National Taiwan University has established the Royal Palm Lecture Series as a campus-wide special lecture series aimed at expanding the perspectives of students and faculty members. This series invites distinguished scholars or professionals from both domestic and international backgrounds in academia or industry who have demonstrated exceptional achievements or global impact to deliver speeches and participate in academic exchanges at the university. The lecture will be delivered by Professor Yoshiyuki SANKAI, University of Tsukuba. All members of the university are enthusiastically encouraged to participate.
l Information：
Speaker: Professor Yoshiyuki SANKAI
Topic: "Pioneering the Future with “CYBERNICS” for Medical, Healthcare and Social Innovation — fusion of Bio-Medical Systems, AI-Robots and Information Systems —"
Date: 15:30 -17:00 Sep. 5th (Thur.), 2024
Venue: NTU International Conference Hall, 1st floor, Institute of Applied Mechanics
Language: English
l Introduction of Speaker:
Professor Yoshiyuki SANKAI earned a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Tsukuba in Japan in 1987. He has progressed from being a research fellow at the JSPS to assistant professor, associate professor, and then professor at the Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba. Dr. Sankai was also a visiting professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, in the United States. Currently, he is a professor, the Executive Research Director at the Center for Cybernetics Research, the Director at the F-MIRAI of the University of Tsukuba, the President and CEO of CYBERDYNE Inc., and a Program Director of SIP promoted by the Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan. He successively held the position of Leader/PM for the FIRST program and ImPACT program, initiated by the Japanese Cabinet Office, and the Business producer of the Program for Building Regional Innovation Ecosystem by MEXT. He also served as an Executive Board Member of Advanced Robotics, a member of the Global Agenda Council on Robotics & Smart Devices, a Center Partner of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a member of the Global Future Council of Production, and a member of the Global Precision Medicine Council of the WEF. Now, he is a fellow of the Robotics Society of Japan (“RSJ”) and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (“SICE”). He has also been appointed as an International Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (“IVA”).
l Activity Process:
15:00 -15:30: Registration and Admission (Close at 15:25.)
15:30 -15:35: Opening Introduction
15:35 -16:35: Speech Start
16:35 -16:55: Question & Answer Session
16:55 -17:00: Trophy Presentation and Group Photo Session
l Note:
1. Link: https://my.ntu.edu.tw/actregister/sessionList.aspx?actID=20243700_08
2. If you are an external participant using our school's activity registration system for the first time, please go to the homepage to apply for an account and password. Alternatively, an exclusive form for external individuals can be utilized: https://forms.gle/sLbtGcK7AtDG3mMo9
3. We have an open quota of 180 participants. Please register through our school's activity registration system. If you cannot attend, please cancel your registration as early as possible. The check-in registration deadline is 15:25; on-site registration will be available if any remaining slots exist.
4. Civil servants can register for Government Employee Lifelong Learning for 2 hours. For students, this learning record will be linked to students’ ePo.
5. Contact: Mr. Yu, Center for General Education, NTU (Phone: 02-3366-2545 #242； Email: tzuhungyu@ntu.edu.tw)