Panelist: Prof. Kenji Suzuki,PhD
Professor of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence
Director, BioMedical Artificial Intelligence Research Unit (BMAI),
Institute of Integrated Research (IIR),
Institute of Science Tokyo,
Yokohama, Japan
Prof. Kenji Suzuki, Ph.D. worked at Hitachi Medical Corp, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan, as a faculty member, in the Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, as Assistant Professor, and Medical Imaging Research Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, as Associate Professor (Tenured). He is currently a Full Professor (Tenured) & Founding Director of the Biomedical Artificial Intelligence Research Unit, Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo (previously Tokyo Institute of Technology), Japan.
Prof. Suzuki’s research interests include deep/machine learning, medical imaging, computer-aided diagnosis, and artificial intelligence (AI).He has published more than 430 papers (including 130 peer-reviewed journal papers such as IEEE TPAMI (Impact Factor: 23.6)). He has been actively researching deep learning in medical imaging and AI-aided diagnosis for the past 25 years—his early deep-learning model was proposed in 1994. His papers have been cited more than 17,000 times, and his h-index is 65.
Prof. Suzuki is the inventor on 40 patents (including some of the earliest deep-learning patents), which were licensed to several companies and commercialized via FDA approvals. He has published 16 books and edited 20 journal special issues. He has been awarded numerous grants including NIH, NEDO, and JST grants, totaling $9.1M.
Prof. Suzuki serves as Editor for more than 20 leading international journals including Pattern Recognition (IF: 7.6) and is the Editor-in-Chief for AI (IF: 5.0). He has chaired 110 international conferences, including being one of the founding chairs of MICCAI MLMI. His research has been covered in 55 articles in newspapers, magazines, and journals by the press and media, including Lancet Respiratory Medicine (IF: 76.2).
He is a Fellow of IARIA. Prof. Suzuki has received 27 awards, including 3 Best Paper Awards in leading journals such as EJNMMI (IF: 10.0), Magna Cum Laude and Cum Laude Awards at RSNA, and the 2021 Award for Science and Technology at the Commendation for Science & Technology by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan for his pioneering research in deep learning and its applications in the medical imaging field.