2023-08-30
2023 Visiting Professor
佐倉 統 Osamu Sakura
廣電系邀請日本學者佐倉 統(Osamu Sakura)教授,於 2023 年 9 月 1 日至 2023 年 12 月 29 日至本校傳播學院廣播電視學系擔任訪問學者。
Dr. Osamu Sakura is a Professor of Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo, and PI of Research Project for Science, Technology and Society, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), Japan. His main interests are science and technology studies, including social aspects of AI and robotics, comparative history of the reception of evolutionary theory, and cultural effects on the history of science and technology in Japan. He was also engaged in the relationship between experts and local people in the evacuation areas of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Having got a Ph.D. from Kyoto University, Japan, in primatology and behavioral ecology, he taught at Yokohama National University (1993–2000) and worked as visiting scholar at the University of Freiburg (1995-96) before moving to his current position in 2000. He published several journal papers and books.
Contact
Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
3-7-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
sakura@iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Education
March 1985: Bachelor of Arts, The University of Tokyo
March 1987: Master of Science, Kyoto University
March 1992: Doctor of Science, Kyoto University
Research and Teaching Experience
Period
Title
1990–1993
Research Fellow, Mitsubishi Kasei Institute of Life Sciences
1993–2000
Associate Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Yokohama National University
1995–1996
Visiting Researcher, Institut für Informatik und Gesellschaft, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
2000–Present
Associate Professor (2000–07), Professor (2007–present), Dean (2015–18), Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
2012
Visiting Scholar, National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia, Canda
2017–Present
Team Leader, Science, Technology and Society Research Team, RIKEN Center for Integrated Research on Innovative Intelligence (AIP)
Fields of Research
Science and technology studies (STS), Science and technology communication, Neuroethics, AI and society