Yuri Nishikawa, Ph.D.

Senior Researcher
Geoinformation Service Research Group, Intelligent Platform Research Institute
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Biography

• Mar.2006    BS of Engineering at Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University
• Mar.2008    MS of Engineering at Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University
• 2008-2011    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow (DC1)
• 2008-2010    Lecturer at Tokyo University of Technology
• Mar.2011    Ph.D. of Engineering at Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University
• Apr.2011-Sep.2021    Researcher at Panasonic
• Mar.2017-Sep.2021    Specified Concentrated Research Specialist at AIST
• Oct.2021    Senior Researcher at AIST
• Apr.2024-Mar.2025; Concurrent post at SOMPO-AIST RDP Cooperative Research Laboratory
• Mar.2025    Concurrent post at RICOH-AIST KIBS Cooperative Research Laboratory
• Apr.2025    Concurrent post at Indicator Development and Data Infrastructure Research Team, Integrated Research Center for Circular Technology

Research interests

• System architecture
• Service application
• Parallel and distributed computing
• Action recognition, human behavior understanding
• HRI/HAI

Recent publications

1. Narumon Jadram, Yuri Nishikawa and Midori Sugaya.
   Identification of Stress Location during Low-Speed Mobility Travel Using Environmental Data.
   Sensors, 26(6), Mar. 2026.
   
   
2. Narumon Jadram, Yuri Nishikawa and Midori Sugaya.
   Stress Evaluation during Low-Speed Mobility Rides Using Ultra-Short-Term Heart Rate Variability Indices.
   Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Affective Science and Engineering(ISASE2026), Mar. 2026.
   
   
3. Yuri Nishikawa, Fumiya Akasaka, Yuya Mitake and Jun Ozawa.
   Hoppin' Board: Smart Signage for Inspiring Community Mobility and Engagement.
   Proceedings of Asia Pacific Conference on Robot IoT System Development and Platform (APRIS2025), pp.54-55, Nov. 2025.
   
   
4. Narumon Jadram, Yuri Nishikawa and Midori Sugaya.
   Mapping Potential Stress Locations for Low-Speed Mobility Rides Based on User-Identified Environmental Factors Using Multimodal Sensor Data.
   Proceedings of Asia Pacific Conference on Robot IoT System Development and Platform (APRIS2025), pp.24-31, Nov. 2025.
   
   
5. Ain Musyira binti Mohd Zaidi, Narumon Jadram, Yuri Nishikawa and Midori Sugaya.
   A Heart Rate Variability-Based Approach to Identifying Comfort and Discomfort Areas in Real-World Urban Mobility with Multimodal Sensor Data.
   29th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES2025), Sep. 2025.
   
   
6. Yuri Nishikawa.
   A New Chapter in Research and Life, Discovered in Silicon Valley.
   IEICE Communications Society Magazine, 19(1) pp.75-79, Jun. 2025.
   Unofficial English translation available at Stanford US-ATMC website
   
   
7. Fumiya Akasaka, Yuya Mitake, Kentaro Watanabe, Yuri Nishikawa, Jun Ozawa, Yoshiki Shimomura.
   Designing a Digital Service System for Sustainable Social Value Creation: A Holistic Design Method Based on Socio-Cyber-Physical System Perspectives.
   Sustainability, Vol.16, No.21, Nov. 2024.
   
   
8. Ain Musyira binti Mohd Zaidi, Narumon Jadram, Yuri Nishikawa and Midori Sugaya.
   Analysis and Visualization of Passenger Comfort During Low-Speed Mobility Rides in Outdoor Environments Using Heart Rate Variability Index.
   Asia Pacific Conference on Robot IoT System Development and Platform (APRIS2024) (poster), Nov. 2024.
   APRIS2024 Best Poster Award
   
   
9. Yuri Nishikawa.
   [Invited Talk] Frontiers of Mobility Services: Innovations in Silicon Valley and Japan.
   Asia Pacific Conference on Robot IoT System Development and Platform (APRIS2024) , Nov. 2024.
   
   
10. Yuya Mitake, Fumiya Akasaka, Kentaro Watanabe, Yuri Nishikawa, and Jun Ozawa.
    Conceptualization of Digital Service System in Smart Cities.
    13th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing (EcoDesign2023), Dec. 2023.
    
    
11. Yuri Nishikawa.
    [Invited Talk] In the Trenches of Smart Cities: Resident-Centered Mobility Services Using Local Service Data for Real Urban Problem-Solving.
    Asia Pacific Conference on Robot IoT System Development and Platform (APRIS2023) , Nov. 2023.
    
    
12. Fumiya Akasaka, Yuya Mitake, Kentaro Watanabe, Yuri Nishikawa, and Jun Ozawa.
    Digital Future Design: Designing Digital Service Systems based on Future Visions.
    Service Design & Innovation Conference (ServDes2023), Jul. 2023.
    
    
13. Masaaki Terano, Ayaka Kimura, Jun Ozawa, Yuri Nishikawa, Takeshi Takenaka, and Fuko Oura.
    Lifestyle Analysis of IoT Data Acquired from Coffee Roaster for Service Development.
    2019 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Jan. 2019.
    
    
14. Nozomi Hata, Takashi Nakayama, Akira Tanaka, Takashi Wakamatsu, Akihiro Yoshida, Nariaki Tateiwa,
    Yuri Nishikawa, Jun Ozawa, and Katsuki Fujisawa.
    Mobility Optimization on Cyber Physical System via Multiple Object Tracking and Mathematical Programming.
    2018 BigGraphs Workshop at IEEE BigData2018 (oral), pp.4026-4035, Dec. 2018.
    
    
15. Yuri Nishikawa, Hitoshi Sato, and Jun Ozawa.
    OpenMP and GPGPU Implementations of Probabilistic Occupancy Map for Multiple Human Position Estimation.
    IEEE Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics (SMC2018) (oral), pp.3188-3193, Oct. 2018.
    
    
16. Yuri Nishikawa, Hitoshi Sato, and Jun Ozawa.
    Multiple sports player tracking system based on graph optimization using low-cost cameras.
    IEEE Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) (oral), Jan. 2018.
    
    
17. Yuri Nishikawa, Hitoshi Sato, and Jun Ozawa.
    Performance evaluation of multiple sports player tracking system based on graph optimization.
    IEEE International Workshop on Benchmarking, Performance Tuning and Optimization for Big Data Applications (BPOD 2017)
    at the IEEE BigData 2017 (oral), pp.2903-2910, Dec. 2017.
    

Social Activities

Contact

• e-mail: nishikawa.yuri[at]aist.go.jp