Yoshiyuki Yamashita's Recent Activities
Current Positions
- I am currently working at the Association of International Research Initiative for Environmental Studies, as a Program Officer for the National Projects.
- I run a private consulting business "Arete Process" to supports the digitalization of the process industry.
- Professor Emeritus and Senior Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.
- Chairman, Virtual Engineering Community (VEC)
- Vice Chairman, Japan-Thailand Smart Safety Consortium
- Director, Interdisciplinary Federation of Core Science and Technology Research Organizations
- Director, Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
Recent Activities
- CEES 2025 Conference, Keynote Lecture,
"From Vision to Reality: Digitalization and Smart Industrial Safety for a Cleaner Future" (April 11, 2025)
- Manufacturing DX Forum 2025, Special Guest Lecture
"Operation, Maintenance, and Smart Safety of Chemical Plants" (April 17, 2025)
- Predictive Maintenance Conference -Improving Maintenance Capabilities of Factory and Plant Equipment-, Keynote Lecture
"Utilization of AI and IoT in the Operation and Maintenance of Chemical Plants" (April 23, 2025)
- Maintenance & Resilience Tokyo 2025 Special Invited Lecture
"Smartification of Chemical Plant O&M and AI" (July 23, 2025)
- IPC Process Instrumentation and Control Technology Association 50th Anniversary Meeting, Special Lecture
"Instrumentation and Control Engineers Walking with AI: Challenges for the Next 50 Years" (November 21, 2025)
- Manuscript Submission: Kagaku Kogaku (Chemical Engineering), Special Issue "Trends in Hybrid Simulation Technology"
Editorial "Gray-box Approach Utilizing Data" (Scheduled for September 2025 issue)
- Manuscript Submission: Measurement and Control, Special Issue "Industry-Academia Collaboration in the Process Industry"
Explanatory article "Creating Value and Manufacturing: Significance and Practice of Industry-Academia Collaboration" (Scheduled for December 2025 issue)