The Japan Academy has decided to give an academic incentive award to six people, including Professor Daiji Kawaguchi (45) = Labor Economics = of the Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo, who has achieved excellent research results and is expected to play an active role in the future. rice field.The award ceremony will be held on February 6th at the Japan Academy in Taito-ku, Tokyo, and a certificate of merit and a research incentive of 2 million yen will be awarded.
According to the Japanese Academy of Sciences, the winners are Professor Kawaguchi and Masaru Sugiyama, Director of the Institute for Innovative Intelligence (42) = Machine Learning ▽ Associate Professor Motomi Nomachi (40) of the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University. = Slavic Language ▽ Kazuyo Moro, Team Leader, Center for Integrated Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (40) = Immunology ▽ Professor Yasuhiro Yamada, iPS Cell Research Institute, Kyoto University (44) = Tumor Pathology ▽ Research, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo Professor Naoki Yoshida (43) = Space theory.
Professor Kawaguchi applied standard labor economics theory and econometric methods to large-scale microdata and found that wage disparities within the same attribute group by academic background, company size, and gender are widening in Japan. ..Director Sugiyama established an adaptive learning theory of artificial intelligence that works effectively against changes over time, and has achieved results in age estimation from facial images and robot motion control.
Associate Professor Nomachi conducted fieldwork in Eastern Europe on the West Slavic languages Kashubian and the South Slavic languages Banat Bulgarian, and collected valuable materials.Moro team leader noticed the presence of lymphoid tissue in adipose tissue and named it natural helper cells.
Professor Yamada applied somatic cell reprogramming technology to cancer research and found that incomplete cell reprogramming in mice causes cancer similar to pediatric solid tumors.Professor Yoshida has developed a computer program that calculates in detail the process by which a large number of stars and interstellar gas are generated in the post-Big Bang universe based on the laws of physics.
