Yoshiyuki Yamashita
Current Positions
- Program Officer, Association of International Research Initiative for Environmental Studies
- Founder, Arete Process Laboratory, supporting digitalization of the process industry
- Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
- Chairman, Virtual Engineering Community (VEC)
- Vice Chairman, Japan-Thailand Smart Industrial Safety Consortium
- Director, Interdisciplinary Federation of Core Science and Technology Research Organizations
- Honorary Member, The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan
- Honorary Member, The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan
Recent Activities
- Keynote: CEES 2025
"From Vision to Reality: Digitalization and Smart Industrial Safety for a Cleaner Future,” Apr. 11, 2025 - Guest Lecture: Manufacturing DX Forum 2025
"Operation, Maintenance, and Smart Safety of Chemical Plants,” Apr. 17, 2025 - Keynote: Predictive Maintenance Conference
"AI and IoT Utilization in Operation and Maintenance of Chemical Plants,” Apr. 23, 2025 - Invited Lecture, Maintenance & Maintenance and Resilience Tokyo 2025
"Smartification of Chemical Plant O&M and AI,” July 23, 2025 - Panel Discussion: 18th Asia Pacific Responsible Care Conference, Indonesia
"Smart Industrial Safety for Sustainable Chemical Industry,” Oct. 23, 2025 - Memorial Lecture: IPC Process Instrumentation and Control Technology Association,
50th Anniversary Meeting
"Instrumentation and Control Engineers Walking with AI: Challenges for the Next 50 Years,” Nov. 21, 2025 - Panel Discussion: Chemical Material Japan 2025
"Industrial Safety Forum,” Nov. 27, 2025 - Publication: Advanced Production Management for Chemical Plants: Efficiency and Decarbonization Balanced KPIs , Kagaku Kogaku Ronbunshu, 51(4), 110-119 (2025)
- Publication: Temporal PFD-guided Graph Convolutional Networks , Digital Chemical Engineering, 16, 100260 (2025)
- Publication: Automization of Chemical Plant , Human Factors, 30(1), 1 (2025)
- Publication: Kagaku Kogaku (Chemical Engineering) , Special Issue: Trends in Hybrid Simulation Technology, "Graybox Modeling and Chemical Engineering,” 89, 443 (2025)
- Publication: Measurement and Control , Special Issue "Industry-Academia Collaboration in Process Industry” (Dec 2025)