Yoshiyasu Takefuji

Graduated from Elec. Eng., Keio Univ. BS (1978), MS (1980), Ph.D. (1983). Asst Prof: Univ. of South Florida (1983-1985), Assoc Prof: Univ. of South Carolina (1985-1988), Assoc Prof: Case Western Reserve Univ. (1988-1996: tenured in 1992), tenured Prof: Keio Univ. (1992-2021), Emeritus Prof: Keio Univ. (2021-present), Prof: Musashino Univ. (2021-present), Docent Prof. Jyvaskyla Univ from 2017. He authors 41 books and more than 1020 scientific articles with supervising more than 41 Ph.D. students. He published 211 articles in Science, 1 in Nature and 1 in NEJM. Based on publications, he was selected in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 by Times Higher Education as a reputation survey participant representing peers in both his discipline and country for world’s university rankings.

Research: cyber-security, neural computing, energy harvesting, IoT, AI, applied AI, health policy, medicine, disaster management.

He authors 41 books and more than 1020 scientific articles with supervising more than 41 Ph.D. students. He is one of pioneers on neural computing. His team won the AI championship of 2017 NIPS in Quiz Bowl Question Answering with 418 cited.

He has published 210 eLetters and 1 report in Science entitled “A near-optimum parallel planarization algorithm” published in 1989 with 139 citations (the world’s first application based on neural computing), 1 correspondence in Nature on science policy, and 1 correspondence in NEJM on herd immunity.

His book entitled ‘Neural network parallel computing’ published in 1992 on optimization has influenced many researchers in the world with 366 cited.

He coauthored a paper entitled “Functional Link Net Computing: Theory, system Architecture and Functionalities” published in IEEE in 1992 which was cited by 1000 articles.

The world’s first paper on brain tumor segmentation entitled “Optimization neural networks for the segmentation of magnetic resonance images” was published in 1992 in IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging with 246 cited.

The paper entitled “A neural network parallel algorithm for channel assignment problems in cellular radio networks” was published in IEEE transactions on Vehicular technology with 364 cited.

The paper “Artificial neural networks for four-coloring map problems and K-colorability problems” published in IEEE transactions on circuits and systems in 1991 is with 197 cited. He invented the hysteresis neuron model published in Biological Cybernetics in 1991 with 142 cited.

Two papers using neural computing for solving job-shop scheduling were published in IEEE conference in 1988 with 237 and 184 cited.

His energy harvesting project was included in the official Japanese science textbook for junior high schools from 2021.

He has been advising more than 50 profit and non-profit organizations including Food Service Association in Japan since 1992.

He is currently Docent Professor at IT Department of Jyvaskyla University in Finland and was economic advisor to governor of Shandong in China since March 2019 and Weihai Mayor' since 2018, is a honorary adviser of Weihai Mayor's International Economic Advisory Council since 2023. He was a former advisor of air force research in the US.

He has been developing diverse AI systems using ensemble-ensemble machine learning for solving real intractable problems in our society. The prototype robots outperform super-skilled human engineers in civil engineering and construction which are currently used in construction of underground-tunnels in Central Shinkansen in Japan between Tokyo and Nagoya.

He is one of the world’s famous inventors who invented the mobile phone’s camera, Euro banknote validators (BV-6000: 12000 units installed in Europe as of 2009), AI-embedded drilling machines, Nintendo’s GameBoy camera, transverse-wave speakers , energy harvesting floor and others.

He has been educating more than 10k students and professional engineers in universities and industries since 1980.

He has developed the world’s first hypervisor called driverware for Windows:

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA451745

The developed hypervisor has been embedded in many core systems in the world.

He has developed 32 open-source PyPI tools by himself for users worldwide: deathdaily (60518 downloads), scorecovid (32135), covidlag (35766), usscore (19214), jpscore (24056), scorev (8315), vaers (5670), hiscovid (13786), cdcdeaths (5738), vuv (8823), vud4 (8534), phope (17489), midlife (15823), vuc3 (5174), pedhosp (4191), pasero (1619). waterq (3044), aircalc (51772), airpiano (47692), bugcount (19854), sshanalysis (5548), dydns (21550), faceext (12239), milspend (14008), agci (11491), fixreprod (8189), noaaco2 (12081), noaatsi (5349), gtempco2 (11466), tsico2 (5344), gtemptsi (4501), and vinfo (4728), according to PePy: https://pepy.tech/.