Speakers

Kanako Harada is a Professor at the Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine (CDBIM) within the Graduate School of Medicine at The University of Tokyo, Japan. She also holds positions in the Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering within the Graduate School of Engineering. Additionally, she serves as a Project Manager for the national flagship "Moonshot" project, spearheaded by the Cabinet Office. She earned her M.Sc. in Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 2001 and received her Ph.D. in Engineering from Waseda University in 2007. Prior to joining The University of Tokyo, she held positions at Hitachi Ltd., the Japan Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment, and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy. She also served as a Program Manager for the Cabinet Office's ImPACT program from 2016 to 2019. Her research interests encompass a range of areas, including surgical robotic systems, automation of robots for medical applications, skills assessment, patient models, virtual-reality simulators, and regulatory science.

https://sites.google.com/g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cdbim-medical-devices

Professor Andreas Archenti is actively engaged in precision-driven research within the area of machinery reliability and performance. Since 2018, he has held the position of Chair Professor in Industrial Dependability with a particular emphasis on Precision Engineering, Metrology, and Analytics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He earned his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Mechatronics in 2007 and completed his PhD in Machine and Process Technology in 2011. In 2014, he was appointed as a docent in Precision Manufacturing and Metrology at KTH. As the Director of the Center for Design and Management of Manufacturing Systems (DMMS) at KTH, Dr. Archenti is responsible for coordinating activities related to research, education, and the dissemination of information between academia and the manufacturing industry.

https://www.kth.se/profile/archenti?l=en

Professor Hans Berg has a PhD on human muscle atrophy and weakness following bedrest inactivity for spaceflight (1996) and is the inventor of a strength training apparatus (using gravity-independent flywheels) that has been used in space and microgravity studies by ESA and NASA; and is currently re-adapted for future deep spaceflight. At the KI department of Environmental physiology, he leads joint studies on gravitational (G-force) and ambient pressure stress on pilots and divers.

As a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Karolinska University Hospital, Berg studied muscular weakness, gait disturbance and morphological changes, including muscular fat infiltration in orthopaedic patients suffering from osteoarthritis or trauma. Goals of patients and doctors are not only pain relief but nowadays also restored limb function after orthopaedic surgery.

A current study with KTH Royal Institute of Technology aims to merge robotic surgery with new external fixation technologies for advanced fracture treatment.

Also: https://ki.se/en/people/hans-berg#about-me

Dr. Mathias Mosfeldt holds a PhD on prediction of mortality after hip fractures using machine learning techniques (2024). His research interests focus moving forward will be on the clinical application of machine learning in orthopaedics, as well as developments in the field of deformity correction and leg lengthening through the use of 3D imaging to increase surgical precision as well as integration of quantitative parameters of bone healing, into treatment strategies in leg legthening and deformity corrections.

As a medical doctor and consultant in orthopaedics at the Center for Deformity Corrections, Karolinska University Hospital, Mosfeldt manages complex deformities and limb reconstruction. His clinical and research activities are closely linked, with the goal of improving patient outcomes and advancing surgical innovation.

He is also leading a new PhD project as supervisor, investigating the use of virtual reality in surgical training. This work not only aims to helps young surgeons learn more effectively but also opens new opportunities for teaching in low-income countries through virtual operating room platforms and for experienced surgeons to prepare for difficult and rare cases.

Dr. Sanghyun Joung received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 2009 for his research on “Robot-Assisted Fracture Reduction.” He subsequently worked at The University of Tokyo and Kyungpook National University in South Korea, focusing on robot and navigation systems for various surgical applications. In 2020, he founded AIRS Inc. to commercialize his research achievements. He has successfully obtained KFDA approval for the company’s robot and navigation system for fracture surgery and has raised a total of 5.7 million USD to date. His company is currently developing a robotic system for fracture surgery, a minimally invasive bone tumor surgical robotic system, a patient positioning robot for surgical assistance, and an AI-enhanced platform for defect bone regeneration, among others. His interests include not only research and development of surgical robotics—particularly for orthopedic surgery—but also regulatory science and clinical research.

https://airsurgical.net

April 2010 Technical Development, Omron Corporation
March 2017 PhD, Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo)
April 2017 Assistant Professor, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, UTokyo
August 2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Precision Engineering, School of Engineering, UTokyo
December 2023 Associate Professor, Department of Precision Engineering, School of Engineering, UTokyo
April 2024 Associate Professor, RCAST, UTokyo

