Prof. Hiromi Yokoyama, The University of Tokyo, Kavli IPMU/III

Self-introduction

Hiromi M. Yokoyama is a Professor at the University of Tokyo. I am researching the Green AI, AI for Science (AI4S) and climate ethics, policy and public attitude of science and technology (ELSI/RRI), Big science policy and STEM gender.

I became an Science Technology and Society (STS), science policy and Science communication (SC) researcher after Ph.D in particle experimental physics. That is the reason why I belong to Kavli IPMU and am the deputy director. I also belong to Center for Data-Driven Discovery (CD3 center) and Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies (III), UTokyo and students in my lab styding at the department.

I am a Director of Toyota Foundation,Director of National Institution of National Colleges of Technology, Director of Japan Society for the Social Studies of Science and Technology and so on.

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Researchmap (List of Papers/ Committees / Books / Interviews / Contributed Articles)

Email:hiromi.yokoyama (a) ipmu.jp　

Welcome, Visiting student & researcher

I welcome visiting students and researchers with the aim of conducting collaborative research. There is also a track record of undergraduate summer internships (Princeton, Harvard, etc.).Please contact me if you are interested.

Leading research projects

Lectures

Graduate School of Science, UTokyo : Modern Science and Communication Theory

The University of Tokyo FoPM Diversity and Ethics Seminar

University of Tokyo Graduate School of Science, Research Ethics Common Teaching Materials Provided

Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo Science Communication Theory/Science and Technology Representation Theory I

Main Career

Since I became an associate professor at the University of Tokyo when science communication discussion began in Japan around 2007, I have led discussions on social and science communication, higher education, and large-scale science in Japan. I have contributed to various committees more than 100. Additionally, I currently contributes to Japanese academic societies as a university management advisory council member and a director of a technical college.

2024.6-Present: Director of Toyota Foundation

2022.4-Present: Director of National Institution of National Colleges of Technology

2022.4-Present: Deputy Director, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo

2021.6-Present: Board member of International Physics Olympiad 2023 Association

2021.4-2022.3: Director of Public Relations Office, Director of Public Relations Strategy and Planning Office, and Deputy Director of Public Relations Strategy Headquarters, The University of Tokyo

2019.4-Present: Director of Japan Society for the Social Studies of Science and Technology

2017.4-Present: Professor, Kavli IPMU & Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, Cultural and human information studies course, The University of Tokyo

2014-Present: Editorial board member, JCOM / Journal of science communciation

2007.4–2017.3: Associate Professor, School of Science ,University of Tokyo

2005.4–2007.3: Senior Researcher, SOKENDAI, Hayama Center

2004.10: Researcher (changed research field, science and society) Tokyo Institute of Technology

2004.9: Ph.D. in Science , Tokyo University of Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Physics Department

1999.3: B.A. in Physics, Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Physics Department

Main Prizes

2016 As a member of K2K, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

2015 Science and Technology Society Society, Kakiuchi Kessiuchi Research Encouragement Prize

2007 Science Journalist Award 2007, Japanese Association of Science & Technology Journalists

Main papers

AI diversity:Ikkatai, Y., Itatsu, Y., Hartwig, T. et al. The relationship between the attitudes of the use of AI and diversity awareness: comparisons between Japan, the US, Germany, and South Korea. AI & Soc (2024).

Big science:Yokoyama, H. M., Akimoto, Y., & Ikkatai, Y. (2023). Big science and society in Japan: Kamiokande series, policy systems and ILC. In Big science in the 21st century: Economic and societal impacts (pp. 48-1 to 48-16).

Inclusive STEM (Summary of 10 papers and the affamative action problem in Japan):Hiromi M. Yokoyama, Yuko Ikkatai, Euan McKay, Atsushi Inoue, Azusa Minamizaki & Kei Kano (2024) Can affirmative action overcome STEM gender inequality in Japan? Expectations and concerns, Asia Pacific Business Review, DOI: 10.1080/13602381.2024.2320547

AI Ethics (AI-ELSI segment)：Ikkatai, Y., Hartwig, T., Takanashi, N. et al. Segmentation of ethics, legal, and social issues (ELSI) related to AI in Japan, the United States, and Germany. AI Ethics (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00207-y

AI Ethics (ELSI Score):Hartwig, T., Ikkatai, Y., Takanashi, N. & Yokoyama, H.M. (2022). 'Artificial intelligence ELSI score for science and technology: a comparison between Japan and the US'. AI & Soc.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01323-9

AI Ethics (AI-ELSI Octagon measurements)：Y.Ikkatai, T.Hartwig, N.Takanashi & H.M. Yokoyama (2022). 'Octagon Measurement: Public Attitudes toward AI Ethics',International Journal of Human–Computer Interactionhttps://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2021.2009669

Trust in experts (COVID-19)：Yokoyama HM and Ikkatai Y (2022) Support and trust in the government and COVID-19 experts during the pandemic. Front. Commun. 7:940585. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2022.940585

Inclusive STEM (Social climate extended model)：Ikkatai, Y., Inoue, A., Minamizaki, A., Kano, K., McKay, E. and Yokoyama, H. M.(2021). ‘Masculinity in the public image of physics and mathematics: a new model comparing Japan and England’. Public understanding of science,https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625211002375

Risk Comm Practice (COVID-19)：Igarashi, Y., Mizushima, N. and Yokoyama, H. M. (2020). ‘Manga-based risk communication for the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of storytelling that incorporates a cultural context’. JCOM 19 (07), N02. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.19070802.

Scientific advice(Group voice)：Yokoyama, H. (2019). ‘Proposal for group voice: going beyond the limits of one voice and making information provided by scientists available to the public in emergency situations’. In: Environmental contamination from the Fukushima nuclear disaster: dispersion, monitoring, mitigation and lessons learned. Ed. by T. Nakajima, T. Ohara, M. Uematsu and Y. Onda. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, pp. 271–277. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108574273.

Open science(budget community)：Ikkatai Y., McKay E., & Yokoyama H.M.,(2018). Science created by crowds: a case study of science crowdfunding in Japan. Journal of Science Communication,17(03), A06.

Scientific advice：中谷内一也, 長谷和久, & 横山広美, (2018). 科学的基礎知識とハザードへの不安との関係,心理学研究,89(2),171-178.

Fukushima nuclear power plant accident：Tateno S., Yokoyama H.M. ,(2013). Public anxiety, trust, and the role of mediators in communicating risk of exposure to low dose radiation after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant explosion. Journal of Sicence Communication,12(02),A03.

neutrino physics:K2K collaboration "Evidence for muon neutrino oscillation in an accelerator-based experiment." Physical review letters 94.8 (2005): 081802.

neutrino physics:K2K collaboration "Indications of neutrino oscillation in a 250 km long-baseline experiment." Physical Review Letters 90.4 (2003): 041801.