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The 2018 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering symposium was held in June 18-20 in Tsukuba, Japan. Sixty of the most promising early career engineers from Japan and the United States met for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium on developments at the cutting edge of engineering technology in four areas: The Water Treatment Revolution, Bionics and Prosthetics, Smart Structures and Materials, and Advanced AI. The event is intended to facilitate international and cross-disciplinary research collaboration, promote the transfer of new techniques and approaches across disparate engineering fields, and encourage the creation of a transpacific network of world-class engineers. JAFOE is carried out in cooperation with the Engineering Academy of Japan.
The National Academy of Engineering would like to express its gratitude to The Grainger Foundation and the National Science Foundation for their support of the 2018 JAFOE Symposium.
LIST OF SESSIONS
Symposium co-chairs: Hidemitsu Furukawa, Yamagata University, and David Sedlak, University of California, Berkeley
THE WATER TREATMENT REVOLUTION Session co-chairs: Yoshihiko Kawaguchi, Horiba Advanced Techno, and Krista Wigginton, University of Michigan
Ensuring High Quality of Water Recycled from Wastewater to Augment Drinking Water Supplies Megan Plumlee, Orange County Water District
Research Trends in the Treatability of Trace Substances and Evaluating Their Impact on the Environment Keisuke Kuroda, National Institute for Environmental Studies
Emerging Water Treatment Technologies to Treat Our Increasingly Complex Wastewaters David Jassby, University of California, Los Angeles
Membrane Filtration for Sustainable Safe Drinking Water Supply Takashi Hashimoto, University of Tokyo
BIONICS AND PROSTHETICS Session co-chairs: Shoko Miyagawa, Keio University, and Justin Sanchez, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
The Science Behind Brain-Machine Interface Junichi Ushiba, Keio University
Bidirectional Intracortical Interfaces for Prosthetic Limb Control Robert Gaunt, University of Pittsburgh
Embodiment of Prosthesis into the Body Noritaka Kawashima, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities
Direct Brain Interfaces for Memory Restoration Daniel Rizzuto, Nia Therapeutics and University of Pennsylvania
SMART STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS Session co-chairs: Geoff Brennecka, Colorado School of Mines, and Hidehiro Yoshida, National Institute for Materials Science
Introduction
Superplastic Earth Hypothesis Takehiko Hiraga, University of Tokyo
Additive Manufacturing of Soft Matter for Robotic Applications Robert Shepherd, Cornell University
Manufacturing the Next Material Evolution Kira Barton, University of Michigan
Development of Advanced Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy for Materials Science Research Naoya Shibata, University of Tokyo
ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: DIVERSE AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING Session co-chairs: Hoda Eldardiry, PARC, and Tadahiro Taniguchi, Ritsumeikan University
Anomaly Mining: Detection and Beyond Leman Akoglu, Carnegie Mellon University
Learning Algorithms for Physical Systems: Challenges and Solutions Ion Matei, Palo Alto Research Center
Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Robot Control Takamitsu Matsubara, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Statistical Models for Discovering Knowledge from Relational Data Iku Ohama, Panasonic