Research Interests

Modern medicine uses a variety of biomedical measurement technologies, including medical imaging such as CT/MRI and ultrasound. On the other hand, due to the limitations of invasiveness, i.e., the restriction not to damage the living body, there still remains a lot of information in the living body that is difficult to measure directly. Physicians often make diagnoses by inferring in vivo phenomena from indirect biological signals. Our goal is to clarify the advanced cognitive abilities of physicians in order to realize technologies that support medical treatment at a higher level. Specifically, we are developing the following technologies

- Advanced diagnosis technology for arrhythmia based on ECG waveform recognition
- Flexible ultrasound imaging technology that can be attached to body surfaces
- Surgical robot technology that recognizes and controls deformation of flexible tissues

Donald McMillan is an Associate Professor at Stockholm University’s Department of Computer and Systems Sciences. His research spans Human-Robot Interaction, Conversational User Interfaces, and Human-Computer Interaction, with recent award-winning work on feminist approaches to HRI, context-aware voice interaction, and gaze-aware conversational agents. He leads and collaborates on international projects exploring how people and intelligent systems act together in everyday and health contexts.

Shu Takagi is a Professor at the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering at The University of Tokyo since 2010. He received Doctor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1995. His areas of expertise include numerical simulations and experimental investigations on dispersed multiphase flows, especially bubbly flows and blood cell flows, medical ultrasound, hierarchical integrated simulation of human body, molecular thermo-fluid mechanics and multiscale analysis of thermo-fluid phenomena. He has written over 20 review articles including Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics and has given more than 30 keynote lectures in conferences. He has been contributing as an associate editor of IJMF and Journal FLOW. He is former presidents of Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics (2023-2024) and Japan Society of Multiphase Flows (2022-2023) and currently a member of Science Council of Japan. He is also a IUTAM Congress Committee member and contributing for the international activity in the field of mechanics.

Lisa Prahl Wittberg is Professor in Fluid Mechanics with a specialization in Multiphase Flows at KTH, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics. The research has a fundamental and applied character utilizing both numerical and experimental methods. The focus is to enhance the understanding of flow physics and the underlying processes, encountered in inter-disciplinary as well as cross-disciplinary applications (e.g medical applications with clinical relevance). The research is carried out in close collaboration with clinical partners at the Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Lisa was awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant in 2021, and is engaged in projects funded by the European Innovation Council (EIC), the Swedish Research Council and Vinnova (the Swedish Innovation council). She is member of the Swedish National committee for Mechanics, represents Sweden in IUTAM, chairing the European extracorporeal life support organization (EuroELSO) Workgroup on Innovation in ECMO and ECLS and a member of the European association for cardio-thoracic surgery (EACTS) Innovation committee. 

Marco Laudato is a researcher in the Division of Fluid Mechanics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His expertise lies in fluid mechanics, machine learning, and aeroacoustics. He is currently principal investigator of a research project focused on modelling cardiovascular pathologies by combining computational fluid mechanics with neural operator–based models. His work centres on harnessing the computational power of machine learning to develop multi-scale blood flow models with unprecedented physical detail and resolution. In 2024, he received the Göran Gustafsson Young Scientist Award. 

Marie Oshima is a joint professor at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies and the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo. She earned her Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Tokyo, where she began her career as a research associate before advancing to assistant professor and, in 2005, full professor. Since 2006, she has held a joint appointment between the two institutes, and in 2024, she was appointed Deputy Director of Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo.

Her main research field is computational hemodynamics, particularly medical image-based modeling and blood flow simulation for clinical applications related to cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis. She became the first female president of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) in 2017, one of Japan’s largest and oldest academic societies. She is a General Council member of IACM and APACM. 

Kimiko Yamamoto is an Associate Professor of the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tokyo. She received her BEng and MEng in Applied Chemistry from Waseda University (1987 and 1989), PhD in Polymer Chemistry from Yamagata University (1996), and MD from The University of Tokyo (2000). In 2000, she started her research career as an Assistant Professor of the Laboratory of System Physiology at the University of Tokyo. She also held the additional post of researcher of Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology in the Japan Science and Technology Agency from 2006 to 2010. She had also been concurrently holding charge as the project leader of Advanced Research and Development Programs for Medical Innovation in the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED-CREST) from 2015 to 2021. Her area of expertise is vascular mechanobiology and mechanotransduction in vascular endothelial cells in response to blood flow.