Organizers

Deeksha Arya
Senior Research Fellow, IIT Roorkee, India;
Researcher, The University of Tokyo, Japan;

Contact information: deeksha@ct.iitr.ac.in

Deeksha Arya is a Researcher at the University of Tokyo, Japan. Her research focuses on deep learning-based Road Damage Detection across multiple nations. More details about her work are available here.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7948-5930

Hiroya Maeda
Project Researcher, Sekimoto Lab, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Contact information: maedahi@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Dr. Hiroya Maeda is a Project Researcher at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. His current research topic is road damage detection using image processing. He is the Founder and CEO of UrbanX Technologies, inc.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2789-4019

Yoshihide Sekimoto
Professor, Dr. Eng. Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS), University of Tokyo (Cross appointment in Institute of Industrial Science)

Contact information: sekimoto@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Dr. Yoshihide Sekimoto is a Professor at the Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo (Cross appointment in Institute of Industrial Science). He is burning enthusiasm to resolve social problems that become complicated by advanced spatial information processing. His study covers a wide range of topics, including prediction of mass people movement, urban planning support by fusion of various urban data, and construction of distribution infrastructure for social infrastructure data. Further details about Dr. Sekimoto are available here.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0305-7056

S.K. Ghosh
Professor & Former Head, Department of Civil Engineering, and Joint Faculty, Centre for Transportation Systems, IIT Roorkee, India

Contact information: sanjay.ghosh@ce.iitr.ac.in

Dr. S. K. Ghosh is a Professor(HAG) and Former Head of Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. The areas of his expertise include Digital Image processing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Land Surveying, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Machine learning, and GPS. For further information, please refer to this link.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7849-9313

Durga Toshniwal
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Head, Mehta Family School for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT Roorkee, India.

Contact information: durga.toshniwal@cs.iitr.ac.in

Dr. Durga Toshniwal is currently working as Head of the Mehta Family School for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and a Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Some of the areas of her research interests include – Data Mining and Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Urban Computing, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Smart City. More details can be found here.

Takehiro Kashiyama
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Osaka University of Economics, Japan

Contact information: t.kashiyama@osaka-ue.ac.jp

Takehiro Kashiyama is an Associate Professor of Osaka University of Economics. He is interested in research about urban dynamics reproduction. His current research focuses on creating synthetic human mobility data in urban areas and the prediction of human behavior during a disaster.

Hiroshi Omata
Project Researcher, Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS), University of Tokyo, Japan

Contact information: homata@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Hiroshi Omata is a Project Researcher at the Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo. He has been working on software developments for more than a decade. He holds a specialization in digital signal processing of audio, web-based technology, and engagement of civic technology communities. He is leading in the civic technology communities and open data communities in Japan.