10th annual
U.S. and Japan Digital Innovation Hub & Advanced Technology Workshop
From September 7-9, Purdue University hosted the 10th annual U.S. and Japan Digital Innovation Hub & Advanced Technology Workshop, bringing together leaders from academia, industry and government to discuss the theme of AI Convergence. The workshop explored collaboration and innovation in critical technologies, including artificial intelligence, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, space and quantum technology. The event highlights the growing U.S.-Japan partnership in research, technology and workforce development.
From September 7 to 9, representatives from universities, research institutions and companies from the United States and Japan attended the 10th Annual U.S. and Japan Digital Innovation Hub & Advanced Technology Workshop at Purdue University.
During the event, JETRO and Purdue University signed an MOU to expand U.S.-Japan collaboration across advanced technology fields, including semiconductors, quantum technologies, AI and advanced manufacturing.
Senior Vice President for Partnerships and Online Dimitrios Peroulis with Naoyuki Maekawa, director and general of the Innovation Department at JETRO.
Purdue Senior Vice President for Partnerships and Online Dimitrios Peroulis with Masahiro Yamaguchi, executive vice president for international strategy and global education initiatives and professor of physics at Tohoku University
Shengwang Du, Scifres Family Professor of electrical and computer engineering and professor of physics and astronomy at Purdue University; Dana Z. Anderson, Glenn L. Murphy Professor and Endowed Chair of engineering and applied Sciences and professor of physics and JILA Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, founder and chief science officer, Infleqtion; Indradeep Ghosh, CEO, Fujitsu Research America; Tongcang Li, professor of physics and astronomy, professor of electrical and computer engineering, director of NSF IUCRC Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at Purdue University; Nii Attoh-Okine, chair, civil and environmental engineering A. James Clark School of Engineering, Center for Risk and Reliability, University of Maryland.
Keynote speaker Mike Dolan, senior vice president for legal and strategic programs at the Linux Foundation.
Purdue Senior Vice President for Partnerships and Online Dimitrios Peroulis with keynote speaker Mike Dolan.
Keynote speaker Yuka Suzuki, counselor of the Embassy of Japan in the U.S.
Dimitrios Peroulis, senior vice president for partnerships and online and Reilly Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.
Akinobu Teramoto, director of the Research Institute for Semiconductor Engineering at Hiroshima University.
(From left to right): Yorie Nakahira, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University; Hideaki Ozawa, chief technology officer at NTT Research, Inc.; and Kaushik Roy, Edward G. Tiedemann Jr. Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.
Ananth Grama, Samuel D. Conte Distinguished Professor of computer science, associate director of the Center for Science of Information and director of the Institute for Physical AI (IPAI) at Purdue University.
Sunil Prabhakar, executive vice provost and professor of computer science at Purdue University.
Shuji Kakegawa, managing officer and director of the Institute of Technology, Shimizu Corporation.
(From left to right) Panelists Tetsuo Endoh, Akinobu Teramoto (director of the Research Institute for Semiconductor Engineering at Hiroshima University), Janhavi Giri (principal architect, Semiconductors, EDA & AI, NetApp), Alejandro Strachan (Reilly Professor of materials engineering at Purdue University), Rick Gottscho, and moderator Todd Younkin, CEO of the Semiconductor Research Corporation.
Rick Gottscho, president of SemiSan, LLC.
Tetsuo Endoh, professor and director of the Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES) at Tohoku University.
Julie Felgar, vice president for government affairs and defense at JetZero.