digital biomarker of mobility”)
  • Excellent Paper Award, IEEE Global Conference on Life Sciences & Technologies, 2021 (co-authored paper: “A study for detecting mild cognitive impairment by analyzing conversations with humanoid robots”)
  • Best Paper Award, International Conference on the Human Side of Service Engineering, 2020 (first-author paper: “Predicting future accident risks of older drivers by speech data from a voice-based dialogue system: a preliminary result”)
  • Best Paper Award, Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2017 (first-author paper: “Detecting mental fatigue from eye-tracking data gathered while watching video”)
  • Dean Prize, Grad. School of Information Science & Technology, The University of Tokyo, 2015 (for the PhD thesis on embodied brain modeling for human fetus)
  • Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2012 – 2015.

• Corporate Recognition

  • Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM Corporation, 2022 (for scientific and business contributions to digital health for healthy aging)
  • Branding Corporation Appreciation Award, IBM Japan, 2020 (for contribution to the increase in brand awareness through the R&D on dementia)
  • General Manager Award, IBM Japan, 2020 (for business contributions to multiple industries through the R&D on dementia)
  • Branding Corporation Appreciation Award, IBM Japan, 2019 (for contribution to the increase in brand awareness through the university collaboration toward early detection of dementia)
  • General Manager Award, IBM Japan, 2019 (for contribution to successful marketing campaigns through university collaborations on research for smart aging).

Invited Talk

• 'Digital Health - Behavioral analysis for neurological disorders and mental health,
  at the 20th seminar of Yocho-gaku, Nagoya University, Nov, 2024.

• 'Speech and language analysis for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease',
  in Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation, Jul, 2024.

• 'Behavioral analysis for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease',
  in Regional IPA/JPS Meeting, Sep, 2021.

• 'Behavioral features for elderly health monitoring',
  in Rapid-2018 (Workshop of LREC), May, 2018.

• Workshop of Scientific Approach for Philosophical Issues of Mind, December, 2017.

• 'Simulating cortical learning of the human fetus via sensorimotor experiences',
  in the 59th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Child Neurology, June, 2017.

• Workshop about Machine Learning, Information Theory, and Neuroscience, March, 2017.

• 'An Embodied Brain Model of the Human Fetus',
  in the 4th International Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics, March, 2017.

• 'Brain and musculoskeletal models for motor and cognitive deficits'
  in Computational Biology Seminar at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Jul, 2016

• 'Large-scale cortical simulation for human development & brain disorders'
  in Computational Biology Seminar at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Feb, 2016.

Biography

• BS of Engineering (2010)
  The University of Tokyo, Japan

• MA of Information Science & Technology (2012)
  The University of Tokyo, Japan

• Ph.D. student (2012-2015)
  Grad. School of Information Science & Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan

• A research fellow (2012-2015)
  in Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

• Researcher (2015-)
  in IBM Research - Tokyo

• Research of my phD http://www.isi.imi.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~y-yamada/index.html